On June 17^th 2008 I wrote a BLOG post titled Change, Change, Change. I would like the readers of this BLOG Post to read that one before reading this. One thing more, I would never call the Democrat Party, the Democratic Party. If anything I would label them the Socialists Democrat Party.

The Heritage Foundation has come up with the cumulative cost of $8,400,000,000,000.00 for this spending bill for the 8 years, 2010-2017. That is about $28,000 for every man, woman and child in the USA and a family of four, $112,000.

On top of this, since Obama came on board on January 20^th 2009 the stock market went plunging from 7949.09 to, on March 5^th 6594.44 which amounts to $2.5 trillion in market losses. Even prior to that when it was almost certain he would be the Domocrat nominee the market started heading down from 12,000.

We have lost over 50% of the savings in our 401K accounts leaving retirees relying on their own savings CDs and other out of stock market accounts. Even the Wall Street Journal has said that “the economy actually would be recovering were it not for the anti-growth policies being pursued by the Obama administration”.

Obama has managed to mismanage just about every financial and industrial sector in the nation with his new policies and the articles in his Stimulus Bill and his proposed budget or just by opening is inexperienced mouth.

Obama has talked about the need to nationalize our banking industry, government control over our insurance and a European socialistic universal health care plan.

The Government will mandate the rules of banks when lending money. He has said that even solvent banks have to accept the money so they can lend more. This is so he can get control of all banks. Many solvent banks have sent the money back regardless of his order, saying, they have plenty of loan available money and in fact have not turned down any qualified borrowers.

There goes the HMO, PPO, Blue Cross and God knows how many other Health Insurance Companies. The Government will expand to about 650,000 more employees for oversight, distribution of money, and administration of services. 

Obama’s talking about cutting back our spending on strategic defense systems, raising taxes on large corporations and even on money made off shore by multinational corporations.

Say so long to thousands of defense manufacturing jobs, and also will put the USA’s security at risk.

Just by putting a cap on executive salaries will cost the Government $11billion in tax revenue over a ten year period.  Letting the Bush tax cuts expire in 2010 from would cause large and multinational corporations to relocate their headquarters in other countries, which many companies already have. Obama is saying he supporting small business by cutting their Capitial Gains tax, but 95% of small businesses only pay income tax which will go up because they make above the $250.000 limit.  Remember Joe the Plummer?    

The Government is the taking away the tax deduction on high end home mortgage interest and just recently the Democrats are talking about using the money in our 401K plans to bolster up Social Security.

If you remember this whole downward cycle started with the subprime mortgage debacle. Fannie Mae finally became insolvent and could not take on any more of the bundled mortgages from conventional banks. Of course the Democrat war machine went to work on former President Bush and blamed his administration for lack of over sight. This was a good move by the Dems. who wanted to direct the attention away from their own lack of understanding of the problems that would occur in later years after the Clinton admistration in the 1990s forced banks to take on mortgages from people who could not meet the conventional mortgage terms.

This problem was well documented in a feature article in the New York Times on September 30^th 1999. .

This is a summation of the article:

''Fannie Mae has expanded home ownership for millions of families in the 1990's by reducing down payment requirements,'' said Franklin D. Raines, Fannie Mae's chairman and chief executive officer. ''Yet there remain too many borrowers whose credit is just a notch below what our underwriting has required who have been relegated to paying significantly higher mortgage rates in the so-called subprime market.''

Demographic information on these borrowers is sketchy. But at least one study indicates that 18 percent of the loans in the subprime market went to black borrowers, compared to 5 per cent of loans in the conventional loan market.

In moving, even tentatively, into this new area of lending, Fannie Mae is taking on significantly more risk, which may not pose any difficulties during flush economic times. But the government-subsidized corporation may run into trouble in an economic downturn, prompting a government rescue similar to that of the savings and loan industry in the 1980's.

''From the perspective of many people, including me, this is another thrift industry growing up around us,'' said Peter Wallison a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. ''If they fail, the government will have to step up and bail them out the way it stepped up and bailed out the thrift industry.''

You should also know that Franklin Ranies left Fannie Mae just before the DoDo hit the fan, with millions of bonus dollars. Raines was also the lover of Barney Franks, Democrat and House Financial Services Committee Chairman.

Obama has also just about killed every energy sector with all this talk about Cap and Trade. He is not fully utilizing our own resources, and caving into the environmentalist’s lobby. This will result in a price hike and higher taxes on just about every product and service we consume and use.

Making automobiles more efficient and cheaper is just BS. The Department Of Transportation of the Federal and State’s Governments gets their income from gas tax. With the entrance of gasless motor vehicles how do you think they will come up with that money? They will mandate putting a GPS in all vehicles and tax us on our mileage at the same time they will know our exact location, like On-Star, except we won’t have the choice of purchasing it.   

In my opinion, I don’t think President Obama has the slightest idea what he is doing or how he is affecting our economy by what he is implementing or saying. If he keeps spending under his current plan, there will be less people paying into the tax pool, because of business closings and employee layoffs.  We will be, in effect be pulling a Bernie Madoff on ourselves. Obama might be a Harvard Graduate but he has no practical application in Business or working in the private sector. This is the problem when we elect Senators who have not run any prior form of government. Obama is using this office as his training ground and we will suffer for electing him.

President Obama will be drastically changing the model this country was founded on by converting our Capitalistic form of enterprise to a Socialistic Hugo Chaves Government model. This will never be tolerated in this country and a high tech Boston Tea Party will be waged. In the mean time all sectors of our country will be crippled for many decades.

Let me say, I believe, that Obama has created the deepening of this recession and it started when he was on the campaign trail. All of our business sectors and investors, listening to his proposeed policy statements, were laying the foundations for the time when, or if Obama, got elected. Investors and businesses, large and small, knew that they were his target. They prepared for the cataclysmic events that would occur if he got elected. As soon as they knew he would be President they started selling off. The banks stopped lending, small and large business started laying off employees, thousands even thought it was time close and take their money and run. This was their “Boston Tea Party”

Obama has to stop blaming the former President. All new Presidents inherit something from previous administrations. The sooner Obama takes ownership of these problems and stops acting in a panic mode the sooner this will be over. I am willing to bet though, the Democrats will keep on going until the 2010 Congressional elections and thereafter if they keep wining.

What more does Obama need to be convinced that we have a “supply side economy”. When the Stock market plunges, manufacturing cuts back or closes and the banks stop lending, money goes no where. I am convinced the solutions are sitting on his desk, however he has promised so many people, so many things, he has to spend, big time. His policies are all about politics while people are having some of the worst times in their lives he is serving $100.00 a pound KOBE Beef to guests in the White House and flying around on Air Force One everyday telling people his policies saved 25 jobs.

Obama’s Cabinet Choices

As fast as I was researching this BLOG post Obama’s picks were dropping like flies. However not all that should of did. 

Governor Bill Richardson: Commerce Secretary (withdrew)

Bill Richardson on Sunday announced that he was withdrawing his nomination to be President-elect Barack Obama's commerce secretary amid a grand jury investigation into how some of his political donors won a lucrative state contract which is named after him (Governor Richardson Investment Partnership, GRIP).

Eric Holder:   Attorney General (should never have been picked)

(New York Times, George Lardner)

Erick Holder facilitated the Clinton pardon of Mark Rich. In 1983 Marc Rich was indicted along with his partner, Pincus Green, and their companies on 65 counts of defrauding the I.R.S., mail fraud, tax evasion, racketeering, defrauding the Treasury and trading with the enemy. (The last of these was for an oil deal with Iran while it held American hostages.) On hearing that they were about to be prosecuted, they fled to Switzerland. For the next 17 years, Mr. Rich ducked extradition requests as well as attempts by federal marshals to arrest him in France, England, Finland and elsewhere.

Eric Holder, (WSJ.com, Debra Burlingame) also facilitated the Clinton pardon of 16 members of the Armed Forces of National Liberation, FALN (the Spanish acronym), a clandestine terrorist group devoted to bringing about independence for Puerto Rico through violent means. Its members waged war on America with bombings, arson, kidnappings, prison escapes, threats and intimidation. The most gruesome attack was the 1975 Fraunces Tavern bombing in Lower Manhattan. Timed to go off during the lunch-hour rush, the explosion decapitated one of the four people killed and injured another 60.

FALN bragged about the bloodbath, calling the victims "reactionary corporate executives" and threatening: "You have unleashed a storm from which you comfortable Yankees can't escape." By 1996, the FBI had linked FALN to 146 bombings and a string of armed robberies -- a reign of terror that resulted in nine deaths and hundreds of injured victims.

Timothy Geithner: Treasury Secretary (should never have been picked)

 (Politico)

The Wall Street Journal/New York Times reported that Geithner had failed to pay $42,000 in taxes and had employed a housekeeper whose work permit had expired. But minutes after the news broke, the Obama transition team pushed back with talking points -- distributed to Capitol Hill, K Street and congressional reporters -- in which it portrayed the problems as simple mistakes or oversights." He admitted that he had failed to pay tens of thousands of dollars in federal self-employment taxes while working for the International Monetary Fund despite having signed paperwork acknowledging the obligation.

Hillary Clinton: Secretary of State (should never been picked)

Hillary simply cannot tell the truth. Here's her scorecard: (Dick Morris)

Admitted Lies

• Chelsea was jogging around the Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. (She was in bed watching it on TV.)
• Hillary was named after Sir Edmund Hillary. (She admitted she was wrong. He climbed Mt. Everest five years after her birth.)
• She was under sniper fire in Bosnia. (A girl presented her with flowers at the foot of the ramp.)
• She learned in The Wall Street Journal how to make a killing in the Futures Market.

                (The WSJ was not reporting on the futures back then)  

Whoppers She Won't Confess To

• She didn't know about the FALN pardons.

By Ron Kolb: Hillary Clinton, Terrorism and the FALN

Despite the Clintons' repeated denials, there is evidence that the pardons were offered to the terrorists with Hillary Clinton's full knowledge. In the Oct. 4, 1999, issue of the New Republic, Jose Rivera, then a New York City Councilman, is quoted as saying that he personally approached Hillary on Aug. 9, 1999. He said he gave her a packet of information about the FALN members along with a personal letter asking her to "speak to the president and ask him to consider granting clemency" to them.

Two days later, on Aug. 11, President Clinton would offer pardons to the terrorists.

(Dick Morris)
• She didn't know that her brothers were being paid to get pardons that Clinton granted.
• Taking the White House gifts was a clerical error.
• She didn't know that her staff would fire the travel office staff after she told them to do so.
• She didn't know that the Peter Paul fundraiser in Hollywood in 2000 cost $700,000 more than she reported it had.
• She opposed NAFTA at the time.
• She was instrumental in the Irish peace process.
• She urged Bill to intervene in Rwanda.
• She played a role in the '90s economic recovery.
• The billing records showed up on their own.
• She thought Bill was innocent when the Monica scandal broke.
• She was always a Yankees fan.
• She negotiated for the release of refugees in Macedonia (who were released the day before she got there).

Tom Daschle: Secretary of Health and Human Services (withdrew)

(Bloomberg.com)

Daschle, who withdrew yesterday as President Barack Obama’s nominee for the cabinet post, spent four years helping friend Leo Hindery Jr. raised cash for purchases including 1970s hit dance show “Soul Train.” The appointment ran into trouble after he amended three years of tax returns for unreported income, including personal use of a car and driver provided by Hindery’s buyout firm. Daschle bowed out of the confirmation process, saying the tax issue had become a distraction.

Make way for Dr. Howard Dean.

Nancy Killefer: Chief Performance Officer (withdrew)

(Michelle Malkin)

Just before the Daschle announcement came the withdrawal of Nancy Killefer. She was tapped to be President Obama's "Chief Performance Officer," overseeing compliance, organizational effectiveness and waste management across every federal agency. But the former Clinton Treasury official and head of the prestigious Washington office of the management consulting firm McKinsey & Company, Inc., couldn't be bothered to manage her own household help effectively. She failed for a year and a half to pay employment taxes and had an outstanding tax lien on her home. The lien was worth less than $1,000.

Janet Napolitano: Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security

Janet Napolitano was confirmed as secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. She previously served as Arizona governor and is not in favor of a closed southern boarder and is against the Real-ID. She is not in favor of current laws calling for the arrest and deportation of illegal immigrants.

We will need to watch out, with her in this position.

Leon Panetta: CIA Director (should not have been picked because of no intelligence background)

(National Review On Line)

Before he was a Democratic congressman, before he was director of the Office of Management and Budget, before he was White House chief of staff, and certainly before he was President Obama’s nominee for CIA director, Leon Panetta was director of the Office of Civil Rights at the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare—the precursor to today’s Department of Health and Human Services. He was also a Republican.

Around the time he left HEW in 1970, Panetta may have been involved in leaking a secret White House document that caused a major embarrassment for the Nixon administration and had policy repercussions for decades.

Nixon, appointed Pat Moynihan—who had served as assistant secretary of labor for policy in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations—as his urban-affairs adviser and all-around White House intellectual.

Moynihan suspected that a staffer at HEW had leaked the memo, and that HEW was responsible for leaking his authorship of the black family report five years earlier. (Decades later, Senator Moynihan would get some measure of revenge by having the Social Security Administration removed from HHS and made into an independent agency.) Although memos leak all the time, and the Leakers are rarely identified, The New Republic’sJohn Osbornereported in a March 1970 profile of Moynihan that Leon Panetta was a prime suspect in the leak.

How cool is it to have someone who suspected of leaking secret documents now ready to head up the CIA.

Hilda Solis: Labor Secretary (should not have been picked by Obama standards)

Hilda Solis was haven sent to Obama. She is one of the authors of the Card-Check Labor bill that she and Pelosi have been tying to get voted on since coming into power in 2004. Labor Unions are one of the major contributors to the campaigns of the Democrats.

What she forgot to tell the President was that she secretly was the non-paid treasure of the labor lobby group who has been funneling big money in their PACs, in other words she is another lobbyists that Obama said he would never have in his administration.

Comments in general

Remember, any Democrat bill that contains the words FREE or FAIR usually means the opposite.       

Obama certainly knows how to pick them, maybe it’s because of his own shady associations, and we will “PAY to PLAY” the price before the he ends the first two years of his first term.

Starting already with the new State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP)

I knew there was a “Stupid University” in Washington now we know the Dean of Admissions. Obama signed into law on Feb. 4^th 2009, a bill which will expand SCHIP to children in families of four earning up to $80,000 per year. The Congressional Budget Office reports that 77 percent of such children already have private health insurance. The cool thing is that it will be funded by raising the cigarette tax up to a dollar. Aren’t we trying to convince people not to smoke? How will we pay for this stupid bill if smoking is cut in half?

I am sure the majority of the people who read the thank-you note from Chrysler, in the Wall Street Journal and other papers, thought how nice it was of them to do so.

Well let me say they spent  around $600,000 is doing so when they are in dire financial straits. This is as bad as the AIG management taking their company paid outing at a resort at $3000.00 a night at the taxpayer’s expense. However; this is more than spending our money.

If you think about the last poll I saw the American people were not in favor of taxpayer’s (85%) money going to the automakers, therefore the Democrat Congress could not get a veto proofed vote, this is their (automakers) and the UAW’s way of putting a knife in our gut and then twisting it.

What they really meant by the statement from Bob Nardelli
Chairman and CEO , Chrysler LLC “The United States is home to 74% of our employees and over 3300 dealers in communities across this country. Of every dollar we spend, 78% is spent here at home. On behalf of the 1 million people who depend on Chrysler for their livelihoods, thank you for investing in Chrysler, and America”, that they are big enough and powerful enough, they can get what they want when they want it regardless of what the American people want.

It is time for the Taxpayer/Voters to take back our Country and we can do it by evaluating the type of elected officials we want and exercising our vote accordingly.

We elected our officials in South Carolina who were supposedly conservative Senators and Representatives to stand up for our South Carolina conservative principles. We now have a crisis, and they need to exercise these principles, by voting NO on this bridge/UAW bailout bill.

These loans, bailouts are not required to save the auto industry. What they would be doing by supporting them is give the UAW more time to spend the money on their outlandish benefits plan, and gain a stronger control, it will not change then status of the auto companies. The country can not afford these bailouts and more importantly the vast majority of the Americans do not want them approved.

Every time the liberal congress overrides the people we have gotten in deep trouble. In the last four years there has been a congress that seems to have put in place polices that are totally disconnected from what the people of our State and Country want. Why do you think this is happening? It can be said the Congress has and is being extorted. The Labor Unions are one of the major influencers along with Trial Lawyers Wall Street firms, and Environmentalist who control the way the Democrat party is ignoring the taxpayers. They are using their billions of dollars for campaign donations and demanding a return on their investment, they now have a strangle hold on the Congress.

This time it can not be said, if they vote for these massive bills, that they are doing it for the greater good of the country. This is for the greater good of the big money donor crowd. We, the taxpayers, have been taken out of the process altogether.  

Our forefathers did not come to this land to set up a government which was the same as the socialistic governments they left.

I don’t want any ownership in American Auto companies that can’t understand what to do when their tally sheets don’t look good and let themselves, over a ten year period, get into such a financial state that all of a sudden it’s either go to the taxpayers for money or go “Chapter 11”. I say let them go “Chapter 11”

What do the responsible taxpayers do when things get tough? They cut up credit cards, put off vacations and large purchases. Why aren’t the auto companies biting the bullet by laying- off workers, or cut back hours, or something novel like canceling those big bonuses, cut out the farm banks, and trim down the retirement and health benefits like other companies have done.

It appears to me that nobody, in Congress, has done the math on this and the other bailouts, that is the total they should be looking at. It will be in the Multi Trillions, and nobody alive today, will see these massive bills paid off. It will also be over 40% of our GNP, and my friends this is called Socialism. Hell, they even want an Auto Czar to dictate the use of the funds.

Dictatorship is now the next step for this Government if this bill does not get voted on or does not get passed if voted on. Even though some 78% of the taxpayers are against bailouts or government intervention of any kind the President, and treasury, will take some of the money already appropriated for the “financial sector”, (the $700 billion) which was voted and approved for that purpose, and bail the UAW out. This is an action that overrides the will of the people of a Democracy, and without a congressional vote of approval, which is specifically for this purpose, it constitutes a Dictatorship.

The Government of the United States of America, through the actions of the people that we elected, has committed monumental frauds right before our eyes. They did this by passing laws, approbation bills, and Earmarks favoring special interest groups that supported their reelection campaigns. They have imposed regulations without oversight on companies and institutions, then providing them with government guaranteed insurance covering their abuses.

We the people are the only ones that can put a stop to these types of abuses and the corruption we have been experiencing with this Congress and the last. The people have the power if you we want this to stop. Over the next two years we must evaluate our elected officials and the ones that have been holding this country back by accepting contributions from lobbing groups, special interest Political Action Committees (PAC) political fund raising organizations, or bundlers and earmarking funds for special interests in their State, vote them out of office.

Do you realize, there are elected officials in the Congress of the United States for 30, 40, and 50 years an have links and associations with all the groups mention above. They keep winning because they accumulate massive donations for their reelection campaigns, from all over, and turn loose the money power of the PACs, and other online political organizations, that spend money on radio and television advertising.

The Senators and the House Representatives only represent the people of their State or Congressional District and only the people of that State or District can vote for them. Donations for their campaigns should only come from individuals of the State and the District and not from local special interest groups such as Realtor organizations or local Labor and not from the parties national committees (DNC or RNC),or PACs of any type. These outside interests are what corrupt our election process. Just look at what happen in Alabama, if it weren’t for the determined people of that State ignoring the thousands of TV and Radio advertisings of these outside groups which spent Millions of dollars on, they wouldn’t have gotten the Senator elected that they wanted.    

We as taxpayers and voters should draw a line in the sand decide the number of terms an elected official should serve. In my opinion Senators should serve no more than three terms (18yrs) and the House Representatives no more than four terms (8yrs).

Terms limits for Congress will never become law because the Congress would have to approve a law requiring it.  So we the voters must do it when we vote. Remember, no matter how good you think the people are when you first elect them, the longer they stay in office, the more they will stink.         

Sitting at home, drinking some homemade coffee, and watching the political polling results I fail to understand why Obama’s pole numbers are surging ahead of McCain. I guess the mantra of a Bush forth term has resonated with the people. Some how they think the McCain will carry on the torch of the Bush admistration. I think the people should be scared of another two years of a Democrat Congressional majority, and one with the possibility of being a veto proof majority, led by Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid.

I know the Republicans deserved what they got in 2006. Many of the morally incestuous and lobbyist loving spenders were asked to leave or voted out of office for the same reasoning.

So now we look to the future, perhaps of the Republicans losing the Oval Office, and being taken over by a person who has just about all of the characteristics mention above even before being elected and who’s mantra is “Change or will it Cambiare maybe both”.

First if anything I say sounds raciest, just remember Obama is just as “White as he is Black”. 

First I want to direct you to a, Democrat and Republican Party and Presidential Candidate comparison done by the National Black Republican Association.  Take the little test.

Print and distribute our Candidate Comparison Newsletter to family, friends and associates, so they can learn the truth about Obama who does not have the character or judgment to be our president. 

http://www.trustedpartner.com/docs/library/000143/NBRA%20Newsletter.pdf

Democrat Racism has been prevalent throughout this whole campaign and it got really bazaar after a rally because Sarah Palin was wearing a white jacket. Democrat supporters said the Republicans are sending out coded messages of KKK meanings by wearing that white jacket and she might as well put on a white hood. One Obama supporter gave her the title of KKK Grand Princess.

Let’s talk about some real issues: You heard Obama talk many times about some of McCain’s campaign staff being former lobbyist. But he hired them because of their expertise in their specialized fields in both the private and public sectors. And you should also know the Senator McCain has never requested one Earmark the whole time he ahs been in Congress. Obama on the other hand has gotten 1 million dollars of Earmarked money for every day he has been active in the Senate, including voting for the bill that contained the money for the bridge to nowhere.

Another interesting tidbit is that Obama’s wife received a very large salary increase when Obama became Senator. Guess what was included in that same bill as the bridge to nowhere? 1 Million Dollars for the University of Chicago where Michelle Obama worked.

Earmarks are not illegal but they are not constitutional in the way they are introduced into already passed committee funding bills that are certain to pass a full floor vote. In most cases the earmarks, which are monies set aside for members of a particular Congressional District, were used as a bribes to get a Congressional Representative and or Senator to vote for the larger bill. Obama is the Earmark King of the Congress.

Obama was mentored by the methods of Saul Alinsky who was a Communist activist and in turn Obama supported radical activities, with millions of dollars while he was on the Boards of various foundations. Obama taught the members ACORN the radical methods of intimidating Banks to issue loans to people with no income or visible means of support because they were guaranteed by the federal government agencies, Fanny and Freddie, as well as the current Voter Fraud debacle.

The Alinsky extreme radical left belief is that class warfare is the only war worth fighting and that in order to win it the ends always justify the means, any means.                  

I am sure you have heard about the relationship with the bomber Bill Ayers by now. Just think if McCain had a friendship with somebody who bombed an abortion clinic, all hell would break lose.  

So we are near the end of this election cycle. I have sent at least a hundred faxes to Congress, twice as many E-Mails, about 25 letters to individual S.C. Congressional members on many different subjects and started this BLOG stating my views on many different subjects.

I am now going to wait for the outcome of this election and start reading some history books and novels that have been stacking up for the past year. I will wait and see if the new admistration is any better the last and then pick up the Computer and start all over again around the next Presidential election.

I’m sure I will have something to say now and again and I will send you an alert. Please send me your interesting tidbits, my e-mail will always be checked daily.

                                                Thanks for your support and encouragement,

                                                                        Jack      

Michelle Obama
 
I don’t know the origin of this but a friend forwarded it to me. Since it is out there in the public domain and it has snippets from a valid web site Snopes.com I guess I can post it on governmentreform.townhall.com   

According to Snopes.com,  Princeton was requested to put a "restriction" on distribution of any copies of the thesis of Michelle Obama (a/k/a/ Michelle laVaughn Robinson) saying it could not be made available until November 5, 2008 but when it was published on a political website they decided they would  lift the restriction.

Here is the link to snopes.com with this information stating it is true...............

Urban Legends Reference Pages: Michelle Obama's Thesis

Subj: Thesis - Michele Obama aka Michelle LaVaughn Robinson
OBAMA'S MILITANT RACISM REVEALED

In her senior thesis at Princeton, Michele Obama, the wife of Barack Obama stated that America was a nation founded on crime and hatred". Moreover, she stated that whites in America were "ineradicably racist".   The 1985 thesis, titled "Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community" was written under her maiden name, Michelle LaVaughn Robinson.
 
Michelle Obama stated in her thesis that to "Whites at Princeton , it often seems as if, to them, she will always be Black first..." However, it was reported by a fellow black classmate, "If those "Whites at Princeton " really saw Michelle as one who always would "be Black first," it seems that she gave them that impression".
 
Most alarming is Michele Obama's use of the terms "separationist" and "integrationist" when describing the views of black people.
 
Mrs. Obama clearly identifies herself with a "separationist" view of race.
 
"By actually working with the Black lower class or within their communities as a result of their ideologies, a separationist may better understand the desperation of their situation and feel more hopeless about a resolution as opposed to an integrationist who is ignorant to their plight."
 
Obama writes that the path she chose by attending Princeton would likely lead to her "further integration and/or assimilation into a white cultural and social structure that will only allow me to remain on the periphery of society; never becoming a full participant."
 
Michele Obama clearly has a chip on her shoulder.
 
Not only does she see separate black and white societies in America , but she elevates black over white in her world.
 

Sources to benefit the black community first and foremost. "
 
What is Michelle Obama planning to do with her future resources if she's first lady that will elevate black over white in America ?
 
The following passage appears to be a call to arms for affirmative action policies that could be the hallmark of an Obama administration.
 
"Predominately white universities like Princeton are socially and academically designed to cater to the needs of the white students comprising the bulk of their enrollments."
 

 
The conclusion of her thesis is alarming.
 
Michelle Obama's poll of black alumni concludes that other black students at Princeton do not share her obsession with blackness. But rather than celebrate, she is horrified that black alumni identify with our common American culture more than they value the color of their skin. "I hoped that these findings would help me conclude that despite the high degree of identification with whites as a result of the educational and occupational path that black Princeton alumni follow, the alumni would still maintain a certain level of identification with the black community. However, these findings do not support this possibility."
 
Is it no wonder that most black alumni ignored her racist questionnaire? Only 89 students responded out of 400 who were asked for input.
 
Michelle Obama does not look into a crowd of Obama supporters and see Americans. She sees black people and white people eternally conflicted with one another.
 
The thesis provides a trove of Mrs. Obama's thoughts and world view seen through a race-based prism.
 
This is a very divisive view for a potential first lady that would do untold damage to race relations in this country in a Barack Obama administration.
 

 
Michelle Obama's intellectually refined racism should give all Americans pause for deep concern.
 
Now maybe she's changed, but she sure sounds like someone with an axe to grind with America . Will the press let Michelle get a free pass over her obviously racist comment about American whites?  I am sure that it will.
 
PS: We paid for her scholarship

I feel that the inaction of Congress yesterday (09/21/2008) was a good thing.

Yes, I know the stock market took a large hit, but think about it, does the stock market really reflect the state of the economy or for that matter the health of the companies the stock represents? I say NO.

In my opinion the stock market is not what it use to be in as much as the players are not looking at the companies health but only at the price of a piece PAPER  with a company’s name on it, and that is what they are trading, PAPER.

The traders will take advantage of the fall and then the rise based on the price of the PAPER without regards to the companies the PAPER represents. The market will start off in an UP situation this morning (it has of this writing) and will continue until the traders have made at least made enough money to make their clients think they regained some of their money (PAPER) back.

So, one of the good things is somebody will make money, and a lot of it. Don't forget, the traders will trade, because if they don't they won't have a job.

The other was that the bill, voted on yesterday, was not the best it could be or it would have passed, regardless of what the polls said.

I personally don’t know if it was or not. I do know we will get a better one and it will pass as long as the taxpayers understand it as not a bailout for wall-street. I said above the PAPER will fly with or without the bill. This bill is a massive loan, which in the long run will make some money and put it back in the government treasury.

The Government will buy the PAPER from these companies at a discounted rate and later, years later, sell it off at a profit. Sort of like Wall-street, only they will be buying and selling their own PAPER.

Don’t panic, remember buy LOW sell HIGH not the reverse.       

The opinion polls show the Barack Obama Campaign as in the tank. He is in trouble and will loose the national election unless he does something spectacular in October.

Joe Biden, at a rally in Nashua, N.H., on Wednesday 09/10/2008 in response to a statement by a supporter about how lucky they were that he was picked instead of Hillary: “Make no mistake about this”, Biden responded, "Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be vice president of the United States of America. Let’s get that straight. She’s a truly close personal friend, she is qualified to be President of the United States of America, she’s easily qualified to be Vice President of the United States of America, and quite frankly, it might have been a better pick than me. But she’s first rate, I mean that sincerely, she’s first rate, so let’s get that straight.”

So what do you think Barack and Billy Bob talked about in New York today, besides Billy campaigning for him? I think they talked about dumping Biden about the second week in October, and replacing him with Hillary.

Timing is everything in politics and if this happens in October it would not leave enough time for the McCain campaign to react or even to have a debate between Hillary and Sarah because Sarah would not have enough time to prepare for Hillary. That could be seen as a weakness for Sarah.

On 07.24.2008 this letter was sent to the following:

To Senators Lindsey Graham, Jim DeMint and House Representative Henry Brown:

Subject: Drilling for Oil

What in God’s name is it going to take to get congress to lift the ban of offshore drilling?

Speaker Pelosi, and Senate Majority Leader Reid must be exposed and force to debate this issue in a public forum. There can be no misunderstanding the feelings of the Citizens of United States on this issue

Recent polling suggests that more than 60 percent of the American public supports domestic offshore drilling for oil and natural gas.  The problem is that all the politicians see are the no-drilling extremists who lay siege to their offices and howl on the news outlets every night.  Congress must hear from the silent majority of Americans who support more domestic energy production to drive down costs and relieve our dependence on foreign oil!

Please support any bill or amendment that encourages increased domestic energy exploration and production today!

Dear Senator Graham;

Thank you for your Cap and Trade response of August 1, 2008.

I hope you will take time to read my position on this subject since, it seems that your “Big Government” methodology of a non-scientific consensus and the idea of “if the United States will do it others will follow” of yours, differs from my position. 30,000 real scientists have documented, individually, that warming or cooling of the Earth can not be caused by or constrained by our actions on Earth.  

If you have been watching the Olympics, in China, you should see what Government Control policies can do and the effects it can have on pollution. The pollution in China is having devastating effects on their land, air, and water, killing hundreds of thousands of people every year. What we see, watching the Olympics, is a complete disregard for the Chinese people whose only existence is to serve the greed of their Government.

China will do nothing about their environment except “talk” about their new laws constraining pollution. Their only show of enforcement is executing the heads of small polluters, or moving millions of people out into the tundra where they will take part in new industries, or farming that will continue to pollute and be moved again. The government supplies “their daily bread” and they do as they are told.

The United States may consume one third of the worlds energy but when we expel our so called pollutants, which are already regulated, it is nothing compared to China. If our Government thinks the answer to the worlds CO2 polluting problems, which you say is the reason we have or are going to have a “global warming” problem, is to have the United States take it on the chin and think the rest of the world will follow, is naive.

Our free market system is already reacting to the threat of this “global warming” hoax. they have seen the in-action of the 1970s, the recent increase in the oil barrel price and as a result we will produce more efficient clean energy and transportation products without any government tax and funding programs.

Senator Graham, you and the other Republicans in name only (RINOs) and the rest of the “Gang of 10” are attempting to promote Government intrusion with restricted energy policies, and by imposing arbitrary no drilling zones in the Gulf of Mexico. “Carbon Credits” under this “Cap and Trade” act and is just another form of taxing the American people and funding the world’s real polluters with controls on, and tax revenues from our industries.

GOP House members have spent nearly three weeks demanding that they be allowed an up or down vote on drilling for our oil, not only to lower prices but also get us off of foreign oil. You, on the other hand, are out all over the country clapping for Senator McCain every time he opens his mouth when you should be joining the GOP house members, in their fight for the security of the American people. 

This “New Era Compromise” is nothing more than an $84 million new spending bill which if tied to a simple up or down vote will turn out to be a disaster for America and the Republican Party. I guess you never learn, you are in office at the will of the people of the State of South Carolina and their interests should be considered before you step into this mine field. Just because we have the lowest gas prices in the country we also are first in everything we should be last in and last in everything we should be first in and our medium income is in that category.     

I know the House Republicans expected to fight Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats for the right to drill for American oil but I don’t think they realized they also had to fight members of their own party?

This is just like the “Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act” you tried to force down our throats. There is nothing new about new about this “New Era” legislation that supposedly represents a true compromise, incorporating common sense. You are pandering to the left wing special interest lobbies and the Democrat Party, just as you did on the immigration issue and we will not stand for it            . We will either get a simple UP or DOWN vote or we will delay anything from happing and let the current oil ban expire.

I see no reason for you to introduce any amendment or for that matter any legislation having any control on user or municipally owned rural electric power generators. The user owned utilities are managed more efficiently, producing better products at a much better cost. I hope you understand the most if not all of user owned utilities were formed because of these reasons. Let the private or investor owned utilities do their own thing and keep the Government out of their wallets as well.   

Let’s discuss “EARMARKS”, since you brought up Virginia and Montana Co-Ops receiving them. Earmarks in my opinion are unconstitutional in the way they are slipped into a bill after committee and not debated on individually or voted on up or down. Anyway, I don’t see any difference in the earmarks you slipped in for a State owned collage than the ones slipped in for the Virginia or Montana Co-Ops, both are unconstitutional and are owned by the taxpayers and exist for their benefit.

I lived in California for sixteen years before moving to South Carolina. In California for the first 10 years I lived in the San Francisco area with power supplied by an IOU, Clean Energy Group Lobby group, company which is supports Democrats as well as some Republicans. I lived through brown outs, black outs and the mismanagement of power contracts. The last 6 years we live in a municipal owned power generator, who bought power contracts years in advanced at the very low prices, and no brown-outs or black-outs. When we moved here we had only two requirements for where we lived. One being at least 7 miles away from the ocean and the other was that we would be in an area where power was supplied by a user-owned or municipal utility.

Needless to say I fine your response to my letter to the defeat of the “Cap and Trade” proposal and your participation in the “Gang of 10” very disturbing. I was one of the many 100,000 emails, letters, Faxes and letters to the Editors of South Carolina papers on the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Bill when you called us, the majority of US citizens, “Bigots”. We are ready to do it again on this issue as well. You will see the start of this campaign in the Myrtle Beach Sun News this week and the State Paper the week after next. This letter will also be posted on the “governmentreform.townhall.com” BLOG after all the SC papers publish their letters.

Again, we want an up or down vote to drill for oil with out any restrictions or expiration dates, nothing else. If, as a compromise, you need an expiration date, that date should be 2030 when everybody says the new forms of energy will be ready.

We want our free market system of private enterprises to develop all other forms of energy.

We want the Government to get out the business of restricting nuclear and clean coal gasification development and usage. Safety standards and Security standards should be its’ only job.

We do not need a “Hydrogen Fuel Cell Caucus” which will put a bureaucracy in place coming up with ways to tax and control development and usage. There are already H20 fuel vehicles on the road. If the US car makers are not working on this technology then they will be out of business by 2030.

We don’t need the Government handing out $7.5 billion to US auto makers who have already gotten the message to make fuel efficient vehicles, if they haven’t, the Japanese have, and we will buy their vehicles. If you do give out incentives to the US automakers, the foreign automakers who manufacture fuel efficient vehicles in the US should also get them. 

We don’t want tax credits to consumers when they already are waiting in line to buy fuel efficient vehicles and hybrid cars. A one time customer rebate would serve the people more favorably which could be taken at time of purchase with dealers applying for the rebate money from the government. People have to be paying taxes to get tax credits.

It doesn’t make any sense to repeal the tax deduction from domestic oil producers to pay for any incentive plan when all that has to be done is to let them drill and build more refineries. Our free market system will take care of the rest.

Again thank you for taking the time and responding to my request for you not to vote for the “Cap and Trade legislation”.

To the Editor Myrtle Beach Sun News:            

The Congress of may be doing us a big favor with all this bickering about drilling for oil now, because the current congressional ban is set to expire on Oct. 1^st 2008 without restrictions on drilling.

To allow the up or down vote would still be a good thing. However; if Congress formulates legislation which includes, drilling location restrictions, taxes on the producers and allows special interest lobbing resulting in earmarks, it will become a political football and cost us the taxpayers more money. That’s not all, if they do formulate a bill it will have to go to the Senate to be voted on.    

The Senate has this new “Gang of Ten” which, includes our Senator Lindsey Graham, and they are chomping at the bit to impose restrictions by returning the “Cap and Trade” and the “Comprehensive Energy Bill” to floor debates, which ultimately will replace the House Bill. These bills have a life all of their own but the bottom line is that they would cost us dearly. Come to think of it the new Senate formulated bill will have to go back to the House and they probably will be out on recess.  

To the Editor of The State Paper: 

Senator Graham, and the other Republicans in name only (RINOs) and the rest of the “Gang of 10” are attempting to promote Government intrusion with restricted energy policies, and by imposing arbitrary no drilling zones in the Gulf of Mexico. “Carbon Credits” under this “Cap and Trade” act and is just another form of taxing the American people and funding the world’s real polluters with controls on, and tax revenues from our industries. GOP House members have spent nearly two weeks demanding that they be allowed an up or down vote on drilling for our oil.  You, on the other hand, are out all over the country clapping for Senator McCain every time he opens his mouth, when you should be joining the GOP house members, in their fight for the security of the American people. 

I know the House Republicans expected to fight Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats for the right to drill for American oil but I don’t think they realized they also had to fight members of their own party?

House Whip James Clyburn (D-SC) and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) are holding the country hostage by not lifting the Congressional ban on drilling the Offshore Continental Shelf (OCS).

Oil Companies have stated they can have oil flowing from the OCS within two years of lifting the ban because the Government required “path to drill” has been started.

Much to the chagrin of the Speaker of the House and her Whip, in February, 2006, Bobby Jindal, then US Rep. (R-LA), Now Governor, introduced bill HR 4761. The bill repeals all Presidential and Congressional moratoria on drilling for oil & gas in federal waters. The bill gives sole power to states to decide on drilling within 100 miles off their coasts; the federal government has control after 100 miles. States already control the first 3 miles off their coasts. HR 4761 was needed because of the Aug. 29, 2005 Hurricane Katrina destruction of the Gulf Coast.

HR 4761 passed the House of Representatives 232-187 (192 Republicans and 40 Democrats voting yes, 31 Republicans, 155 Democrats and 1 Independent voting no). Since the Presidential Ban was a Presidential Directive, President Bush did not want to repeal the Presidential Ban at that time, which in my opinion was a big, big mistake because if he had then the congressional ban would have had to be lifted.

HR 4761 was not heard of until recently when the President did lift the ban. This is what Jindal said when he heard the news which reflects the Republican strategy:

Jul 14, 2008
BATON ROUGE — Today, Governor Bobby Jindal released the following statement on President Bush's announcement that he has lifted the executive order moratorium on offshore drilling off the coast of the United States.

Governor Jindal said, "The President's announcement today is a positive signal for Louisiana and our nation. The reality is that we are in an energy crisis that has been in the works for years. We need a comprehensive, balanced energy policy from the federal government that pursues everything simultaneously, from more offshore drilling to exploring nuclear, solar and wind alternative energy sources, and increasing conservation efforts.

"This news today is especially encouraging to Louisiana as we continue to work toward being the energy technology capital of the world. We will pursue incentives and tax policies to position our state as a national leader in reducing our country's dependence on foreign sources of oil."

Bobby Jindal wants the drilling to start right now, off the coast of Louisiana, so he can start paying down the debt of rebuilding and pay their share of the levee repairs. Hold on Bobby, here comes Washington to help.

Now Pelosi and Clyburn decided drilling offshore was not the way to go and will not allow a new vote to be taken for drilling the OCS, they then proceeded to fabricate the talking points which you will hear most Democrats parrot in their statements:

• Oil companies do not need new areas to drill. They need to focus on areas that are already opened to them. Of the 42 million acres of Federal land currently leased by oil and gas companies, only about 12 million acres are actually being drilled to produce oil and natural gas. If the Republican claims about more drilling are correct, why aren’t they demanding Big Oil explore drilling on the 30 million acres of Federal land that are already open to them but that they refuse to explore?”

Clyburn’s Web Site reflects the Pelosi’s talking points statement and reflects his views that his South Carolina Congressional District, and the country will have to live with, at least until the November elections is:

 “Democrats want to take immediate steps to increase American oil production.  That’s why we are pushing oil companies to start drilling on the more than 80 million acres of American land that is available to them right now, 68 million in the lower 48 states and another 15 to 23 million acres in Alaska.   The oil companies have the potential to produce from those acres an additional 7.8 million barrels of oil and over 60 billion cubic feet of natural gas each day.  I can think of only one reason the oil companies aren't drilling on that land -- they want demand and prices to remain high.” (This is called stupid and Pelosi’s statement is 42 million and now all of a sudden Clyburn says we have 80 million). 

”While “a box of crayons and a picture of an oil derrick” may be some people’s vision of our nation’s future energy policies, I am more inclined to take a more enlighten and long range approach. Congressional Democrats are supporting an innovations agenda that seeks to make America energy independent by 2020.  We can achieve that goal, but only if we are willing to look forward and not backwards”. (Do both stupid).

This “Kiss My Butt” statement after the visit was also parroted on June 24, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama used this argument in a speech in Nevada: The oil companies already own drilling rights to 68 million acres of federal lands, onshore and offshore, that they haven't touched. 68 million acres that have the potential to nearly double America's total oil production. (Dumb statement and not true, now for some reason the 68 million acres includes off-shore leases which they don’t allow drilling).

The charge has been repeated by Nancy Pelosi and others in their party. However; One SC Democrat is for more drilling and clarified the talking points based on reality.

John Spratt (D-SC) press release of July 23, 2008 states: "I am for anything responsible that will bring down prices, whether it’s more drilling or less speculation. But everyone should know that we are drilling more now. The number of drilling permits grew by 360% between 1999 and 2007. Over the last four years, the government issued 28,776 permits to drill, roughly 10,000 of which remain unused. On-shore, 47.5 million acres of federal land are under lease, but only 13 million acres are producing oil or gas. Off-shore, 44 million acres are under lease, but only 10.5 million acres are in production.

"If the 68 million acres leased but not used were put in production, it would help close the gap. I voted to open 8.3 million acres to drilling in the eastern Gulf of Mexico, and more recently voted to tell the companies sitting on their leases, ‘use it or lose it.’ (We drill for oil not acres. There could be only enough oil for one rig under the 10,000 acres).

 Here is the real story of on-shore leases

”According to the U.S. Department of the Interior's Mineral Management Service (MMS), there are nearly 68 million acres of federal lands (onshore and off) that are part of non-producing leases as of fiscal year 2007. This is in contrast to 25.7 million acres of leased lands that are producing oil. So, there are 68 million acres of leased land on which companies aren't extracting oil, but Obama went too far when he said oil companies "haven't touched" them. As Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Petroleum Engineer Bill Gewecke, who manages the onshore sites, told us, he "wouldn't say untouched, [I] would say undeveloped."

”That's because these leased lands that don't contain productive drilling operations likely are not lying idle as Obama implies. There are a lot of steps and procedures involved in setting up a productive oil well on leased land, both onshore and off. The Bureau of Land Management's Web site lists the regulatory hurdles that need to be cleared as part of the larger five-step life cycle of a well. The path to setting up an offshore drilling operation is even longer, as shown in a large flow chart developed by the MMS”.

And there is a lot of activity occurring on leased lands that does not qualify as "production." For 2006, the BLM reported that there were 77,257 productive holes onshore in the U.S. Beyond that, there were 6,738 applications for drilling permits, 4,708 holes in which companies had begun drilling and 3,693 where drilling had ended among onshore lands. That's a total of more than 15,000 holes that were being proposed, started or finished that do not count as "productive" holes. And that doesn't even include holes that might have been continually drilled throughout the year for exploratory reasons.

It's not known how much of that drilling is taking place on leases currently classified as "non-producing" and how much is taking place on leases that are already producing oil. BLM's Gewecke told us that the agency does not track acreage that is being developed or explored. And Andy Radford, an analyst with the American Petroleum Institute, an industry trade association, told us that the oil companies are "very secretive about announcing where they are testing, exploring and thinking of drilling because the industry is very competitive."

The Democrats are making this a political issue for the November elections and they are distorting facts, making it appear that the President is causing all this to happen. If you go to Pelosi’s Web Site you will see a graphic depicting the price of oil difference since President Bush took office. The real fact is the price made that jump only after Pelosi became Speaker of the house and Obama started running for President,  talking about taxing the oil company’s profits, taking away exploration and development subsidies, which would delay drilling and increase our dependency on the foreign oil market, and raising the capital-gains taxes.   

Of course Speculators took it to mean that the prices would rise dramatically and started buying which drove the per barrel price up. Big users such as, airlines, cruise and merchant marine lines, and other countries started buying to lock in the low price before the price went up as well. All this put undue pressure on the oil suppliers which is why we are in this mess of almost $5 per gallon gas. 

When the President lifted the Presidential ban, barrel prices dropped $9 the first day and are still going lower. This one action equated to about $.20 lower in our gas prices in SC.

If the Bush tax cuts were announced to be extended you would see the price of oil barrels drop dramatically as well.

In contrast to Clyburn, My Congressman Henry E. Brown, Jr. (SC), long-time supporter of offshore exploration and the Representative of more than 75% of the coast of South Carolina, joined fellow House Republicans at a press conference to unveil their American Energy Act.   After the event, Brown issued the following statement:

“Over the past months, I have heard an outcry from my coastal constituents as recreational and commercial fishermen, shrimpers and tour boat operators are being hurt with every increase in the price of diesel fuel. A large number of visitors that come to our beaches and historic sites travel by automobile.  The daily commute of our residents is growing more expensive.  Gas prices have become unaffordable and we must move to increase environmentally responsible domestic energy production”.

“We can no longer hope that the problem will go away.  Our country is blessed with abundant resources.  We must view our energy resources as an asset not as a liability.  We must take action immediately and vote on this legislation to allow more domestic energy to be produced by Americans, for Americans.”

Isn’t it funny that all the South Carolina Republicans and one Democrat Congressmen, our two Senators, hear their constituents and the country say DRILL NOW, any where, and only James Clyburn (D-SC) is hearing his constituents and the country saying DON’T drill the OCS AT ALL just tax the oil companies.

Clyburn’s 6^th District has a population of 668,670, 60% of them are minority, with a medium income of $28,967. I don’t no for sure but I bet at least 50% his constituents are receiving government checks for their “daily bread”. These people must be screaming about not only the gas prices, but also the price of food. So the poorest part of South Carolina is taking the brunt of Clyburn’s decision not to drill for oil and being held Hostage and they are letting him get away with it.

Here’s is a man who is pulling in a salary of $165,700, telling people making $29,000, I know what’s best for you and by the way, why don’t you go to the one of the non-profit offices that I support with government money, and collect your part of the “pie”.  Sounds like “BOSS HOSS”. But really he is only Pelosi’s whipping boy doing and saying what she tells him to do.

You tell me who is doing what to whom? Follow the money is the answer to that question: Democrats are split on a plan by U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-NV., aimed at protecting them, the Democrats, not us, in the face of controversial oil drilling proposals.

A number of Senate and U.S. House of Representatives, Democrats, have sided with environmental groups, (one of the biggest contributors to the Democrats,) against Reid's plan to allow additional offshore areas to be opened to oil exploration and drilling. Reid had hoped the proposal would insulate Senate Democratic Party candidates from public anger over rising gas prices, The Hill, a Washington newspaper, reported Tuesday. (At least they know we are mad but to bad it’s all about them, not us.)

On Clyburn’s Web Site he uses a Dr. Patrick Moore, the former director of Greenpeace, as his source, for him not wanting to drill. Clyburn wants to use food and plants to produce Bio-fuel so we can become oil independent by 2020. The problem Bio-fuel cost more to produce and you need twice as much because of the BTU ratio and food crops are seasonal and there is not enough land to grow the crop source we need. Bio-fuel has a major impact on the price of food not only because of the demand for it but in getting it to market.

As I said on a previous BLOG post “Another Hoax, Energy Independence” oil, petroleum, is use in just about everything see and touch and even ware, the same way corn is used in just about everything we eat and drink. Even the nuclear power raw material, uranium, is imported from at least seven other countries. We will always have a foreign dependence on oil, ethanol, and uranium because the world’s growth rate will be between 7% and 27% by the year 2050. We better start using the word “interdependency” when we talk about energy. Independence only allows the Democrats a CYA, by pushing dates way out so you will forget about any real near term solutions.

Clyburn is just playing politics and keeping us more dependent on the 70% foreign oil we get currently and making us HOSTAGES for ever. It all boils down to the Democrats would rather let the Nation and its’ citizens go to HELL than to lose the elections.  We should explore, drill, and refine oil, mine our coal any where and any way we can, and continue to import, while finding or developing alternative energy sources. We should utilize nuclear energy to its’ fullest and yes import the uranium. We should not explore or depend on fuel sources, such as seasonal crops, which put out country’s food source at risk. It will be a big waste of time and money.

Now these two so called Lawmakers had the gall to walk out of the Capital and turn out the lights and CSPAN, go on vacation for 5 weeks, while the Republicans were still debating the oil issue on the floor. It is our money that pays for that building and we don’t want a Socialistic Dictator telling us what to do. In a Democracy we tell them what we want and 76% of us want to Drill Now, Pay Less and keep drilling, mining and nuking, until there are better solutions available.  

 It is time to vote the Socialistic big Government BUMS OUT of office. A blockade on the Capital building is needed, to not let them back in after their August recess.  Like we would notice any difference.          

Nancy Pelosi and James Clyburn's Trip to the Gulf States:

Did the new Governor Bobby Jindal ask for help? What he did ask for was drilling for oil off the coast so that his State could pay off their own depth and their share of the levee repairs by using the some of the oil lease royalties. House Speaker Pelosi and Whip Clyburn said “NO” you don’t need to drill offshore and offered up the following cure, after a 22 member delegation (Hi, we are from Washington and we are here to help by making you dependent on the Government for your daily bread) tour:

Clyburn said “We’ve heard about the needs in housing, health care, infrastructure, education, small business, criminal justice and insurance reform.  And once again, (last year they said the same thing) we’re committed to providing additional federal assistance in these areas.  We’re committed to relieving any excessive financial burden on Gulf Coast recovery like state cost-share and federal regulatory responsibilities.  And we will work on legislation to investigate the failure of the federal government to respond to this disaster”. Called CYA.

In other words we will help, but first we have to find a way to blame the failure on the Bush administration and not the corrupt State and City Government prior to the new Governor Jindal.

The background on all of this that before, during and after Katrina the Democrats running the City of New Orleans and the State of Louisiana failed the people, mostly Blacks. They had a thousand school busses that could have been used for evacuation purposes, days before Katrina hit, but instead, let them sit there and get ruined by the flood. They refused Red Cross food and help and denied consent, for days, that could have allow President Bush to send federal troops in for security and delivery of supplies even when he called the Governor several times. Remember the Mayor and the Police took off to higher ground.

The Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 along with The Insurrection Act of 1807substantially limit the powers of the federal government to use the military for law enforcement without a Governor’s consent.

The Posse Comitatus Act is a United States federal law (18 U.S.C. § 1385) passed on June 16, 1878 after the end of Reconstruction. The Act prohibits most members of the federal uniformed services (the Army, Air Force, and State National Guard forces when such are called into federal service) from exercising nominally state law enforcement police or peace officer powers that maintain "law and order" on non-federal property (states, their counties and municipal divisions) in the former Confederate states.

The statute generally prohibits federal military personnel and units of the United States National Guard under federal authority from acting in a law enforcement capacity within the United States, except where expressly authorized by the Constitution or Congress. The Coast Guard is exempt from the Posse Comitatus Act.

The Insurrection Act of 1807 is the set of laws that govern the President of the United States of America's ability to deploy troops within the United States to put down lawlessness, insurrection and rebellion. The laws are chiefly contained in 10 U.S.C. § 331 - 10 U.S.C. § 335. The general aim is to limit Presidential power as much as possible, relying on state and local governments for initial response in the event of insurrection. Coupled with the Posse Comitatus Act, Presidential powers for law enforcement are limited and delayed.

The Democrats were all over President for the delayed response, so much so that he asked Congress to have Insurrection Act changed to handle natural disasters, not just insurrections, such as Katrina:

On September 30, 2006, the Congress modified the Insurrection Act as part of the 2007 Defense Authorization Bill. Section 1076 of the new law changes Sec. 333 of the "Insurrection Act," and widens the President's ability to deploy troops within the United States to enforce the laws. Under this act, the President may also deploy troops as a police force during a natural disaster, epidemic, serious public health emergency, terrorist attack, or other condition, when the President determines that the authorities of the state are incapable of maintaining public order. The bill also modified Sec. 334 of the Insurrection Act, giving the President authority to order the dispersal of either insurgents or "those obstructing the enforcement of the laws." The new law changed the name of the chapter from "Insurrection" to "Enforcement of the Laws to Restore Public Order."

Patrick Leahy, the Democrat Senator from Vt., said the bill was nothing more than giving the President absolute power of invoking “Martial Law” which he told to the Press and he and Sen. Kit Bond (R-Mo) led the opposition and had the new version of the law repealed.

The problem is that the Democrats can not make up their mind if they want a President to respond faster or wait for completely incompetent and corrupt Democrat State Governments such as was in place when Katrina hit Louisiana to ask. Another CYA           

The real reason Pelosi and Clyburn said “NO” was to cover up their vote in 2001 when they, the Democrats, blocked an appropriations bill which had $540 Million in it for repairing the levees.      

This is the real story behind the Clyburn/Pelosi vacation trip to Louisiana at our expense. They will be back next year with a different story but still committed, depending on how the elections go. 

It went something like this. The American troops after invading Iraq in 2003 found 550 metric tons of yellow cake nuclear seed material that they later found out was purchased from Niger by Saddam Hussein. In the time between Saddam was told by the UN to disclose the ware bouts of his nuclear cachet and the time the US troops invaded he was still trying to purchase the more yellow cake material from Niger.

For some reason Valerie Plame, who claimed she was outed by the Bush administration, decided to lobby some low lever CIA official which sent her husband, Joe Wilson a former U.S. Ambassador, to Niger under operational clearance, to fine out if there was any truth that Saddam Hussein was trying to purchase “uranium yellow cake”. After Wilson was debriefed by the CIA it was concluded that he had not learn if the report was true or not but he claimed that there was no contact. According to the Senate Intelligence Committee, the debriefers didn’t share Wilson’s information with, among others, the White House because they concluded Wilson didn't come up with much. Plame said she was outed to retaliate against her husband, former Ambassador Joe Wilson, because he reported no evidence of any meeting discussing yellow cake took place  

Wilson never wrote a formal report, when he returned, but he did write an July 6, 2003 op-ed in the N.Y. Times in which he wrote that there was no evidence that Saddam Hussein sought yellowcake uranium from Niger, and that he had told that fact to the administration which rejected it, and that President Bush lied to the nation to justify the war when, during his January 2003 State of the Union address. President Bush had said that “the British Government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.”  Iraqi Prime Minster, Nouri al Maliki, later confirmed that Saddam Hussein had been trying to purchase uranium yellow cake from Niger.

Now it seems the Bush Administration as well as the Tony Blair Administration has been living with a horrendous burden and taking heat from the American and British people as well as the U.S. Congress that they lied about Saddam Hussein’s nuclear ambitions just to go to war. The fact is when U.S. Troops invaded Iraq they found 550 metric tons of “uranium yellow cake” but both administrations had to keep it under raps for five years for fear of having it stolen by Al Qaada.

The Associated Press on July 6, 2008 reported on the find and explained why and how they had to guard this stuff on a 23,000 acre site and where they disposed of it.

I for one have never thought the President would have lied about the reason for going into Iraq. No President in his right mind would do something like that. Now it’s time to do some apologizing to President Bush. He took the heat from the Democrats and the far left BLOGS. It’s time to admit that this President is a World Leader, saw the danger, and took it on the chin at the cost of very high cost and lowing ratings (let them eat cake).He kept this secret even when former Ambassador Joe Wilson, former CIA operative, Valerie Plame the Ambassador’s wife, and a former deputy secretary of state Richard L. Armitage were conspiring to take him down.