Just for fun,
I put together this brief list of what the Obama Administration and the Democratic Congress have accomplished since he was sworn in (the first 37 days.)
I mostly use this list when my conservative friends try to say Obama is "all rhetoric, but I'm waiting for some results" lol.
What do you guys think?
banned members of the Executive branch from excepting gifts from lobbyists (you would have thought that was already illegal, but it actually wasn’t)
ended the use of torture in the CIA by forcing them to adhere to the US Army’s very strict guidelines for interrogation,
Unleashed efficiency experts who have already found $2 TRILLION dollars in savings that we can cut out of our usual budget. The efficiency experts will cut wasteful spending on programs that don't work, but maintain the good spending for programs that work well.
sworn in the first black attorney general who says that "water boarding is torture,"
ended the loopholes that Bush used to hide the debt so we have an honest budget for the first time in a long time
ordered and funded
• building new schools,
• highways
• more efficient electricity grid
• public transportation projects
passed legislation to make government buildings more energy efficient
prevented CEOs from giving themselves obscene bonuses if their companies are failing and they are accepting my tax dollars,
the US has revoked leases to drill for Oil in Utah public land,
passed the Lilly Ledbetter fair pay act and had it signed into law,
ordered the closing of Gitmo,
hired back one of the attorneys who was fired in the famous scandal about political firings at the justice dept.
the US government has started enforcing a law that requires car fuel efficiency reach at least 35 mpg in 15 years (Bush was ignoring it)
$50 billion developing alternative energy,
Committed $50 billion dollars to prevent people from getting thrown out of their homes, which is a much better use of money than giving it to bailout poorly run banks or tax cuts for billionares
Protected Medicaid by giving states assistance funding
Re-invigorated our relationships with our allies.
Lifted the ban on coffins returning fro Iraq, so we stop censoring the true price of war.
That is as of 1:18 pm on Feb 26th. I am sure in a few hours there'll be more, and I'm sure I missed some things too.
:-)
Put that in your pipe and smoke it, conservative propaganda machine!