President Flimflam

Flimflam as defined by Dictionary.com:

Obama is President Flimflam

One week, President Obama explodes the federal deficit with a pork-laden Spendulous bill. (I first heard that term for Obama's grotesque pork bill from Michele Malkin.) It will add more than a $1,200,000,000,000 (that's 1.2 trillion dollars) to the debt when short term interest is included. The flimflam comes the next week when he convenes a sham panel to discuss fiscal responsibility.

During the campaign, Obama promised to eliminate earmarks from the budget. Now, he says he will sign a $410 Billion Omnibus spending bill to fund the rest of FY2009 - a bill that contains 9,000 earmarks. The flimflam is revealed when you learn some of the 9,000 earmarks were co-sponsored by members of his own cabinet. Even more flimflam is revealed when you learn that some of the earmarks were co-sponsored by Senator Obama himself. Yet, those are but minor acts of flimflam and hypocrisy. The real flimflam is now underway.

An article in the Washington Post reveals that Obama's cronies on the Senate Appropriations Committee will ensure the American people are completely deceived by removing Obama's name from earmarks in the bill. When President Obama signs a bill with 9,000 earmarks, after promising to eliminate earmarks, none of these pork rinds will carry his name. Obama has truly elevated flimflam to an art form.

He proposes a nearly $4 Trillion annual budget for FY2010, greatly growing the size of the federal government and setting a record $1.2 Trillion deficit. (That number was pulled out of... well, somewhere... by his crack economists when they assumed a rosy 2010 economic growth rate.) But in a speech to Congress the same week, Obama  pledges to cut the federal deficit in half by FY2013 - but not half of what it was last year. First, he more than doubles the deficit, then smiles while telling you he's going to cut the deficit in half in four years. But under his own, rosy-scenario budget, the deficit goes to half of his bloated deficit figure for only one year and then begins increasing again and rises to 3/4 of his FY2010 $1.2 Trillion deficit  Folks, this is pure, unadulterated flimflam.

Even the left is not spared from his cons.

In the campaign, Obama pledged to withdraw US troops from Iraq within 16 months of becoming President, mocking Senator McCain for saying we may need to keep some troops there as long as Iraq will allow them to stay. Now he says he'll keep combat troops engaged for 19 months and leave 50,000 troops there as long as Iraq will allow them to stay.

It gets even better.

While trying to secure the Democrat nomination, Obama promised, "No more warrantless wiretaps if you elect me." The left was elated. Once the nomination was sewn up, Obama did a complete flip-flop reversing his position on the issue. This week, an appeals court rejected President Obama's legal moves to kill a lawsuit on the issue.

(We happen to love the warrantless wiretaps. With terrorists launching attacks with a one-time use of a disposable cell phone, it's ridiculous to think law enforcement should have to get a warrant for each and every phone line owned by the terrorists. When lives are at stake, it should be sufficient to make a case against a terrorist and then have free reign to tap any phone or computer line the bastard uses.)

Of course, ABC/CBS/NBC/CNN journalists ("Obamalists"), nearly every on-air personality at MSNBC, including "Tingles" and "Butch", will continue to gush over President Obama.There's simply no cure for these always predictable, Obama sycophantic zombies.

Everyone else, including many who voted for him, now recognize Obama richly deserves the title of President Flimflam.