Obama's 3 outrages in his 1st week

"Obama's 3 outrages in his 1st week"

by "rentarainbow"

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So. let me get this straight:

In a nation of 300 million people, Obama felt compelled to appoint a tax cheat, Tim Geithner, to be his Treasury Secretary. (Among 300 million people, there was not even ONE other person who could have filled that slot?) Then, tax-cheat Tim Geithner, having declared he would NOT hire any lobbyists, proceeded to hire as his Deputy Treasury Secretary a Goldman-Sachs LOBBYIST, Mark Patterson -- and all of this occurred within the FIRST week of the Obama administration.

Second outrage:

After persuading millions of women to vote for him (despite my warnings and the warnings of thousands of others) on the promise he would be on their side, Obama betrayed women. When Obama wanted MORE Republican votes than he needed to pass his economic legislation, Obama threw women out the window onto the pavement below (where the Obama bus rolled over them) and discarded the legislative provision that would have provided for family planning.

... Obama extended Republicans an olive branch, appealing to House Democrats to jettison an estimated $200 million ticketed for family planning services for low-income people.

You see, childbearing is a lot of things (it can be a happy thing, a scary thing or a bad news thing), but for most women it is also an ECONOMIC thing. Most or at least many women have to work these days to help with the rent and pay for food and medical care for their families. Having a child they do not want and cannot afford is a CATASTROPHE for these women.

But Obama sold these women out to please the Republicans and get them to support his stimulus package (which they were NOT going to do anyway).

Third outrage:

In order to attract more Republican support than he needed to pass his economic stimulus legislation, Obama told the Democrats to jettison a provision that would have enabled judges in mortgage foreclosure cases to recast mortgages so the homeowners COULD afford to make the monthly payments and stay in their homes.

Instead Obama will now, apparently, pay ABOVE market price to buy up those mortgages -- thereby helping the banks (and bank officers) that should never have granted the mortgages in the first place -- and harming the poor homeowners who can now go live in a tent in a park, where many of them will freeze to death.

But Obama added "ineffective tax cuts" to please the House Republicans (not one of whom voted for Obama's stimulus package anyway).

Three outrages in Obama's first week in office: some "accomplishment"!