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Barack Obama jealous of Donald Trump’s DOGE attention

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by Frank Holmes, reporter

For 15 years, the Democrats have made President Donald Trump public enemy number one. Every bill he supported, they opposed; every speech he gave, they twisted; every action he took, they considered a crime.

But two top Obama advisers have let it slip that maybe, just maybe, the reason Democrats have been so outraged by President Trump’s new Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, is that Barack Obama is jealous of Trump.

Make no mistake: The Democrats now hate Tesla founder and DOGE leader Elon Musk nearly as much as they despise the 47th president.

“The richest man in the world, never elected to anything, is violating the law every day to control our critical public infrastructures,” screamed Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md.

MSNBC talking head and former Biden White House spokeswoman Jenn Psaki even accused the Trump administration of waging “a hostile takeover of the government.”

But the real problem seems to be that Donald Trump is succeeding where previous Democrats failed embarrassingly.

“Honestly, some of this is pretty annoying because it’s some of the stuff we should’ve done,” said former Obama speechwriter Jon Lovett on the Pod Save America podcast.

He even seemed to admit Trump administration officials and Elon Musk DOGE members were smarter than himself and a few other of Obama’s henchmen.

“We didn’t know you could do some of this,” said Lovett.

His co-host, Jon Favreau, who was an Obama speechwriter, agreed there’s a problem and that the Obama administration failed to solve it.

“We all know that government is slow. We all know government can be inefficient. We all know that the bureaucracy can be bloated. We all worked in f***ing the White House!” yelled Favreau.

“We tried to reorganize the government. We tried to find efficiency. It’s hard to do,” he said.

Funny, Musk, DOGE, and Trump aren’t have any problems.

And as much as the Democrats want to portray the president as a radical, he’s just accomplishing what the last two Democratic presidents said they were going to do.

“From the day I took office, one of the commitments that I made to the American people was that we would do a better job here in Washington in rooting out wasteful spending,” swore then-President Barack Hussein Obama on November 9, 2011. “At a time when families have had to cut back, have had to make some tough decisions about getting rid of things that they don’t need in order to make the investments that they do, we thought that it was entirely appropriate for our governments and our agencies to try to root out waste, large and small, in a systematic way.”

He made his remarks as he signed Executive Order 13589, titled “Promoting Efficient Spending.”

The massive federal debt made it “even more imperative” that the Obama administration get started “cutting waste, making government more efficient.”

The national debt in 2011 was $14.8 trillion. It now exceeds $36 trillion. Doesn’t that make Musk and DOGE’s work “even more imperative” than Obama’s?

“We don’t need to wait for Congress in order to do something about wasteful spending that’s out there,” said Obama, who infamously said he had a pen and a phone that allow him to implement federal policy through executive orders and federal regulations.

He’s not the only Democrat who tried to take an axe to government, especially the federal bureaucracy. President Bill Clinton spent eight years trying—or at least, pretending—to cut the federal government.

Just three months into his presidency, Clinton announced a “terribly important initiative in this administration to bring about greater efficiency and lower cost of government.”

“Our goal is to make the entire federal government both less expensive and more efficient, and to change the culture of our national bureaucracy away from complacency and entitlement toward initiative and empowerment,” said Clinton—words that could as easily be uttered by Elon Musk.

Clinton put then-Vice President Al Gore in charge of the National Partnership for Reinventing Government…which was originally called the National Performance Review. Gore wrote a book-length report on how to reduce the size and cost of government.

Two years later, Bill Clinton announced another policy that will sound familiar to followers of President Trump: Clinton said he would initiate buyouts of federal employees’ contracts, encouraging them to quit early.

“To reduce the work force by 102,000 positions by the end of fiscal 1994, we offered about 70,000 buyouts,” said Clinton in April 1995. “We expect to buy out another 84,000 workers through 1997 as we reduce the work force by a total of 272,900 positions.”

70,000 buyouts in a year? President Donald Trump has already had 77,000 bureaucrats agreed to a buyout of their contract in less than one month.

The Clinton administration alter bragged that “federal employment has dropped by over 100,000”…but, for maybe the first time in history, Bill Clinton was being modest.

As an archived webpage from Clinton’s last year in office said, “Between 1993 and 1999, the Administration reduced the size of the Federal civilian workforce by 17 percent, or 377,000 full-time equivalent employees. This has resulted in the smallest workforce in 39 years.”

Believe it or not, that’s probably still too low.

A former Clinton administration officially told Congress that the number was higher yet.

“We reduced the federal workforce by 426,200 between January 1993 and September 2000. Cuts occurred in 13 out of 14 departments making the federal government in 2000 the smallest government since Dwight D. Eisenhower was president,”  Elaine Karmarck, a former leader of the National Performance Review/National Partnership for Reinventing Government, testified in 2013 before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

We know Clinton had a problem telling the truth under oath, but we’ll take him at his word this time.

It isn’t that the Fake News media don’t know this.

“32 years before Elon Musk, Al Gore did it,” reported CNN last December 6.

Maybe the problem in Washington isn’t red or blue—it’s purple, the color of sour grapes

About the Author

Frank Holmes is a veteran journalist and an outspoken conservative that talks about the news that was in his weekly article, “On The Holmes Front.”