
Obama has asked the big three networks to give him a
free hour of air time on his hundredth day in office. They have said they’ll probably
give it to him — not surprising if you consider all the
support they gave him in the 2008
election.
One thing they probably won’t do is ask him any inconvenient questions about all his broken campaign promises, like his pledge to enact a “
net spending cut,” his promise
not to raise taxes on anyone making less than $250,000 a year, and his
promise not to sign bills without first giving the public
five days of
notice. Obama has broken his campaign promises far more flagrantly than his predecessors did in their first 100 days in office.
The Congressional Budget Office says that Obama’s proposed budgets will
explode the national debt through
massive spending increases, increasing the already large deficits left behind by the Bush Administration from $
4.4 trillion to $
9.3 trillion. His record-setting budgets flagrantly violate his promise to propose a “
net spending cut.”
Obama
broke his campaign promise not to raise taxes on anyone making less than $250,000 a year by signing a regressive
SCHIP excise tax increase, and by proposing a cap-and-trade energy tax that could charge up to $
2 trillion, a massive cost that Obama himself has said will be passed “
on to consumers,” as well as homeowners and motorists. (In 2008, Obama privately admitted to the San Francisco Chronicle that if he was elected, electricity bills would “
skyrocket” under his Administration, but it didn’t report that).
Over and over again, Obama has
broken his campaign promise to give the public five days of notice before signing bills into law, including his very first law, the
trial-lawyer backed
Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. Obama also repeatedly made
false claims about the Supreme Court decision that the Ledbetter law overruled, misstating the facts of that case and how long it gives employees to sue over pay discrimination.
Obama
broke seven campaign promises dealing with transparency and clean government in
signing the $800 billion stimulus package, much of whose contents were secret until shortly before Congress voted on it, and whose
1400 pages went unread by most Congressmen who voted on it.
Obama’s broken promises are part of a larger pattern of dishonesty. Obama claimed his $800 billion stimulus package was needed to avert “
irreversible decline.” But the Congressional Budget Office
concluded before and after its passage that the stimulus package will actually cut the size of the economy
in the long run. Obama’s budgets don’t add up, either, piling up
$9.3 trillion in red ink, according to the Congressional Budget Office, a staggering $
2.3 trillion more than Obama claimed.
What does this have to do with global warming? Ninny.