IN EIGHT DAYS OUR EIGHT-YEAR-LONG NATIONAL NIGHTMARE WILL FINALLY BE OVER…

On Tuesday night I subjected myself to listening to as much of Barry’s 'farewell' speech as my poor stomach would allow.  Which really wasn’t for very long.  It seemed like his time in office was never going to come to an end, and I worried if America would actually survive.  And now that it’s almost over it’s amazing how fast the last few years have gone by.  And while I suppose we can say the country has survived, I think we can also say that it has been severely scarred, and to the degree that it may never fully recover.  Barry, the man who has embraced "change" throughout his presidency, used the word 16 times in his ‘farewell’ speech, but he did not directly mention the change Americans embraced in this past November by voting for Donald Trump.  At times, Barry -- the "hoax and chains" president -- seemed to warn against the kind of change Trump has promised.

I’m sure it can go without saying that Barry received a rousing reception from the many devoted followers who had assembled to herald his return to his hometown of Chicago, "where I learned that change only happens when ordinary people get involved and they get engaged, and they come together to demand it."  After extolling America's "bold experiment in self-government," Barry noted that Americans, "through the instrument of our democracy, can form a more perfect union."  Barry went on to say, "So that's what we mean when we say America is exceptional -- not that our nation has been flawless from the start, but that we have shown the capacity to change and make life better for those who follow."  Barry also noted that "the long sweep of America has been defined by forward motion, a constant widening of our founding creed to embrace all and not just some."

In recounting what he views as being his many ‘accomplishments’ -- including job creation, "marriage equality," and the Iran weapons deal -- Barry told Americans, "You were the change. You answered people's hopes, and because of you, by almost every measure, America is a better, stronger place than it was when we started."  Later in his speech, Barry said the nation must "uphold laws against discrimination." And he went on to say, "But laws alone won't be enough. Hearts must change. It won't change overnight.  Social attitudes oftentimes take generations to change."  And it was twice that Barry used the word "change" in connection with "climate change."  And here he seemed to have a message for President-elect Trump, who has been skeptical of human-caused climate change.  But it’s Trump who represents the millions of us who view ‘climate change’ as being nothing more than a leftwing scam.

And it was when he got to the point in his speech where he started talking about ‘climate change’ that’s when I decided I had heard enough.  Barry said, "Take the challenge of climate change."  And then he said, "In just eight years, we've halved our dependence on foreign oil; we've doubled our renewable energy; we've led the world to an agreement that has the promise to save this planet.  But without bolder action, our children won't have time to debate the existence of climate change. They'll be busy dealing with its effects: more environmental disasters, more economic disruptions, waves of climate refugees seeking sanctuary. Now, we can and should argue about the best approach to solve the problem. But to simply deny the problem not only betrays future generations, it betrays the essential spirit of this country -- the essential spirit of innovation and practical problem-solving that guided our Founders."

And I would find out the next morning how it was that during his rambling speech about himself and what a wonderful job he has done as our president, Barry made what was an apparent swipe at Russia.  Barry noted that "autocrats in foreign capitals" are challenging the "post-World War II order" by viewing "free markets and open democracies and and civil society itself as a threat to their power. The peril each poses to our democracy is more far-reaching than a car bomb or a missile. It represents the fear of change; the fear of people who look or speak or pray differently; a contempt for the rule of law that holds leaders accountable; an intolerance of dissent and free thought; a belief that the sword or the gun or the bomb or the propaganda machine is the ultimate arbiter of what's true and what's right."

And I’m also told there were several instances where Barry talked about "the power of ordinary Americans to bring about change."  And it was in speaking directly to the Americans who have supported his agenda that he had said "every American who lived and breathed the hard work of change, you are the best supporters and organizers anybody could ever hope for, and I will forever be grateful. Because you did change the world."  And it was in his message to young people that Barry said, "you know that constant change has been America’s hallmark, that it’s not something to fear but something to embrace; you are willing to carry this hard work of democracy forward. You’ll soon outnumber any of us, and I believe as a result the future is in good hands."  And in a message to "my fellow Americans," Barry said he had one final thing to ask of them -- "the same thing I asked when you took a chance on me eight years ago. I am asking you to believe. Not in my ability to bring about change — but in yours."  

Barry ended his speech with his old campaign slogan, "Yes we can," adding, "Yes we did," then a final "Yes we can."  And when it was all said and done Barry had referred to himself more than 70 times in his farewell address.  Barry heavily promoted the speech, penning a blog post about it and appearing in a promotional video in the days leading up to the address.  Barry said “I” 33 times during the speech, “my” 20 times, “me” 10 times, and “I’m” or “I’ve” 12 times.  Barry has made a habit of focusing large chunks of his speeches on himself during his eight years in office.  Last July, for example, he mentioned himself 45 times over the course of a speech given at a speech for the slain Dallas police officers.  Yet in his silly little blog post promoting the speech, Barry encouraged Americans to tune in “because, for me, it’s always been about you.”  Oh really?

Much has been said about what Barry’s true and lasting legacy will be.  Will it be the decimation of his party, where under his ‘leadership’ his party has not only now lost the White House, but the Senate, the House, 12 Governorships, 13 Senate seats, 69 House seats, and an overall 1042 State and National seats.  Republicans now hold 33 governorships vs Democrats 17 and Republicans hold governorship and both houses of State Legislature in 25 States vs Democrats 5.  But then there’s his legacy of lies about keeping your doctor, keeping your healthcare and his using the IRS to target enemies.  Remember his claim that there wasn't a smidgen of corruption in the IRS and how he would restore trust in government and his would be the most transparent administration in history?  The sad fact is that never before in our history has America had a president who so hated her and all for which she stands. 

As for a little trivia, Barry's farewell address on Tuesday night was longer than the combined length of the three two-term presidents who have preceded him — George W. Bush, ‘Slick Willy’ Clinton and Ronald Reagan.  The lengths of those three speeches were 21 minutes for Ronald Reagan, 13 minutes for George Bush and just 7 minutes for the old ‘Slickmeister.’  Meanwhile, Barry “Almighty” came in at 51 minutes.  Barry also broke from tradition by holding his address outside of the White House, electing to return to Chicago to do it in front of 18,000 at the convention center.  No surprise there I suppose, when you’ve got an ego as big as what this guy has, a simple speech given from behind the desk in the Oval Office simply won’t do.  Such a venue would come nowhere near to measuring up to ‘stature’ of the speaker.  However, I was surprised they didn’t bring the Roman columns out of mothballs.   

And it’s what I view as being a rather fitting quote about Barry yet written over 2000 years ago that says, "A nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly. For the traitor appears not as a traitor, but speaks in accents familiar to its citizens and wears their face and their arguments. He appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation and works secretly to undermine the pillars of the city, infecting the body politic so it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared" (Cicero 106-43 BC).  It’s almost as if they had Barry in mind at the time these prophetic words were uttered.  But these words can also serve as a reminder that there have been other men like Barry, and there most certainly will be others.

I feel that Barry was desperately hoping to have a legacy that would have more closely resembled that of Ronald Reagan.  But one that was based on a doomed Statist political philosophy that can never produce anything but greater oppression, loss of liberty, a collectively poorer nation, more poverty, and misery among its citizens, while ultimately benefitting only the ruling elites that exempt themselves from the very standards that inflict this misery on others.  Barry continues to peddle his message of ‘hope and change’; but not a hope grounded in the inherent greatness and genius of "We the People", ordinary citizens, who, if allowed to keep the fruits of their labors and kept free from big government social engineering and meddling, could achieve great things, but rather a hope grounded in a supposed benevolent big statist government, an institution which does not, and cannot, ever exist.

But like all despot, dictator wannabes, the johnny-come-lately is always self-deceived into thinking that he somehow knows better than the rest of us, but when met with the inevitable failure, resorts to rationalizing and blaming others, but never comes to question the legitimacy of his own political philosophy. The ‘hope and change’ that Barry “Almighty” offered us ended up pitting American against American, based on race, sexual preference and economic status; it created chaos and despair among all but the most blind Statist loyalists.  It's the very ‘hope and change’ that we didn't need, or will ever need, and the very type no nation should ever desire.  So regarding Barry, despite his obsession to have his own legacy that would come to be judged the equal of Ronald Reagan’s, there is one thing that is absolutely certain: he, Barry “Almighty”, is most definitely no Ronald Reagan.

SENATE DEMOCRATS GET A LITTLE COMEUPPANCE…

Don’t you just love it when the political shenanigans pulled by the Democrats blow up in their face.  Especially when they have ‘Dingy Harry’ Reid to thank for it. Democrats are now decrying the very same major legislative change that they championed back in 2013 because now it’s setting President-elect Trump’s cabinet choices up for easy confirmation hearings.  The then-Democrat Senate, led by ‘Dingy Harry’ Reid, passed a historic rule in 2013 called, “the nuclear option,” which eliminated the use of the filibuster on all presidential nominees except those to the U.S. Supreme Court.  While at the time liberals loved the rule for allowing Barry to push through key nominations, they are now livid.  The nuclear option now allows Donald Trump, with a Republican Senate, to have his appointments confirmed with a simple majority vote.

Republicans wholeheartedly opposed the nuclear option in 2013, which effectively left them with no recourse when Barry named his executive and judicial nominees, which was the rationale behind ‘Dingy’s’ scheme in the first place.  Under the nuclear option, Supreme Court picks and legislation still need 60 votes to be filibuster-proof, but Cabinet appointments can be approved with just 51 votes.  The Republicans currently have over 51 seats in the Senate.  At the time, ‘Dingy’ said the rule was necessary.  ‘Dingy’ told reporters at the time, “The American people believe the Senate is broken, and I believe the American people are right.”  Adding, “It’s time to get the Senate working again.” The liberal media was firmly behind ‘Dingy’, applauding the rule change as something necessary for America’s democratic system.

It was liberal commentator Hilary Rosen from the Clinton News Network, aka CNN, who was heard to say at the time, “All this really does is say that the president that we elected to actually run the government gets to run the government.”  And not to be outdone, it was the resident moron over at there at HBO, Bill Maher, who piped up and said, “Now majority rules, you know, almost like a democracy?”  And then we had she who would become the future Hitlery spokesmoron, Karen Finney, who said, “Even the reaction to this announcement seems to be one more piece of evidence that this Republican Party is not interested in doing the business of the country.”  I’d be curious know what all these leftwing kooks think about things now.  Do they still think it’s a good idea?  Somehow I doubt it, which makes it all the more enjoyable. 

While the 2013 ruling was a crowning achievement of the Democrats just a few years ago, it has now become a thorn in the side of Chuckie Schumer, who has now assumed the role of Senate Minority Leader from ‘Dingy Harry’.  It was Chuckie who told CNN, “I argued against it at the time. I said both for Supreme Court and in Cabinet should be 60, because on such important positions there should be some degree of bipartisanship.”  He went on to say, “I won on Supreme Court, lost on Cabinet, but it’s what we have to live with now.”  And it was Democrat strategist Maria Cardona’s words from 2013 that were arguably the most foreboding: “There’s no question that we will one day come to regret this.”  But the Democrats never thought they would lose control of the Congress ever again after the historic elections of 2008.

The Republicans were in absolute disarray and had similar visions of the end of America that the left currently believes with the exception that the Republicans accepted their defeat and went about rebuilding their party, meeting with a rather impressive level of success.  The Democrats have yet to confront their many shortcomings. The hubris exhibited by the 111th Congress was unparalleled and when coupled with ‘Dingy Harry’ Reid’s own brand of humility (or lack thereof) brought the Democrats to the point where they are now at.  I must confess that I do find a certain level of amusement in the Democrats current predicament regarding "the nuclear option".  If for no other reason that it will definitely make Trumps job a little easier.  But that said, there will come a day when the Democrats will again regain control.

But for now let’s savor the fact that the Democrats essentially shot themselves in the foot by deciding to pull the trigger on the “nuclear option”.  And let’s enjoy the level of misery they brought upon themselves.  After all, ‘Dingy Harry’ and the Democrats went by the motto of "no negotiations, no compromise" while hypocritically calling Republicans "obstructionists."  And now it’s the Democrats who are demanding that the Republicans must be bipartisan and work across the aisle. Excuse me?  So we have yet another example of Democrat hypocrisy, since when they controlled Congress they had absolutely no interest whatsoever in doing so.  And if Mitch McConnell has any balls at all he will take the bed made by ‘Dingy Harry’ Reid and force the Democrats to now wallow in it for the next two years.  Nothing would give me more enjoyment.

WHY I STOPPED WATCHING STUPID AWARD SHOWS…

You didn’t need to be some kind of a modern day Nostradamus to know what was going to be taking place at last night’s Golden Globe Awards.  I think anyone would have been able to very easily foretell that even though Donald Trump would not be in attendance, he would, at least, be there in spirit, or more precisely, as the target of more than a few political barbs, not to mention a rather impassioned takedown by that tired, old, worn out looking, Hollyweird has-been, Meryl Streep.

And it was only a few seconds into his typically unfunny monologue that host Jimmy ‘The Drug Addict’ Fallon noted that the Globes was "one of the few places left where America still honors the popular vote."  But, as those watching would come to find out, he was just getting started. Fallon went on to compare the president-elect to the evil King Joffrey in "Game of Thrones."  Fallon asked, "What would it be like if King Joffrey had lived?"  And then answered, "Well, in 12 days we're going to find out."

But it was Streep who decided to take things in a more serious direction, excoriating Trump without actually mentioning his name in an impassioned speech as she accepted the Cecil B. DeMille Award.  And it was during her speech that she bravely declared how it is that she and her fellow colleagues "belong to the most vilified segments in American society right now."  Streep is nothing more than a Hitlery flunky who spoke on Hitlery’s behalf at last year's Democrat National Convention.

Streep said the "performance" that had most stunned her this year was when Trump had mocked a disabled reporter.  She said, "It was the moment when the person asking to sit in the most respected seat in our country imitated a disabled reporter, someone he outranked in privilege, power and the capacity to fight back."  She said, "This instinct to humiliate, when it's modeled by someone ... powerful, it filters down into everybody's life. Because it kind of gives permission for other people to do the same thing."

Streep would go on to say, "It was the moment when the person asking to sit in the most respected seat in our country imitated a disabled reporter, someone he outranked in privilege, power and the capacity to fight back."   And then she went on to say, "This instinct to humiliate, when it's modeled by someone ... powerful, it filters down into everybody's life.  Because it kind of gives permission for other people to do the same thing."  I wonder, does she perhaps mean people like herself?

Streep also made sure to take the time to reference Trump's policies on immigration when she pointedly listed the multicultural heritage of many Hollywood actors.  And she said, "Hollywood is crawling with outsiders and foreigners and if you kick them all out, you'll have nothing to watch but football and mixed martial arts, which are not the arts."   And it should come as no surprise, considering her audience, that her idiotic comments were met with more than a few cheers.

And it was in Fallon's monologue that he referred to a Streep film, "Florence Foster Jenkins," in which she stars as "the worst opera singer in the world." Fallon added: "Even she turned down performing at Trump's inauguration."  The mournful drama "Manchester by the Sea," he joked, was "the only thing from 2016 that was more depressing than 2016."  He also noted that votes were tabulated by the accounting firm of "Ernst & Young & Putin."  Man, is this guy funny or what?

And then to the stage came some clown by the name of Hugh Laurie, who in accepting his award for best-supporting actor for a movie that, frankly, I never heard of, also indulged in a few Trump ‘jokes’, speculating that this would perhaps be the last Golden Globes ceremony.  And it was in explaining his pessimism about the awards surviving the Trump era that this loser said, "I don't mean to be gloomy, but it has the words 'Hollywood,' 'foreign' and 'press' in the title."

And in what I’m assuming was this dirtbag’s piss-poor attempt at humor, this moron claimed to be accepting his award "on behalf of psychopathic billionaires everywhere."  But look, all that having been said, you have to watch and to care, and I do neither.  And haven’t done so for years.  So instead they embellish the ratings, because they know that most of America does not care or find it funny, because if the shoe was on the other foot, liberals would be screaming, like they did when they lost.

And I think it worth nothing that Streep did not explain how it is that a room full of multi-millionaires accepting gold statues for reciting lines on a page could possibly be more vilified than Christian bakers receiving a $135,000 fine for their religious beliefs or how celebrities sipping champagne in donated designer dresses and expertly-tailored tuxedos could be more vilified than a mentally disabled teen getting his scalp cut by four black thugs while shouting "f–ck white people" live on Facebook.

Streep explained hardly anything throughout her graceless, smug, arrogant, classless, disrespectful acceptance speech, in which she heaped praise on a room full of pampered rich people while wagging her perfectly manicured finger in the faces of those who don't see the world as she does, and while parroting the mainstream media lie that Donald Trump somehow ridiculed a reporter for his disability.  But none of that really mattered to any of those in attendance.

Though she and her sycophants would surely disagree, this is not the speech of a passionate, wise, or seasoned woman gracefully passing the torch onto a new generation of attentive pupils.  For that, see Peter O'Toole's Peter refined display of gratitude in his 2003 Honorary Oscar speech.  Hers was nothing more than the speech given by a spoiled brat insulting the flyover Americans who didn't vote her way in a democratic election.  And accomplished nothing more than to reveal her ignorance.

But let’s be real, the only people who agree with Streep are her fellow leftist/progressive/liberal/pseudo-socialist/pseudo-communist losers. The rest of us are confirmed in our rejection of this ideology that has utterly failed whenever and wherever it has been tried.  Their hypocritical world-view with its condescending we-know-what's-good-for-you-better-than-you-do utopianism is what got them and their politics soundly defeated and denounced, repudiated and rejected.

Few, if any, of those who are part of the Hollyweird culture can be recognized for possessing much intelligence.  Unless, of course, it’s for their rather impressive lack of any significant intelligence.  Theirs, as we have seen proven time and again, is a very special kind of stupidity.  And these folks would be much better served if they were to pay a bit more attention to that old adage that says, “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.”

FIRST, LAST AND ALWAYS, OBAMA HAS BEEN A DISASTER …

Man you just gotta hand it to Barry.  There’s looking through rose colored glasses, and then there’s looking through whatever it is that Barry seems to be looking through.  Which brings me to this past Thursday, when on Chicago’s ABC7 Barry was asked by correspondent Judy Hsu if race relations have gotten better or worse during his tenure.  Barry wasted little time in responding, saying “for the most part” they had gotten better.  Talk about being asleep at the wheel!

Barry said, “You know I think that in some ways, like everything else it’s gotten better and in some ways we have surfaced tensions that were already there but are getting more attention. Look, I came to Chicago in 1985, in the middle of Council Wars between Harold Washington and Eddie Vrdolyak. Some of your viewers are too young to remember this stuff. I promise you, for the most part, race relations have gotten better.”  No, sorry Barry, but I respectfully disagree.

How absolutely delusional can one person be?  And how stupid, or politically motivated, must you be not to see this man, this black man, as being the singular most racially divisive president in this nation’s history?  Because in making everything about himself also all about race, he has taken race relations lower than they have been in decades.  Because if you chose to stand in opposition to his blatantly left leaning policies, the only acceptable reason for doing so is because you are…racist. 

Anyone who is even the slightest bit informed should realize that if there is one certainty after having our black president for eight years, there is no denying that race relations in this country have deteriorated, and very significantly so.  And for him to say that race relations have improved during his reign is one of the most profoundly clueless statements I think I've ever heard him make.  It’s disappointing that 50 years of progress was erased by one man, a black man, in just eight years.

Barry came riding into office on the mantra of “Hope and Change”.  His mission was to “fundamentally transform” this country.  But, his hatred of this country prevented him from bringing about anything positive.  True, America has committed wrongs but we had slavery for the shortest time of any country in history.  But America has also done much good in this world, something that Barry was never willing to admit, and therefore went about his perpetual apologizing for America all over the globe. 

One could argue that something just hasn't right for the last eight years.  There was something that always seemed to be missing.  And it was leadership. Every organization, every group, every military force needs a leader. Children need parents, and even adults need some level of direction from police and other sources to prevent chaos.  Every crew needs someone to head up the ship.  We have been manning the ship alone for eight years now, and we have become desperate for leadership

Barry has proven himself to be nothing if not an equal opportunity divider.  He divided the country along ethnicity, gender, religion, sexual preference, sexual identity, and social status.  But race was always his first go to wedge, after all it’s what got him elected not only once, but twice.  Millions of blacks voted for him for no other reason than because he’s black and have continued to stand by him for the same reason.  And yet anytime anyone questioned Barry on policy they were quickly labeled a "racist".

I’ve said before that while I did not vote for him, it was still my feeling that not since the earliest days of our republic had we elected a man who held as much promise as did Barry.  Which made it all the more disappointing, even maddening, when, and in fairly short order, he demonstrated that he fully intended to squander what were countless opportunities to make this country even better and to allow his leftwing ideology to dictate the direction in which he would take this country.

Barry has succeeded in nothing more than to make this country much worse than the he found it.  And not only in the area of race relations, but on nearly every level. Whether we’re discussing domestic or foreign policy, terrorism, national defense, the military, or fiscal responsibility, Barry will be turning over to the next president a country that is in a shambles when compared to the shape it was in when handed over to him.  He should be embarrassed, yet he seems quite proud of all that he ‘accomplished’.

OBAMA PUTS PEN TO PAPER, WRITES A LETTER TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE…

It was in a recent letter addressed to the American people that Barry, once again, set out to explain the progress that he believes our nation has made under his stellar leadership.  And it was in that letter that Barry again made the claim that today it’s “almost” the entire planet that now believes this nation has become stronger and more respected during his time in office.  I’m guessing that Barry must figure that if he makes this claim often enough people will come to believe that it’s true.  Frankly I’m not sure who he’s trying to convince, himself or the American people.

But be that as it may, it was in this letter that Barry said, “And almost every country on Earth sees America as stronger and more respected today than they did eight years ago.”  And in making the case for his claim, Barry cited, among other things, what he considers to be the nation’s progress in Iraq and Afghanistan and in “breaking the back” of the Islamic State, the Iran nuclear deal, and the opening of relations with the Communist government in Cuba.  Barry also cited a global “climate agreement” that he claims “could save this planet for our kids” as why America is more respected. 

It was in this very same little fairytale of a letter that Barry went on to write, “We’ve drawn down from nearly 180,000 troops in harm’s way in Iraq and Afghanistan to just 15,000.”  And he went on to make a rather idiotic claim by saying, “With a coalition of more than 70 nations and a relentless campaign of more than 16,000 airstrikes so far, we are breaking the back of ISIL and taking away its safe havens, and we’ve accomplished this at a cost of $10 billion over two years — the same amount that we spent in one month at the height of the Iraq War.”  A claim that is patently false.

And as one who takes every possible opportunity to pat himself on the back, whether warranted or not, Barry went on to write, “At the same time, America has led the world to meet a set of global challenges.”  And he added, “Through diplomacy, we shut down Iran’s nuclear weapons program, opened up a new chapter with the people of Cuba, and brought nearly 200 nations together around a climate agreement that could save this planet for our kids.”  Barry’s rather rosy picture of all that he has done ‘for’ America bears very little resemblance to reality.  It’s just all so bizarre. 

All of which begs the question of just how delusional one man can possibly be. Remember the red lines he drew, and then ignored?  I really do have to wonder, is anyone really buying any of this political BS?  Or is this all just politicking in an effort to get that cushy U.N. job that he so badly wants?  I have yet to talk to any rational individual who actually believes that Barry has done anything other than to severely weaken our standing in the world!  My God, pick a spot, any spot, anywhere on the planet and more often than not it’s in much worse shape than it was in 2009.

There are new conflicts in Yemen, Syria, in Africa where the radical Islamists have taken hold.  Our arch rivals, the Red Chinese and the Russians, see Barry as a defeated if not disgraced American president.  The last time an American president left the office in so much disgrace was probably Jimmy Carter after the Iran fiasco. Vlad Putin reportedly said negotiating with Barry is like playing chess with a pigeon. The pigeon knocks over all the pieces, craps on the chessboard and then proudly struts around like he won the game.  I think Vlad has hit the nail on the head.

And there were several things that were noticeably missing from Barry’s little letter to the American people, and for very good reason.   For instance there’s the little fact that the supposed economic ‘expansion’ that began in June 2009 has been the weakest since World War II, with real gross domestic product growth averaging 2.1%.  At 7 1/2 years and counting, it is also among the longest on record. But it hasn’t packed much of a punch.  Cumulative growth of 16.5% since the trough is well shy of the 38.4% increase during the 1982-1990 expansion and 42.6% from 1991-2001.

Now to be sure, the process of digging out from a financial crisis is more arduous than recovering from your basic recession.  And an aging population is curtailing labor-force growth, which in turn constrains how fast the economy can expand without generating inflationary pressures. Barry doesn’t mention that fewer regulatory impediments would have encouraged new business formation, which increased in 2015 for the first time since 2009, and capital investment, giving productivity a needed boost. Stronger economic growth would have lured folks back to the working world.

And there’s the matter of his ‘legacy’.  Barry doesn’t talk about how his continued personal popularity hasn’t had much of a trickle-down effect.  Or how in the eight years since he was first elected, Democrats have lost more than 1,000 seats at the state and national level.  He doesn’t mention how Republicans now control 4,170 state legislative seats compared with 3,129 for the Democrats, an all-time low. Republicans now hold 33 governorships and will have full control, governorship and both houses of the state legislature, in 25 states compared to 5 for the Democrats. 

Add to that the fact that during that same period of time the Democrats lost 12 governorships, 13 Senate seats and 69 seats in the House of Representatives.  Barry’s two terms were highlighted by “a devastation up and down the party across the nation.”   A legacy is generally thought to be a gift handed down from one generation to the next.  For the Democrat Party, Barry’s legacy is anything but.  And if you chose, at the time of Barry’s first election, to believe James Carville, the legacy of Barry “Almighty” was going to be 40 years of solid Democrat rule.  Oops!

And Barry also failed to mention his year-end press conference which was short on questions, long on answers, where Barry spoke about his response to the Russian hacking of Democrat National Committee emails during the election.  He said that when he met with Vlad Putin in China in September, he told him to “cut it out” in terms of the hacking.  Sorry, Barry, the world isn’t afraid of you and your empty threats.  Eight years of leading from behind has left America’s standing in the world diminished, its moral authority compromised and its foreign policy in tatters. 

Barry left unsaid how the wars he inherited are still going on. And how the Taliban has made a comeback in Afghanistan and Syria is in shambles.  And how Secretary of State John Kerry-Heinz has been so ineffective that no one even bothered to invite him to the Syrian cease-fire negotiations among Russia, Turkey and Iran.  And Barry also said nothing about how he broke with 36 years of U.S. policy by abandoning its ally Israel and allowing the passage of U.N. Security Council Resolution 2234, declaring Israeli settlements, including the Western Wall and Temple Mount in East Jerusalem, illegal.

And Barry made no mention that while he may have broken racial barriers when he became the first African-American president of the U.S., his election has done nothing to improve race relations.  In fact, a majority of Americans (54%) say that race relations deteriorated under Barry “Almighty”.  And Barry didn’t mention how he has continually promoted the idea of a police force biased against blacks, or how he vehemently denied FBI Director James Comey’s explanation for the surge in violent crime and homicide rates last year were a result of the “Ferguson effect.”  

Also Barry didn’t include in his letter to the American people how his hometown of Chicago witnessed 762 homicides last year, the most in two decades, and up from the 459 that occurred in 2009.  Barry’s protests to the contrary notwithstanding, the reason is the Ferguson effect, according to the Manhattan Institute’s Heather MacDonald. What’s more, statistics show that police are now three times less likely to shoot unarmed black suspects than white ones.  Barry is not entitled to his own facts. If he doesn’t want to talk to those on the front line, he should listen to those who do.

And finally I think it’s worth mentioning how it was that Barry once again failed to mention that which must never be named, aka Radical Islamic terrorism.  Barry has spent eight years deftly avoiding using those three words to call an act what it is. He has intellectualized his position by claiming the phrase “equates Islam with terrorism,” which is counterproductive to U.S. counterterrorism efforts.  Instead, Barry prefers terms such as “workplace violence,” even if the terrorists in question pay homage to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of the Islamic State.

I’m quite sure that everyone remembers the gilded setting, complete with Greek columns that served as the backdrop for Barry’s acceptance speech at the 2008 Democrat convention in Denver.  However, don’t expect the same pomp and circumstance at next week’s farewell address.  Because unlike in 2008, when Barry was all about “Hope and Change”, the 2016 audience will have results in hand to determine if the hope was misplaced and the change worthwhile. 

And I noticed how our Liar-in-Chief chose not to list those countries where we are "more respected".  Maybe he means "Cuba", but he fails to recognize that they’re laughing at him, just like the "back of ISIS" has been broken.  He either lives in some sort of alternate universe or some weird fantasy world, or is nothing more than an inveterate liar.  Personally, I choose the latter, because I think that he knows full well just how much of a "failure" he truly has been but just can’t bring himself to admit it.  But the good thing is that in two weeks he’ll be gone.  Thank you Jesus!

‘HEAD CLOWN’ SCHUMER SEES OBSTRUCTING TRUMP AS WAY TO GO…

So, it would appear, at least as far as things go in the U.S. Senate, with the departure of ‘Dingy Harry’ Reid, and the selection of Chuckie Schumer as the ‘new’ minority leaders for the Democrats, what we have is a scenario that amounts to nothing more than out with the bad and in with the just as bad, if not worse.  And the reason that I say that is because of Chuckie’s recent, and rather bold, declaration that the Democrats will ONLY work with President-elect Donald Trump if he “moves completely in our direction and abandons his Republican colleagues.” 

It was while appearing on the Communist News Network, aka CNN, that Chuckie made his demand and it was also where he would go on to say, “90-95 percent of the time we’ll be holding his feet to the fire and holding him accountable.”  And the hilarious punchline came when Chuckie said, “But we’re Democrats. We’re not just going to oppose things to oppose them.”  Really?  So I guess we’re supposed to suddenly believe that Democrats are somehow going to break with their longstanding tradition and do more than to simply stonewall?  Is there really a political advantage to that?

Now of course, Chuckie’s statements stand in pretty stark contrast to his recent Senate floor speech when he said the Democrats would work with Trump “if the president-elect proposes legislation on issues like infrastructure and trade and closing the carried interest loophole, for instance, we’ll work in good faith to perfect and potentially enact it.”  Chuckie seems to have had a change of heart.  Which begs the question, was Chuckie not paying any attention on November 8th, or is he another Democrat who thinks that the popular vote ‘trumps’ the Electoral College?   

Chuckie either fails to understand, or chooses to ignore completely, the fact that not only did his team lose the most recent presidential election, but over the course of the last eight years they have also lost over 1000 state legislative seats, more than a few governorships, lost control of the U.S. House as well as the Senate and now they have lost the White House.  All of which, you would think, would make Chuckie at least appear to be just a bit more cautious about making comments about how the Democrats plan is to be little more than a speedbump for the next two years.  

And then, it was on MSNBC that old Chuckie was heard telling Rachel Maddow, on Tuesday, that he will fight “tooth and nail” to make sure the vacancy on the Supreme Court stays open until a Democrat president takes office.  Chuckie said, “We are not going to settle on a Supreme Court nominee.”   And he went on to say, “If they don’t nominate someone good, we’ll oppose them tooth and nail.”  And he added, “We are not going to make it easy for them to pick a Supreme Court justice.”  How arrogant?  Democrats still think they’re in control despite the fact that they…are not.

Maddow pressed Chuckie, asking, “Is there an argument to be made, that that was basically a stolen seat, so it isn’t theirs to fill. In that case, no nominee would be legitimate because that seat should have been filled by President Obama.”  Chuckie responded, “It’s hard for me to imagine a nominee that Donald Trump would choose that would get Republican support that we could support.”   And added, “So you’re right.”  Maddow, seeking clarification, asked, “So you will do your best to hold the seat open?”  Which prompted Chuckie to simply smile and say “absolutely.” 

Such comments differ greatly from what he said shortly after Justice Scalia’s passing.  Then Chuckie demanded Senate Republicans “do their job and give Judge [Merrick] Garland the hearing and vote he deserves because the American people deserve a fully functioning court.”  He said, “Having a deadlocked, 4-4 court could lead to judicial chaos surrounding environmental protections, voting rights, and so many other issues that are important to everyday Americans.”  He said, “This delay has gone on long enough. It’s time for the Senate to do the job we were elected to do.”

In 2009 when Barry won and the Democrats controlled Congress, Barry basically said, "Screw the Republicans and screw the American People, I won so get over it!  Either you join us or you're out and if you DO join us you will sit in the back of the bus and keep your mouth shut."  And now in 2017 when the Republicans won, the Democrats are still saying, "Screw the Republicans and screw the American People. You may have won but you have to get OUR permission to do anything.  Either you join us or you're out and if you DO join us you sit in the back of the bus and keep your mouth shut." 

This is the perfect example of the modern day, blatantly tyrannical, and more than a little twisted, progressive mentality. Our soon to be ex-president, Barry ‘O’, engages in the same tactic.  He talks about negotiation, compromise and comity but in reality he demands nothing less that than total and complete capitulation from the opposition. Chuckie is but the latest leftist sociopath loser making all manner of demands.  There is no reaching out, no give and take, and especially NO compromise. One cannot debate and negotiate with these leftist lunatics.

In 2018 the Democrats will have 23 senate seats up for re-election along with 2 independents who caucus with them. The Republicans have just 8.  Democrats whined for 8 years about how the right has opposed the classless, U.S. hating Barry!  The low information voter bought every lie, not knowing that every president has opposition, that's how the system works.  Barry’s legacy is holding the record for losing the most congressional seats of any president.  The corrupt Clintons and the divisive Obamas have decimated the left at every level and most clueless liberals don't even know.

And regarding the Supreme Court, clearly, the Democrats record on judicial nominees, at best, has been rather checkered. "Borking" became a verb after the disgraceful treatment Judge Bork received. Biden supported Clarence Thomas in private and then voted against him in public. Republicans unfortunately take the position that a president should be able to put his nominees on the court.  The nominations of Kagan & Sotomayer were based more on the gender of the nominee than on whether they were actually qualified for the position.

Neither were vetted courtesy of the same lens had their political opposites come up against Democrat opposition.  Republican senators, as is usually the case, lacked sufficient spine fearing media spotlight and shaming.  With the Barry “Almighty” trainwreck, the media has lost considerable leverage.  Trump must punch back hard, often and without hesitation in an effort to humiliate the Democrats every chance he gets.  As Barry himself once said, "elections have consequences, and I won."  So if Chuckie wants to obstruct, then maybe Trump needs to simply run over him. 

DEMOCRATS TAKE YET ANOTHER CRACK AT REWRITING HISTORY…

They say that truth is stranger than fiction, and nothing proves that better than the goings on that have surrounded our current president for the past eight years.  Barry “Almighty” and his many, and very devoted, mouthpieces have embarked upon what can only be described as being a rather bizarre scheme to hypnotize the American people into forgetting the many scandals that have occurred during his presidency. They seem to think that intoning “this administration hasn’t had a scandal” over and over again will make history disappear.  A list of what most people would consider scandals that took place during Barry tenure would include, but not be limited to, the following, which is but a very short list of just some of the scandals Team Obama thinks it can make America forget:

The great “stimulus” heist: Team Obama seems to think nobody will remember how he grabbed almost a Trillion dollars for “stimulus” spending, created virtually zero private-sector jobs with it, allowed a great deal of the money to vanish virtually into thin air, and spent the rest of his presidency complaining that he needed hundreds of Billions more to repair roads and bridges.  Vast sums of taxpayer money were wasted on foolish projects that came close to the Keynesian economic satire of hiring some people to dig holes, and others to fill them in.  Americans ended up footing the bill for what was nothing more than an army of government jobs, and a lavish network of slush funds for the Democrat Party and its union allies. It’s one of the worst government-spending scandals in our history.

Operation Fast and Furious: Team Obama also seems to think that any given example of abuse or ineptitude by their man stopped being a “scandal” the moment it seemed clear he wouldn’t be impeached over it.  Operation Fast and Furious, Barry’s rather insane program to use American gun dealers and straw purchasers to arm Mexican drug lords, is a scandal with a huge body count, prominently including Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry and Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agent Jamie Zapata, plus hundreds of Mexican citizens.  Agent Terry’s family certainly thinks it qualifies as a scandal. 

However, the more sinister take on Fast and Furious is that Barry wanted to create gun crimes in Mexico so they could complain about lax regulations on American gun sales for the purposes of creating a narrative that they could use in America to try and thwart our Second Amendment constitutional rights.

ObamaCare: Everything about ObamaCare is a scandal, from Barry’s incessant lies about keeping your old plan if you liked it to Nancy Pelosi saying, “we need to pass it to find out what’s in it.”  ObamaCare continues to be a scam, pure and simple – sold on false pretenses by people who knew it wasn’t going to work the way they promised. It doesn’t feel right to dismiss it as a “failed” scheme when so much of the failure was intentional.  The bill was so sloppily crafted that Democrats were basically signing blank sheets of paper when they rushed it through Congress in a foul-smelling cloud of back-room deals.

The Supreme Court rewrote ObamaCare on the fly twice to keep it alive, which is a scandal in and of itself.  Barry delayed and rewrote the law so often it was impossible to keep track of the changes, cutting Congress out of the loop completely. (Actually, someone did keep careful track of them, and the tally was up to 70 distinct changes by January 2016.)

The IRS scandal: The selective targeting of conservative groups by a politicized Internal Revenue Service was a scandal grenade Democrats and their media pals somehow managed to smother, even though the story began with the IRS admitting wrongdoing.

Democrats suffocated the scandal by acting like circus clowns during congressional hearings, but at no point were the actual facts of the case truly obscured: yes, pro-life and Tea Party groups were deliberately targeted for extra scrutiny, their tax exemption applications outrageously delayed until after the 2012 election without actually being refused.  If anything remotely comparable had been done to, say, environmentalist and minority activist groups by the IRS under a Republican administration, the results would have been apocalyptic.

There’s also no question about the facts of the follow-up scandal, in which IRS officials brazenly lied about having backups of relevant computer data. The American people were expected to believe that multiple state-of-the-art hard drives failed, and were instantly shredded instead of being subjected to data recovery procedures. Luckily for the politicized IRS, the Justice Department was hyper-politicized under Barry too, so no charges were filed, and scandal kingpin Lois Lerner got to enjoy her taxpayer-funded retirement after taking the Fifth to thwart lawful congressional investigation.

Benghazi: This is the clearest example of Barry and his supporters thinking all of his pre-2012 scandals ceased to exist the moment he won re-election. Benghazi has been investigated extensively, and argued about passionately, since the night of September 11, 2012. Nothing can change the absolute fact that Barry’s story for the first few weeks after the attack was false, and they knew it was false. They spun a phony story to buy themselves just enough time to make it through the presidential election campaign, and it worked.

But things certainly don’t stop there.  Because let’s not forget how it was that journalists were spied on, or how it was that Hitlery had a secret server, then there was the NSA spying scandal and the Bowe Bergdahl scandal, the Iran nuclear deal and ransom payment, the polluting of the Colorado River, the GSA scandal, the VA death-list scandal, Solyndra and the endless shutdown theater perpetrated by Barry and the Democrats.  The list is nearly endless.  Actually it’s quite amazing that Barry could be involved in so many scandals is such a short span of time.  Frankly, it’s pretty impressive.  Barry spent the last eight years trying to destroy this Nation, and that he was allowed to succeed to the degree that he has, offends me.  Democrats welcome Barry’s attempt to rewrite history, but the rest of us won’t be fooled.  

CIVILITY DIES AT THE HANDS OF THE DEMOCRAT PARTY…

Over the course of the last year, and during most if not all of the recent presidential campaign, much has been said, by the Democrats, about how it was that when Trump and the Republicans go low, the American people could trust them to go high.  We’ve also heard over and over, again from the Democrats, how it is that civility is dead.  But it’s important to know that Donald Trump is not the one who killed it despite the many claims that we’ve heard, and continue to hear, from those in the Democrat Party, as well as their many minions in the state-controlled media.   

Because the Democrats had one of worst candidates for president in their history, they simply had no choice but to go low early and often.  Discourse came crashing down thanks in large part to Democrats’ idea to use identity politics as their primary weapon.  The left has spent years calling blue collar workers — and the majority of the middle of the country — bigots, racists, homophobes, sexists, Islamophobes and white supremacists.  And I’m sure most will recall how it was that Hitlery claimed that Trump’s supporters were “a basket of deplorables.”

Leftists led riots, they attacked Trump supporters, called for his assassination, accused Trump of being the new Hitler and the fringe of left-wing politics organized murderous ambushes of police officers. Trump did not provoke any of these responses, unless you choose to argue that his, sometimes questionable, behavior gives people carte blanche to act however they wish.  As the campaign waged on, evidence would begin to come to light that seemed to suggest that individuals like George Soros were actually financing the political discourse.

And then we have those who have become so completely unhinged because of Hitlery’s defeat.  For example, there’s Georgetown University associate professor C. Christine Fair’s appalling behavior toward a fellow liberal.  A summary of Fair’s month-plus interaction with former colleague Asra Q. Nomani is this: Nomani wrote an op-ed in The Washington Post explaining why she, as a Muslim woman and “long-time liberal,” voted for Trump. Fair went nuclear on Twitter and Facebook, calling Nomani a “psycho shrew,” “wretch” and “clueless dolt.”

This nutjob ‘professor’ summed up her roiling anger by telling Nomani, “FUCK YOU. GO TO HELL.”  And it is after the most cursory glance of professor Fair’s past that we would see that she seems to have a history of doing this sort of thing.  Apparently she called a man a “charlatan” because he didn’t leave a favorable review on her book and she allegedly shouted at a college student about the election on an airplane.   The defenses people gave for Fair’s behavior?  I wrote fake news and I cherry-picked only the meanest things she said.

Democrats always intended for it to be an ugly, divisive election. The plan: tear the country apart on racial, gender and religious lines; blame Republicans for the ensuing firestorm; win the election and use that as proof that Republicans are the cause of America’s discord.   Media talking heads and writers bemoaned the death of civility, and then turned around and called Trump supporters white supremacists and neo-Nazis. And oddly enough, even Barry “Almighty”, who has mocked Trump on multiple occasions, also called for more civility.

They failed to win the election, but are still trying to complete their plan by putting all the blame on Trump. Calls to heal the nation are met by celebrities boycotting the inauguration and attacking anyone who’s rumored to possibly perform.  Leftwing leaders like Hitlery Clinton and ‘Dingy Harry’ Reid are either staying silent or actively stoking tensions.  Liberals like Fair are lashing out at anyone who steps outside their prescribed worldview — including fellow liberals like Nomani.  All this makes the point that for Democrats it’s all about the party, not the country.

Donald Trump is a symptom of a much larger problem that the Democrats themselves created, and it’s unclear if they’ve recognized it is a problem.  Instead of doing soul-searching after Hitlery’s crushing defeat, Democrats continue to, practically from election night on, to double down on identity politics and to blame everyone except themselves for what they were all so sure would be President-elect Hitlery Clinton.  Don’t blame Trump for the death of civil discourse, it’s the Democrats who are responsible for not only killing, but obliterating it.

So look, can we all agree that 2016 was the year that Democrats/leftists/progressives, to one degree or another, finally came to be unmasked?  This leftist shtick of brainwashing, or working to keep the American voter as uninformed as possible, is designed to destroy America from within by dividing our nation/citizens into groups labeled as privileged, racists, homophobes, nativists, populists, bigots, xenophobes, fascists, white supremacists, imperialists, sexist, misogynist, islamophobic, anti-semitic, transphobic, brown shirts, Nazis, etc.  

Democrats, the election is OVER!  And there is nothing that you, or your Party, can do that is going to change that outcome.  As your fearless leader, Barry “Almighty”, so famously said, 'Elections have Consequences! We won!'  Your Party LOST!  That's how politics works, someone has to lose and this time it was you.  So, I have to wonder why you are spewing venom.  Republicans are not, by their very nature, a hateful tribe.  In fact, I would argue that most of us are practicing Christians, which obligates us to be as kind and forgiving as we can.

First and foremost, we are all Americans.  So, I am asking of you that if you have nothing constructive to add to the conversation, be quite.  The rest of us have a Nation that we love that needs to heal.  When the Democrat Party was in complete charge during the first two years of Barry first term, what did they choose to focus on?  That which was good for the country, or that which was good for the party?  The Republicans, and Trump, will now have the opportunity to act in stark contrast, and to prove their priorities are the priorities of the American people.

OBAMA DOES NOT INTEND TO GO QUIETLY…

Before the election of Barry “Almighty”, the American people had never before chosen a man so ill equipped to hold the office to which he had been elected.  But not only that, they had also apparently never before elected someone who possessed such a high opinion of himself, to the point where he views himself as being nearly God-like.  You see, Barry has come to view no other person as suited as he to be the leader of this once great nation.  And he has now made it quite clear that even the election of his successor will not prevent him from doing, or saying, whatever he feels is necessary when it comes to what his successor may have planned.

And Barry could not have made his position any clearer than he did in his final weekly address of 2016 as he made it clearer than ever that he won't retire quietly once Donald Trump is sworn in as president.  Couching his address to the nation as assurance that he will remain committed to defending the "progress" achieved by his administration, Barry made it crystal clear that he intends to be a thorn in President Trump's side after the official handover of power on January. 20.  And his rationale for doing so has very little, if anything, to with what’s actually best for the country that he was elected to lead for the last eight years. 

As has so often been the case over the course of those last eight years, it’s always, and I do mean always, about him.  Offering the clearest indication yet of his plan to be active on the political scene after he is ostensibly back in private life, Barry said Saturday, "As I prepare to take on the even more important role of citizen, know that I will be there with you every step of the way to ensure that this country forever strives to live up to the incredible promise of our founding — that all of us are created equal, and all of us deserve every chance to live out our dreams."  He speaks of the promise of our founding and yet has worked tirelessly to undermine it.

The words were an implicit rebuke of the inequality and retrograde policies that Democrats claim will be on the agenda of Trump and the Republicans when they take over what will be a unified Republican government next month.  Back when Barry expected, and most polls indicated, that Hitlery was going to win the White House, Barry had gone so far as to suggest that he was actually looking forward to a quiet retirement.  But now that the election didn’t exactly go as planned, Barry says his plans have changed considerably. The unmistakable suggestion is that Barry claims he needs to stay active to guard the nation against Trump's predations.

Many of Barry's main ‘accomplishments’ and priorities, such as Obamacare and a green agenda hailed by environmental activists, are on Trump's list for demolition. Barry and the Democrats see the clear prospect that his legacy will be reduced sharply by the incoming government.  And Barry's Saturday speech shows that he does not intend to simply stand by and let that happen.  Touting what he claims as gains made in expanding health insurance coverage, job creation, bringing troops back to the U.S. from Afghanistan and Iraq, and killing Osama bin Laden, Barry said that the country has "made extraordinary progress as a country these past eight years."

Barry’s Saturday address was little more than a dogged defense of all that HE has done for or to America since HE was first sworn into office on the fateful day back in January, 2009.  He said income is rising, poverty is falling and claimed the auto industry is "resurgent."  And in turning to diplomacy, Barry said, "We shut down Iran's nuclear weapons program, opened up a new chapter with the people of Cuba, and brought nearly 200 nations together around a climate agreement that could save this planet for our kids."  And, of course, he also gave a nod to the 2015 Supreme Court ruling to grant nationwide marriage equality.

And in this his final address of 2016 Barry said, "We've made extraordinary progress as a country these past eight years."  He went on to say, "And here's the thing: none of it was inevitable. It was the result of tough choices we made, and the result of your hard work and resilience."  Looking ahead, Barry said the task of moving forward on progress falls to people working together.  Barry thanked Americans for their support and said "almost every country on Earth sees America as stronger and more respected today than they did eight years ago."  But such a statement bears a much closer resemblance to wishful thinking than it does to any actual facts. 

It’s in looking back at what Barry describes as being extraordinary progress what we see is the lowest labor participation since the 1970s, nearly 95 million Americans out of the labor force, the worst economic recovery since the 1940s, the lowest home ownership rate in 50 years, nearly 13 million more Americans on food stamps, over 43 million Americans living in poverty, a median household income lower now than in the 1970s, 1 in 5 families without someone in the workforce, 1 in 6 men ages 18-24 are either incarcerated or out of the workforce and more debt than all other president combined.  This is what Barry sees as “extraordinary progress?”

Besides his refusal to go quietly into the night, as have other presidents before him, Barry is also very actively involved in what can only be described as an aggressive campaign of sabotage against Donald Trump.  And while he may claim that he’s only seeking to protect the country from what he claims is Trump’s dangerous policies, his true motivation is more likely something much more ominous, even sinister.  Because he knows, he has to know, that if Trump becomes successful in his effort to “make America great again” he will also succeed in revealing just how much of a colossal failure, and unmitigated disaster, Barry’s policies have truly been.

It would seem the Barry has been going out of his way, of late, to make things as difficult as he can for our new president.  Whether it’s his attempt to bring about a new cold war with Russia, his ban on oil drilling both on public lands and off shore, his blatant national-monument land grab, his choosing to eliminating the national immigration registry, his orchestrating the great Guantanamo jailbreak or doing all that he can to depict Trump’s election as being nothing more than a disaster for America and the world, Barry is proving himself to be little more than a very dedicated saboteur.  A role that you can very plainly see that he very much relishes. 

Meanwhile, Barry's crimes number, quite literally, into the thousands. The comforting thing is, anything the Barry has done via fiat can be quickly undone with a single stroke of Trump's pen.  This is the problem with Barry ruling by executive order rather than governing by legislation, his so-called "accomplishments" are not worth the paper on which they are written. Barry's totalitarian rule via non-representative fiat is smoke in a hurricane and will not override representative government.  I very much miss my Constitutional Republic and desperately want it back!  And I pray every day that Mr. Trump is up to the very daunting challenge that lies ahead of him.