If one turns on the popular Fox News Channel show, The O’Reilly Factor, at night, one will invariably at least a couple of times a week hear the host attacking talk radio. Bill O’Reilly takes particular aim at the idea put forth by Rush Limbaugh, Laura Ingraham, and others, that the Administration is allowing the tragedies and disasters plaguing our country to continue, if not making them worse, out of a desire to hurt America, and change it. O’Reilly mocks this and insists that the president has only the best for our country in mind. Obama is merely misguided, goes the argument. At first, that idea may have been feasible, but now it is clearly not the case.

Of course, many will be shocked at the idea. “What? How can someone even suggest such a thing? Of course the president has our best interests at heart!” Really? A look at a few areas of great national importance should dispel this notion.

I. The Economy: To argue that the president’s actions and policies on the economy have been wrongheaded is putting it mildly. An utter failure might be a better way of describing things. The massive spending and debt threaten to destroy the economy. Of course, the most oft-cited excuse is that the president is following Keynesian economic theory, but this is an ignorant analysis. Keynes, for all of his nutty statism, was in favor of tax cuts to offset the massive inflationary tendencies of too much government spending and borrowing. To be sure, he favored massive spending, but he also favored tax cuts to spur economic growth. His ideas are wrong-headed, as people have learned in Europe (Greece, anyone?) but they are not what the Administration is advocating. Obama seems intent on pushing policies that are not only unworkable, but that even liberal economists (if they were capable of honesty) would shake their heads at.

In a funny incident that illustrates this point perfectly, one of the president’s own top economic advisors publicly stated that tax cuts are beneficial to helping the economy recover. She promptly was smacked down and changed her story. One can say she’s unprincipled or smart. She changed her public views, but one can hardly fault her for not wanting to join the rest of us in the unemployment line.

II. The BP oil spill: This example is perhaps the most egregious. One could probably write a whole article over the glee that presidential chief of staff Rahm “never let a good crisis go to waste” Emmanuel must be experiencing over this one. Now, to be fair, the president could hardly have stopped the spill from occurring, but he could have done different steps since it started.

We have learned, for instance that the Dutch government offered the US oil skimmers. Other governments offered us help as well. We decided to turn them down. To be sure, American ingenuity is second to none, but it does stand to reason that countries with vast oil deposits and that are lower to sea level such as Middle-Eastern and European countries may know a thing or two more than us about how to handle such problems.

The argument here is the Jones Act, which governs and forbids foreign vessels in US waters. This act can be waived, however, as President Bush did during Katrina, and other presidents have done previously. In other words, this argument doesn’t hold much water. (Excuse the bad joke).

Another huge mistake is the active effort to stop any sand berms, rock barriers, or other protective constructions from being built. The fact that the Administration takes forever to grant the governors in the region permission to take steps to protect their states and people is bad enough, but they actually have stopped these leaders from taking steps to remedy the situation. The Coast Guard, on more than one occasion has actually blocked skimmers from removing oil, and stopped other efforts to halt the flow of oil or remove it from the beaches and water.

Of course, beyond this incomprehensible behavior comes the utterly ridiculous. As the Administration attempts to call in James “Navi” Cameron. That’s right folks, a movie director whose imagination includes oversized smurfs defending nature on another planet from evil veterans, is the great hope called in for advice. In one of its very few smart moves, BP told the gasbag to take a hike.

III. Immigration: Here we have the most absurd situation yet. Border states, especially Arizona, are doing their best to combat a massive inflow of illicit drugs, a surge in kidnappings, and violence against their citizens on the border and police officers. In the midst of all of this, what does our great Anointed One do? He first trashes Arizona by himself, then invites over the Mexican shrimp Calderone to help him, then he files suit yesterday against the law, all without ever having read the bill.

There is much conjecture that the president is trying to win over the Hispanic vote, and that has some merit with his calls of late for a “comprehensive immigration reform bill”. However, it should be noted that even before this call came, the president had a policy of allowing the bleeding to continue. Why? One answer might be that he does not believe in an America with borders. He sees himself as past all of that “American president stuff”. Allowing the bleeding at the border to occur will eventually accomplish his ideas, with or without a bill. Recent signs posted by the federal government warn Americans to not go into “dangerous territory” on the border, due to dangerous cross-border criminal activity. The government has de facto ceded control of this parcel of land to the Mexican drug lords. Look for this to continue.

The question for any person to ask is why the president has made these boneheaded decisions that are so clearly against the national interest. I believe he is a nihilist, wanting to destroy everything we have and hold dear. Others believe he is a closet Muslim. Or a socialist. Or he may have a Grand Canyon-sized chip on his shoulder and want to punish us all. Perhaps he believes that we are evil Imperalists who have pillaged the rightful resources from the rest of the world, as so many Leftists today believe. Honestly, we may never know.

Really, does it matter? The president makes decisions that hurt us. He hurts the country he is supposed to represent. It is a hard truth to accept, but it is the truth, and hiding our heads in the sand will only hurt us all. For whatever reason, the president is out to hurt us. The sooner we accept this painful fact, and put in place elected representatives who will bar his actions and uphold the Constitution, the better off we will all be.