President Obama’s first year in office was marked by total isolation of the Republican minority by a Democrat super-majority in Congress, one party back room rule absent checks and balances and a President who failed to extend a hand of bipartisanship but did extend his middle finger to the Republican minority.

 Now President Obama wants to have a televised “summit” of Democrat and Republican Congressional leaders to find “common ground.” Democrats rejected bipartisanship in 2009. Now they want bipartisanship in 2010? And the Democrats want to televise it?

 Regarding health care, Republicans want to start over and scrap the existing health care bills. President Obama wants to start with the existing health care bills. This certainly is not bipartisanship. It is an outright rejection of Republican principles of limited government and a proposed capitulation of Republicans to Democrat massive government. It is apparent that President Obama is not serious about bipartisanship.

 Republicans are willing to compromise when their ideas are honestly evaluated and if their principles are not sacrificed. One radical progressive suggested that no one’s principles are violated by ensuring kids have medical care. Yet, if the offer of health care for children is but one step toward a single payer government system then principles are being sacrificed. If adults are covertly covered by a government health care for children then principles are being sacrificed.

 The real issue now is, as Obama stated, we have a “deficit of trust.” Plainly speaking, the majority of Americans no longer trust President Obama. Rasmusson’s presidential approval index has had Obama in negative numbers since June 2009. Seventy-five percent of Americans are angry and/or disappointed in Congress. There is absolutely no reason to believe that President Obama or a Democrat led Congress can be trusted to lead in an honest and honorable fashion.

 In fact we can expect just the opposite. In June 2007, candidate Obama promised transparency: any bill requiring his signature will be posted online for five days before his signature is affixed.  President Obama broke this promise to the American people.

 Candidate Obama promised that C-SPAN would televise health care negotiations between Democrats and Republicans, and House and Senate reconciliation committees. Actually, only Democrats participated in the crafting of the bill in each House of Congress. Then Obama’s Chief of Staff, Rhame Emanuel, negotiated in secret with House and Senate Democrats. President Obama broke this promise to the American people.

 Candidate Obama promised that no one making less than $250,000 would have their taxes increased. But cigarette taxes were increased on primarily poor people. The House passed “cap and trade” that levied the largest proposed tax increase in U.S. history on all  American citizens. Both health care bills in Congress require everyone to have health insurance or pay a tax as penalty.

 Candidate Obama campaigned for change. So far in one year, more people are out of work than there were in President Bush’s last two years: 5 million vs. 3 million. Democrat policies produced under a Democrat led Congress helped create the financial crisis and President Obama did not inherit a bad economy. He helped create it as a Senator voting in favor of policies that contributed toward the financial meltdown.

 Candidate Obama promised to be a different kind of president. He did keep this promise. He is the most radical left wing progressive to ever hold the presidency. He is the first president to willingly appoint avowed communists to White House jobs. However, he is not the first President to willingly lie to the American people.

 Now that his poll numbers have tanked, he s` tacking toward the center in campaign mode. He is now “fighting for the middle class” after he has “screwed” the middle class on taxes; he is “fighting for jobs” after his dismal stimulus package not only failed to stimulate but also prolonged the recession; and now he’s engaged in “class warfare” against Wall Street “fatcats,” all the while protecting Democratic political “fatcats” such as Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, etc., all millionaires who use legislation to protect their personal assets, just like Nancy Pelosi did to protect her husband’s $17 million investment in StarKist Tuna.

 The one consistent fact about the Obama administration and the Democrats controlling Congress is they are the largest organized criminal cartel in American history: larger and more dangerous than Al Capone; larger and more dangerous than the Mafia; larger and more dangerous than the Mexican drug cartels.