Bauer Notes Obama's 100 Mistakes, Misstatements and Missteps in His First 100 Days

Bauer Notes Obama's 100 Mistakes, Misstatements and Missteps in His First 100
Days

WASHINGTON, April 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Former presidential candidate
Gary Bauer on Wednesday, Barack Obama's 100th day in office, noted a series of
mistakes, misstatements and missteps for an administration which has received
little comprehensive media coverage.

Bauer, chairman of the Campaign for Working Families, said that he released
this list to provide a more balanced picture of the first 100 days of the
Obama Administration. Bauer observed, "The media coverage has been so glowing
from the Washington Press Corp that it is important to remind Americans about
a number of bad decisions from policy to personnel from the most left-leaning
administration in our nation's history."

The following is a top 100 list of Mistakes, Misstatements and Missteps for
the Obama Administration, as released by the Campaign for Working Families.

Undermining Our Values

1. Calling for the repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act on the White House
website.
2. Listing on the White House website a call for an expansion of the
definition of federal hate crimes to include homosexual behavior.
3. Calling on the White House website for policies like the "Fairness
Doctrine" that could silence conservative and Christian talk radio.
4. Repealing limitations on taxpayer-funding of human embryonic stem cell
research.
5. Repealing limitations on taxpayer-funding of abortions overseas.
6. Pledging $50 million to the United Nation's Population Fund, which supports
China's draconian one-child policy.
7. Proposing new rules to gut conscience clause protections for pro-life
doctors and other medical personnel who don't want to be forced to perform
abortions or other procedures that violate their values.
8. Proposing increased funding for the nation's largest abortion provider,
Planned Parenthood.
9. Calling on the White House website for "a goal that all middle and high
school students do 50 hours of community service a year," (mandatory
volunteerism).
10. Inviting homosexual families to the White House Easter Egg Roll.
11. Allowing his attorney general to call for the reinstatement of Clinton-era
restrictions on the Second Amendment.
12. Breaking his promise not to appoint lobbyists to his administration. He
hired 17 in his first two weeks.
13. Breaking his promise to sign legislation only after a five-day period of
public comments.
14. Asking that the monogram for Jesus Christ be covered up during a televised
speech at a Catholic university in which Obama quotes the Sermon on the Mount.

Undermining Our National Security

15. Apologizing for America in Europe and Latin America.
16. Bowing before the Muslim king of Saudi Arabia.
17. Pledging to base America's foreign policy toward Iran on "mutual respect"
in a video to the Iranian people and Iran's Holocaust-denying dictator.
18. Returning the bust of Winston Churchill given to George Bush after 9/11 by
our British allies.
19. Giving British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, the leader of America's most
loyal ally, a box of DVDs that don't work in British DVD players.
20. Ordering Guantanamo Bay closed without any idea of where to send the
terrorist suspects held there.
21. Suggesting that some of those terrorists now at GITMO may kill again, but
may also be released onto U.S. soil and set up with welfare benefits.
22. Caving to communist Cuba by relaxing travel restrictions and remittances
for Cuban Americans before any Cuban political prisoners have been released.
23. Shaking hands with Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez.
24. Sitting silently though a 50-minute anti-American diatribe by Nicaragua's
communist president, Daniel Ortega.
25. Releasing Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, the suspected mastermind the 2000
suicide bombing of the U.S.S. Cole.
26. Releasing classified CIA memos outlining our interrogation techniques.
27. Telling our CIA agents not to be discouraged when he acknowledges their
"mistakes."
28. Declaring a new openness to "truth commissions" and prosecuting
intelligence officials involved in enhanced interrogations of terrorists.
29. Proposing to send a $900 million foreign aid package to Palestinians in
Gaza.
30. Asking Congress to relax the law so that some of that money could go to
the terrorist organization Hamas.
31. Calling for the U.S. to eliminate its nuclear weapons.
32. Telling Russian President Demitri Medvedev that America's commitment to
missile defense is negotiable.
33. Dropping the term "enemy combatants" for GITMO detainees.
34. Dropping the term "terrorism" for "man-made disaster."
35. Dropping the term "Global War on Terror" for "overseas contingency
operations."
36. Giving his first interview as president to the Arab language network
Al-Arabiya.
37. Telling the Muslim world that his "job" was to communicate "that the
Americans are not your enemy," when it's Muslim extremists who have declared
war on us.
38. Proposing that military veterans use private insurance for the cost of a
service-related injury before they would be eligible for coverage through the
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

Undermining Free Enterprise

39. Signing the trillion-dollar plus so-called "stimulus" bill, which the
Congressional Budget Office said would actually hurt long-term economic
growth.
40. Saying Caterpillar wouldn't lay off workers if his trillion-dollar
stimulus bill passed Congress. Obama signed the bill on Feb. 17th. On March
17th, Caterpillar laid off nearly 2,500 workers.
41. Hosting a "Fiscal Responsibility Summit" one week after signing the
trillion-dollar "stimulus" bill.
42. Railing against "outrageous recklessness and greed" of AIG bonuses that
were legally protected in the so-called "stimulus" bill he signed four days
after it passed, not five as he promised.
43. Breaking his promise on earmark reform by signing the $410 billion
"omnibus" spending bill with billions in earmarks.
44. Proposing a $3.6 trillion budget that doubles the national debt in five
years and triples it in ten years.
45. Proposing a "carbon cap and trade" scheme that will raise energy taxes by
hundreds of billions, even trillions, of dollars.
46. Burning more than 9,000 gallons of jet fuel to fly to Iowa for Earth Day
to promote "wind power."
47. Proposing $634 billion in higher taxes for socialized health care.
48. Proposing to raise taxes on small business owners.
49. Saying the White House is open to the idea of taxing employer-sponsored
health care benefits as income.
50. Signing a massive expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance
Program, calling it "a down payment on my commitment to cover every single
American."
51. Establishing the Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative
Effectiveness Research to give bureaucrats the power to ration health care and
tell your doctors what care you can and cannot have.
52. Signing the 2009 Omnibus Public Land Management Act, which the Sierra Club
praised specifically because it "will safeguard millions of acres ... from oil
and gas leasing."
53. Suggesting he has found $1.5 trillion in bogus "savings" by not spending
money in Iraq that we were not planning to spend years from now.
54. Ordering his Cabinet to "cut" $100 million in spending in 90 days, after
proposing nearly $5 trillion in spending in his first 90 days.
55. Proposing to limit tax deductions for home mortgage interest.
56. Proposing to limit tax deductions for charitable donations.
57. Refusing to allow banks to repay TARP money.
58. Bailing out AMTRAK with a 10% increase in its taxpayer subsidies.
59. Bailing out the United Auto Workers Union with billions of taxpayer
dollars to GM and Chrysler.
60. Bailing out the United Auto Workers by giving it a majority ownership
stake in Chrysler. Yes, the union will own the company.
61. Bailing out Big Labor by issuing an executive order mandating that
infrastructure projects paid for with "stimulus" funds must use union labor,
guaranteeing higher costs for the taxpayer.
62. Bailing out Big Labor again by repealing regulations requiring the
disclosure of how union dues are spent. So much for "transparency."
63. Saying, "The United States government has no interest in running GM," then
vowing that the government will back auto warranties.
64. Saying, "The United States government has no interest in running GM," then
firing the CEO of General Motors.
65. Allowing states to set their own fuel efficiency and emissions standards,
making it harder for struggling auto makers to compete.

Personnel Is Policy

66. Nominating Timothy "The Turbo Tax Evader" Geithner as Treasury Secretary
to oversee the IRS.
67. Nominating as attorney general Eric Holder, who urged Bill Clinton to
pardon tax evader Marc Rich and 8 FALN terrorists.
68. Nominating David Ogden, a prominent attorney for the pornography industry,
to be Deputy Attorney General.
69. Nominating Tom Daschle, who owed more than $140,000 in back taxes, as
Health and Human Services Secretary.
70. Nominating Kathleen Sebelius, who is ardently pro-abortion and owed $8,000
in back taxes, to be HHS Secretary.
71. Nominating Janet Napolitano, who said, "crossing the border is not a crime
per se," as Homeland Security Secretary.
72. Nominating Steven Chu as Energy Secretary. Last September, Chu said,
"Somehow, we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the
levels in Europe," which at that time were roughly $8.00 a gallon.
73. Nominating Ron Kirk, who owed more than $6,000 in back taxes, as Trade
Representative.
74. Nominating Bill Richardson, who was embroiled in an ethics scandal, as
Secretary of Commerce.
75. Nominating Nancy Killefer, who also owed back taxes, to be the
government's "Efficiency Czar."
76. Nominating Rosa Brooks, a leftwing acolyte of George Soros, as an advisor
to the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy.
77. Nominating Harold Koh, an ardent supporter of using international law in
the interpretation of our Constitution, to be the top legal advisor to the
State Department.
78. Nominating Carol Browner, who was a member of the Socialist International,
to be "Climate and Energy Czar."
79. Nominating John Holdren, an environmental extremist and advocate of
population control, as the White House Science Advisor.
80. Nominating Dawn Johnsen, who is so pro-abortion she once compared
pregnancy to slavery, to direct the Office of Legal Counsel at the Justice
Department.
81. Nominating Charles Freeman, an anti-Israel, pro-Arab apologist, to be head
of the National Intelligence Council.
82. Nominating Tony West, who represented American Taliban John Walker Lindh
and exposed the Bush Administration's terrorist surveillance program, to the
Justice Department's Civil Division.
83. Nominating Annette Nazareth to be Deputy Treasury Secretary, who withdrew
after a month-long probe into her taxes.
84. Trying to nominate pro-abortion Catholics to be ambassador to the Vatican,
a move even John Kerry opposed.
85. Appointing Ellen Moran of the pro-abortion group Emily's List as his White
House communications director.
86. Appointing Melody Barnes, a board member of Emily's List and Planned
Parenthood, as his director of the Domestic Policy Council.
87. Appointing Harry Knox of the Human Rights Campaign (the largest homosexual
rights lobbying group) to the White House's Faith Based Advisory Council.
88. Appointing Adolfo Carrion as Director of White House Office of Urban
Affairs, even though he is under investigation for kickbacks in a scandal
nearly identical to one that cost GOP Senator Ted Stevens his election.
89. Nominating David Hamilton as his first appointment to a federal appeals
court. Judge Hamilton has issued a number of controversial rulings, including
prohibiting the Indiana House of Representatives from opening sessions with
prayers in the name of Jesus.

Other Obama Outrages

90. Telling congressional Republicans to stop listening to Rush Limbaugh.
91. Coordinating attacks on Rush Limbaugh, Rick Santelli and Jim Cramer out of
the White House.
92. Hosting weekly parties at the White House, serving up $100-a-pound Waygu
beef during what Obama called, "the worst financial crisis since the Great
Depression."
93. Laughing it up on 60 Minutes as the country is mired in a recession.
94. Allowing Air Force One to buzz the Statue of Liberty and lower Manhattan,
creating panic in New York City.
95. Disparaging Special Olympians on the Tonight Show.
96. Allowing his Department of Homeland Security to issue a report accusing
pro-life, smaller government conservatives and returning Iraq/Afghanistan
veterans of being "rightwing extremists."
97. Promising to push for comprehensive immigration reform, i.e., amnesty.
98. Killing the school voucher program in the District of Columbia, while
sending his two daughters to an elite private school, rather than D.C.'s
public schools.
99. Moving the Census out of the Department of Commerce and into the White
House.
100. Relying too much on his teleprompter.

SOURCE Campaign for Working Families

Kristi Hamrick of the Campaign for Working Families, +1-571-244-6324