The Circus Is In Town

The fiasco coming from Washington these last two months has been nothing short of a sick kind of circus.

Our Treasury Secretary, Tim Geithner is a tax cheat, and was the architect of the first, failed bailout - over 700 billion dollars gone. He knew there were bonuses coming to AIG officers, and made sure those bonuses were protected. He later claimed to know nothing about them. We found out differently.

Now we discover that Chris Dodd (D-CT) who received over $200,000 in contributions from AIG attached an amendment to the stimulus bill, behind closed doors, that further protected the bonuses for AIG bigwigs - using taxpayer money. At first Dodd said he had nothing to do with it, but 24 hours later he was found out and forced to admit his part in it.

But then he accuses the Treasury Secretary and the Obama Administration for "forcing" him to include that amendment. And the plot thickens!

And today we have learned that several banks that received taxpayer bailout funds have cheated on their own taxes. That's right - they owe over $200 million in taxes, but still got money from taxpayers. And then, to top it off, they tightened credit for those taxpayers and raised interest rates on us, the folks who bailed them out. Correct me if I am wrong, but when You or I apply for a loan, we have to show 2-3 years of tax records if we are a business. So, why did Geithner NOT ask bailout recipients to provide tax records before giving them our money?

Meanwhile, the administration passes an $800 billion stimulus, followed by a $400 billion Omnibus bill, both filled with pork, in spite of Obama's promise to remove all pork. Altogether, the pork came to over $300 billion.

And all that stimulus money - come to find out, the administration slipped in a little amendment that REQUIRES any stimulus money be spent on UNION SCALE. In other words, he is repaying the Unions for their support, and in so doing, reduces the effectiveness of the stimulus by roughly 35-50%. It seems the Democrats are again buying votes for the next election. After all, that is the singular purpose of pork.

And now Obama is pushing a 3.3 TRILLION dollar budget - in addition to the $2 Trillion already spent this year. And this does not include interest. When you add the interest, it comes closer to $8 Trillion. Just think - it took this nation 225 years to achieve an $11 trillion debt, and Obama, Pelosi and Reid have almost single-handedly doubled that in less than 60 days. Truly amazing!

But that is only the beginning. Although nearly 70% of Americans believe our immigration laws must be upheld, the new Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, has decided to virtually strip ICE of the power to do their jobs and enforce current laws. It would seem there is a correlation between her decision and Speaker Pelosi's speech last week to illegal immigrants telling them they were "patriotic", and any Americans who want our laws enforced are "un-American". She then went on to tell them they were "heroes" for breaking immigration law.

It appears Speaker Pelosi has forgotten her oath of office to UPHOLD the Constitution and the laws of this land. And apparently she has forgotten that the laws she is advocating illegals to ignore are the laws that Congress passed - and she is the Leader of the House of Representatives.

And now it comes out that the Obama administration may be tied to a far left organization that has publicly stated that it's objective is to smear any and all Republicans and their families. This, on the heels of Obama attacking people personally, such as Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity. Since when does the President of the United States lower himself to attacking individual citizens?

Now we have Attorney General Holder stating on the record that some of the Gitmo detainees - already known to be the worst of the worst - could end up walking the streets of America as free men!

Then, Obama proposes a bill that would force military personnel to pay for service-related injuries through their owm, private insurance. He dropped that idea after the HUGE uproar from service organizations and vocal disapproval of Congress - including those in his own party. But it still goes to show his complete lack of respect and support for our troops. And notice he does not even salute them, as required by military protocol?

And if that is not enough, the Obama administration has contracted with ACORN to help conduct the census. That's right - a far-left organization under investigation in 26 states for voter fraud is going to help conduct the 2010 census, which, coincidentally, helps determine political districts, and can effectively corrupt the seats of power.

It seems that every day the Obama administration is looking more and more like the corrupt Chicago Political Machine that those on the right have been contending that it was all along.

We, the People, have but one, slim chance to save our nation from the far-left agenda of socialism. And that, my friend, is the election of 2010.

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