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On Fri, 05 Sep 2025 01:28:38 +0000,  Lee says...  

>     Trump is already ignoring what the 
> Constitution says. And his lackeys on
> the Supreme Court are fine with that. 

So... SC Judges on the right are lackeys, but those on the left aren't when there's a left-wing President?

Explain the difference.

Name ONE President who HASN'T ignored the Constitution. (see below)

The Supreme Court makes those decisions, stupid.

What... you think all laws came from the burning bush or the stone tablets?

Gawd, what an idiot.

Name the laws Trump is ignoring and tell us that THAT argument in front of the Supreme Court is unprecedented.

Burning the American Flag was NOT written in stone, before the Supreme Court handed down a decision on it 35 fucking years ago.

How many Amendments are you fags on the left trying to get reversed, because they're "old" in your eyes?

WHO ever said a Amendment was NEVER supposed to be argued again OR reversed?


Obama Ignored What The Constitution Says SO Many Fucking Times

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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.