Sky Dancer
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The President is ending the war in Iraq. He's set the Israeli Palestinian peace talks as a priority. He's been responsive to the oil spill, he addressed health care reform, he's on the economy. He's addressed DADT.
I'd say he's working hard with very little bipartisan support. He's completely on target with his campaign promises.
Passing the "largest" economic stimulus bill in American history.
That most Americans opposed and most now believe has extended and deepened the recession.
Ordering the closing of Guantanamo Bay military detention facility and abolishing "enhanced interrogation techniques."
Guantanamo is still open with no time table for closing. Enhanced interrogation techniques had already ended before he took office.
and thereby telegraphed to our and Iraq's enemies the schedule to do their planning around. And he also essentially lied when he said the combat troops have now been removed.
And contributed to many additional American and Afghanistan deaths by taking most of a year to make the decision. He's not really getting much of a reputation for being decisive is he.
Which has already been overturned by the Supreme Court this week. He violated the law of the land with an executive order on that.
Oh sure. I still have a nice assortment of bridges to sell to anybody who believes a cigarette tax is funding any large entitlement.
Don't look, but all of us have had the right to sue our employers for a very long time now.
Not a done deal yet.
Hmmm. I don't remember that being a priority of this administration. Politically expedient sure. But a priority? No.
That also was not a priority of this administration. A good thing if it's for real--that has yet to be determined among this era of pork barrel spending being disguised as 'stimulus', but this Administration has a long way to go to equal the increases in Veteran's benefits initiated by the previous administration.
And thereby further devasted the Gulf Coast economy. This is maybe one of the more really stupid things done by this administration.
I guess decades of environmental impact studies for this region were not sufficient. I probably can come up with even a few extra of those bridges for any who believe that the environment was a motive for this.
Passed health care reform.
Maybe the most unpopular piece of legislation ever to be passed by any administration and one that a substantial majority of Americans want repealed as soon as possible and a substantial majority of the rest of Americans want significantly reformed as soon as possible to remove the most economy killing, freedom destroying, and other onerous components of the bill.
signed a hate crime bill .
Oh yeah like we needed another hate crime bill or that calling a crime a 'hate crime' somehow makes it worse than any other crime that causes the same injury or damage to another human being. I suppose some people endorse this sort of thing. Others think hate is hate no matter who it is directed at and ALL crime that injures a fellow human is hateful.
BOTTOM LINE: Anybody can see from the poll on this thread and almost all other polls being conducted these days, that the American people want our government to let everything that can wait wait and to focus on those things that will get us back on track, put people back to work in permanent jobs, and start paying down the debt.
Actually, gays and lesbians needed the Mathew Shepard Act. It matters to me but it may be no big deal to you. Hate crimes not only target an individual but they send a terrorist message that 'your kind' are not wanted here to the rest of the minority community.