The First 100 Days

From Fox News Obama’s first 100 days

Here is the list of the accomplishments the White House actively touts, even as it disdains what it calls the "Hallmark Holiday" of the 100th day in office:

• Passing the "largest" economic stimulus bill in American history.
• Ordering the closing of Guantanamo Bay military detention facility and abolishing "enhanced interrogation techniques.
• "Setting a fixed timetable for withdrawing U.S. combat forces from Iraq.
• Ordering 21,000 additional troops to Afghanistan and enlisting, with modest new assistance, European allies in a new multi-layered strategy there and in Pakistan.
• "Returning science to its rightful place" by lifting the Bush restrictions on federally funded embryonic stem cell research.
• Signing laws to expand children's health insurance (financed by a 61-cent per pack increase in the federal cigarette tax the adviser did not tout).
• Signing a law meant to improve the ability of women who allege pay discrimination to sue their employer.
• Diminishing the role of lobbyists in the White House
• "Forge a meaningful statement from the United Nations" criticizing North Korea's launch of a ballistic missile.
• Lifting travel and remittance restrictions for Cuban Americans who seek to travel more frequently to the island and send more US currency to their immediate family.
• Engaging world leaders in Europe, Turkey, Latin American and the Caribbean with "strength and humility."

"And this is just the beginning," the adviser beamed. "The president is governing consistent with the way he campaigned as a candidate."

If these are what this administration says are major accomplishments then, except for the “largest” waste of tax payer dollars, this is going to be the most inconsequential presidency in American history. Other than the first item of the list, which will plague this nation for the next 100 years, nothing is worth touting as a major accomplishment. Note the comment, ‘…disdains what it calls the “Hallmark Holiday….” This is the White House’s way of lowering our expectations for the Obama presidency. Here’s is how I would interpret this list:

• Squandering yours, your children’s and your grandchildren’s future
• Soft on terrorism and national securityLetting the enemy know our plans in Iraq
• Diverting attention from the war on terror with a drop in the bucket
• Politicizing science, making a decision without thought
• Taxing the poor
• Retroactive retribution – based on a something that didn’t seem to matter when it might actually have been happening
• Tax cheats and friends of the president excepted
• Really harsh pouting at a tin pot dictator
• Socialists unite
• The First Apologist at his best