The growing narrative is that President Barack Obama really hasn’t accomplished anything since taking office. The right says he hasn’t fulfilled his moderate/conservative campaign promises on issues like the deficit and Afghanistan, while the left complains that he has yet to ram liberal, big government utopia projects like socialized health care through.

This has resulted in the increasing bipartisan criticism that Obama’s really done nothing since taking office on January 20th — an analysis I find to be incredibly unfair.

So I’ve decided to begin tracking the accomplishments of Barack Obama during the next three and a half years he’s in office. Starting with the following list of achievements to date.

• At the cost of just a few billion taxpayer dollars and the next few months of auto sales, President Obama used the Cash-for-Clunkers deal to stimulate the economy…of Japan.
• In an attempt to pacify his friends in the union circuit, Mr. Obama has possibly started a trade war with China that could cost America hundreds of billions — if not trillions — of dollars. So there’s that.
• The national deficit has reached a new record: About $1.6 trillion according to the Congressional Budget Office. Even President Bush at his worst time only reached a deficit of a few hundred billion dollars. How many presidents could triple or even quadruple a national deficit in the frame of just 9 months? Quite an accomplishment.
• Our president has implemented an economic agenda that’s changed the rate of unemployment. Yeah, now it’s 9.8% and rapidly approaching double digits.
• The president and First Lady spent God-knows how much taxpayer money flying to Copenhagen in an attempt to deliver the 2016 Olympics to Chicago, where their friends and political patrons would make fortune. After an “impassioned” speech and heavy lobbying from the president and his cohorts, the IOC eliminated Chicago from consideration in the very first round.
• Our State Department and the administration have sided with a leftist thug in Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, over the country’s supreme court and system of laws. Zelaya was attempting to violate the Honduran election, hold an illegal referendum, and illegally remove military leaders from their posts when the supreme court and legislature approved his removal and deportation. The removal completely fell within the confines of the Honduran constitution. So naturally the Obama Administration demanded Zelaya’s immediate return to power.
• In cooperation with Congress, Obama has spent $787 billion in a failed attempt to stimulate the economy. Remember the whole “9.8% and rapidly approaching double digits” thing above? Yeah, the White House said passing the “stimulus” plan would keep the national unemployment rate below 8% and “create or save” millions of jobs in a timely manner. Oops!
• The Obama Administration has begun prosecuting the men and women of the CIA, who worked in the days following the 9/11 attacks to ensure that no future attacks hit American soil. The ACLU/Hollywood crowd couldn’t be happier if Roman Polanski made out with Michael Moore during the Oscars.
• The White House has sought to give a $400,000 grant, from the national treasury of course, to the family of Libyan dictator and long-time terrorist Muammar Gaddafi. Just weeks after Libya welcomed home a terrorist who murdered hundreds of innocent Americans.
• We’ve begun dialogue with the Cuban regime that continues to heavily oppress its own people, as well as initiate unconditional talks with the Islamic Republic of Iran — the state sponsor of terrorism responsible for killing countless American soldiers in Iraq and violating international law by pursuing nuclear weapons.

It’s not much, but it’s only 9 months into the Obama Administration. I’m sure Barack Obama will have plenty more “accomplishments” by 2013.