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	Usurping
Bogus POTUS	Obama's first six months -- pages from the Latest Obamanations page are archived here, by month. It's drill-down from the month to the day, to the item. There is a lot of dynamite stuff in here.
	Screwups
Blunders	Michael Barone says with absolute power, Team Obama is growing stupid. How could such smart people do so many stupid things? That question, or variations on it, is being asked in Washington and around the country about the Obama administration.
	Henchmen
Cabinet	Background and news items related to Obama's Cabinet members, and senior advisers.
	Commissars
Czars	Let's understand what these people are. These are "political officers." In the old Soviet Union, they were called "commissars." The Executive Branch of government has been organized hierarchically, top-down, by Departments (Treasury, Defense, etc.) for two hundred years. Each department functions under the direction of an executive, referred to as a "Secretary," who is confirmed by the Senate. The appointments of these "Czars" changes the fundamental structure of the Executive Branch into a "matrix" structure. The czars have political power across all of the departments within the Executive Branch. They speak for Obama and their function is to ensure compliance with Obama's policies within the Executive Branch -- and beyond.
	Breaking The Bank
Economy	Obama unveiled much of his economic strategy while campaigning in 2008. He wants to employ the "Cloward-Piven Strategy" to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse.
	Greenies
Environment	So far the score card is not too pretty for the Obamamessiah. He is wrong on Afghanistan, wrong on Gitmo, wrong in taking over Chrysler and General Motors, obviously wrong on the Banks as they all want to give the money back, wrong on trying to push unproductive Unions down our throats, wrong on who is supplying weapons to Mexican drug cartels, wrong on many aspects of healthcare, wrong to apologize to the Mexicans, Europeans, and Muslims in the name of all Americans, and now; he is spitting into the wind with a fantasy of going green with energy. As the rest of the world is careening as fast as the wind toward nuclear power.
	Back Door To Socialism
Executive Orders	The New York Times is reporting that much of Obama's legislative agenda stalled in Congress, so Obama and his team are preparing an array of actions using his executive power to advance energy, environmental, fiscal and other domestic policy priorities. A president has vast authority to influence policy even without legislation, through executive orders, agency rule-making and administrative fiat. "We are reviewing a list of presidential executive orders and directives to get the job done across a front of issues," said Rahm Emanuel, the White House chief of staff.
	The Chicago Way
Intimidation	Make no mistake about it, these people will blow your balls off! Obama and his Obots will use legal, illegal, and extralegal tactics to neutralize critics of their Obamamessiah. They will flood radio stations with phone calls. They will bury your email system with impassioned emails. They will threaten you with legal sanctions. They will punch your lights out. Rhambo said it himself, "we're keeping score."
	Obama's Criteria
Justices	"We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom. The empathy to understand what it's like to be poor, or African-American, or gay, or disabled, or old."
	Hobbling Our Heroes
Military	Obama, in a widely-viewed video, said he will end the War in Iraq, cut defense spending on weapons, and basically work to gut the military and put our national security in the toilet -- all of this in time when we need our defenses and our military most. His lack of regard for defense; his naive belief that we can talk our way into the hearts of radical, rogue & nuclear nations; and his clamoring for a socialist system is downright naive.
	Socialized Medicine
ObamaCare	The New York Post editorializes: It's full steam ahead for ObamaCare -- the radical health-care "reform" pack age that Congressional Democrats are trying to steamroll to passage by the end of the summer. And now America is beginning to learn how much it will cost -- and who'll pay the tab.
	Reparations And Redistribution
Payback	Speaking to a gathering of minority journalists in Chicago, Obama said, "I personally would want to see our tragic history, or the tragic elements of our history, acknowledged." "I consistently believe that when it comes to whether it's Native Americans or African-American issues or reparations, the most important thing for the U.S. government to do is not just offer words, but offer deeds."
	Poltical Payoffs
Payoffs	Obama has not only embraced the sordid money-driven culture of DC, but actually outdone his predecessors. An analysis by the American Foreign Service Association, for example, found that Obama has stuffed the diplomatic corps with more political appointees than any president in the past 40 years. Only a year into the administration, close of half of Obama’s biggest donors already have federal jobs.
	ObamaMedia
Propaganda	Bush was bad enough in his socialistic spending of taxpayer money and expansion of government, now look what we’ve got. Ever increasing debt, gaining more and more power, Obama intrudes with more corporate welfare into industries and corporations which should be allowed to fail if that’s what the market dictates. He will continue to try and gain greater government regulation of our economy by covering such damage and destruction of America with words that sound healing and hopeful. He has successfully manipulated many people with his words. Propaganda has gotten him far.

Scandals	Barack Obama hasn't even made history yet by getting into the White House, but he's already making history for the number of serious scandals between his election and his inauguration.

Supreme Court	Remember the little dust-up between Chief Justice John Roberts and the Obama White House? That will look like a frat party compared to the battle over the next Supreme Court opening. We should know soon whether there will be one. Justice John Paul Stevens, who turns 90 years old on April 20, tells The New Yorker magazine he will probably decide whether to retire next month as well.