Barack's Top Five Already Broken Promises

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By Phil Kerpen
Director of Policy, Americans for Prosperity

Promise #5: Sunlight Before Signing

What he said:
“Too often bills are rushed through Congress and to the president before the public has the opportunity to review them. As president, Obama will not sign any non-emergency bill without giving the American public an opportunity to review and comment on the White House website for five days.” (BarackObama.com campaign Web site)

What he did:
Obama signed the Lily Ledbetter bill, the SCHIP/cigarette tax hike, and the stimulus bill all with far less than a five-day waiting period that he promised–and continues to promise–on his campaign Web site.

Promise #4: Lobbyist Revolving Door

What he said:
“No political appointees in an Obama-Biden administration will be permitted to work on regulations or contracts directly and substantially related to their prior employer for two years. And no political appointee will be able to lobby the executive branch after leaving government service during the remainder of the administration.” (BarackObama.com campaign Web site)

What he did:
Obama appointed Goldman Sachs lobbyists Mark Patterson chief of staff at the Treasury Department, where he directly oversees his former employer, a recipient of $10 billion of taxpayer funds from the TARP. Obama also appointed Raytheon lobbyist William Lynn to be an undersecretary of Defense.

Promise #3: No Tax Hikes on the Poor

What he said first:
“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.” ( )

What he did first:
By signing H.R. 2 into law, Obama happily signed onto the idea that smokers should pay for a $35 billion expansion of the State Children’s Health Insurance Plan (SCHIP). Cigarette taxes are going up 61 cents a pack starting April 1. Obama signed this bill knowing that the majority of smokers in the United States are working poor, and one in four lives below the federal poverty line.

What he said next:
“If your family earns less than $250,000 a year, you will not see your taxes increased a single dime. I repeat: not one single dime.” (February 24th, 2009, Address to a Joint Session of Congress)
What he did next:
Ignored the already-hiked cigarette tax at the time of the statement and then this restated promise was broken just two days later, when the Obama’s budget proposal was released. His new budget raises 45 percent of its revenue from energy taxes that will be paid by everyone who fills a gas tank, pays an electric bill, or buys anything that was grown, shipped, or manufactured.

Promise #2: Pork Barrel Earmark Reform

What he said:
“The system is broken. We can no longer accept a process that doles out earmarks based on a member of Congress’ seniority, rather than the merit of the project. We can no longer accept an earmarks process that has become so complicated to navigate that a municipality or non-profit group has to hire high-priced D.C. lobbyists to do it. And we can no longer accept an earmarks process in which many of the projects being funded fail to address the real needs of our country.”
(Statement on Earmarks, March 10, 2008)

What he is expected to do:
The White House has signaled that it intends to sign the $410 billion Omnibus Appropriations bill, which according to Taxpayers for Common Sense, contains 8,570 earmarks totaling $7.7 billion, including dozens of wasteful pork-barrel projects. These earmarks were awarded based on seniority, not on merit, and were mostly the result of high-priced lobbying, precisely the process that Obama promised to end. When the omnibus reaches his desk later this week or next week, we’ll find out if this is one more broken promise.

Promise #1: Big Government

OK, so this one is more of a statement than a promise, but it’s the biggest whopper of all.

What he said:
“Not because I believe in bigger government — I don’t.” (February 24, 2009, Joint Address to Congress)

What he did:
Obama proposed a budget that is breathtaking in scope, a blueprint for the biggest permanent expansion of government in history right on the heels of a sweeping trillion dollar stimulus plan. The budget lays the foundation for a government takeover of the health care and energy sectors and dramatically increasing spending across the board, other than defense weapons programs. Spending as a percentage of the economy under this budget will reach the historic level of 27.7 percent this year. The deficit as a percent of the economy, at 12.3 percent, is set to be the biggest in the entire history of the country outside of the four peak years of World War II. Anyone who offers such a budget can only fairly be described as a believer in bigger government.

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Tweethe's a fukin scum bag and now the liberals have to be putting hemroid cream on there hole because they are taking it up the ass along with every other american that voted for him. along with who didnt vote for him either.

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TweetGood post stout!!

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Tweetcome on guys, with the current situation, you think he could do his promise

no one would have done it anyway, not McCain, neither Obama neither myself

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come on guys, with the current situation, you think he could do his promise

no one would have done it anyway, not McCain, neither Obama neither myself

then why promise or put your word out there if you KNOW you can't live up to it?

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Tweetim glad they hiked up ciggarette prices.

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come on guys, with the current situation, you think he could do his promise

no one would have done it anyway, not McCain, neither Obama neither myself

So because he's in politics; he is expected not to have any integrity and because were in a bad situation his word means nothing. If he made those kinds of promises in the private sector to get hired; he'd already have been fired.

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come on guys, with the current situation, you think he could do his promise

no one would have done it anyway, not McCain, neither Obama neither myself

POOPOO IF MCCAIN WAS IN OFFICE TAXES WILL BE LOW THE BUSH TAX CUTS WOULD OF STAYED IN PLACE. THE MARKET WOULDNT OF WENT DOWN 3000 POINTS SINCE DICK HEAD TOOK OFFICE IT WOULD OF WENT UP. MCCAIN WOULDNT OF GOT 5 GUYS WITH TAX PROBLEMS AND QUIT,THE AIG THING WOULDNT OF HAPPEN WITH THERE BONUSES.DO YOU REMEMBER THAT IT WAS THE REPUBLICANS THAT WANTED IN WRITING TO ELIMINATE ANY BONUSES WITH AIG AND OTHER FINACIAL PLACES WE BAILED OUT. IF HE WAS IN OFFICE THEY WOULDNT OF GOT THEM. THERES A BIG DIFFERENCE RIGHT THERE.


FACT CHECK-DICK HEAD PROMISED HE WOULD GO LINE BY LINE ABOUT AIG AND FIX THE PROBLEM THERE AND OTHER BILLS, HAS HE NO HE DIDNT HE LIED.


SO INSTEAD HE GOES ON JAY LENO TO TRY AND TELL THE AMERICAN PUBLIC LIKE HE CARES. HE WILL NOT FOOL ANYONE AGAIN. ESPECIALY INDIPENDANTS COME VOTING TIME IN 3-1/2 YEARS