Thanks Mr. President:

The con job all started back when you delivered your keynote speech at the 2004 Democratic convention, when you said..."The pundits like to slice and dice our country into Red states and Blue states: Red states for Republicans, Blue states for Democrats. But I've got news for them...there are no red states, or blue states... but the United States!

Yes; thanks a lot for that memory.

Of course, we should have known right along, when you spent 750 million dollars to get elected to a job that pays 450 grand-- that was the omen right there. 

Bur now that you've achieved your goal, what have you done? Instead of the audacity of hope, and crossing partisan lines, you've had the brazen audacity to bestow upon the people nothing other than fear, anxiety, and uneasiness-- a divisive slap in every voter's face, who trusted your shallow promises that there were better days ahead for America.

And how about your pledge to unite those red & blue states? Whatever happened to that?

As a matter of fact, it was kind of neat the way you dispatched your ACORN operatives into every "battleground state" and made sure they registered enough phony voters to put you over the top. Indeed, we certainly admire you for that!

And thanks for the way you promised that everyone would need to sacrifice "in these difficult times," but spent $150 million on your inauguration, and have gone along to be the all-time "party president" in the Whitehouse; with $125/lb. steak dinners, and lavish spontaneous excursions to all parts of the globe-- we sure appreciate that.

Strangely, it almost seems that you had this planned all along:

You appointed a so-called cabinet of moderates, who've acted as nothing other than extremists, and have been complicit in your campaign to change America FAR to the radical left-- a change we were all deceived in.

Then it was your $787 billion stimulus that has done nothing for employment, but was only designed to buy votes for your re-election, at a stiff price: it would guarantee to all but bankrupt the next two generations under massive levels of interest-accumulating debt.

And then you rammed through a budget of $3.4 trillion, which fulfilled your vow of "trillions of dollar deficits as far as the eye can see"... something you predicted last November when you laughed about it on "60 Minutes."

Is this the way you treat your presidency-- like it's all a big joke?

And speaking of jokes, how you and your lovable wife must laugh together each night in the Lincoln bedroom,  thinking up tomorrow's next big fabrication; she has been an inspiration toward your goal of a socialist America; there can be little doubt it's been your intention all along. 

Of course, you are above all this because YOU'RE the President.

Yes Mr. President; all your ideas...the stimulus, cap 'n trade, card check, the ballooning, obscene deficits; the takeover of GM; the expropriation of the banks; the government usurpation of private health care-- all will go a long way to effect those great changes you promised for America.

And once you will have achieved your noble goal, just think of all the wonderful effects your socialism will have on our country:

It will destroy the farmers.

It will destroy much of the private sector.

Small business people will be taxed to ruin.

And the so-called middle class families-- who've work hard all their lives for what they have, and then voted for you-- what shall become of them?

All these people who supported you, now they need to be taught a lesson: their success has been on the backs of the poor and disadvantaged, so it's "get even" time:

Your cap and trade bill will rob the average American household of tens of thousands of dollars over the next decades. 

Your card check bill will deprive the American worker of his right to remain independent in the workplace.

Your stimulus bill has been an anti-stimulant; it has cratered the economy to near-depression levels of unemployment.

Since you were elected, the Dow Jones Industrial average has plummeted to its lowest level since 1997--and has ruined the retirement plans of many Americans, who will now be forced to work past age 65. 

Instead of solutions, your policies have spawned problems into every corner of America; in only 150 days, you have already wrought a wave of destruction far worse than any possible nuke could have done.

So is this your payback to all those people who elected you, who believed in your so-called objective of uniting America? 

You have spread anxiety, uncertainty, and have changed hope into hopelessness; a metamorphosis from a perfectly-functioning economy to one now tottering on the rocks of socialism.

Indeed, quite the accomplishment!

And all made possible because-- unlike the other great presidents who used their God-given talents to better their country-- you have chosen to become the greatest con man in American political history. 

But why Mr. President?

Why would you do this? What has America ever done to you but made you rich and famous, and has rewarded you beyond your wildest dreams?

Why would you disregard all that came before you, as if it had never happened? All the blood that has been spilled; all the battles fought; all the wars for freedom over the last 235 years; now, it will all go for naught, just because you were able to con your way into the Whitehouse.

You conned the people about GM; you conned the people about the banks, your budget, and the stimulus. You conned the people about alternative energy, and the so-called threat of global warming.

Now, you are conning the people about government health care, claiming..."It will only make your private insurance company become more competitive!"

But socializing medicine will change everything: it will shorten life spans; it will force the infirm to wait unnecessarily for the urgent care they now can obtain immediately.

It will also force the young to pay unnecessarily for unwanted insurance, to subsidize the elderly and poor --those who cannot afford it. Meanwhile, you lie about it all with a straight face..."It won't affect the plan you have now!" 

And once you're gone from Washington, all of this will be your legacy.

But someday Mr. President, you'll get yours...it'll be payback time.

No, it won't come from the people; nor the Congress; nor the Republicans, nor the courts. In fact, your payback probably won't come from anywhere in this earthly world; but things always have a way of evening out.

Instead of using your superlative talents to accomplish good, you have chosen the opposite bent, and have abused the marvelous gifts God gave you for your own selfish earthly ambitions.

Yes Mr. President; the God you obviously don't believe in will be the One who will ultimately assign you to your rightful place in the hereafter.

Yours truly;

The Disappointed, Disillusioned People of America

P.S. Best of luck Mr. Obama: once you reach your final destination, you're certainly going to need it.

 www.keenobserver.blogtownhall.com

Get your motor running...head out on the highway! Everyone has heard "Born to be Wild", the classic 60's hit song. Especially Barack Obama, and his radical leftist cadre of cabinet appointees.

You can almost read their minds:

Taking a cue from the "first 100 days" of Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1933 presidency, the Obama administration seems to believe in striking while the iron is HOT, and--like the words of the classic song --firing all of their guns at once.

But will all the new radical Obama measures eventually "explode into flames"?

Right now Obama is rattling off one leftist declaration after another, in conjunction with enough deficit spending to defy description. First it was mandatory "no-choice" abortions; next was the anti-stimulus bill; then a spending bill; then educational reform... nationalized health care... renewable energy...card check. Now we have talk of another second stimulus bill.

You name it, and Mr. Obama is planning to "bring it on" before the ardor for his anti-presidency cools off and falls back to reality.

America is about to realize that Obama's Kennedy-esque speeches (and soaring rhetoric) were not of the heart, but from only a teleprompter screen. Now he's removed his campaign mask and assumed his true socialist identity.

And next on comrade Obama's target list: destroying the energy industry.

Despite the fact that America uses gasoline and diesel to run 95% of its transportation needs, Generalissimo Obama has decided to make war on fossil fuels, and has wasted no time in reversing a decision that would have allowed oil exploration offshore, and opened up new exploratory leases within public lands in our interior.

Remember last year's horror of seeing, "regular 4.29", posted on street signs of gas stations? Just keep Mr. Obama's reversal in mind the next time pump prices head back up to 4 bucks/gallon.

But Obama would like to arrive at the European levels of 6, 7-- even 8 dollars /gallon. After all, didn't he accuse America as being wasteful and profligate? And that we are a nation comprising 5% of the world's population, yet consume (hog) 25% of the world's energy?

Mr. Obama will soon remedy that! How? By what he's about to do-- cleverly restrict our energy supply. And all under the masquerade of saving the environment, and halting the decline of the polar bears before its too late.

Despite the fact that we have a huge tracts of land containing an estimated 1.8 trillion barrels of oil (in the shale of our western states), America keeps getting drilled again and again.

First it was Nancy (Nazi) Pelosi, who has prevented every Republican domestic drilling bill from even reaching the House floor. And now our leftist Interior Secretary, Mr. Ken Salazar, is putting the brakes on a Bush administration plan to open 77 new parcels of land to oil and natural gas drilling, while instead promising a “new way forward” for offshore wind projects. 

Salazar criticized the Bush administration’s “drill-only approach,” saying the U.S. needs a "comprehensive energy" plan that considers all the "potential resources" in the oceans.

Great. Marvelous. No new oil drilling, no new domestic supply, and an open invitation to the commodity traders to again bid up the world price of petroleum back to $144/barrel -or even higher-- once the world economy revives.

Obama and the dumbo-crats keep lecturing about renewable and alternative energy (the justification is always environmental); but they're openly hostile to cheap and readily available fossil fuels, and are more than willing to treasonously allow us to send $700 billion a year to OPEC than drill our own oil and keep the money at home.

Yes America-- elections do have consequences.

And at a time when proposals for higher taxes are politically unpopular, the radical leftists in Congress have decided to thumb their noses at the average Joe, and are about to spring another cleverly disguised way to squeeze even more tax money from Americans.

Right now, Congress is debating legislation that would create a European-style scam that "caps" the maximum allowable amounts of CO2 from power plants, heavy industries, manufacturers, and you guessed it-- our vehicles.

So once it passes, everytime we get our motors runnin', and head out on the highway, every American driver will not be victimized as a taxpayer--but as a consumer.

This cap and trade system is "designed" to give companies incentives for reducing emissions; but unsuspecting Americans will soon realize it's nothing but a hidden tax in the form of higher utility bills (natural gas & electric) that will jack the prices of everything, including gasoline, food and consumer products.

Obama and his Stalinist minions claim that, "Cap and trade is there for a reason...you cap and trade to pay for investments in renewables, which will lead the country to energy independence."

Energy independence? The arrogance of the democrats know no bounds! And it's all courtesy of an American electorate that is so dumbed-down scientifically, that they know not the difference between harmless CO2 (carbon dioxide ) and poisonous CO (carbon monoxide).

So who was it that said, "We get the government we deserve?" And its a treasonous one indeed. 

Realistically, by collecting cap and trade fees from American companies--with the cost borne by consumers-- we are in effect, subsidizing our foreign competitors (China, India, et. al) who have already stated that they're placing economic development above any environmental considerations

It's economic war on every working American who uses energy, and will reduce our economy into a miasma of plunging competiveness, lost jobs, and foolishly misplaced alternative energy investments.

Now let's introduce Dr. Steven Chu, (aka "Dr. No"- no new drilling)  Obama's Energy Czar, who doesn't have "faith" in nuclear power, has called coal, "his worst nightmare," and predicts "dire consequences due to global warming".

But meanwhile, Sweden is "warming" to nuclear power, because in their misguided lengthy attempt to be a leader in alternative energy, they've discovered it's extremely difficult to replace conventional energy with solar and wind. So the Swedes will set aside a 30 year ban on nuclear reactors, and are joining a rapidly growing list of nations who view emission-free nuclear as the best way to deal with "climate change".

But predictably, the Obama administration has lent a deaf ear to all this, and has taken an opposite tack-- no nuclear-- at least  for now.

Expansion of nuclear power could create tens of thousands of badly-needed U.S. corporate jobs (such as with GE and Westinghouse) and would require a multitude of construction workers to erect new reactors. And these would be high wage jobs--not just some make-work stimulus proposal. And more importantly, it would put America on track to returning to the 90's when the country last prospered as a full-wage economy.

But leftist Chu (and comrade Obama) are having none of it, and have rejected the already agreed-upon desert site at Nevada's Yucca Mountain for nuclear waste storage, saying... "that it's too close to the water table and could harm the environment."

So another solution to America's energy (and employment) problem literally "bites the dust."

Next in line for battle is the EPA's attack on coal, which will be led by Climate Czar, Carol Browner, who recently declared..."The Obama Administration will soon make an "endangerment finding” on carbon dioxide"...and that..."The next step is a notice of proposed "rule making” for new regulations on carbon-dioxide emissions".

An "endangerment finding?" Rule making?

Translation: Coal companies --prepare for chapter 13. Consumers --prepare for a 100% hike in your electric bills; and America-- get ready to turn out the lights.

How much more insanity can our country endure! This will turn out to be the ultimate attack on all of America-- the EPA determining that carbon dioxide is a dangerous pollutant-- and setting off the most extensive set of costly regulations in American history.

So you think insane too strong of a word? Hah!

Browner's new clean air decree will tag any source as emitting more than 250 tons of a "declared pollutant" as being subject to regulation, potentially including schools, hospitals, shopping centers-- even commercial hog farms and bakeries.

So if you like to eat meat, or enjoy an occasional donut or a fresh loaf of bread, get ready to go vegetarian, unless you want to pay dearly for your dietary staples-- they're gonna cost a lot more once Ms. Browner gets through with her destruction of America's standard of living

So prepare for a revival of that the beloved tradition, "Depression Era cooking". Beans and greens anyone?

The EPA's so called "registry plan" would cover about 13,000 facilities that account for 85 to 90 percent of the nation's greenhouse gas output. EPA Administrator, Lisa P. Jackson, in a recent statement, crowed..."This is a critical step toward helping us better protect our health and environment -- all without placing an onerous burden on our nation's small businesses".

But unless you push a hot dog cart or have a roadside hamburger stand, count on the EPA breathing down your neck with these so-called "reporting regulations". Even a farm with more than 25 cows would have to document their "emissions" of methane and other greenhouse gases.