Rep. Trent Franks from Arizona must have woken up Wednesday with a lot on his mind. Luckily in times like that, Twitter is always there for you.
Franks took to his official Twitter page to begin a list of #ObamaFailures. Every 30 minutes he tweets another failure to add to the list and will continue to do so until they are “100 percent listed.”
“Unfortunately, as Chairman of the Constitution Subcommittee in Congress, I have seen this President abrogate his duty and sworn oath to the Constitution in nearly every conceivable way — and in a few inconceivable ways,” Franks said in a statement to Red Alert Politics. “The average American wouldn’t even have time to listen to a list of every failed policy and scandal if I were to take to the House floor and deliver them as a speech. Twitter allows a bit more leeway, in that regard.”
The tweets began with Franks commenting about Obama “ignoring generals’ advice and giving up blood bought gains in Iraq to ISIS,” and has escalated from there. Here are some of the most retweeted items on the list:
Tweeting all #ObamaFailures every half-hour. Join me. #5 IRS targeting of conservative groups and subsequent cover-up by IRS. #tcot
— Rep. Trent Franks (@RepTrentFranks) July 16, 2014
Tweeting all #ObamaFailures every half-hour in attempt to catalog failure of this Admin. #16 Seizure of @AP reporters’ phone records. #tcot
— Rep. Trent Franks (@RepTrentFranks) July 17, 2014
Tweeting all #ObamaFailures every half-hour until all are listed: #20 Seized one million acres of land near the Grand Canyon. #tcot
— Rep. Trent Franks (@RepTrentFranks) July 17, 2014
Tweeting all #ObamaFailures every half-hour all day: #24 Pressured #Israel to release 104 murderers, rapists, and terrorists. #tcot
— Rep. Trent Franks (@RepTrentFranks) July 17, 2014
Franks said that his tweets are sent out with two goals in mind. “One, to attempt to list as many of the backwards, radical policies of this Administration are on record in one place, and two, to demonstrate the sometimes difficult truth that elections really do have consequences.”
There is no telling how many more #ObamaFailures Franks has up his sleeve, but in his words, “this may take awhile.”
