On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 08:49:30 +0700, John B. <
johnbs...@gmail.com>
wrote:
http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2011/06/president-barack-obamas-complete-list.html
President Barack Obama's Complete List of Historic Firsts [Updated]
Yes, he's historic, alright.
Law and Justice
• First President to Violate the War Powers Act (Unilaterally
Executing American Military Operations in Libya Without Informing
Congress In the Required Time Period - Source: Huffington Post)
• First President to Triple the Number of Warrantless Wiretaps of
U.S. Citizens (Source: ACLU)
• First President to Sign into Law a Bill That Permits the
Government to "Hold Anyone Suspected of Being Associated With
Terrorism Indefinitely, Without Any Form of Due Process. No
Indictment. No Judge or Jury. No Evidence. No Trial. Just an
Indefinite Jail Sentence" (NDAA Bill - Source: Business Insider.)
• First President to Have His Attorney General Held in Criminal
Contempt of Congress For His Efforts to Cover Up Operation Fast and
Furious, That Killed Over 300 Individuals (Source: Politico)
• First President to claim Executive Privilege to shield a sitting
Attorney General from a Contempt of Congress finding for perjury and
withholding evidence from lawful subpoenas (Source: Business Insider)
• First President to Issue Unlawful "Recess-Appointments" Over a
Long Weekend -- While the U.S. Senate Remained in Session (against the
advice of his own Justice Department - Source: Heritage Foundation)
• First President to Fire an Inspector General of Americorps for
Catching One of His Friends in a Corruption Case (Source: Gawker)
• First President to "Order a Secret Amnesty Program that Stopped
the Deportations of Illegal Immigrants Across the U.S., Including
Those With Criminal Convictions" (Source: DHS documents uncovered by
Judicial Watch)
• First President to Sue States for Enforcing Voter ID
Requirements, Which Were Previously Ruled Legal by the U.S. Supreme
Court (Source: CNN)
• First President to Encourage Racial Discrimination and
Intimidation at Polling Places (the New Black Panthers voter
intimidation case, Source: Investors Business Daily)
• First President to Refuse to Comply With a House Oversight
Committee Subpoena (Source: Heritage Foundation)
• First President to Arbitrarily Declare an Existing Law
Unconstitutional and Refuse to Enforce It (Defense of Marriage Act -
Source: ABC News)
• First President to Demand a Company Hand Over $20 Billion to One
of His Political Appointees (BP Oil Spill Relief Fund - Source: Fox
News)
• First President to Have a Law Signed By an 'Auto-pen' Without
Being "Present" (Source: The New York Times)
• First President to Have His Administration Fund an Organization
Tied to the Cop-Killing Terrorist Group, the Weather Underground
(Source: National Review)
Scandals
• First President to publicly announce an enemies list (consisting
of his opponents campaign contributors; and to use the
instrumentalities of government to punish those on the list - Source:
Heritage Foundation)
• First President to Attempt to Block Legally-Required 60-Day
Layoff Notices by Government Contractors Due to His Own Cuts to
Defense Spending -- Because The Notices Would Occur Before the
Election. (Source: National Journal)
• First President to Intentionally Disable Credit Card Security
Measures (in order to allow over-the-limit donations, foreign
contributions and other illegal fundraising measures - Source: Power
Line)
• First President to send 80 percent of a $16 billion program
(green energy) to his campaign bundlers and contributors, leaving only
20% to those who did not contribute. (Source: Washington Examiner)
• First President to Propose an Executive Order Demanding
Companies Disclose Their Political Contributions to Bid on Government
Contracts (Source: Wall Street Journal)
• First President to issue an Executive Order implementing a
"Racial Justice System", a system that tries to achieve "racially
equivalent outcomes" for crimes (Source: Daily Caller)
• First President to Send Millions in Taxpayer Dollars to His
Wife's Former Employer (Source: White House Dossier)
Economy
• First President to Preside Over a Cut to the Credit Rating of
the United States Government (Source: Reuters)
• First President to Bypass Congress and Implement the DREAM Act
Through Executive Fiat (Source: Christian Science Monitor)
• First President to Move America Past the Dependency Tipping
Point, In Which 51% of Households Now Pay No Income Taxes (Source:
Center for Individual Freedom)
• First President to Increase Food Stamp Spending By More Than
100% in Less Than Four Years (Source: Sen. Jeff Sessions)
• First President to Spend a Trillion Dollars on 'Shovel-Ready'
Jobs -- and Later Admit There Was No Such Thing as Shovel-Ready Jobs
(Source: President Obama during an early meeting of his 'Jobs
Council')
• First President to Threaten Insurance Companies After They
Publicly Spoke out on How Obamacare Helped Cause their Rate Increases
(Source: The Hill)
• First President to Abrogate Bankruptcy Law to Turn Over Control
of Companies to His Union Supporters (Source: Wall Street Journal)
• First President to Propose Budgets So Unreasonable That Not a
Single Representative From Either Party Would Cast a Vote in Favor
(Sources: The Hill, Open Market)
• First President Whose Economic Policies Have the Number of
Americans on Disability Exceed the Population of New York (Source: CNS
News)
• First President to Sign a Law Requiring All Americans to
Purchase a Product From a Third Party (Source: Wall Street Journal)
• First President to Sue States For Enforcing Immigration Laws
Passed by Congress (Source: The Arizona Republic newspaper)
• First President to See America Lose Its Status as the World's
Largest Economy (Source: Peterson Institute)
• First President to redistribute $26.5 billion of the taxpayers'
funds to his union supporters in the UAW (Source: Heritage Foundation)
• First President to Threaten an Auto Company (Ford) After It
Publicly Mocked Bailouts of GM and Chrysler (Source: Detroit News)
• First President to Attempt to Bully a Major Manufacturing
Company Into Not Opening a Factory in a Right-to-Work State (Boeing's
facility in South Carolina - Source: Wall Street Journal)
Energy Policy
• First President to Endanger the Stability of the Electric Grid
by Shutting Down Hundreds of Coal-Fired Plants Without Adequate
Replacement Technologies (Source: National Electric Reliability
Corporation - PDF)
• First President to Have His EPA Repudiated by a Federal Judge
for "Overstepping Its Powers" When They Attempted to Shut Down Coal
Operations in Appalachia (Source: Huffington Post)
• First President to be Held in Contempt of Court for Illegally
Obstructing Oil Drilling in the Gulf of Mexico (Source: Politico)
National Security and World Affairs
• First President to Lie Repeatedly to the American People About
the Murder of a U.S. Ambassador and Three Other Diplomatic Personnel
for Purely Political Reasons (Source: Roger Simon)
• First President to Openly Defy a Congressional Order Not To
Share Sensitive Nuclear Defense Secrets With the Russian Government
(Sources: ABC News, Rep. Michael Turner)
• First President to Leak Highly Classified Military and
Intelligence Secrets to Hollywood In Order to Promote a Movie That
Could Help His Reelection Campaign (Source: Judicial Watch)
• First President to Terminate America's Ability to Put a Man into
Space (Sources: USA Today, ABC News)
• First President to press for a "treaty giving a U.N. body veto
power over the use of our territorial waters and rights to half of all
offshore oil revenue" (The Law Of The Sea Treaty, Source: Investors
Business Daily)
• First President to send $200 million to a terrorist organization
(Hamas) after Congress had explicitly frozen the money for fear it
would fund attacks against civilians (Sources: American Thinker, The
Independent [UK])
Miscellania
• First President to Insert Himself into White House Biographies
of Past Presidents (Source: The New York Times).
• First President to Golf 105 or More Times in His First
Three-and-a-half Years in Office (Source: The Hill)
But remember: he will not rest until all Americans have jobs,
affordable homes, green-energy vehicles, and the environment is
repaired, etc., etc., etc.