January 27, 2010
— Gabriel Malor The President is damned with faint praise in the Washington Post's slideshow of his first year in office (at present available here, though that will change):
Since January 2009, Obama has signed an economic stimulus bill, pushed Congress to pass health-care reform, traveled overseas and upheld traditions like the White House Easter Egg roll and a State Dinner.
Did you catch that? His Big Five are the spendulus, a healthcare bill that may never pass, some travel, an easter egg hunt and a state dinner that got crashed by a couple of utter fools. Ouch.
The same caption has been attached to WaPo articles here and here.
To be fair, he also got Justice Sotomayor confirmed, but that victory really should be laid at the feet of the Senate Republicans who for the first six weeks after her nomination couldn't stop hiding from the "Wise Latina" for fear they'd look bad on TV talking about how unacceptable her race- and gender-bias is on the Supreme Court.
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Posted by: countrysquire at January 27, 2010 05:34 AM (MNxpu)
Posted by: Waterhouse at January 27, 2010 05:36 AM (RwPdb)
Nothing a drunk Biden in a bunny suit couldn't fix.
Everything is better with a dunk Biden in a bunny suit.
Posted by: nickless at January 27, 2010 05:37 AM (MMC8r)
Posted by: dagny at January 27, 2010 05:38 AM (9UmL5)
Posted by: Ellie Light at January 27, 2010 05:39 AM (QAmt6)
Posted by: rdbrewer at January 27, 2010 05:39 AM (G0BIG)
Yeah, but he won it for the Egg Roll.
Posted by: nickless at January 27, 2010 05:40 AM (MMC8r)
Posted by: Light-skinned Negro at January 27, 2010 05:41 AM (G0BIG)
Posted by: PETA prick at January 27, 2010 05:41 AM (t/GDA)
Posted by: Retread at January 27, 2010 05:41 AM (Uq6jJ)
Posted by: Marion Barry in Texas at January 27, 2010 05:42 AM (WvXvd)
Posted by: eman at January 27, 2010 05:42 AM (i/gRH)
Posted by: Winston Smith at January 27, 2010 05:42 AM (BFqyO)
Oh, and don't forget the wonderful gifts for our closest allies...
Posted by: Hedgehog at January 27, 2010 05:42 AM (oQIfB)
Posted by: countrysquire at January 27, 2010 05:42 AM (MNxpu)
In coach, yes. On a private plane with leather sofas, a shower, and a personal chef?
Posted by: HeatherRadish at January 27, 2010 05:43 AM (mR7mk)
Does 'travel overseas' - refer to the epic fail of the Copenhagen Climate Summit, receiving the undeserved Nobel Prize, his bowing tours of Japan and Saudi Arabia or the epic fail of the Chicago Olympic Bid?
Or all of the above?
Posted by: B+ Barry at January 27, 2010 05:43 AM (3PqHz)
Posted by: Usful Ijit at January 27, 2010 05:43 AM (ySEBp)
They forgot the undeserved Nobel peace prize which made him actually look stupider, the white house kitchen garden with the accompanying cooking show where they picked veggies from the garden then flew in new ones from NY, the AF-1 doaner sightseeing tour of NYC--that must have been fun, the finally finally finally sending at least a few troops to Afghanistan, and the most egregious if you live here is:
The National Mall has still not recovered from the Immaculation. The entire mall is dirt--blowing dust--looks like a 30s dust bowl --and it makes a nice metaphore.
Posted by: dagny at January 27, 2010 05:43 AM (9UmL5)
Odouchenozzle has done ZERO when it comes to anything PRODUCTIVE for this country. Absolutely fucking ZERO.
Posted by: MelodicMetal in MA at January 27, 2010 05:43 AM (x4S2a)
Let's not forget about his pardoning the turkeys. No, not some enemies of the state - the real turkeys on Thanksgiving.
I guess that was the extent of The One's being "post-partisan" for the year, since I heard the elder Bush started that cute li'l tradition.
Posted by: Optimizer at January 27, 2010 05:44 AM (odEHq)
The lead-contaminated veggies, lovingly planted with unrecompensed child labor. But I don't think Barry was all that involved; we can lay that turd on the Mrs.
Posted by: HeatherRadish at January 27, 2010 05:44 AM (mR7mk)
Odouchenozzle has done ZERO when it comes to anything PRODUCTIVE for this country. Absolutely fucking ZERO.
There is the record breaking sales of firearms and ammunition...
Posted by: Hedgehog at January 27, 2010 05:45 AM (oQIfB)
Posted by: eman at January 27, 2010 05:45 AM (i/gRH)
Posted by: Insider at January 27, 2010 05:46 AM (G0BIG)
Posted by: Dave on the sea at January 27, 2010 05:46 AM (OBDWE)
Wasn't that the place with the cheap pizzas, serve-yourself beer, and the former NY cab driver with the dirty John Valby songs?
Posted by: Winston Smith at January 27, 2010 05:46 AM (BFqyO)
doaner=doner
They also forgot that he found someone to crease his pants really really well.
Missed that he throws a baseball like a girl.
Perhaps his handicap has gone down.
Posted by: dagny at January 27, 2010 05:46 AM (9UmL5)
That's the kind of Foreign Policy thinkin' you put me on the ticket for, right, Boss?
Posted by: Slow Joe Biden at January 27, 2010 05:47 AM (MMC8r)
Posted by: countrysquire at January 27, 2010 05:47 AM (MNxpu)
Yes! + Probably = 54%
No! + Probably not = 39%
Eh = 5%
Posted by: mrp at January 27, 2010 05:47 AM (HjPtV)
Posted by: Usful Ijit at January 27, 2010 05:48 AM (ySEBp)
Posted by: eman at January 27, 2010 05:48 AM (i/gRH)
Well, at least he didn't fuck up the Easter Egg Roll. Did he?
Maybe. But after eight years of failed Easter Egg Rolls, it really wouldn't have been his fault.
Posted by: FireHorse at January 27, 2010 05:49 AM (cQyWA)
Posted by: dagny at January 27, 2010 05:50 AM (9UmL5)
Indeed. I was inspired to see how quickly he rid the White House of that nettlesome Churchill.
Take these DVDs and shove 'em!
Posted by: Winston Smith at January 27, 2010 05:50 AM (BFqyO)
I was afraid for the country as late as last summer, but the spontaneous TEA parties cranked up; Obama started making unforced errors, and then Scott Brown got elected in ass-kicking, newly-awesome Massachusetts. Now Donks are running for the tall grass.
That scared feeling was weird.
Obama can still do a lot of damage, but not nearly so much as he could have done.
Posted by: rdbrewer at January 27, 2010 05:50 AM (G0BIG)
Posted by: Bob Eubanks at January 27, 2010 05:50 AM (3F+9y)
Obama installed a super-duper missile shield in Eastern Europe, which is something Bush couldn't do.
Posted by: This is boner at January 27, 2010 05:50 AM (z37MR)
Posted by: Barak Obama at January 27, 2010 05:51 AM (bvDV5)
Posted by: dagny at January 27, 2010 05:51 AM (9UmL5)
Posted by: eman at January 27, 2010 05:51 AM (i/gRH)
Posted by: Israel at January 27, 2010 05:52 AM (MNxpu)
And the beautiful thing about this is that he's failed at most everything when his party had a supermajority. With a a fucking SUPERMAJORITY one only needs the leadership skills of a cub scout pack leader to get your initiatives through. It's not rocket science, so why didn't the smartest, most eloquent man in the world get it done?
All the Republicans could do was sit in the bleachers and boo the Precedent, but it didn't matter because he just ran down the sideline, smiling and waving to the crowd, toward his own endzone.
Posted by: Burn the Witch at January 27, 2010 05:52 AM (U37Ux)
Posted by: AE at January 27, 2010 05:52 AM (kSfPT)
Heh. Things change. I live in Raleigh/Holden Beach these days, and while my business takes me to the Duke Med Ctr occasionally, I never get to the campus.
Great to have the games on local TV, though.
Thanks for the memory. I'd nearly forgotten that place.
Posted by: Winston Smith at January 27, 2010 05:52 AM (BFqyO)
Posted by: rdbrewer at January 27, 2010 05:53 AM (G0BIG)
Posted by: Chicago hotel owner at January 27, 2010 05:53 AM (68tQb)
Posted by: Usful Ijit at January 27, 2010 05:53 AM (ySEBp)
Posted by: Bill Clinton at January 27, 2010 05:53 AM (NHad9)
Posted by: B. Obama at January 27, 2010 05:54 AM (QAmt6)
Cash for Clunkers saved the auto industry, created jobs, stimulated the economy, brought in tax-revenue, and saved the environment!
Posted by: This is boner at January 27, 2010 05:54 AM (z37MR)
Posted by: eman at January 27, 2010 05:54 AM (i/gRH)
Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 27, 2010 05:54 AM (1Jaio)
Obama said last week that he has found that "Change isn't easy, it takes time and it has to go through Congress."
He didn't know it had to go through congress before?
No wonder he thought he was emperor.
Posted by: dagny at January 27, 2010 05:56 AM (9UmL5)
Posted by: B. Obama at January 27, 2010 05:56 AM (QAmt6)
Posted by: rdbrewer at January 27, 2010 05:56 AM (G0BIG)
Posted by: B. Obama at January 27, 2010 05:57 AM (QAmt6)
Posted by: markytom at January 27, 2010 05:57 AM (NHad9)
Posted by: Diddy at January 27, 2010 05:57 AM (68tQb)
Obama foiled Al Qaeda's plot to blow up an airplane and murder hundreds of people...
while he was on vacation in Hawaii!
Posted by: This is boner at January 27, 2010 05:58 AM (z37MR)
You should credit John Edwards.
Cohen had a column yesterday saying that we didn't know enough about Edwards and Obama and then bashed Palin because the more we find out about her the worse it gets. No kidding.
Posted by: dagny at January 27, 2010 05:58 AM (9UmL5)
Obama has found ways to bypass Congress.
How to spend $1.5 trillion without Congressional approval
Step 1: Federal Reserve purchases $1.5 trillion in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac securities, creating $1.5 trillion of monetary base to pay for these purchases.
Step 2: U.S. Treasury quietly announces unlimited 3-year support for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac on December 24, 2009, exploiting a loophole in a 2008 law that was originally written to insure a maximum of $300 billion in total mortgage principal (not losses, but principal).
Step 3: Within that 3-year period, we can expect the U.S. Treasury to issue $1.5 trillion in new Treasury debt to the public, taking in the $1.5 trillion in base money created by the Fed in Step 1.
Step 4: U.S. Treasury then hands that $1.5 trillion in proceeds from the new debt issuance to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Step 5: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac use the proceeds to redeem the $1.5 trillion in mortgage securities held by the Fed, thus reversing the Fed's transactions in Step 1, without the need for any other "unwinding" transactions (watch). The base money created by the Fed comes back to the Fed, and the mortgage securities purchased by the Fed disappear, by burdening the American public with a new, equivalent obligation in the form of U.S. government debt.
Outcome: The Federal Reserve closes its positions in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac securities, the quantity of outstanding Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac liabilities declines by $1.5 trillion, thus allowing their remaining assets repay the remaining liabilities without a $1.5 trillion hole of insolvency, and the outstanding quantity of U.S. Treasury debt expands by $1.5 trillion in order to protect the lenders, while ordinary Americans continue to lose their homes and jobs.
Posted by: markytom at January 27, 2010 05:59 AM (NHad9)
You don't want tourists. They smell.
Posted by: Harry Reid at January 27, 2010 05:59 AM (mR7mk)
Posted by: Twinks at January 27, 2010 06:00 AM (LeFbD)
How could they have left off all those decadent weekly steak dinners? And buzzing Manhattan and the Statue of Liberty? Faint praise indeed, Precedent Wee Wee has been ALL KINDS of accomplishmenting.
Posted by: Dang Straights at January 27, 2010 06:01 AM (fx8sm)
Posted by: dagny at January 27, 2010 06:02 AM (9UmL5)
Posted by: Bob Eubanks
Yes that would be the butt, Bob.
Posted by: Michelle 'NewlyWed' Obama at January 27, 2010 06:02 AM (8n1j5)
Posted by: dagny at January 27, 2010 06:03 AM (9UmL5)
Posted by: alexthechick at January 27, 2010 06:05 AM (8WZWv)
Posted by: B. Obama at January 27, 2010 06:05 AM (QAmt6)
Posted by: Berserker at January 27, 2010 06:06 AM (gWHrG)
Well, he did create or save 20 million jobs ...
er, 15 million jobs... uh, thousands and thousands of jobs ...
um, it's Bush's fault!
Posted by: Log Cabin at January 27, 2010 06:08 AM (S0Rj0)
Posted by: markytom at January 27, 2010 06:09 AM (NHad9)
Posted by: B. Obama at January 27, 2010 06:12 AM (QAmt6)
He brought back 8-tracks and vinyl records.
Posted by: rdbrewer at January 27, 2010 06:14 AM (G0BIG)
He improved our relations with the Klingon Empire.
If we ever do go to war against the Klingons, it will be Bush's fault.
Posted by: FireHorse at January 27, 2010 06:17 AM (cQyWA)
1. Signed Stimulus - that didn't
2. PUSHED Congress to pass health-care reform (and they haven't)
3. Traveled overseas (HEY! he got a medal.....for accomplishing NOTHING)
4. Upheld WH traditions like the Easter Egg Roll - SUCCESS!!!!
5. State Dinner - oops! Crashed by 3 unauthorized people
Well ONE out of FIVE isn't bad. Barry may want to re-think that B+ thing.
Was going to include the statue erected to him by Sumatra, but now, one month later, they're talking of taking it down.
Posted by: GarandFan at January 27, 2010 06:26 AM (ZQBnQ)
Posted by: Berserker at January 27, 2010 06:30 AM (gWHrG)
uh hmm, strengthened ties.
russia, venezuela, france now adores us.
civilian hondurans , iranians are especially comforted by our freedom loving administration.
and never forget how Israel, is thrilled with our frienship
Posted by: willow at January 27, 2010 06:34 AM (7FgWm)
Mission Accomplished!
You'll nay trick Barack Obama into 8 years of mediocrity.
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Posted by: Average Jen at January 27, 2010 07:03 AM (fRnux)
4 Well, at least he didn't fuck up the Easter Egg Roll. Did he?
Well the medical tests aren't back yet but it was held in the White House Garden and we later learned that the soil there is toxic enough that the vegetables Michelle planted couldn't be used on Food Network. None of the children present that day are showing symptoms of turning into Democrats.....yet.......
Posted by: Just a Cynic.... at January 27, 2010 07:04 AM (v4UYp)
Posted by: Average Jen at January 27, 2010 07:05 AM (fRnux)
102 Sounds like 5 really good reasons to be a one-termer.
Mission Accomplished!
You'll nay trick Barack Obama into 8 years of mediocrity
Hahahahaaaa.
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How about open up drilling off shore?
Don't forget that, Soro made a tidy bit 'profit'.
That accounted for something, right?
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