That’s Right Nate

Barrack Obama is fond of saying that “elections have consequences.”  However, if he truly believes this, why does he continue to ignore the nearly half the nation that voted for John McCain.  During the election, McCain made ending earmarks a major point of his campaign.  So why exactly is Obama approving a huge earmark laden spending bill?

Faithful readers, I wish that it was only earmarks, but Obama has continually broken McCain’s campaign promises.  When it comes to income taxes, Obama has raised taxes on people earning over $250,000 despite McCain’s promise to keep the Bush tax cuts  in place.  He has also  removed the Bush barriers to stem cell research.  “It has really been a disappointment,” said Brian Burch, president of Fidelis and CatholicVote.org. “The people who argued during the campaign that Obama’s pro-life rhetoric represented a reason to be hopeful have been totally discounted. We are 60 days in, and he has taken advantage of every opportunity to shut the door on any consensus building on the issue.”  You can be sure if we knew that Obama would do this stuff we would have voted against him much harder.

I know this comes off as sour grapes now that John McCain has lost the election, but did John McCain’s promise of a balanced budget by the end of his first term in office need to be swept aside as well?  Had we known that Barrack Obama was not going to keep any of his promises, I believe we all would have worked harder for John McCain and that just isn’t right.