Obama: the candidate for the same old thing

My favorite thing about Barack Obama is that he says he’s gonna bring change to Washington. In his Blueprint for America, he claims to “have done more than any other candidate in this race to take on lobbyists – and won. They have not funded my campaign…” He says he’s a leader for reform and reaches across the aisle. He claims that he intends to make government work more efficiently and says he will cut wasteful programs and ineffective programs.

The only change America will find from an Obama administration will be the change left in our pockets. Obama may or may not have deserved the distinction or most liberal senator and Joe Biden may or may not have actually deserved the rating at third most liberal senator in 2007, but a few things are certain. When Obama bothers to show up for work, he votes the party line 97% of the time. Biden has been in Washington since 1972 and has voted party lines 96.7% of the time.

Just what has he done to take on the lobbyists? The only steps I can find evidence of him taking on lobbyists He’s taken millions and millions of dollars from lobbyists and PACs. To say that they have not funded his campaigns is a flat out lie. Among his contributors are NARAL, Planned Parenthood, Chesapeake Energy Corporation Federal PAC, Sierra Club, MoveOn.org, Human Rights PAC, National Right to Life PAC, and unions, unions, and more unions.

He’s going to go through the Federal budget with a red pen to strike ineffective and wasteful programs. There’s only one problem – this isn’t constitutional! President Clinton was granted this power by Congress very briefly in 1996, but a US District Court ruled this was unconstitutional and this determination was upheld by the US Supreme Court.

The rest of his plan to change Washington is full of duplications and undeliverable promises. The only thing Obama would change is the political affiliation in the Oval Office. What’s scary is that the legislative and executive branches would have a rubber stamp to push forward their agenda. The country's just not ready for the extreme liberalism they would push forward.