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On Mon, 10 Feb 2025 18:42:31 -0500,  Joel says...  

> Trump is going to find himself surprised by the limits
> of his power, if he pursues unilateral action that ignores checks and
> balances.

Yes Joey... we know there are more branches than just the "Executive", so, why did Obama and to a lesser extent, Biden, pretty much do what they 
wanted? 

Here are a few examples: (ignore any numbering and you'll have to pick out overreach by Obama, I'm not editing)

1) Carried out military interventionism in Libya without Congressional approval

In June 2011, U.S. Congressman Dennis Kucinich(D) said that Obama had violated the Constitution when he launched military operations in Libya without 
Congressional approval.

In April 2014, Ralph Nader said that Obama should be impeached for his actions in Libya.

2) Gave a no-bid contract to Halliburton cronies - just like Bush did

In May 2010, it was reported that the Obama administration had selected KBR, a former subsidiary of Halliburton, for a no-bid contract worth as much 
as $568 million through 2011, just hours after the Justice Department had said it would pursue a lawsuit accusing the Houston-based company of using 
kickbacks to get foreign contracts.

Don't be fooled by the words "former subsidiary." These are the same Halliburton cronies that Bush gave a no-bid contract to.

3) Has an administration full of lobbyists, after promising he wouldn't have any

On November 15, 2007, in Las Vegas, Nevada, Obama said that lobbyists

"... will not work in my White House."

However, by February 2010, he had more than 40 lobbyists working in his administration. A list of them can be seen here.

4) Has close ties to Wall St., but pretends to support Occupy Wall St.

Although Obama claims to support the Occupy Wall St. movement, the truth is that he has raised more money from Wall St. than any other candidate 
during the last 20 years. In early 2012, Obama held a fundraiser where Wall St. investment bankers and hedge fund managers each paid $35,800 to 
attend. In October 2011, Obama hired Broderick Johnson, a longtime Wall Street lobbyist, to be his new senior campaign adviser. Johnson had worked as 
a lobbyist for JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, Fannie Mae, Comcast, Microsoft, and the oil industry.

5) Broke his promise to close Guantanamo Bay

Obama broke his promise to close Guantanamo Bay.

6) Supported the $700 billion TARP corporate-welfare bail-out just like Bush

While Senator, Obama voted for the $700 billion TARP bank bailout bill. The bailout rewarded irresponsible and illegal behavior. It redirected 
resources from more productive uses to less productive uses. It punished the hard working taxpayers who had played by the rules and obeyed the law. 
It created horrible incentives, and sent the wrong message. The bailout was evil because it rewarded the bad people and punished the good people. No 
society that does this can expect to remain free or prosperous. Instead of bailing out these corrupt corporations, we should have let them cease to 
exist, like we did with Enron.

7) Waged the biggest war against medical marijuana of any president, which was the opposite of what he had promised

In May 2008, Obama campaign spokesperson Ben LaBolt said that Obama would end DEA raids on medical marijuana in states where it's legal. Also in 
2008, Obama said that he supported the "basic concept of using medical marijuana for the same purposes and with the same controls as other drugs" and 
that he was "not going to be using Justice Department resources to try to circumvent state laws."

However, in February 2010, DEA agents raided a medical marijuana grower in Highlands Ranch in Colorado, a state where medical marijuana is legal. 
Also in February 2010, DEA agents raided a medical marijuana dispensary in Culver City in California, a state where medical marijuana is legal. In 
July 2010, the DEA raided at least four medical marijuana growers in San Diego, California. Also in July 2010, the DEA raided a medical marijuana 
facility in Covelo, California. Then in September 2010, the DEA conducted raids on at least five medical marijuana dispensaries in Las Vegas, Nevada, 
where medical marijuana is legal. In 2011, the DEA conducted raids on medical marijuana in Seattle, Washington, West Hollywood, California, and 
Helena, Montana, all places where it is legal. In April 2012, the DEA carried out several raids on medical marijuana in Oakland, California.

In February 2012, Rolling Stone magazine wrote that Obama's war against medical marijuana went "far beyond anything undertaken by George W. Bush." In 
April 2012, Mother Jones magazine wrote: "The president campaigned on the promise that he'd stop federal raids on medical marijuana operations that 
were in compliance with state laws, a vow that Attorney General Eric Holder repeated after the election. But then the Obama administration raided 
more than 100 dispensaries in its first three years and is now poised to out-pace the Bush administration's crackdown record." In May 2012, the 
Washington Post wrote: "Obama has become more hostile to medical marijuana patients than any president in U.S. history." In May 2012, U.S. 
Congressperson Nancy Pelosi (D-California) said she had "strong concerns" about Obama's forced closure of five medical marijuana facilities in 
Pelosi's congressional district. In April 2012, commenting on Obama's crackdown on medical marijuana, U.S. Congressman Barney Frank (D-Massachusetts) 
said, "I'm very disappointed... They look more like the Bush administration than the Clinton administration."

In July 2012, federal prosecutors filed civil forfeiture actions against  Harborside Health Center, a medical marijuana dispensary in Oakland, CA, 
which claims to be the world's largest, and which claims to serve more than 100,000 medical marijuana patients. In April 2012, federal agents raided 
Oaksterdam University, an educational institution in Oakland, CA, which teaches people about medical marijuana. In April 2012, federal agents raided 
a medical marijuana facility which had been serving 1,500 patients near Lake Elsinore, CA. In June 2012, the Obama administration filed asset-
forfeiture lawsuits against two landlords who rented their buildings to medical marijuana stores in Santa Fe Springs, CA. The Obama administration 
also sent warning letters which threatened similar legal action to dozens of other, nearby landlords. During the first seven months of 2012, the DEA 
shut down 40 medical marijuana dispensaries in Colorado, all of which had been operating in compliance with state and local law.

In April 2013, the DEA raided four medical  marijuana dispensaries in Los Angeles, California. Also in April 2013, the DEA raided a medical marijuana 
dispensary in San Diego, California. In July 2013, the DEA conducted multiple medical marijuana raids in Washington state, including the cities of 
Olympia, Tacoma, and Seattle. In August 2013, the DEA raided People's Choice Alternative Medicine, a medical marijuana facility in Ann Arbor, 
Michigan. In October 2013, the DEA raided 28 medical marijuana facilities in Michigan. In November 2013, the DEA raided 12 medical marijuana 
facilities in Denver, Colorado.

In May 2012, ABC News reported that during Obama's youth, he often smoked large quantities of recreational marijuana.  Obama's marijuana smoking 
wasn't even medical - it was recreational. And yet now, he is taking large scale, widespread action to prevent people with AIDS, cancer, multiple 
sclerosis, glaucoma, and other illnesses, who have prescriptions from their doctors, from using their prescription medicine - how cold hearted can a 
person be?

8) Nominated a six-time tax cheater to head the government agency that enforces the tax laws

Obama nominated Timothy Geithner, a repeat tax cheater, to head the government agency that enforces the tax laws.

Prior to his nomination, Geithner had:

A) Illegally failed to pay more than $34,000 in social security and Medicare taxes

B) Illegally declared the cost of his children's summer camp as a form of day care.

C) Illegally failed to pay the early withdrawal penalty when he took money out of his retirement plan

D) Illegally declared non-eligible items as a charitable deduction

E) Illegally declared something which was ineligible as a small business deduction

F) Illegally declared utility expenses which had actually been for his personal use

G) Gave tax dollars to AIG executives, then pretended to be outraged about it

Obama signed a "stimulus" bill that spent money on bonuses for AIG executives. Prior to signing this bill, Obama had said, "when I'm president, I 
will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely." However, after reading "line by line" and signing the "stimulus" bill 
that protected the AIG bonuses, Obama pretended to be shocked and outraged at the bonuses, and said, "Under these circumstances, it's hard to 
understand how derivative traders at A.I.G. warranted any bonuses at all, much less $165 million in extra pay... How do they justify this outrage to 
the taxpayers who are keeping the company afloat?" and also said that he would "pursue every single legal avenue to block these bonuses."

10) Expanded Bush's unconstitutional government faith based programs

Obama expanded the federal government's faith based programs which had been started by President George W. Bush.

11) Supported Bush's unconstitutional Patriot Act

In May 2011, Obama signed a renewal of the Patriot Act.

12) Increased the national debt more in one term than Bush did in two

The national debt increased more during Obama's first three years and two months than it did during all eight years of George W. Bush's presidency.

13) Agrees with Bush's support of unconstitutional, indefinite detention of U.S. citizens without filing any charges

In December 2011, ACLU executive director Anthony D. Romero criticized Obama for signing a bill that gave the U.S. government the power to 
indefinitely detain U.S. citizens without any charges being filed or any trial taking place.

14) Agrees with Bush's support of unconstitutional, warrantless wiretapping

President Obama has defended warrantless wiretapping.

15) Avoided prosecution of Wall. St criminals

Although Obama had promised to prosecute Wall St. criminals, during his entire first term, his administration did not file any criminal charges 
against any of the top financial executives.

16) Had four U.S. citizens killed without judicial process

Obama had four U.S. citizens killed without judicial process.

The ACLU accused Obama of violating the U.S. Constitution for doing this.

U.S. Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX) said that Obama's actions might be an impeachable offense.

Ralph Nader wrote that Obama

"has extended the Bush doctrine by declaring his unilateral right, as secret prosecutor, judge, jury, and executioner, to destroy anybody, anywhere 
in the world, including American citizens, suspected to be engaged in alleged terrorist activities, all this vaguely and loosely defined as anti-U.S. 
security."

17) Ordered private company to fire 1,000 employees

In 2011, after Boeing had hired 1,000 new employees to work at its new factory in South Carolina, the Obama administration ordered Boeing to shut 
down the factory, because the factory was non-union.

18) Stole money from retired teachers and police officers

During the Chrysler bankruptcy, Obama violated the Fifth Amendment and more than 150 years of bankruptcy law by illegally treating secured creditors 
worse than unsecured creditors. Some of these secured creditors were retired teachers and police officers from Indiana.

Richard A. Epstein, a law professor at New York University School of Law, wrote of this:

"Upsetting this fixed hierarchy among creditors is just an illegal taking of property from one group of creditors for the benefit of another, which 
should be struck down on both statutory and constitutional grounds."

Todd Zywicki, Professor of Law at George Mason University School of Law, wrote that Obama's treatment of secured creditors was

"dangerous to the rule of law."

The Economist wrote that Obama's actions could

"establish a terrible precedent. Bankruptcy exists to sort legal claims on assets. If it becomes a tool of social policy, who will then lend to 
struggling firms in which the government has a political interest?"

Francis Cianfrocca, the CEO of Bayshore Networks, wrote that Obama's actions were

"an astonishingly reckless abrogation of contract law that will introduce a new level of uncertainty into business transactions at all levels, and 
make wealth generation more difficult going forward... An extraordinary uncertainty has been created when the most powerful man in the world can 
rewrite contracts and choose winners and losers in private negotiations as he sees fit. Since this is an unquantifiable uncertainty, and not a 
quantifiable risk, its effect on business and investor confidence will be large and unpredictable. As in the 1930s, a time when government also 
cavalierly rewrote private contracts, the prudent approach for business will be to invest minimally and wait for another administration."

19) Supported release of convicted mass murderer

In 2010, Obama  supported releasing Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi (who had been convicted of murdering 270 people) from prison.

20) Illegally put thousands of guns into hands of criminals

In Operation Fast and Furious, the Obama administration ordered gun store-owners to illegally sell thousands of guns to criminals.

U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry was murdered with one of these guns.

The murderer was sentenced to 30 years in prison, but his accomplices, Eric Holder and Barack Obama, haven't even been arrested or charged.

21) Fired Inspector General for discovering that Obama's friend had embezzled government funds

In June 2009, Obama fired Inspector General Gerald Walpin, after Walpin accused Sacramento mayor Kevin Johnson, an Obama supporter, of misuse of 
AmeriCorps funding to pay for school-board political activities. In a letter to Congress, the White House said that Walpin was fired because he was 
"confused, disoriented, unable to answer questions and exhibited other behavior that led the Board to question his capacity to serve." A bipartisan 
group of 145 current and former public officials, attorneys, and legal scholars signed a letter that was sent to the White House, which defended 
Walpin, said the criticisms of him were not true, and said that his firing was politically motivated. The letter can be read here.

22) Lied about putting health care negotiations on C-SPAN

Although Obama had made a campaign promise to have all of the health care reform negotiations broadcast on C-SPAN, he broke that promise after he was 
elected.

The secrecy of these negotiations was so strong that U.S. Congresswoman and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-California) said, "We have to pass 
the bill so that you can find out what is in it."

23) Lied about letting people keep their health insurance

Before Obamacare was passed, Obama said:

"No matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise to the American people... If you like your health care plan, you'll be able to keep 
your health care plan, period. No one will take it away, no matter what."

Also before Obamacare was passed, Obama said:

"Here is a guarantee that I've made. If you have insurance that you like, then you will be able to keep that insurance."

However, after Obamacare was passed, the Congressional Budget Office said that the law would cause seven million people to lose their employer 
provided insurance.

After Obamacare was passed, 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East announced that it would drop health insurance for the children of more than 
30,000 low-wage home attendants. Mitra Behroozi, executive director of benefit and pension funds for 1199SEIU stated

"... new federal health-care reform legislation requires plans with dependent coverage to expand that coverage up to age 26... meeting this new 
requirement would be financially impossible."

Also, after Obamacare was passed, the Franciscan University of Steubenville dropped its coverage in response to the law.

Universal Orlando dropped its coverage for part time employees in response to Obamacare.

In addition, after Obamacare was passed, Forbes reported

"The House Ways and Means Committee has released a new report that sheds light onto how Obamacare incentivizes companies to dump their workers onto 
the new law's subsidized exchanges."

Also after Obamacare was passed, MSN reported

"The Affordable Care Act mandate most commonly known as Obamacare has some tight stipulations that, CNN says, are forcing health care companies to 
rip up most of their current plans and draft new ones that comply. According to a University of Chicago study, just about half of the individual 
health care plans currently on the market won't cut it once key provisions of the Affordable Care Act kick in next year."

Furthermore, it was reported that Obamacare would cause 58,000 Aetna and UnitedHealth Group customers in California to lose their insurance.

In response to Obamacare, some employers have dropped coverage for their employees' spouses. In August 2013, it was reported that UPS had announced 
that it would be dropping 15,000 spouses of its employees from its health insurance, and that it had cited Obamacare as the reason it was doing this.

The chain of Wegmans supermarkets cancelled the policies of its part time employees in response to Obamacare.

In July 2013, leaders of the Teamsters, UFCW, and UNITE-HERE sent a letter to Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi which said that Obamacare

"will shatter not only our hard-earned health benefits... these restrictions will make non-profit plans like ours unsustainable... we can no longer 
stand silent in the face of elements of the Affordable Care Act that will destroy the very health and wellbeing of our members along with millions of 
other hardworking Americans"

In August 2013, it was reported that 106,000 New Jersey citizens would lose their health insurance because of Obamacare.

In September 2013, IBM announced that it would be switching 110,000 of its retirees from their current IBM-provided health insurance to the Obamacare 
exchanges.

In September 2013, Trader Joe's announced that, in response to Obamacare, it would stop providing insurance to its part time employees.

In October 2013, it was reported that at least 146,000 people in Michigan would be losing their insurance because of Obamacare.

In October 2013, it was reported that Florida Blue would be dropping 300,000 customers because of Obamacare.

In October 2013, it was reported that 491,977 individual insurance plans in California would be canceled because of Obamacare.

In October 2013, it was reported that, in response to Obamacare, Home Depot would stop providing insurance to its part time employees.

In October 2013, it was reported that Obamacare was forcing CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield to cancel the insurance of 76,000 people in Virginia, 
Maryland, and Washington, D.C., because their policies did not meet the minimum requirements of Obamacare.

In October 2013, it was reported that hundreds of thousands of people in Washington state would be losing their insurance because of Obamacare.

In November 2013, it was reported that nearly nearly 250,000 people in Colorado would lose their insurance because of Obamacare.

In January 2014, it was reported that, in response to Obamacare, Target was planning to stop offering insurance to its part time employees.

24) Lied about the cost of Obamacare

Before Obamacare was passed, Obama promised

"I will not sign a plan that adds one dime to our deficits - either now or in the future. I will not sign it if it adds one dime to the deficit, now 
or in the future, period. And to prove that I'm serious, there will be a provision in this plan that requires us to come forward with more spending 
cuts if the savings we promised don't materialize."

However, after Obama signed it, the Washington Post reported that it would add more than $340 billion to the budget deficit over the next decade.

In March 2012, the Congressional Budget Office said that over the next decade, Obamacare would cost twice as much as what Obama had promised.

In May 2013, it was reported that Obamacare's program for high risk patients was more expensive than what Obama had promised.

25) Gave tax dollars to campaign contributors and lobbyists, and falsely claimed the money was for "green energy"

In 2009 the Obama administration gave $535 million to Solyndra, claiming that it would create 4,000 new jobs. However, instead of creating those 
4,000 new jobs, the company went bankrupt. It was later revealed that the company's shareholders and executives had made substantial donations to 
Obama's campaign, that the company had spent a large sum of money on lobbying, and that Solyndra executives had had many meetings with White House 
officials.

It was also revealed that the Obama administration had already been aware of Solyndra's financial troubles. For example, according to the company's 
security filings in 2009, the company had been selling its product for less than the cost of production. In 2010, Obama visited the Solyndra factory 
and cited it as a role model for his "stimulus" program, saying "It's here that companies like Solyndra are leading the way toward a brighter and 
more prosperous future." The Washington Post wrote of this, "Administration officials and outside advisers warned that President Obama should 
consider dropping plans to visit a solar startup company in 2010 because its mounting financial problems might ultimately embarrass the White 
House." Solyndra was a private company, but had been planning to use its government loans as a means of going public - so when Obama knowingly 
overstated the company's condition in order to help his friends at Solyndra, he broke the same law that Martha Stewart had been sent to prison for 
breaking.

In September 2011, federal agents visited the homes of Brian Harrison, the company's CEO, and Chris Gronet, the company's founder, to examine 
computer files and documents.  Also in September 2011, the U.S. Treasury Department launched an investigation.

On September 13, 2011, the Washington Post reported on emails which showed that the Obama administration had tried to rush federal reviewers to 
approve the loan so Vice President Joe Biden could announce it at a September 2009 groundbreaking for the company's factory. The company was a 
hallmark of President Obama's plan to support clean energy technologies.

The New York Times reported that government auditors and industry analysts had faulted the Obama administration for failing to properly evaluate the 
company's business proposals, as well as for failing to take note of troubling signs which were already evident. In addition, Frank Rusco, a program 
director at the Government Accountability Office, had found that the preliminary loan approval had been granted before officials had completed the 
legally mandated evaluations of the company.

The New York Times quoted Shyam Mehta, a senior analyst at GTM Research, as saying "There was just too much misplaced zeal at the Department of 
Energy for this company." Among 143 companies that had expressed an interest in getting a loan guarantee, Solyndra was the first one to get approval. 
During the period when Solyndra's loan guarantee was under review, the company had spent nearly $1.8 million on lobbying. Tim Harris, the CEO of 
Solopower, a different solar panel company which had obtained a $197 million loan guarantee, told the New York Times that his company had never 
considered spending any money on lobbying, and that "It was made clear to us early in the process that that was clearly verboten... We were told that 
it was not only not helpful but it was not acceptable."

The Washington Post reported that Solyndra had used some of the loan money to purchase new equipment which it never used, and then sold that new 
equipment, still in its plastic wrap, for pennies on the dollar. Former Solyndra engineer Lindsey Eastburn told the Washington Post, "After we got 
the loan guarantee, they were just spending money left and right... Because we were doing well, nobody cared. Because of that infusion of money, it 
made people sloppy."

On September 29, 2011, the Washington Post reported that the Obama administration had continued to allow Solyndra to receive taxpayer money even 
after it had defaulted on its $535 million loan.

On October 7, 2011, The Washington Post reported that newly revealed emails showed that Energy Department officials had been warned that their plan 
to help Solyndra by restructuring the loan might be illegal, and should be cleared with the Justice Department first. However, Energy Department 
officials moved ahead with the restructuring anyway, with a new deal that would repay company investors before taxpayers if the company were to 
default. The emails showed concerns within the Obama administration about the legality of the Energy Department's actions. In addition, an Energy 
Department "stimulus" adviser, Steve Spinner, had pushed for the loan, despite having recused himself because his wife's law firm had done work for 
the company.

In January 2012, CBS News reported that Solyndra had thrown millions of dollars worth of brand new glass tubes into garbage dumpsters, where they 
ended up being shattered. Solyndra told CBS that it had conducted an exhaustive search for buyers of the glass tubes, and that no one had wanted 
them. However, CBS discovered that Solyndra had not offered the glass tubes for sale at either one of its two asset auctions that took place in 2011. 
In addition, David Lucky, a buyer and seller of such equipment, told CBS that he would have bought the tubes if he had had a chance to do so. Greg 
Smestad, a solar scientist who had consulted for the Department of Energy, also agreed that the tubes had value, and had asked Solyndra to donate any 
unwanted tubes to Santa Clara University. Smestad stated, "That really makes me sad... Those tubes represent intellectual investment. These could 
have had a better value to do public good. I think they owed the U.S. taxpayer that."

Solyndra was not the only "green energy" company involved in this type of fraud. After Obama gave Raser Technologies $33 million to build a power 
plant, the company declared bankruptcy, and owed $1.5 million in back taxes. After Obama gave Abound Solar, Inc. a $400 million loan guarantee to 
build photovoltaic panel factories, the company halted production and laid off 180 employees. After Obama gave Beacon Power a $43 million loan 
guarantee to build green energy storage, the company filed for bankruptcy. After Obama approved $2.1 billion in loan guarantees for Solar Trust of 
America so it could build solar power plants, the company filed for bankruptcy.

In April 2012, CBS News reported that Solyndra had left a substantial amount of toxic waste at its abandoned facility in Milpitas, California. In May 
2014, it was reported that the building in Longmont, Colorado that had been abandoned by Abound Solar in 2012 was still contaminated with cadmium, a 
toxic metal which can cause cancer.

Although Obama stated that all of the "green energy" companies that received taxpayer money were chosen "based solely on their merits," the truth is 
that 71% of these grants and loans went to Obama donors and fundraisers, who raised $457,834 for his campaign, and were later approved for grants and 
loans totaling more than $11 billion. By November 2011, the Energy Department's inspector general had begun more than 100 criminal investigations 
related to Obama's "stimulus." Although an "independent" review said that Obama had not done anything wrong, it was later reported that Herbert M. 
Allison Jr., the person who had conducted this "independent" review, donated $52,500 to Obama's campaign.

26) Had "off the record" meetings with lobbyists

In June 2010, the New York Times reported that Obama administration officials had held hundreds of meetings with lobbyists at coffee houses near the 
White House, in order to avoid the disclosure requirements for White House visitors, and that these meetings "reveal a disconnect between the Obama 
administration's public rhetoric - with Mr. Obama himself frequently thrashing big industries' 'battalions' of lobbyists as enemies of reform - and 
the administration's continuing, private dealings with them."

27) Falsely claimed to believe in public education

Although Obama said, "We need to uphold the ideal of public education," he expressed his true opinion of America's public education system by sending 
his own children to private schools while living in Chicago and Washington D.C.

28) Falsely promised that Obamacare would give people "the same kind of insurance that Senator McCain and I enjoy"

In 2008, Obama said:

"If you don't have health insurance, you're going to be able to buy the same kind of insurance that Senator McCain and I enjoy as federal employees."

However, the New York Times reported:

"No patient gets closer medical attention than the president of the United States. Wherever he goes, a doctor, nurse or paramedic trails a few 
footsteps behind, ready for any medical need. It is the ultimate in concierge medicine." 

29) Shut down Amish farm

In February 2012, Obama shut down an Amish farm for selling unpasteurized milk across state lines, even though the customers were happy with what 
they were buying.

30) Rewarded his fundraisers by giving them federal jobs

Although Obama had promised to have "the most sweeping ethics reform in history," and had often criticized the role of money in politics, the truth 
is that after he was elected, he gave administration jobs to more than half of his 47 biggest fundraisers.

31) Ignored constitutional requirements for appointees

In February 2009, U.S. Senator Robert Byrd (D-West Virginia) expressed concern that Obama's dozens of czars might violate the U.S. Constitution, 
because they were not approved by the U.S. Senate. U.S. Senator Russ Feingold (D-Wisconsin) expressed a similar concern in September 2009.

32) Gave tax dollars to corrupt private contractors to build 504 units of mice infested, slum housing, with backed up sewage

While Obama was a state Senator in Illinois, he used tax dollars to build 504 units of slum housing, which had mice and backed up sewage. Federal 
inspectors graded the condition of the housing so bad that the buildings faced demolition.

33) Used tax dollars to glorify murderers

The Obama administration spent $1.6 million to restore graffiti that glorified communist murderers Che Guevara and Fidel Castro.

34) Falsely claimed that the U.S. Supreme Court had never overturned any laws that had been passed by Congress

Despite having taught constitutional law at one of the most prestigious law schools in the country, in April 2012 Obama falsely claimed that the U.S. 
Supreme Court had never overturned any laws that had been passed by Congress.

35) Supported new bailouts for speculators who caused housing bubble

In March 2012, Obama announced a new set of bailouts for speculators who had caused the housing bubble.

36) Spent $205,075 on a shrubbery which nurseries sell for $16

During one of Obama's "stimulus" projects, $205,075 of combined federal and local government funding was spent to relocate and care for a single 
specimen of Arctostaphylos franciscana, a shrubbery which nurseries sell for $16.

37) Spent taxpayer money to see if using cocaine helped rats to enjoy the music of Miles Davis

Obama's administration funded a study to see whether or not rats' enjoyment of the music of Miles Davis was increased when the rats were high on 
cocaine.

38) Tried to outlaw family farms

In April 2012, the Obama administration proposed new regulations which would prohibit farm children under 18 from working at grain elevators, silos, 
feed lots, stockyards, and livestock auctions, as well as from storing, marketing and transporting farm product raw materials. Critics claimed that 
this would prevent children from the common practice of working on their friends' and relatives' farms, and that farm children did not need "help" 
from a community organizer in Washington.

39) Auctioned off ambassadorship to the Netherlands

In April 2012, Obama nominated Timothy Broas, who had "bundled" more than $500,000 for Obama's 2012 campaign, to be U.S. ambassador to the 
Netherlands.

40) Claimed that written tests are a form of "racial discrimination"

The Obama administration accused fire and police departments in Jacksonville, Florida, New York City, and Dayton, Ohio of "racial discrimination" 
because they required potential firefighters and police officers to take a written test. Ten real examples of these "racist" questions from the New 
York test can be read here.

41) Made the TSA even more abusive and ridiculous than it had been under Bush

The Obama administration gave a very invasive pat-down to a three-year-old boy in a wheelchair, which caused the boy to tremble in fear. The Obama 
administration gave an aggressive pat-down to a seven-year-old girl with cerebral palsy. The Obama administration said that a four-year-old girl was 
a "high security threat." The Obama administration placed an 18-month-old girl on its no fly list. The Obama administration gave a pat-down to Henry 
Kissinger. The Obama administration forced a 95-year-old cancer patient to remove her adult diaper and fly without it. The Obama administration 
ripped open the urostomy bag of a 61-year-old bladder cancer survivor, and forced him to fly covered in his own urine. The Obama administration 
harassed a sick 3-year-old boy, and caused him to miss his flight.

42) Illegally demanded monetary payment for Freedom of Information Act request

The Obama administration demanded that the Goldwater Institute pay $78,935.80 before it would share public records which it had requested under the 
Freedom of Information Act.

43) Fined public school $15,000 for selling soda

The Obama administration fined a high school $15,000 for selling soda to students during lunch.

44) Conducted dangerous and illegal scientific experiments on sick people without always informing them of the risks

In 2010 and 2011, the Obama administration conducted illegal scientific experiments which exposed people to dangerous levels of toxins. Some of these 
people had asthma and heart problems, and were exposed to levels of pollutants as high as 50 times what the EPA considers to be safe . The government 
did not always tell them about the risks of cancer and death.

45) Closed the Vietnam Memorial for seven hours on Memorial Day so he could have his picture taken

On Memorial Day 2012, Obama prevented Vietnam veterans and their friends and families from visiting the Vietnam Memorial for seven hours so he could 
have his picture taken.

46) Had the government take 60.8% ownership of General Motors

In July 2009, Obama had the government take 60.8% ownership of General Motors, and fired the CEO.

47) Forced banks to give mortgages to people who could not afford to pay them back, and collected $23,000 in legal fees for himself for doing so

While working as a "community organizer," Obama filed lawsuits which forced banks to give mortgages to people with bad credit and low incomes. As a 
result, many of these people ended up defaulting on their mortgages. As their attorney, Obama collected $23,000 in legal fees for himself.

Then in April 2013, during Obama's second term as President, the Washington Post reported that President Obama was still pressuring banks "to make 
home loans to people with weaker credit."

48) Stole money from retired Delphi employees

In 2009, Obama eliminated the pensions of 20,000 retired Delphi employees.

49) Used taxpayer money to buy soda for $3.40 per can

During Obama's presidency, the federal government repeatedly purchased soda for a cost of $3.40 per can. Obama did not express any desire to switch 
to a cheaper seller, such as Costco, amazon.com, or Wal-Mart - or to an even still cheaper seller such as a wholesaler. Instead, Obama repeatedly 
forced taxpayers to pay these outrageous prices for soda.

50) Paid $7 million per household to connect people to the Internet

Obama's "stimulus" paid to connect some households in Montana to the Internet, at a cost of $7 million per household.

51) Had a double standard for Bain Capital

Although Obama criticized Mitt Romney for his involvement with Bain Capital, Obama hired Jeff Zients, a former consultant at Bain (and who had an 
estimated personal wealth of $200 million) to be his budget director.

52) Broke promise to teen campaign volunteers

Obama had promised to his teen campaign volunteers that if they each spent nine hours going door to door on Obama's behalf, he would invite them to 
attend his speech of September 6, 2012. However, after the teens did the volunteer work, Obama broke his promise. One of these volunteers, Madeline 
Frank, age 16, of Charlotte, North Carolina, said of this "I've been looking forward to this for a really long time. I am just feeling really let 
down and like bummed. It was kind of my dream to see him speak, so definitely really sad."

53) Falsely claimed to know more about Judaism than any other President

Obama falsely claimed to know more about Judaism than any other President.

54) Exempted wind farms from the penalties that other companies get for killing birds

In May 2013, it was reported that Obama had fined oil and electric companies for illegally killing endangered birds, but that he had never fined wind 
power companies even though they had broken the exact same laws.

55) Falsely claimed that he had never belonged to the New Party

Obama falsely claimed that he had never belonged to the New Party, which is a third political party.

56) Supported punishing students based on their race instead of on their behavior

Obama expressed support for a proposal which would punish students based on their race instead of on their behavior.

57) Used "off the books" funding for military interventionism

In April 2009, antiwar activists who helped elect Obama accused him of using the same "off the books" funding as his predecessor George W. Bush when 
Obama requested an additional $83.4 billion from Congress for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan - a provision which Obama had voted against when he 
was a Senator.

58) Tried to silence criticism of auto-bailouts

The Obama administration pressured Ford Motor Company to stop airing a TV ad that criticized Obama's bailouts of General Motors and Chrysler.

59)  Dismissed charges of voter intimidation, despite video evidence

In May 2009, the Obama administration dismissed charges that had been filed by the Bush administration against members of the New Black Panther Party 
who had been videotaped intimidating voters and brandishing a police-style baton at a Philadelphia polling station during the November 2008 election. 
In August 2009, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights demanded that the Justice Department explain why it dismissed the charges.  In July 2010, J. 
Christian Adams, a former lawyer for the Justice Department, testified before the Commission on Civil Rights that the case was dropped because the 
Justice Department did not want to protect the civil rights of white people.

60) Falsely claimed to support the second amendment

Although Obama stated, "I have always believed that the Second Amendment protects the right of individuals to bear arms," the National Rifle 
Association gave Obama a rating of 'F' based on his voting record.

61) Nominated a communist who said 9-11 was an inside job

In September 2009, Obama's green czar Van Jones resigned after it was reported that he was a self described "communist" and had blamed George W. Bush 
for the September 11 attacks.

62) Falsely said he would not raise taxes on the poor and middle class

On September 12, 2008, Obama promised:

"I can make a firm pledge. Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your 
payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes."

However, less than three months into his Presidency, he broke that promise when he raised the cigarette tax. Studies show that poor people are more 
likely to smoke than rich people.

63) Falsely said he wanted to simplify the tax code, when he actually wanted to make it more complex

Although Obama said that he wanted to simplify the tax code, his proposals would actually add thousands of pages to the tax code.

64) Oversaw some of the world's worst increases in corruption

In December 2010, Transparency International reported that corruption was increasing faster in the U.S. than anywhere else except Cuba, Dominica, and 
Burkina Faso.

65) Falsely said "This is the most transparent administration in history"

In February 2013, Obama said, "This is the most transparent administration in history."

However, that same month, ABC News White House reporter Ann Compton, who covered Presidents Ford, Carter, Reagan, Clinton, both Bushes, and Obama, 
said "The president's day-to-day policy development... is almost totally opaque to the reporters trying to do a responsible job of covering it. There 
are no readouts from big meetings he has with people from the outside, and many of them aren't even on his schedule. This is different from every 
president I covered. This White House goes to extreme lengths to keep the press away."

In July 2009, White House reporter Helen Thomas criticized the Obama administration for its lack of transparency.

In October 2013, ABC News correspondent Ann Compton said that Obama was the "least transparent of the seven presidents I've covered in terms of how 
he does his daily business."

Also, this list contains a huge number of things that Obama has done which contradict his statement.

66) Falsely claimed he would wait five days before signing bills

Although Obama had promised to wait five days before signing all non-emergency bills, he broke that promise at least 10 times during his first three 
months in office.

67) Falsely claimed "stimulus" spending would be transparent

Although Obama had promised that the website recovery.gov would list all "stimulus" spending in detail, a 400 page report issued by the Government 
Accountability Office stated that only 25% of the projects listed on the website provided clear and complete information regarding their cost, 
schedule, purpose, location and status.

68) Announced plans to send military to Australia

In November 2011, Obama announced that he would send 2,500 Marines to Australia.

69) Falsely promised to accept public campaign financing and spending limits

During the 2008 campaign, Obama broke his promise to accept public campaign financing and the spending limits that came with it.

70) Tried to silence video on YouTube

In June 2011, Obama asked a Jewish singing group to remove its video from the Internet.

71) Rejected international help to clean up BP oil spill

After the BP oil spill, Obama rejected offers of cleanup help from Canada, Croatia, France, Germany, Ireland, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, 
Romania, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United Nations.

72) Falsely said he opposed government waste, when he actually loves it

On September 22, 2008, Obama said, "I am not a Democrat who believes that we can or should defend every government program just because it's there... 
We will fire government managers who aren't getting results, we will cut funding for programs that are wasting your money and we will use technology 
and lessons from the private sector to improve efficiency across every level of government... The only way we can do all this without leaving our 
children with an even larger debt is if Washington starts taking responsibility for every dime that it spends." However, Citizens Against Government 
Waste gave Obama a 2007 rating of only 10%, and a lifetime rating of only 18%.

73) Nominated past frequent user of illegal drugs to keep illegal drugs out of schools

In September 2009, it was reported that Kevin Jennings, Obama's Assistant Deputy Secretary for the Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools, had written 
about  Jenning's own past frequent illegal drug use in his 2007 autobiography.

74) Avoids firing aides who owe back taxes

In January 2012, it was reported that 36 Obama aides owed a combined total of $833,000 in back taxes.

75) Used Abbott and Costello style economics as a basis for national policy

In 2010, Obama gave $16.3 million to First Solar, a company that manufactures solar panels, so the company could sell solar panels to itself.

76) Sent U.S. troops to Africa

Obama sent U.S. troops to Uganda, Congo, South Sudan and the Central African Republic.

77) Made secret plans for his second term

In March 2012, when Obama was talking to Russian President Dmitri Medvedev and did not know that the microphone was turned on, Obama stated, "On all 
these issues, but particularly missile defense, this, this can be solved but it's important for him to give me space... This is my last election. 
After my election I have more flexibility."

78) Holds double standard for people who use crude and vulgar language toward women

Concerned Women for America accused Obama of hypocrisy after Obama criticized Rush Limbaugh for using crude and vulgar language to describe Sandra 
Fluke, but Obama did not criticize Bill Maher (who had donated one million dollars to an Obama PAC) for using the same kind of crude and vulgar 
language to describe Sarah Palin.

79) Illegally gave Obamacare exemptions to unions that supported the passage of Obamacare

Obama gave some organizations an exemption from some of the requirements of Obamacare.  Many of these organizations were unions that had supported 
the passage of Obamacare, but now wanted exemptions from the very same law that they wanted to force everyone else to obey. This reveals an extreme 
level of hypocrisy among many of the supporters of Obamacare.

In addition, these exemptions are illegal, because the Constitution requires the law to treat everyone the same.

The Washington Times wrote of this:

"Selective enforcement of the law is the first sign of tyranny. A government empowered to determine arbitrarily who may operate outside the rule of 
law invariably embraces favoritism as friends, allies and those with the best-funded lobbyists are rewarded. Favoritism inevitably leads to 
corruption, and corruption invites extortion. Ultimately, the rule of law ceases to exist in any recognizable form, and what is left is tyranny."

"The now-familiar monthly trickling down of new waivers is, at best, a tacit admission that Obamacare is a failure. So far, seven entire states and 
1,372 businesses, unions and other institutions have received waivers from the law. The list includes the administration's friends and allies and, of 
course, those who have the best lobbyists."

"More than 50 percent of the Obamacare waiver beneficiaries are union members, which is striking because union members account for less than 12 
percent of the American work force. The same unions that provided more than $120 million to Democrats in the last two elections and, in many cases, 
openly campaigned in favor of the government takeover of your health care, now celebrate that Obamacare is not their problem."

80) Defended Bush administration's unconstitutional, unwarranted use of GPS device

In January 2012, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against the Bush administration for having put a GPS tracking device on someone's car without 
having a warrant, the Obama administration opposed the court ruling

81) Opposes newspapers reporting the news

Obama spokesman Jay Carney criticized the Los Angeles Times for publishing photographs of U.S. soldiers posing with corpses in Afghanistan.

82) Supported Bush administration for fining CBS for showing Janet Jackson's breast

Obama came out in favor of the FCC's fining of the CBS TV network $550,000 for showing Janet Jackson's breast during the 2004 Super Bowl.

83) Allowed campaign contributors to bring lobbyists into White House

In April 2012, the New York Times reported, "Although Mr. Obama has made a point of not accepting contributions from registered lobbyists, a review 
of campaign donations and White House visitor logs shows that special interests have had little trouble making themselves heard. Many of the 
president's biggest donors, while not lobbyists, took lobbyists with them to the White House..."

84) Falsely said that criminal background checks constituted "racial discrimination"

In 2012, the Obama administration accused Pepsico of "race discrimination" because it used criminal background checks to screen out job applicants.

85) Was cited by nine states for committing 21 illegal acts

Attorneys General from nine states issued a report, titled "A Report on Obama Administration Violations of Law," which cited 21 illegal acts which 
had been committed by the Obama administration.

86) Tried to seize hotel because some of its customers had used illegal drugs

The Obama administration tried to seize a mom-and-pop bed-and-breakfast because some if its guests had used illegal drugs.

87) Falsely said his campaign was not funded by large donors

Although Obama has received many large campaign donations from corporate executives and Hollywood celebrities, his spokesperson said that his 
campaign was funded "not from huge donors at all."

88) Holds double standard for subsidizing solar power companies

Although Obama gave taxpayer money to numerous American solar power companies, he placed a 30% tariff on solar panels imported from China, because he 
was against the Chinese government giving subsidies to its own companies.

89) Tried to create an administration full of tax cheaters

Obama nominated tax cheater Tom Daschle to be Secretary of Health and Human Services. After Daschle said he didn't want the job, Obama then nominated 
tax cheater Kathleen Sebelius for the same position. Obama nominated tax cheater Nancy Killefer to be his administration's Chief Performance Officer. 
Obama nominated  tax cheater Hilda Solis to be the Secretary of Labor. Obama nominated tax cheater Ron Kirk be the White House Chief Trade 
Representative.

90) Hired a Communications Director who admires a mass murderer

Anita Dunn, Obama's White House Communications Director, said that one of her favorite political philosophers was Mao Tse-tung, the Chinese dictator 
who murdered tens of millions of innocent civilians.

91) Tried to replace science with political correctness

In July 2010, Charles Bolden, the administrator of NASA, said that Obama had told him that the primary purpose of NASA was "to reach out to the 
Muslim world."

92) Illegally made recess appointments when Congress was not in recess

In January 2012, Obama violated the Constitution by making four recess appointments when Congress was not in recess. Recess appointments themselves 
are constitutional, but only if they are made when Congress is actually in recess.

In January 2013, a federal appeals court ruled that Obama's appointments had violated the Constitution.

In May 2013, a second federal appeals court also ruled that Obama's appointments had violated the Constitution.

In July 2013, a third federal appeals court also ruled that Obama's appointments had violated the Constitution.

In June 2014, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 9-0 that Obama's appointments had violated the Constitution.

93) Said the health insurance mandate was not a tax, but later told the Supreme Court that it was

Before Obama's health care reform was passed, he said that the mandate was not a tax. However, after it was passed, the Obama administration argued 
in front of the Supreme Court that the mandate really was a tax.

94 ) Lied about being his "brother's keeper"

Although Barack Obama likes to cite  the Bible phrase "We are our brother's keeper," when his real life poverty stricken brother George Obama needed 
$1,000 for health care bills, Barack Obama refused to pay it, so conservative author Dinesh D'Souza paid it.

95) Punishes hospitals for saving the lives of patients with heart disease

Obama's health care reform contains a provision that reduces  Medicare payments to hospitals with high 30-day readmission rates. Sunil Kripalani, MD, 
a professor with Vanderbilt University Medical Center, said of this, "Among patients with heart failure, hospitals that have higher readmission rates 
actually have lower mortality rates. So, which would we rather have - a hospital readmission or a death?"

96) Supports guns for himself and his wife, but opposes them for everyone else

On January 10, 2013, President Obama signed a bill that provides armed guards to himself and his wife for the rest of the lives.

However, in 2004, when Obama was an Illinois state Senator, he voted against allowing people in their own homes to use guns to protect themselves and 
their families from rapists and murderers.

97) Falsely claimed that he  "cut spending by over a trillion dollars in 2011?

On "Meet the Press" on December 30, 2012, Obama said:

"I cut spending by over a trillion dollars in 2011?

In reality, spending during that time period was not cut at all, and was actually increased by $147 billion.

98) Practices environmental hypocrisy

In May 2008, Obama said, "We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times ... and then just expect 
that other countries are going to say OK."

However, just one week later, Obama was photographed exiting an SUV.

In addition, Obama keeps the White House thermostat turned up so high that David Axelrod, Obama's senior adviser, said, "He likes it warm. You could 
grow orchids in there."

Environmentalists criticized Obama for eating Wagyu beef, which was called "the Hummer of beef."

Obama had a chef fly round trip from St. Louis to Washington D.C. so he could make Obama's favorite pizza.

99) Pressured public schools to replace Catcher in the Rye  with a book on window insulation

The Huffington Post reported that Obama's education policies

"are increasingly worrying English-lovers and English teachers, who feel they must replace literary greats like The Great Gatsby and Catcher in the 
Rye with Common Core-suggested 'exemplars,' like the Environmental Protection Agency's Recommended Levels of Insulation."

100) Approved giving 20 F-16 fighter jets to a Sharia dictatorship

Obama approved giving 20 F-16 fighter jets to Egypt, which is a Sharia dictatorship.

101) Falsely claimed that his "Cash for Clunkers" program would help the environment

Although Obama claimed that his "Cash for Clunkers" program would help the environment, it actually caused net harm to the environment. Because the 
program required cars to be shredded instead of recycled, it wasted 24 million barrels of oil. Many of the cars that were destroyed were in perfectly 
good condition. Because the program's minimum requirement for so-called "fuel efficiency" was only 22 mpg, the reduction in pollution was negligible.

102) Violated the very same campaign finance laws that he claims to support

In January 2013, it was reported that Obama's campaign had been fined $375,000 by the Federal Election Commission for violating campaign finance 
laws.

103) Lied about how he had answered a questionnaire on gun control

In 1996, when Obama was answering a questionnaire on his political views, one of the questions was "Do you support state legislation to: ban the 
manufacture, sale and possession of handguns?"

Obama's answer to the question was "Yes."

However, in 2008, Obama said "My writing wasn't on that particular questionnaire."

However, ABC News later reported that the questionnaire "appears to have Obama's handwriting."

104) Falsely claimed that his 2013 inauguration was not funded by lobbyists

Although Obama claimed that his 2013 inauguration was not funded by lobbyists, its sponsors had actually spent $160 million on lobbying during 
Obama's first presidential term.

105) Encouraged medical device manufacturers to lay off employees

In November 2012, it was reported that in response to the medical device tax that is part of Obamacare, some medical device manufacturers had 
announced plans to layoff employees, including Welch Allyn (275 planned layoffs), Stryker (1,170 planned layoffs), and Medtronic (1,000 planned 
layoffs).

In December 2012, Al Franken, Elizabeth Warren, John Kerry, and 15 other Democrats who supported the passage of Obamacare wrote a letter to Harry 
Reid, asking him to delay the tax on medical devices, claiming that the tax would hurt job creation in their districts.

In February 2014, it was reported that Obamacare's medical device tax had destroyed 14,000 jobs, and prevented an additional 19,000 new jobs from 
being created.

106) Encouraged employers to switch their employees from full time to part time

The New York Times reported that Obamacare

"sharply penalizes full-time employment in favor of part-time employment."

In response to the employer mandate of Obamacare, some restaurants have announced plans to switch some of their employees from full time to part 
time, including some franchises of Olive Garden, Red Lobster, Wendy's, Taco Bell, White Castle, and Fatburger.

Community College of Allegheny County switched 200 professors and 200 other employees from full time to part time in response to Obamacare. Clint 
Benjamin, an English professor at Community College of Allegheny County, said that this would reduce his own monthly pay by $600.

Also in response to the employer mandate of Obamacare, other colleges have announced plans to switch some of their employees from full time to part 
time, including Florida's Palm Beach State College, Ohio's Youngstown State University, and New Jersey's Kean University.

In Virginia, thousands of government employees had their hours reduced because of Obamacare.

The Carnegie Museum of Pittsburgh reduced the hours of 48 of its employees in response to Obamacare.

Regal Entertainment Group, the largest chain of movie theaters in the country, announced that it would be switching thousands of its employees from 
full time to part time in response to the Obamacare mandate.

Utah's Granite School District reduced the hours of 1,200 of its employees in response to Obamacare.

In response to Obamacare, many Wal-Mart stores have stopped hiring full time workers.

In July 2013, leaders of the Teamsters, UFCW, and UNITE-HERE sent a letter to Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi which said that Obamacare will

"destroy the foundation of the 40 hour work week that is the backbone of the American middle class... the law creates an incentive for employers to 
keep employees' work hours below 30 hours a week. Numerous employers have begun to cut workers' hours to avoid this obligation."

In response to Obamacare, Forever 21 reduced its employees' hours.

As of September 2013, more than 200 public-sector employers had reduced their employees' hours in response to Obamacare.

Sea World reduced the weekly hours of its part time employees from 32 to 28 in response to Obamacare.

Lands' End limited its part time employees to 29 hours per week in response to Obamacare.

As of September 2013, at least 34 universities and colleges had reduced some of their employees' hours in response to Obamacare.

On October 23, 2013, Investor's Business Daily wrote:

IBD has a running list that now includes 351 employers that have opted to cut work hours below 30 per week or take related steps to limit liability 
under ObamaCare's employer mandate. Each entry is documented with links to news sources and public records.

About 275 entries on IBD's list come from the public sector, including more than 100 school districts.

107) Broke his promise to cut the deficit in half by the end of his first term

On February 23, 2009, Obama said "Today, I'm pledging to cut the deficit we inherited in half by the end of my first term in office." Obama broke 
that promise.

108) Had Freedom of Information Act record worse than Bush's

In September 2012, it was reported that when it came to honoring requests under the Freedom of Information Act, Obama's record was worse than that of 
George W. Bush.

109) Supports installation of hidden cameras on private property without a search warrant

In October 2012, Obama's Justice  Department argued in favor of installing hidden cameras on private property without a search warrant.

110) Used "stimulus" money to pay people to play cards, board games, and video games

In October 2012, it was reported that LG Chem, a lithium-ion battery plant in Holland, Michigan, was using money from Obama's "stimulus" to pay its 
employees to play cards, board games, and video games.

111) Spent half a million tax dollars on "Prom Week" video game

In 2012, the Obama administration spent $516,000 on a video game called  "Prom Week."

112) Hypocritically paid his female employees less than his male employees

Although Obama claimed to support equal pay for men and women, his own administration paid its female employees 18% less than its male employees.

113) Falsely said that  Romney's pension was bigger than his own

During a debate in October 2012, Obama falsely stated that Mitt Romney's pension was bigger than his own.

114) Has a double standard for investing in China and the Cayman Islands

Although Obama criticized Mitt Romney for having investments in China and the Cayman Islands,  Obama himself has investments in both of those places.

115) Spent $27 million on "ineffective" pottery classes in Morocco

Obama spent $27 million on pottery classes in Morocco. The class used an American teacher, but the translator who was hired did not actually know how 
to speak English fluently, and made many mistakes. The instructor often did not bring the right materials to class. The dyes and clays that the 
instructor did use were not available in Morocco, which prevented the students from being able to copy what they had learned. It was concluded that 
the classes were "ineffective."

116) Caused large amounts of perfectly good food to be thrown into the garbage

In one year, Obama's new school lunch program caused the schools in Lake County, Florida, to throw away $75,000 of perfectly good fruits and 
vegetables.

117) Accepted illegal campaign contributions from foreign citizens

During an experiment, a non-U.S. citizen attempted to make two $5 donations to both Obama's campaign website and Mitt Romney's campaign website. 
While the Romney website rejected both donations, the Obama website accepted them.

118) Labels opponents of TSA sexual harassment as "domestic extremists"

The Obama administration labels anyone who objects to the TSA's sexual harassment as a "domestic extremist."

119) Lied about the Benghazi attack

In September 2012, after four U.S. citizens were killed in a terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, the Obama administration falsely said that the 
attack was a spontaneous protest against an anti-Muslim video at YouTube.

CBS News reported that although it was obviously a terrorist attack, it took an entire week before the Obama administration was willing to 
acknowledge it as such.

The Washington Post reported that Obama had falsely said that he had called it a terrorist attack from the very start.

After the attack began, someone (there is a debate over who this someone was) ordered the nearby U.S. military to "stand down,", i.e., not offer any 
assistance. Obama is the Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. military. Obama later falsely claimed that the "stand down" order had not been made.

Although the Obama administration made a dozen revisions to its talking points on this incident, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney falsely 
stated that only a "single adjustment" had been made, and that it simply involved changing the wording of "consulate" to "diplomatic facility." ABC 
News published a complete list of all the changes to the talking points, which can be read here.

Among the changes was the deletion of this entire paragraph:

"The Agency has produced numerous pieces on the threat of extremists linked to al-Qa'ida in Benghazi and eastern Libya.  These noted that, since 
April, there have been at least five other attacks against foreign interests in Benghazi by unidentified assailants, including the June attack 
against the British Ambassador's convoy. We cannot rule out the individuals has previously surveilled the U.S. facilities, also contributing to the 
efficacy of the attacks."

Victoria Nuland, a State Department spokeswoman, played a key role in the editing of the talking points. But instead of firing her for this, Obama 
offered her a promotion.

The Obama administration asked Fox News to stop reporting on Benghazi.

120) Paid a train carrying biofuel to cross the U.S.-Canadian border 24 times without unloading

As part of Obama's "green energy" program, Obama used tax money to pay for a train full of biofuel to cross the U.S.-Canadian border 24 times without 
unloading its cargo.

121) Falsely said that "we got back every dime" of the bailout

In October 2012, Obama said that "we got back every dime" of the bailout. However, at the same time, the Congressional Budget Office that said there 
was still $24 billion that had not been paid back.

122) Spent $50,000 of taxpayer money on a George S. Patton impersonator

In the summer of 2011, the Obama administration spent $50,000 on a George S. Patton impersonator

123) Spent $75,000 of taxpayer money on a bicycle

The Obama administration spent $75,000 of taxpayer money on a bicycle.

124) Complained to YouTube about an anti-Muslim video

In September 2012, the Obama administration phoned YouTube to complain about an anti-Muslim video.

Ben Wizner of the ACLU said that of this, "It does make us nervous when the government throws its weight behind any requests for censorship."

Eva Galperin of the Electronic Frontier Foundation  said of this, "I am actually kind of distressed by this... Even though there are all these great 
quotes from inside the White House saying they support free speech... by calling YouTube from the White House, they were sending a message no matter 
how much they say we don't want them to take it down, when the White House calls and asks you to review it, it sends a message and has a certain 
chilling effect."

125) Falsely said that Fast and Furious was started when Bush was President

In September 2012, Obama said that Fast and Furious had "begun under the previous administration." In reality, Fast and Furious began in October 
2009.

126) Is a "war criminal" who is  "more aggressive, more illegal worldwide" than Bush, according to Ralph Nader

In September 2012, Ralph Nader said that Obama was a "war criminal" who was "more aggressive, more illegal worldwide" than George W. Bush.

127) Illegally refused to fire Kathleen Sebelius after she violated campaign finance laws

In February 2012, Kathleen Sebelius, Obama's Secretary of Health and Human Services, violated campaign finance laws. Although federal law required 
Obama to fire Sebelius for her illegal activity, he refused to do so.

128) Supports policies that hurt small businesses

In September 2012, a survey of small business owners showed that 69% of them said that Obama's regulatory policies have hurt small businesses. 55% 
said that they would not start a business under the current environment.

129) Spent $102,000 per year of taxpayer money on a "dog handler"

In September 2012, it was reported that Obama spent $102,000 of taxpayer money each year on a "dog handler."

130) Refused to fire federal employee who sent email to 17,000 people praising terrorist who wanted to destroy U.S.

In 2012, an employee of Obama's administration sent an email to more than 17,000 federal employees which praised Che Guevara, a terrorist who had 
wanted to destroy the U.S. Obama refused to fire the employee.

131) Called Fort Hood shooting "workplace violence" instead of "Islamic terrorism"

After Nidal Malik Hasan shouted "Allahu Akbar!" and murdered 13 people on U.S. soil, instead of referring to it as "Islamic terrorism," Obama said 
that it was "workplace violence."

132) Falsely said that switching to electronic medical records would make health care cheaper

Although Obama claimed that switching to electronic record keeping as part of Obamacare would make health care cheaper, it actually made it more 
expensive.

133) Spent $495,000 of "stimulus" money for ads on MSNBC

Obama spent $495,000 of "stimulus" money for commercials on MSNBC.

134) Lied about the cost of federal regulations

In September 2012, it was reported that the cost of federal regulations to citizens and business owners was more than 20 times as much as what Obama 
had said it was.

135) Broke his promise to pass immigration bill, and then lied about why he broke it

In 2008, Obama promised that he would pass an immigration bill during his first year in office. He broke that promise. He then blamed this on 
Republicans, even though both the House and Senate were controlled by Democrats during Obama's first year.

136) Made it much harder for start ups to raise capital and create jobs

In July 2010, Obama signed the Dodd-Frank Act. The Wall St. Journal wrote of this:

"Senator Chris Dodd's 1,400-page financial reform bill contains many economic land mines, and here's one of the worst: Provisions that would make it 
harder for business start-ups to raise seed capital."

"Currently, wealthy individuals who want to invest directly in a new business can do so with minimum interference from regulators. The law requires 
only that the investor be "accredited" by meeting thresholds for net worth ($1 million) or income ($250,000). Entrepreneurs depend on these "angel" 
investors, since many new businesses lack the collateral for bank loans and are too small to interest venture capitalists. "

"Amazon, Yahoo, Google and Facebook all benefited from angel investors, who typically target companies under five years old. According to a 2009 
Kaufman Foundation study, such firms are less than 1% of all companies yet generate about 10% of new jobs. Between 1980 and 2005, companies less than 
five years old accounted for all net job growth in the U.S. In 2008, angels invested some $19 billion in more than 55,000 companies. "

"Mr. Dodd's bill would change all this for the worse. Most preposterously, it would require that start-ups seeking angel investments file with the 
Securities and Exchange Commission and endure a 120-day review. Rare is the new company that doesn't need immediate access to the capital it raises, 
and a four-month delay is the kind of rule popular in banana republics that create few new businesses. "

"The Dodd bill also raises the net worth and income thresholds to $2.3 million and $450,000, respectively. The Angel Capital Association, a trade 
group, estimates that these provisions would disqualify about 77% of current accredited investors."

137) Paid six figure salaries to federal employees so they could watch pornography all day long

In April 2010, ABC News reported:

"On a day when President Obama argued for more government regulation over the financial industry, a new government report reveals that some high-
level regulators have spent more time looking at porn than policing Wall Street. "

"The Securities and Exchange Commission is supposed to be the sheriff of the financial industry, looking for financial crimes like Bernard Madoff's 
Ponzi scheme. But the new report, obtained by ABC News, says senior employees of the SEC spent hours on the commission's computers looking at sites 
like naughty.com, skankwire, youporn, and others. "

"The investigation, which was conducted by the SEC's internal watchdog at the request of Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, found 31 serious offenders over 
the past two and a half years. Seventeen of the offenders were senior SEC officers with salaries ranging from $100,000 to $222,000 per year. "

"Eight Hours a Day Spent on Porn Sites"

"One senior attorney at SEC headquarters in Washington spent up to eight hours a day accessing Internet porn. When he filled all the space on his 
government computer with pornographic images, he downloaded more to CDs and DVDs that accumulated in boxes in his offices. "

"An SEC accountant attempted to access porn websites 1,800 times in a two-week period and had 600 pornographic images on her computer hard drive."

"Another SEC accountant attempted to access porn sites 16,000 times in a single month."

In May 2014, Bloomberg News reported:

An employee at the Environmental Protection Agency downloaded more than 7,000 pornographic files onto a government computer and viewed them for two 
to six hours a day, according to the agency's independent watchdog.

The employee caught viewing pornography is still on the payroll, earning about $120,000 a year.

138) Spent tax dollars on a "mind reader"

Obama used taxpayer money to hire a "mind reader."

139) Used tax dollars to build a million dollar bus stop

Obama spent federal tax dollars to pay for part of the cost of a million dollar bus stop which opened in Arlington, Virginia in March 2013. Despite 
its huge cost, the bus stop can only accommodate 15 people, and does not even protect them from the wind and rain.

140) Filed a lawsuit against a non-existent "monopoly" in the beer industry

Although the number of  breweries in the U.S. increased from 89 to 2,336  between 1978 and 2013, the Obama administration sued Anheuser-Busch InBev, 
which already owned half of Mexico's Grupo Modelo, to prevent if from buying the other half, despite the fact that there were no laws on the books 
against such a purchase. The Obama administration's so-called justification for this lawsuit against a law abiding company was that the company 
might, possibly, maybe, break some unspecified law, at some unspecified, distant point in the future.

141) Falsely said the sequester would cause janitors to take a pay cut

In February 2013, while talking about the sequester, Obama said

"The folks who are cleaning the floors at the Capitol - now that Congress has left, somebody is going to be vacuuming and cleaning those floors and 
throwing out the garbage - they're going to have less pay... The janitors, the security guards, they just got a pay cut, and they've got to figure 
out how to manage that. That's real."

CBS News reported that Obama's statement was false.

142) Falsely said that he goes skeet shooting "all the time"

At the beginning of Obama's second term, he said that he goes skeet shooting "all the time." However, a witness said that when he saw Obama go skeet 
shooting, Obama acted as if he had never fired a gun before, that he appeared to be uncomfortable with a gun, and that he only stayed for five 
minutes. In addition, during his first term, the media had never reported on his alleged skeet shooting, although it never failed to cover the more 
than 100 rounds of golf that he played during his first term.

143)  Gave special access to people who raised or donated $500,000

In February 2013, the New York Times reported that people who raised or donated at least $500,000 to Organizing for Action, a political group that 
supported Obama, would be given "the privilege of attending quarterly meetings with the president, along with other meetings at the White House."

144) Said the deficit had gone down when it had actually gone up

In February 2013, Obama said that the federal deficit had gone down by $2.5 trillion since he had taken office. In reality, it had actually increased 
by $5.9 trillion during that time.

145) Refused to make available necessary tax forms to taxpayers

On February 21, 2013, CBS News reported that the Obama administration had not yet made available dozens of different tax forms that taxpayers would 
need in order to meet the legal deadline of April 15 for filing their taxes.

146) Nominated someone to be Secretary of the Treasury who had participated in "the biggest tax scam on record"

Obama nominated Jack Lew to be Secretary of the Treasury. Lew had previously invested in the Cayman Islands, which Obama had referred to as "the 
biggest tax scam on record."

147) Adopted harmful new restrictions on prescription painkillers - even though the House had already voted against them

After the U.S. House voted against new restrictions on prescription painkillers, the Obama administration ignored the House's vote, and adopted the 
new restrictions anyway. Dr. Lynn Webster, president-elect of the American Academy of Pain Medicine said of these new restrictions, "It will have an 
impact on a lot of patients who have been receiving them for some time for legitimate purposes."

148) Rolled back union transparency rules

The Obama administration rolled back  union transparency rules, which had been created so that union members could find out how their union was 
spending their union dues.

149) Tried to eliminate workers' right to a secret ballot when voting on whether or not to unionize

Obama supported the elimination of workers' right to a secret ballot when voting on whether or not to form a union

150) Gave "supervised release" to a convicted criminal who later went on to murder a nun

Obama gave "supervised release" to a convicted criminal, who then went on to murder a nun.

151) Falsely said that he did not propose the sequester

On October 22, 2012, Obama said, "The sequester is not something that I've proposed." However, on February 22, 2013, the Washington Post reported 
that "the automatic spending cuts were initiated by the White House" and that "Obama personally approved of the plan."

152) Illegally refused to submit a budget on time during four of his first five years

The President is legally required to submit a budget by the first Monday in February. Obama broke this law during four of his first five years in 
office. Since 1921, no President had missed this deadline more than once.

153) Canceled White House tours for thousands of people so he could use the money to play golf with Tiger Woods

During the sequester in early 2013, the Obama administration said it would save $18,000 per week by canceling all White house tours, despite the fact 
that thousands of people had planned their vacations far in advance. However, Obama had no problem with spending more than $1 million in tax money so 
he could go golfing with Tiger Woods for one weekend.

154) Falsely said the Newton shooter used a "fully automatic weapon"

In April 2013, four months after Adam Lanza murdered 26 people at Sandy Hook Elementary School, Obama falsely stated that the shooter had used a 
"fully automatic weapon."

155) Broke his own deadline for creating healthcare exchanges

Three years after Obama signed Obamacare, the New York Times reported that Obama would miss his own deadline for creating some of the insurance 
exchanges for small businesses.

156) Falsely said that surgeons get paid between $30,000 and $50,000 for amputating a leg

In August 2009, while trying to justify the passage of Obamacare, Obama stated

"Let's take the example of something like diabetes, one of - a disease that's skyrocketing, partly because of obesity, partly because it's not 
treated as effectively as it could be. Right now if we paid a family - if a family care physician works with his or her patient to help them lose 
weight, modify diet, monitors whether they're taking their medications in a timely fashion, they might get reimbursed a pittance. But if that same 
diabetic ends up getting their foot amputated, that's $30,000, $40,000, $50,000 - immediately the surgeon is reimbursed. Well, why not make sure that 
we're also reimbursing the care that prevents the amputation, right? That will save us money."

The American College of Surgeons responded to this by saying

"President Obama got his facts completely wrong. He stated that a surgeon gets paid $50,000 for a leg amputation when, in fact, Medicare pays a 
surgeon between $740 and $1,140 for a leg amputation. This payment also includes the evaluation of the patient on the day of the operation plus 
patient follow-up care that is provided for 90 days after the operation. Private insurers pay some variation of the Medicare reimbursement for this 
service."

157) Falsely said that doctors perform unnecessary tonsillectomies to make more money
In July 2009, Obama said

"Right now, doctors, a lot of times, are forced to make decisions based on the fee payment schedule that's out there. So if ... your child has a bad 
sore throat, or has repeated sore throats, the doctor may look at the reimbursement system and say to himself, 'You know what? I make a lot more 
money if I take this kid's tonsils out.'"

"Now, that may be the right thing to do. But I'd rather have that doctor making those decisions just based on whether you really need your kid's 
tonsils out or whether it might make more sense just to change - maybe they have allergies. Maybe they have something else that would make a 
difference."

The  American Academy of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery responded by saying

"The AAO-HNS is disappointed by the President's portrayal of the decision making processes by the physicians who perform these surgeries. In many 
cases, tonsillectomy may be a more effective treatment, and less costly, than prolonged or repeated treatments for an infected throat."

158) Purchased 2,717 mine resistant armor protected vehicles for use on civilian streets in the U.S.

In March 2013 it was reported that the Obama administration had purchased 2,717 mine resistant armor protected vehicles for use on civilian streets 
in the U.S.

159) Spends $277,050 per year for three professional calligraphists

In March 2013, it was reported that Obama was spending $277,050 of tax money per year for three professional calligraphists. It was also reported 
that cheap computer software could produce the exact same calligraphy for a tiny fraction of that cost.

160) Allowed 311,566 federal employees and retirees to get away with $3.5 billion in unpaid federal taxes

In 2011, Obama allowed 311,566 federal employees and retirees to get away with $3.5 billion in unpaid federal taxes.

161) Spent $2.6 million to teach Chinese prostitutes how to drink responsibly on the job

Obama spent $2.6 million to teach Chinese prostitutes how to drink responsibly on the job.

162) Fined UPS $40 million because some of its customers had used UPS to ship illegal drugs

In March 2013, Obama forced UPS to pay $40 million because some of its customers had used UPS to ship illegal drugs.

163) Added 20,000 extra pages to Obamacare without Congressional approval

After Obamacare was passed, Obama added 20,000 extra pages to it, even though those extra 20,000 pages had not been voted on by Congress.

164 ) Signed health care reform law whose own authors called it a "huge train wreck" that was "beyond comprehension"

U.S. Senator Max Baucus (D-Montana), one of the authors of Obamacare, said of it, "I just see a huge train wreck coming down."

U.S. Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-West Virginia), another author of the law, said it was "beyond comprehension."

165) Eliminated disclosure requirements for most federal employees in the executive and legislative branches

In April 2013, Obama eliminated the disclosure requirements for most federal employees in the executive and legislative branches.

166) Waited until after the 2012 election to release unpopular Obamacare rules

In April 2013, the New York Times reported:

... even fervent supporters of the law admit that things are going worse than expected.

...  the Obama administration didn't want to release unpopular rules before the election.

Everything is turning out to be more complicated than originally envisioned.

A law that was very confusing has become mind-boggling... Americans are just going to be overwhelmed and befuddled. Many are just going to stay away, 
even if they are eligible for benefits.

167) Made it easy for people to fraudulently collect $50,000 by falsely claiming to be "farmers"

In April 2013, the New York Times reported

the Obama administration's political appointees at the Justice and Agriculture Departments engineered a stunning turnabout: they committed $1.33 
billion to compensate...

The deal... was fashioned in White House meetings... the $50,000 payouts to black farmers had proved a magnet for fraud.

the claims process prompted allegations of widespread fraud and criticism that its very design encouraged people to lie... Agriculture Department 
reviewers found reams of suspicious claims, from nursery-school-age children and pockets of urban dwellers, sometimes in the same handwriting with 
nearly identical accounts of discrimination.

As a senator, Barack Obama supported expanding compensation for black farmers, and then as president he pressed for $1.15 billion to pay those new 
claims.

In 16 ZIP codes in Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi and North Carolina, the number of successful claimants exceeded the total number of farms operated 
by people of any race in 1997, the year the lawsuit was filed. Those applicants received nearly $100 million.

In Maple Hill, a struggling town in southeastern North Carolina, the number of people paid was nearly four times the total number of farms. More than 
one in nine African-American adults there received checks. In Little Rock, Ark., a confidential list of payments shows, 10 members of one extended 
family collected a total of $500,000, and dozens of other successful claimants shared addresses, phone numbers or close family connections.

In Arkansas, prosecutors rejected a test case against a Pine Bluff police officer who had admitted lying on his claim form.

in one ZIP code in Columbus, Ohio, nearly everyone in two adjoining apartment buildings had filed, according to the former high-ranking agency 
official.

She cinched the claim, he said to a ripple of laughter, by asserting that her father had whispered on his deathbed, "I was discriminated against by 
U.S.D.A."

168) Tried to rig federal auctions of radio spectrum space

In April 2013, it was reported that the Obama administration was trying to rig federal auctions of radio spectrum space in a manner that would favor 
Sprint and T-Mobile, and make it harder for AT&T and Verizon.

169) Put someone in jail for making an anti-Muslim video

In May 2013, Politico reported:

"Nakoula Basseley Nakoula deserves a place in American history. He is the first person in this country jailed for violating Islamic anti-blasphemy 
laws."

"You won't find that anywhere in the charges against him, of course. As a practical matter, though, everyone knows that Nakoula wouldn't be in jail 
today if he hadn't produced a video crudely lampooning the prophet Muhammad."

"In the weeks after the attack on U.S. facilities in Benghazi that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three others, the Obama administration claimed 
the terrorist assault had been the outgrowth of a demonstration against the Nakoula video. The administration ran public service announcements in 
Pakistan featuring President Barack Obama saying the U.S. had nothing to do with it. In a speech at the United Nations around this time, the 
president declared - no doubt with Nakoula in mind - 'The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.'"

"After Benghazi, the administration was evidently filled with a fierce resolve - to bring Nakoula Basseley Nakoula to justice. Charles Woods, the 
father of a Navy SEAL killed in Benghazi, said Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told him when his son's body returned to Andrews Air Force Base: 
'We will make sure that the person who made that film is arrested and prosecuted.'"

"Lo and behold, Nakoula was brought in for questioning by five Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies at midnight, eventually arrested and held 
without bond, and finally thrown into jail for a year. He sits in La Tuna Federal Correctional Institution in Texas right now, even as the deceptive 
spin that blamed his video for the Benghazi attack looks more egregious by the day."

170) Oversaw IRS whose employees illegally targeted conservative groups

In May 2013, the Washington Post reported that the IRS had illegally targeted conservative groups for additional reviews. Organizations with the 
words "tea party" or "patriot" were singled out for harassment, such as requiring them to provide a list of donors, details about their Internet 
postings on social networking websites, and information about their family members.

When this was first reported by the media in May 2013, Lois Lerner, who heads the IRS division that had conducted these illegal activities, claimed 
that only low level employees had known about it, and that no high level IRS officials had known about it. However, soon afterward, NPR reported that 
an Inspector General report showed that Lerner had been lying, and that she herself had actually been aware of it since June 29, 2011. Even worse, 
during March and April of 2012, Lerner herself had actually written such letters to fifteen different conservative groups. One of these letters can 
be read here.

While testifying in May 2013, Lerner said, "I have not done anything wrong. I have not broken any laws. I have not violated any IRS rules or 
regulations. And I have not provided false information to this or any other congressional committee." However, afterward, she invoked her fifth 
amendment right to remain silent. The Washington Post reported that there was disagreement as to whether or not Lerner's statement constituted a 
waiving of her fifth amendment right to remain silent. Soon afterward, she was placed on paid administrative leave. At a later hearing in March 2014, 
Lerner again invoked her fifth amendment right to remain silent.

In September 2013, a House committee released several of Lerner's emails, which showed that she had targeted tea party groups, and that she had asked 
that their applications be delayed. In one of the emails from 2011, she had written "Tea Party Matter very dangerous."

In September 2013, after having been on paid leave for four months, Lerner had still not been fired by Obama.

In October 2013, it was reported that newly discovered emails proved that Lerner had violated federal law by giving the Federal Election Commission 
confidential tax information of several Tea party groups.

The Washington Post reported that IRS officials at the IRS headquarters in Washington D.C. had sent such letters to conservatives groups. Reuters 
reported that higher level IRS officials had taken part in discussions about it as early as August 2011. However, 21 months later, on May 10, 2013, 
the Washington Post reported that President Obama had not done anything to investigate or fire the IRS employees who had engaged in this illegal 
harassment. As of May 14, 2013, none of the IRS employees who engaged in any of this illegal behavior had been disciplined, despite the fact that 
higher level IRS officials had known about their illegal behavior at least since August 2011. Despite all of these media reports about the 
involvement of high level IRS officials, in February 2014, Obama said that these things had come from "a local office."

On May 15, 2013, it was reported that Steven Miller, the acting IRS commissioner, had resigned. However, it was also reported that his assignment 
would have ended in early June anyway. He resigned - Obama did not fire him.

The IRS gave out confidential information about conservative groups. ProPublica wrote:

"The same IRS office that deliberately targeted conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status in the run-up to the 2012 election released nine 
pending confidential applications of conservative groups to ProPublica late last year."

"In response to a request for the applications for 67 different nonprofits last November, the Cincinnati office of the IRS sent ProPublica 
applications or documentation for 31 groups. Nine of those applications had not yet been approved-meaning they were not supposed to be made public."

"No unapproved applications from liberal groups were sent to ProPublica."

President Obama either lied about when he first knew about this - or was too busy playing golf and attending fundraisers to read the memos that were 
sent to him. The Daily Caller wrote:

"White House press secretary Jay Carney said in a press conference Tuesday that the White House was notified about the IRS targeting tea party groups 
'several weeks ago.' This comes a day after President Obama said he found out about it from news reports on Friday of last week."

"During a press conference with British Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday, President Obama was asked about the IRS scandal. He responded, 'I 
first learned about it from the same news reports that I think most people learned about this. I think it was on Friday.' "

"However, Carney said Tuesday that first a report had to be compiled by the IRS's inspector general and then when it was completed, it was passed on 
to the administration."

"'A notification is appropriate and routine and that is what happened and that happened several weeks ago,' Carney said."

When Media Trackers, a conservative organization, applied to the IRS for non-profit status, after waiting 16 months, it got no response. But when it 
reapplied with a liberal sounding name, it got approval in just three weeks. Yahoo wrote:

"In May 2011, Drew Ryun, a conservative activist and former Republican National Committee staffer, began filling out the Internal Revenue Service 
application to achieve nonprofit status for a new conservative watchdog group."

"When September 2012 arrived with still no word from the IRS, Ryun determined that Media Trackers would likely never obtain standalone nonprofit 
status, and he tried a new approach: He applied for permanent nonprofit status for a separate group called Greenhouse Solutions, a pre-existing 
organization that was reaching the end of its determination period."

"The IRS approved Greenhouse Solutions' request for permanent nonprofit status in three weeks."

Politico reported:

"The same Internal Revenue Service office that singled out Tea Party groups for extra scrutiny also challenged Israel-related organizations, at least 
one of which filed suit over the agency's handling of its application for tax-exempt status."

"The trouble for the Israel-focused groups seems to have had different origins than that experienced by conservative groups, but at times the effort 
seems to have been equally ham-handed."

The IRS asked conservative groups what books they were reading.

Although the IRS went 18 months or longer without responding to conservative organizations' applications, the IRS demanded that these same 
organizations answer the IRS's intrusive questions within a few weeks.

After the Waco Tea Party sent an application to the IRS, the IRS waited 19 months to respond. In its response, the IRS asked for printouts of its web 
page and social networking sites, copies of all of its newsletters, bulletins and fliers, and copies of all stories written about it. The IRS also 
asked for transcripts of its radio interviews.

As one example of how the IRS treated conservative organizations differently from liberal ones, Politico reported:

"Chris Littleton, one of the co-founders of the Ohio Liberty Coalition, said the group got a grilling from the IRS when it submitted its application, 
in letters the group has posted on its website. The IRS also gave him so much grief when he tried to apply for tax-exempt status for another group, 
American Junto, that 'we just gave up on it,' he said."

"But when he submitted an application for a third group - Ohioans for Health Care Freedom, now renamed Ohio Rising - 'it went through just fine,' 
Littleton said. 'They never asked a single set of questions.'"

After the  Greater Phoenix Tea Party Patriots sent in their application, it took  two years for the IRS to respond. The IRS response included 35 
questions. When the group's co-founder called the IRS, the IRS agent claimed that he had their group's file right in front of him. But when the 
group's confounder asked the IRS agent a question, the IRS agent asked, "What's your group's name again?"

Tea Party groups who spoke with each other said they were all getting the same questions from the IRS.

The Washington Post reported that some IRS employees were "ignorant about tax laws, defiant of their supervisors, and blind to the appearance of 
impropriety."

In 2012, the IRS leaked confidential information about Mitt Romney to the co-chairman of President Obama's re-election committee.

For a 27 month period that began in February 2010, the IRS gave exactly zero approvals to Tea Party organizations that had sent in applications. 
During that same time period, numerous  liberal organizations with names including words such as "progress" or "progressive" did get approval.

After True the Vote, a conservative organization which was founded by Catherine Engelbrecht, sent its application to the IRS, the IRS went three 
years without responding. During that three year period, Engelbrecht and her family's small manufacturing business were audited by the IRS, and were 
investigated by OSHA, the ATF, and the FBI.

Democratic U.S. Senators pressured the IRS to target conservative groups. In May 2013, U.S. News & World Report wrote:

"Over the last three years, Democratic senators repeatedly and publicly pressured the IRS to engage in the very activities that they are only now 
condemning today. At the same time, Republicans repeatedly and publicly warned against this abuse of government power and pointed to a series of red 
flags that strongly suggested conservative political organizations were being targeted by the IRS. Those warnings were deliberately ignored by the 
Obama administration and Democratic leaders in Congress."

"From Max Baucus to Chuck Schumer to Jeanne Shaheen, key Senate Democrats publicly pressured the IRS to target groups that held differing political 
views and who, in their view, had the temerity to engage in the political process. The IRS listened to them and acted."

In order to get approval, the IRS required members of Coalition for Life of Iowa, a pro-life organization, to sign a promise to avoid protesting in 
front of Planned Parenthood.

The IRS asked Christian Voices for Life, a pro-life organization, questions about its prayer vigils.

According to the official White House visitor's log, during Obama's first four years as President, IRS commissioner Douglas Shulman made 157 visits 
to the White House. This is more visits to the White House - by a very large margin - than any other cabinet member during Obama's first term. By 
comparison, during the four years that Mark Everson was IRS commissioner when Bush was president, Everson made only one visit to the White House.

Shulman donated $500 to the Democratic National Committee in October 2004.

During Congressional testimony that had taken place in March 2012, Shulman falsely said that the IRS had not targeted conservative groups.

Shulman's wife, Susan L. Anderson, is the senior program advisor for Public Campaign, a liberal organization. The Daily Caller wrote of this group:

Public Campaign receives "major funding" from the pro-Obamacare alliance Health Care for America NOW!, which is comprised of the labor unions AFL-
CIO, AFSCME, SEIU, and the progressive activist organization Move On, among others.

Public Campaign also receives funding from the liberal Ford Foundation, the Common Cause Education Fund, and Barbra Streisand's The Streisand 
Foundation, among other foundations and private donors.

Stephen Seok was one of the IRS agents who wrote threatening letters to conservative groups. After doing so, he was given a  promotion.

In June 2013, it was reported that two IRS employees had violated government ethics rules at a 2010 conference when they received $1,100 in free food 
and other items. One of them was Fred Schindler, the director of implementation oversight at the IRS Affordable Care Act office. The other was Donald 
Toda, a California-based employee. Obama did not fire them. Instead, he gave both of them paid leave. By comparison, in 1981, President Reagan fired 
11,359 air-traffic controllers who had been illegally striking.

In June 2013, it was reported that The National Organization for Marriage, a conservative organization, had forensic evidence which proved that its 
donors' private information had been illegally leaked by the IRS. The IRS employees who illegally leaked this private information could get five 
years in prison. However, Obama refused to file any charges against these IRS criminals.

The IRS illegally leaked the private information of Christine O'Donnell the same day that she announced that she would run for U.S. Senate as a tea 
party candidate.

According to White House visitor logs, Obama met with Colleen Kelley, the president of the National Treasury Employees Union, on March 31, 2010. The 
very next day, IRS employees who belonged to that union union started to target tea party organizations.

In June 2013, Associated Press claimed that the IRS had  targeted liberal groups, but refused to actually name any of those liberal groups.

In July 2013, it was reported that Obama had met with a key IRS official who was involved in the targeting just two days before the key official had 
told his colleagues how to target tea party groups. The Daily Caller reported:

The Obama appointee implicated in congressional testimony in the IRS targeting scandal met with President Obama in the White House two days before 
offering his colleagues a new set of advice on how to scrutinize tea party and conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status.

IRS chief counsel William Wilkins, who was named in House Oversight testimony by retiring IRS agent Carter Hull as one of his supervisors in the 
improper targeting of conservative groups, met with Obama in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on April 23, 2012. Wilkins' boss, then-IRS 
commissioner Douglas Shulman, visited the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on April 24, 2012, according to White House visitor logs.

On April 25, 2012, Wilkins' office sent the exempt organizations determinations unit "additional comments on the draft guidance" for approving or 
denying tea party tax-exempt applications, according to the IRS inspector general's report.

Jon Stewart said of this:

"Well, congratulations, President Barack Obama. Conspiracy theorists who generally can survive in anaerobic environments have just had an algae bloom 
dropped on their fucking heads, thus removing the last arrow in your pro-governance quiver: skepticism about your opponents."

Michael Macleod-Ball, chief of staff at the ACLU's Washington Legislative Office, said of this:

"Even the appearance of playing partisan politics with the tax code is about as constitutionally troubling as it gets. With the recent push to grant 
federal agencies broad new powers to mandate donor disclosure for advocacy groups on both the left and the right, there must be clear checks in place 
to prevent this from ever happening again."

In January 2014, it was reported that the Obama administration had chosen Barbara Kay Bosserman to head the investigation of the IRS's targeting of 
tea party groups. Bosserman had donated more than $6,000 to Obama's two presidential campaigns.

In January 2014, it was reported that since Sarah Palin had announced her candidacy for vice-President in 2008, the IRS had harassed her father six 
different times. Prior to that, the IRS had never contacted him during the 50 years that he had worked. The report did not specify how many of these 
six incidents happened under President Bush, or how many happened under President Obama.

In January 2014, it was reported that during the FBI's so-called "investigation" of the IRS's harassment of tea party groups, the FBI had not 
actually interviewed any tea party groups.

In January 2014, it was reported that the IRS had demanded that Friends of Abe (a conservative organization whose members work in the entertainment 
industry) give the IRS enhanced access to its security protected website (which included its secret membership list), even though such a demand was 
not standard IRS procedure. In addition, even though the organization had applied to the IRS for tax free status two years earlier, the IRS had still 
not made a decision regarding the application.

In February 2014, Obama said that there was "not even a smidgen of corruption" in the IRS's actions.

In February 2014, it was reported that during Obama's presidency, 100% of the established 501(c)(4) groups that had been audited by the IRS were 
conservative.

In February 2014, when Fox News's Bill O'Reilly asked Obama about the IRS harassment of tea party groups, Obama said "These kinds of things keep on 
surfacing, in part because you and your TV station will promote them."

In May 2014, it was reported that tea party donors had been audited by the IRS at ten times the rate of the general population.

In May 2014, it was reported that the IRS had illegally ignored four Freedom of Information requests from Judicial Watch between May 2013 and October 
2013. Judicial Watch filed a lawsuit in October 2013, and was finally able to get the information in May 2014. It showed that the orders for the IRS 
to harass tea party members had come from IRS headquarters in Washington D.C. It also showed that U.S. Senator Carl Levin (D-Michigan) had pressured 
the IRS to shut down tea party organizations.

In June 2014, the IRS claimed that Lerner's emails to outside agencies from January 2009 through April 2011 had been "lost" when her hard drive 
"crashed." Also in June 2014, the IRS claimed to have "lost" the emails from six additional IRS employees who were relevant to this scandal when 
their hard drives "crashed." One of these IRS employees was Nikole Flax, who had been chief of staff to former IRS commissioner Steven Miller. Flax 
had made 31 visits to the White House during the time that the IRS had been targeting tea party groups. However, a private company called Sonasoft 
had a contract with the IRS since 2005 to back up all of the IRS's emails. The company keeps multiple and redundant backup copies of all the IRS's 
emails. The company advertised itself by saying "If the IRS uses Sonasoft products to back up their servers why wouldn't you choose them to protect 
your servers?" In addition, Norman Cillo, an Army veteran who had worked in intelligence, and who had also worked as a program manager at Microsoft, 
listed six reasons why the IRS's claim about "losing" the emails must be false. Also, federal law requires the IRS to keep permanent, backup copies 
of all of its emails at an external location. And finally, the NSA has copies of all of the emails.

Although federal law requires the IRS to keep permanent, backup copies of all of its emails at an external location, in June 2014, it was reported 
that the IRS has canceled its email archiving contract with Sonasoft weeks after Lerner's computer "crashed."

In June 2014, it was reported that emails showed that Lerner had suggested that the IRS audit U.S. Senator Charles Grassley (R-Iowa).

In June 2014, the IRS admitted that it had illegally given out information about the conservative group National Organization for Marriage.

In July 2014, it was reported that Lerner had called Republicans "crazies" and "assholes" in her emails.

In July 2014, it was reported that after Lerner's hard drive "crashed," the IRS deliberately destroyed it, without making any attempt to recover her 
emails. Top IRS officials told Congressional investigators that the hard drive was irreparably damaged before they destroyed it. However, IRS 
technical experts who had examined the hard drive before the IRS destroyed it said that this was not true, and that the data could have been 
recovered. Bruce Webster, partner at Provo, Utah-based IT consulting and expert witness firm Ironwood Experts, who has served as a consulting and IT 
expert in more than 80 civil lawsuits, said of this:

"... the IRS has no excuses for having handled this so poorly... This happens all the time... There are little storefront companies in just about 
every major city that can do this and there are forensic companies that can restore files and even do higher end recovery of data."

In August 2014, the IRS admitted in a court filing that it had deliberately destroyed Lerner's Blackberry after her computer "crashed." In addition, 
an IRS official admitted, under penalty of perjury, that Lerner's Blackberry had contained the same emails that had been on her computer.

In August 2014, the IRS finally admitted, under penalty of perjury, that Lerner's emails had never really been "lost." The IRS said the "missing" 
emails had been on its backup system all along.

On November 5, 2014, it was reported that the IRS had admitted to the court that it had not even tried to find Lerner's "missing" emails in its 
backup system.

On November 21, 2014, it was reported that the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration had obtained as many as 30,000 of Lerner's 
"missing" emails from IRS disaster recovery tapes.

171) Spent $402,721 on underwear that detects the presence of cigarette smoke

In May 2013, it was reported that the Obama administration had spent $402,721 on underwear that detects the presence of  cigarette smoke.

172) Rewarded one of his biggest campaign fundraisers by nominating him for the ambassadorship to Canada

In April 2013, it was reported that Obama had nominated Bruce Heyman to be the ambassador to Canada. During Obama's election campaign, Heyman had 
raised more than $1 million for Obama.

173) Hired a retarded man to sell illegal drugs and guns, and then arrested him for doing so

In April 2013, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported:

"ATF agents running an undercover storefront in Milwaukee used a brain-damaged man with a low IQ to set up gun and drug deals, paying him in 
cigarettes, merchandise and money, according to federal documents obtained by the Journal Sentinel."

"For more than six months, federal agents relied on Chauncey Wright to promote 'Fearless Distributing' by handing out fliers as he rode his bike 
around town recommending the store to friends, family and strangers, according to federal prosecutors and family members."

"Wright, unaware that the store was an undercover operation being run by agents with the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, 
also stocked shelves with shoes, clothing, drug paraphernalia and auto parts, according to his family."

"Once authorities shut down the operation, they charged the 28-year-old man with federal gun and drug counts."

"Wright's IQ measures in the 50s, about half of a normal IQ, according to those familiar with him. Wright's score is classified as mildly or 
moderately disabled, depending on the IQ scale used."

174) Secretly obtained phone records from Associated Press reporters and editors

In May 2013, Associated Press reported:

The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news 
cooperative's top executive called a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into how news organizations gather the news.

The records obtained by the Justice Department listed outgoing calls for the work and personal phone numbers of individual reporters, general AP 
office numbers in New York, Washington and Hartford, Conn., and the main number for AP reporters in the House of Representatives press gallery, 
according to attorneys for the AP. It was not clear if the records also included incoming calls or the duration of calls.

In all, the government seized the records for more than 20 separate telephone lines assigned to AP and its journalists in April and May of 2012. The 
exact number of journalists who used the phone lines during that period is unknown but more than 100 journalists work in the offices where phone 
records were targeted, on a wide array of stories about government and other matters.

In a letter of protest sent to Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday, AP President and Chief Executive Officer Gary Pruitt said the government 
sought and obtained information far beyond anything that could be justified by any specific investigation. He demanded the return of the phone 
records and destruction of all copies.

"There can be no possible justification for such an overbroad collection of the telephone communications of The Associated Press and its reporters. 
These records potentially reveal communications with confidential sources across all of the news-gathering activities undertaken by the AP during a 
two-month period, provide a road map to AP's news-gathering operations, and disclose information about AP's activities and operations that the 
government has no conceivable right to know," Pruitt said.

Soon afterward, it was reported that obtaining these phone records had required approval from Eric Holder, Obama's Attorney General.

This has had a very dangerous and harmful effect on the media's ability to report the news. In June 2013, Gary Pruitt, the president and chief 
executive  of Associated Press said:

"Some longtime trusted sources have become nervous and anxious about talking with us... In some cases, government employees we once checked in with 
regularly will no longer speak to us by phone. Others are reluctant to meet in person ... This chilling effect on news-gathering is not just limited 
to AP... Journalists from other news organizations have personally told me that it has intimidated both official and nonofficial sources from 
speaking to them as well."

175) Asked contractors to disclose their political donations before bidding on government contracts

In April 2011, Obama asked contractors to disclose their political donations before bidding on government contracts.

176) Tried to deport German family that had fled Germany over Hitler's ban on homeschooling

In Germany in 1938, Adolf Hitler outlawed homeschooling. He said "Give me a child when he's seven and he's mine forever."

Hitler's ban on homeschooling is still in effect today. In 2006, Katharina Plett was arrested for homeschooling her own children. Her husband and 
their children fled the country. In 2008, Juergen and Rosemary Dudek were sentenced to 90 days in jail for homeschooling their own children.

Uwe and Hannelore Romeike and their home-schooled children fled Germany after the police showed up at their house to enforce Germany's ban on 
homeschooling. They came to the United States in 2010 and were granted political asylum, which gave them legal permission to live in the U.S. as 
political refugees  However, in March 2013, the Obama administration argued in federal court in favor of deporting them and sending them back to 
Germany. This means that Obama does not consider them to be political refugees, and that he does not consider Germany's policy of jailing 
homeschooling parents to be a form of persecution.

177) Said, "We're gonna punish our enemies, and we're gonna reward our friends"

Obama said (the bolding is mine)

"If Latinos sit out the election instead of saying, 'We're gonna punish our enemies, and we're gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues 
that are important to us' - if they don't see that kind of upsurge in voting in this election - then I think it's going to be harder. And that's why 
I think it's so important that people focus on voting on November 2nd."

This is a rare instance of a promise that Obama has actually kept instead of broken. A huge number of the things on this list can be explained by 
that one simple sentence that Obama said.

178) Falsely accused a law abiding news reporter of being "an aider and abettor and/or co-conspirator" in a criminal investigation

James Rosen is a law abiding reporter for Fox News. However, the Obama administration falsely labeled him as "an aider and abettor and/or co-
conspirator" in a criminal investigation when it applied for a warrant to read his emails.

The New York Times wrote of this:

With the decision to label a Fox News television reporter a possible "co-conspirator" in a criminal investigation of a news leak, the Obama 
administration has moved beyond protecting government secrets to threatening fundamental freedoms of the press to gather news.

Leak investigations usually focus on the source, not the reporter. But, in this case, federal prosecutors also asked a federal judge for permission 
to examine Mr. Rosen's personal e-mails, arguing that "there is probable cause to believe" Mr. Rosen is "an aider and abettor and/or co-conspirator" 
in the leak.

Though Mr. Rosen was not charged, the F.B.I. request for his e-mail account was granted secretly in late May 2010. The government was allowed to 
rummage through Mr. Rosen's e-mails for at least 30 days.

Michael Clemente, the executive vice president of Fox News, said on Monday that it was "downright chilling" that Mr. Rosen "was named a criminal co-
conspirator for simply doing his job as a reporter." Bruce Brown, the executive director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, added 
on Tuesday that treating "routine news-gathering efforts as evidence of criminality is extremely troubling and corrodes time-honored understandings 
between the public and the government about the role of the free press."

Obama administration officials often talk about the balance between protecting secrets and protecting the constitutional rights of a free press. 
Accusing a reporter of being a "co-conspirator"... shows a heavy tilt toward secrecy and insufficient concern about a free press.

The Washington Post wrote of this:

The Rosen affair is as flagrant an assault on civil liberties as anything done by George W. Bush's administration, and it uses technology to silence 
critics in a way Richard Nixon could only have dreamed of.

To treat a reporter as a criminal for doing his job - seeking out information the government doesn't want made public - deprives Americans of the 
First Amendment freedom on which all other constitutional rights are based. Guns? Privacy? Due process? Equal protection? If you can't speak out, you 
can't defend those rights, either.

Beyond that, the administration's actions shatter the president's credibility and discourage allies who would otherwise defend the administration 
against bogus accusations such as those involving the Benghazi "talking points." If the administration is spying on reporters and accusing them of 
criminality just for asking questions - well, who knows what else this crowd is capable of doing?

My Post colleague Ann E. Marimow, who broke the Rosen story, obtained the affidavit by FBI agent Reginald Reyes seeking access to Rosen's private e-
mails. In the affidavit, Reyes stated that "there is probable cause to believe that the reporter has committed or is committing a violation" of the 
law against national security leaks. The affidavit detailed how the FBI had monitored Rosen's comings and goings from the State Department and 
tracked his various phone calls with the suspected leaker, analyst Stephen Jin-Woo Kim.

Rosen's supposed crime? Reyes got his evidence from an e-mail from the reporter: "I want to report authoritatively, and ahead of my competitors, on 
new initiatives or shifts in U.S. policy, events on the ground in , what intelligence is picking up, etc. .?.?. I'd love to see some internal State 
Department analyses. .?.?. In short: Let's break some news, and expose muddle-headed policy when we see it, or force the administration's hand to go 
in the right direction, if possible."

That is indeed compelling evidence - of good journalism.

Obama is establishing an ominous precedent.

179) Asked Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate himself for lying under oath

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder lied under oath. He said that he had nothing to do with monitoring the emails of Fox News reporter James Rosen. But 
it turns out that it was Holder's own signature on the search warrant.

Even the liberal Huffington Post said that Holder should be fired over this.

Holder could get five years in prison.

So, did President Obama fire Holder?

Of course not!

Instead, Obama asked that Holder be investigated - not by an independent investigating committee - but by Holder himself!

I can see it now...

Obama: "Did you lie?"

Holder: "No."

Obama: "OK. That's good enough for me. You're cleared of any wrongdoing."

180) Used Obamacare to illegally give the IRS additional powers without approval from Congress

In May 2013 the Washington Post wrote:

The law allows the Department of Health and Human Services to set up federal health exchanges in the holdout states. But the statute makes no mention 
of the IRS providing credits and subsidies through federal exchanges.

The IRS resolved this conundrum by denying its existence. In a May 2012 regulatory ruling, it asserted its own right to provide credits outside the 
state exchanges as the reasonable interpretation of an ambiguous law. But the language of the law is not ambiguous. And health scholars Jonathan 
Adler and Michael Cannon, in an exhaustive recent analysis, find no justification for the IRS's ruling in the legislative history of Obamacare. "The 
statute," they argue, "and the lack of any support for the IRS rule in the legislative record put defenders of the IRS rule in the awkward position 
of arguing that it was so obviously Congress' intent to offer tax credits in federal exchanges that despite a year of debate over the PPACA, it never 
occurred to anyone to express that intent out loud. A better explanation is that the PPACA's authors miscalculated when they assumed states would 
establish exchanges."

So: The IRS seized the authority to spend about $800 billion over 10 years on benefits that were not authorized by Congress. And the current IRS 
scandal puts this decision in a new light. What was the role of politics in shaping this regulatory decision? What pressure was applied?

181) Used environmental regulations to shut down an ambulance while it was taking a patient to the hospital

In May 2013 the Washington Post reported:

A Wednesday shootout on the streets of Washington Highlands left a cop injured and a carjacking suspect dead. But before the suspect expired, he went 
on an unusual ambulance ride that involved moving him from one vehicle to another on the shoulder of Interstate 295. While this might appear to be 
another story of Fire and Emergency Medical Services dysfunction, the story is rather more complicated. As WUSA-TV explains, newer-model diesel 
engines are required by federal regulations to have emission-control features that, in some circumstances, require the motor to shut down for 
"regeneration" - a process in which the exhaust system burns off trapped soot. The need for regeneration can be unpredictable. The transfer to a 
second ambulance delayed 34-year-old Nathaniel McRae's arrival at a hospital by seven minutes. FEMS insists the wait did not play a role in his 
death.

182) Had "a serious management problem" with his refusal to fire bad workers

A 2011 USA Today article on federal employees states:

"The federal government fired 0.55% of its workers in the budget year that ended Sept. 30 - 11,668 employees in its 2.1 million workforce."

"White-collar federal workers have almost total job security after a few years on the job. Last year, the government fired none of its 3,000 
meteorologists, 2,500 health insurance administrators, 1,000 optometrists, 800 historians or 500 industrial property managers."

Wow! Those must be excellent workers, right?

Actually, no. The article also says:

"San Francisco State University management professor John Sullivan, an expert on employee turnover, says the low departure rates show a failure to 
release poor performers and those with obsolete skills. 'Rather than indicating something positive, rates below 1% in the firing and layoff 
components would indicate a serious management problem,' he says."

A serious management problem?

So who exactly is the highest ranking manager of the federal government?

It's President Obama.

183) Illegally solicited donations from health insurers

In May 2013, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius solicited donations from health insurers to help pay for Obamacare. Such 
soliciting is illegal.

184) Chose an economic advisor who wanted roads and bridges to be built by unqualified workers

Obama chose to have Robert Reich be his economic advisor. Regarding Obama's "stimulus," Reich said:

"I am concerned, as I'm sure many of you are, that these jobs not simply go to high skilled people... And therefore, in my remarks I have suggested 
to you, and I'm certainly happy to talk about it more, ways in which the money can be - criteria can be set so that they money does go to others...  
people who are not necessarily construction workers or high-skilled professionals."

185) Pressured unions to reduce the amount of health insurance coverage for their employees

In May 2013, the New York Times reported:

Say goodbye to that $500 deductible insurance plan and the $20 co-payment for a doctor's office visit. They are likely to become luxuries of the 
past.

Expect to have your blood pressure checked or a prescription filled at a clinic at your office, rather than by your private doctor.

Then blame the so-called Cadillac tax, which penalizes companies that offer high-end health care plans to their employees.

Although the tax does not start until 2018, employers say they have to start now to meet the deadline and they are doing whatever they can to bring 
down the cost of their plans. Under the law, an employer or health insurer offering a plan that costs more than $10,200 for an individual and $27,500 
for a family would typically pay a 40 percent excise tax on the amount exceeding the threshold.

Tom Leibfried, a legislative director for the A.F.L.-C.I.O., one of the unions whose plans are vulnerable to the tax, says the demands that workers 
pay more for their care is a perennial aspect of labor negotiations. "We're very concerned about the hollowing out of benefits in general," he said. 
"What the excise tax will do is just fuel that."

186) Falsely said "We believe in the free market"

In June 2013, Obama said,
We don't think that top-down solutions are the right way to go.  We believe in the free market.  We believe in a light touch when it comes to 
regulations. - See more at: http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/obama-we-dont-want-tax-all-businesses-out-business#sthash.NDb17lc6.dpufWe believe in 
the free market.  We believe in a light touch when it comes to regulations.

"We believe in the free market."

Obama was lying. The free market means that in the business world, it is the customers, not the government, who pick winners and losers. But this 
list contains a huge number of instances where Obama tried to  use the government to pick winners and losers in the business world.

187) Falsely said "We believe in a light touch when it comes to regulations"

In June 2013, Obama said, "We believe in a light touch when it comes to regulations."

He lied. For example, after Obamacare was passed, Obama added 20,000 extra pages of regulations to to it.

188) Said Catholic schools are "divisive" but did not say the same thing about other religious schools

In June 2013, Obama said:

"If towns remain divided - if Catholics have their schools and buildings and Protestants have theirs, if we can't see ourselves in one another and 
fear or resentment are allowed to harden - that too encourages division and discourages cooperation."

I can understand why a person might criticize religious schools in general - although I myself happen to think that religious schools are a superior 
alternative to public schools. But for Obama to single out one religion in particular as being divisive, while not saying the same thing about all 
religious schools in general, is a double standard.

189) Favored a new tax on Christmas trees so the money could be used to subsidize Christmas trees

In November 2011, Obama proposed a new tax on Christmas trees, so that the money could be used to subsidize Christmas trees. If this had been a Rube 
Goldberg cartoon it would have been funny. But to suggest it as an actual government policy is absurd.

190) Betrayed the people of the city that helped him launch his political career

As part of his effort to get Obamacare passed, Obama repeatedly promised that people could keep their current health insurance if they liked it.

More than any other city, the people of Chicago helped to get Obamacare passed. Chicago is where Obama chose to live when he first got into politics. 
The people there launched his political career and voted him into office.

And this is how Obama repays them. In May 2013, the Chicago Tribune reported:

Mayor Rahm Emanuel plans to start reducing health insurance coverage next year for more than 30,000 retired city workers and begin shifting them to 
President Barack Obama's new federal system.

The move is aimed at saving the city money

Once the phaseout is complete, those retired workers would have to pay for their own health insurance or get subsidies under the Affordable Care Act. 
The city-subsidized coverage is particularly important to retired workers who aren't yet eligible for Medicare

Henry Bayer, executive director of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Council 31, said the uncertainties of the 
Affordable Care Act and the state insurance exchanges they would create make the city's plan hard to assess.

"This uncertainty will cause anxiety and fear for tens of thousands of seniors who gave their working lives to public service - men and women whose 
retirement savings are already under attack in the name of 'pension reform.'" Bayer said.

191) Proposed military interventionism in Syria

In June 2013, Obama proposed that the U.S. get involved in Syria's military conflicts.

192) Planned to use military snipers to shoot innocent lions and cheetahs in the wild

In June 2013, Obama was planning to use military snipers to shoot innocent lions and cheetahs in the wild.

However, after the media reported on his plans, Obama got embarrassed, and cancelled his plans.

193) Refused to fire or prosecute more than 1,000 IRS employees who illegally used their IRS credit cards for their own personal use

During Obama's first term, more than 1,000 IRS employees illegally used their IRS credit cards for personal purchases, but Obama refused to fire or 
prosecute them.

194) Defended intelligence chief who lied under oath

In March 2013,  James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, falsely stated under oath that the NSA was not gathering data on millions of 
U.S. citizens. In June 2013, after it was reported that Clapper had lied under oath, Obama defended him, instead of firing him.

195) Had the Secret Service visit a law abiding citizen who had criticized his policies on Twitter

In April 2013, Obama sent the Secret Service to visit the home of Tom Francois, a law abiding citizen who had criticized Obama's policies on Twitter.

The Secret Service admitted that Francois had not made any threats against Obama.

196) Had the IRS grant special, illegal favors for his brother's so-called "charity"

In May 2013, the Daily Caller reported that the IRS had taken the "unprecedented" step of approving a non-profit application within just one month. 
In this particular case, the application was from the Barack H. Obama Foundation, a so-called "charity" which was headed by Malik Obama, Barack 
Obama's brother.

In addition, the IRS  illegally gave retroactive approval for the organization's tax exempt status. Prior to getting this approval, the organization 
had illegally solicited tax deductible donations even though it did not have legal approval to do so.

197) Raised the interest rate on student loans to pay for Obamacare

Obamacare raised the interest rate on students loans from  5.3% to 6.8%. The money is used to fund Obamacare.

198) Refused to fire or prosecute 15 IRS agents who illegally seized the medical records of 10 million people

In March 2011, 15 IRS agents illegally seized the medical records of 10 million people without a warrant. Obama refused to fire or prosecute them.

199) Hired 16,500 new IRS agents to run Obamacare

In June 2013, it was reported that Obama had hired 16,500 new IRS agents to run Obamacare.

200) Tried to reward wasteful IRS spending with an increase in funding

In June 2013, Danny Werfel, Obama's new nominee to head the IRS, asked Congress for an increase in funding. At the same time, NPR reported on this 
waste of taxpayer money at an IRS conference:

Some of the 2,600 attendees received benefits, including baseball tickets and stays in presidential suites that normally cost $1,500 to $3,500 per 
night. In addition, 15 outside speakers were paid a total of $135,000 in fees, with one paid $17,000 to talk about "leadership through art," the 
committee said.

Considering how the IRS wasted all that money on luxury hotel rooms and worthless speeches, Werfel really had some nerve asking Congress for more 
money. By proposing to reward wasteful spending with a budget increase, Werfel proved that he is incompetent to head the IRS. The fact that Obama 
nominated such an incompetent person does not surprise me one bit.