The first year of President Obama’s term is nearly over, and if you’re a Conservative there is a lot to be unpleased with. In fact if you’re a Liberal, there is a lot to be unpleased with as well. Looking back to the many campaign promises that bought the Liberal, Moderate and Independent vote, how has Obama faired overall? There are so many issues to discuss its mind boggling; the surge in Afghanistan, the war in Iraq, Iran, Guantánamo, the economy, healthcare reform, etc. Probably the most obvious topic to talk about first is the disillusionment that the President and this administration has had with its own accomplishments.

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It doesn’t matter what side of the political spectrum your on to notice that President Obama really hasn’t done much in terms of Presidential “achievements” during his first year, unless your counting the recent Healthcare Bill. Liberals and Obama supporters have the feeling of being let down by the President because many of their leftist agenda items (i.e., anti-war, pro-Gay and pro-Green agendas) that are tied to his policy have not moved as fast or as far as many of them would have liked. Conservatives and Libertarians are not happy because in their eyes, Obama’s policy has already moved to fast and too far to the left. Presidents of this country have made their mark in history by accomplishments that they have made, so knowing this, it’s really no surprise to understand why Obama wanted the Healthcare Bill to pass before the year’s end. All of this despite the millions of American’s marching to their state Capitals and even marching on the nation’s Capital building to protest the bill and this administrations statist agenda in general. All of which fell on deaf ears. This isn’t about what American’s want or what is best for America; this is about Obama’s legacy peer and simple. And he’s even willing to damage and breakup his political party to do so. The Democratic Party has already lost one Conservative Democrat, Democratic Rep. Parker Griffith, who switched to the Republican Party because of feeling that the Democratic leadership under Obama, Pelosi and Reid, was pushing legislation that is bad for our country, hurts our economy and drives us further and further into debt.

Congressional Democrats and Obama supporters like to continually point out that due to Obama’s economic policy, America’s financial system is no longer near collapse, the bailout is being repaid faster than expected, and the evidence is that the stimulus plan is working. Conservatives disagree stating that it’s the natural process of capitalism that’s improving the nation, and that the banks are repaying the bailout money because they didn’t need or want it to begin with and are motivated to repay the funds because they don’t want to be held under this administrations thumb while making business decisions. None the less, America’s unemployment is still at 10 percent. Some of the state’s unemployment rates are nearly double that; and that is attributable directly to the economic policies of this Democrat controlled Congress and this administration, and not the last administration. Yet these statists still think that the increased government involvement and increased regulations on the financial industry isn’t enough, and demand even more intervention.

Based on what’s happened this past year, it’s clear that Obama and the Democrats would like to have it both ways; they want to burden President Bush with anything that is seen as negative and want to claim responsibility for anything that has the perception of being positive. Transparency was something that Obama ran on during his campaign. Yet nothing that Congress or this administration has done has been transparent. The only thing that is truly transparent is that Congressional Democrats intend to keep their political deals behind closed doors, and want to continue with the same old “politics as usual” way of doing things and this Healthcare Bill was a prime example of that.

2010 should be an interesting year in the political realm. With a few congressional members political careers on the chopping blocks, its sure to be an exciting year for the Conservative movement.