Pundits often assess the success (or failure) of a presidency by analyzing the legislative scorecard. In other words, they evaluate the president's performance based upon the number of administration backed legislation that passed congress and was signed into law. To that end, although Obama has succeeded in passing his porkulous, TARP, bailouts, EuroCare, and financial takeover, he has been denied the passage of much of his prized legislation (amnesty, cap and tax, Disclose Act, etc.) Sadly, when it comes to foreign policy, Obama has been 100% successful in implementing his policies.
This degree of success hails from the president's broad constitutional latitude in conducting foreign policy. There is no legislative scorecard and congressional transparency when it comes to vital foreign policy initiatives. The President can choose to dismantle our security with virtually no substantial mechanism to stop him. Also, we cannot observe these policy deliberations on C-span every day as we can with congressional proceedings. Therefore, there is usually less awareness and accompanying outrage towards those policies.
It’s much harder to drive populist outrage against foreign policy initiatives than to against domestic ones. Nonetheless, it is impetrative that all conservative candidates for congress campaign against Obama’s foreign policy just as vociferously as they denounce his domestic policy. There has been much debate over the role and prominence of social issues in this year’s elections, but there is no denying the importance of foreign policy. We must fight Obama’s Islamofacism as early and as often as we fight his Marxism.
Let's take a look at some of these disastrous policies that have surfaced just over the past week:
