Resolved: The GOP's staunch opposition to the presidency and the left has caused more harm than good

Case: The GOP's Opposition to Obama has been weak and his presidency has caused damage Opening Remarks Throughout the course of Obama's Presidency, America has witnessed a President that has proven to be a partisan warlord, shedding all his lofty pledges to change the tone in Washington and work across the aisle,[1] often attacking his opposition in a very demeaning manner to become the most polarizing President ever.[2] According to polling, most Americans view his presidency as a failure[3] and new poll found Barack Obama is the worst President since WWII.[4] The Left is always trying to shift the goal posts continually moving it further left running a senator in 2008 with the most liberal voting record in the U.S. Senate[5] while the republicans ran a senator who was actually reprimanded by the GOP in his own state for his liberal voting record[6] and many conservatives were wondering how a liberal republican like Mitt Romney came to be touted in 2012.[7] This is how George W. Bush's expansion of government and spending, even the Welfare State, were redefined as conservative or right wing positions thus the liberalism of a decade ago become the conservativism of the present. Left wing ideologues are keen on labeling relying on key words like moderate, extreme, and far right to give a few examples. After the recent mid-term election that costs Democrats seats in the house, the senate, and governorships, the Democrats have suffered an embarrassing defeat.[8] The President talks about the rich getting richer or the poor getting poorer, the gaps expanded under his presidency.[9] One-third of the entire country depends on welfare,[10] but defying all reason Democrats don't see this is a damning fact about how impoverished the country has become as Obama stoked racial tensions.[11] His foreign policy disasters are piling up.[12] It adds up when poverty is rising to the highest levels since the 1960s,[13] even black residents of Chicago are describing him as the worst President ever,[14] and Obama's family cost $1.4 billion to American taxpayers (20 times higher than the British Royal Family).[15] Exhibit 1 - What Happened to the 5,000,000 Energy Jobs? "Report: Energy Dept. Spent More Than $11M Per Green Job Created." CBS DC. May 9, 2013 http://washington.cbslocal.com... "The Institute for Energy Research report revealed that the Energy Department has doled out $26 billion in taxpayer-funded loans to green energy companies, helping to create 2,298 permanent jobs. That equates to $11.45 million per job created for these companies." Obama's promise of creating 5 million green jobs is a huge embarrassment and failure that actually proves Government cannot create jobs. The cost to American taxpayers is even more outrageous. Where you do find jobs in a thriving energy sector are found in oil and natural gas, which Obama remains hostile to in addition to holding up the Keystone pipeline and since the 1990s Democrats have blocked all efforts to extract oil in ANWR that could have created as many as 750,000 jobs. When it comes to energy and job creation you can be absolutely sure Democrats will impose higher costs and job destruction. Exhibit 2 - Stimulus: Outspending the Iraq War in one bill! "CBO: Eight Years of Iraq War Cost Less Than Stimulus Act." Fox News. August 30, 2010 http://www.foxnews.com... "According to CBO numbers in its Budget and Economic Outlook published this month, the cost of Operation Iraqi Freedom was $709 billion for military and related activities, including training of Iraqi forces and diplomatic operations. The projected cost of the stimulus, which passed in February 2009, and is expected to have a shelf life of two years, was $862 billion." The left enjoyed criticizing the costs of the Iraq War but took to ramming through a Stimulus Bill that outspent it in one bill. Obama's own former chief of staff admitted that there was not working and that the Obama Administration gave up on defending it two years later. We can look at the President's personally backed failures such as Solyndra or A123 Systems. Construction job losses of half a million. It demonstrates a complete failure of planned economy by government. Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid should not be in charge of an economy involving 318,000,000 people. Ultimately it failed while creating a massive deficit. Keynesian economics failed to work. That's leaving aside QE 1 ($1.5 trillion), QE 2 ($600 billion), and QE 3 (infinity) that so far amounts to $1.5 trillion. Exhibit 3 - Record Deficits "Obama Has Presided Over 5 of 6 Largest Deficits in U.S. History." CNSNews. October 30, 2013 "President Barack Obama has now presided over five of the six largest annual budget deficits the U.S. government has ever run, according to data released yesterday by the U.S. Treasury. In fiscal 2013, which ended Sept. 30, the deficit was $680.276 billion, according to the Monthly Treasury Statement released Wednesday. In fiscal 2012, the deficit was $1.089193 trillion; in fiscal 2011, it was $1.296791 trillion; in fiscal 2010, it was $1.294204 trillion; and, in fiscal 2009, it was $1.415724 trillion." Leaving aside the fact that the U.S. Government actually runs much larger deficits (trillions larger), this year the White House is hailing the "good news" that our federfal budget deficit will be just under $500 billion. I don't know about you, but I don't consider half a trillion dollars to be good news by any stretch. Our national debt has exceeded 100% of our GDP. Exhibit 3 - Obamacare "NY Fed: Firms 'widely' see Obamacare boosting health costs." CNBC. August 18, 2014 "Many businesses said Obamacare is jacking up their employee health coverage costs, and they expect it to do so even more next year, two new surveys of businesses by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York have found. As a result, consumers in the areas covered by the bank could be paying more next year"and some workers at the firms might need to look for a new job, the surveys found. The median respondent to the N.Y. Fed surveys expects health coverage costs to jump by 10 percent next year, after seeing a similar percentage increase last year." http://www.cnbc.com... "Obamacare Will Cost 2.9 Million or More Jobs a Year." Forbes. Febuary 24, 2014 "Nearly two years ago, I assured readers Obamacare would result in the equivalent of a loss of 1 million or more jobs. Little did I realize the true figure would turn out to be closer to 2.9 million. What changed? The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office recently reported that Obamacare will shrink the economy by the equivalent of 2.5 million full-time (FTE) workers"roughly tripling its earlier estimate of job losses.[1] But I"ve added to that some important components of potential job losses that CBO did not take into account. When all is said and done, nearly 3 million will lose their jobs with over 500,000 of these (18%) representing involuntary job losses (workers fired)." Just one aspect of Obamacare, the excise tax placed on medical devices, according to the Advanced Medical Technology Association led directly to the cutting of 14,000 jobs and foregoing the hiring of an additional 19,000. According to Gallup just recently[16] hit a numerical low with 56% of Americans opposing it while only 37% support it. Obama had promised to lower spending for a typical family by $2,500, but in fact they will be spending an additional $7,540. Healthcare premiums are rising faster than inflation. It is astounding to look at the amount of job loss that our economy will incur every year this massive law remains on the book shamelessly passed by Democrats who rammed it through even saying there's no need to even read the law while Democrats run away from it in the election. The $2 billion dollar Obamacare web site[17] even crashed on it's first day.[18] Now we have the stunning admissions by Jonathan Gruber, an Obamacare architect, bragging about intentionally lying to the public about the contents and even the CBO only to have Obama and Pelosi lie and pretend they don't who he was! So higher premiums, higher taxes, higher medical costs, high deductibles, massive job loss, increased deficits, etc. are all the failures of this law. Exhibit 4 - Foreign Policy Nightmare "New Poll Is A Disaster For Obama." Business Insider. June 18, 2014 "President Barack Obama has seen support for his foreign policy plummet to an all-time low, according to a new Wall Street Journal-NBC poll released Wednesday. According to the poll, just 37% of respondents said they approved of Obama's handling of foreign-policy issues, an all-time low. Meanwhile, 57% said they disapproved, an all-time high." http://www.businessinsider.com... His record on foreign policy is a complete nightmare. We have the revival and establishment of an Islamic Caliphate by ISIS that controls large portions of Ira and Syria following his debacle of war against the Syrian government on behalf of jihadists. He bombed Libya without any congressional approval after Ghaddfi ignoring his surrender to te Bush Administration of all WMDs, taking responsibility for his terrorist attack on an airliner, and agreeing to pay the families of victims so that our embassy could be destroyed and our ambassador murdered with al-Qaeda effectively running the country. U.S. soldier deaths spiked under Obama and the war effort there is a complete and utter failure. He supported the radical Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and has harmed our country's relations there following that debacle. He has consistently undermined and insulted our Israeli allies and has been secretly back-dealing with the regime in Iran. He has stirred up a Cold War with Russia. America now has no credibility in the world.