Obama is The Scorpion-in-Chief, will the GOP once again be the turtle?

By Kevin “Coach” Collins

For a Marxist like Barack Obama changing his basic nature is really not possible. It is in his DNA and the only way to successfully deal with him is to remember he is a liar who will say anything to get his way.
In the lead up to his election Obama frequently spoke against “earmarks”, and actually became a co-sponsor of Senator Jim DeMint’s bill to ban earmarks. Taking this position helped blunt the lingering doubts about him and eased his way to election.
Nevertheless, immediately upon taking office Obama signed an Omnibus spending bill packed with 9000 earmarks costing $5 billion, most of which were submitted by fellow Democrats. That this violated the pledge he posted on his White House website “[to] slash earmarks to no greater than 1994 levels and ensure all spending decisions are open to the public” meant nothing.
Obama The Scorpion-in-Chief
Watching Obama lie and double cross reminds us of the fable of the turtle and the scorpion. As it goes, a sudden storm strands a scorpion on the wrong side of a rising river and puts him in danger of drowning. Seeing a nearby turtle the scorpion asks him for a ride to the safety on the far bank of the torrent.
At first the wary turtle answers, “No I won’t because you will sting me and kill me.” The scorpion smiles and says, “Oh no my friend that would be illogical and both of us would die.” The foolish turtle agrees and the scorpion climbs on his back. When the inevitable happens and the scorpion stings the turtle half way across the river, the dying turtle asks, “Why would you do this, it’s so illogical and it will kill us both?” The drowning scorpion answers, “It’s my nature. I am a scorpion and I do what scorpions do.”

[3]The 9000 earmarks in February 2009 was a deadly sting to the foolish turtle-like Republicans who wanted to help the Scorpion- in-Chief reach his goal of getting to the other side of his first year in office.
 Tuesday night the Scorpion-in-Chief’s speech included this promise, “.. if a bill comes to my desk with earmarks inside, I will veto it. I will veto it.” He is promising he won’t sting the Republican turtles if they will just help him toward his re-election. Has the turtle learned his lesson? We’ll see.

To contact your Congressional Representative use this link:
http://www.contactingthecongress.org/
To learn more about this subject use these links:
]http://articles.cnn.com/2008-04-15/politics/obama.earmarks_1_earmarks-requests-obama?_s=PM:POLITICS
]http://www.whitehouse.gov/issues/fiscal/
 http://www.qando.net/?p=941
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/obama-s-vow-veto-earmarks-draws-agreemen#

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