Posts Tagged ‘president obama’

The boss advocates for targeted, fair spending cuts in order to balance the budget. Austerity is an absolute must to dig us out of the hole Obama created. [Read the rest of this article...]

FoxNews.com is trumpeting that "Gitmo Played Role In Bin Laden Death" and, "Cheney Says Enhanced Interrogation Probably Led to Bin Laden Death". Sure, and Donald Trump's hair is the key to our national security. Former co-president Cheney, if you recall, was clear in his assessment that Obama had made the United States less safe by ending the use of enhanced interrogation. [Read the rest of this article...]

Still, in excess of 1-in-4 people of our population choose to ignore this inconvenient truth while being certain that our president is serving illegally under our Constitution. Lt. Col. Lakin, a highly educated medical doctor nonetheless, also believes this. [Read the rest of this article...]

Republicans are telling the truth on cap and trade because they know we Americans have become terrified of T-A-X. They spend their time screaming about "our grandchildren" because they know that we, as a society, are focused more on the paperwork we leave our children, and less on the legacy we leave our children. [Read the rest of this article...]

At this time of historic freedom to keep and bear arms, the rights secured and protected are not, apparently, good enough. Armed marches have become, almost, a political fad. If you live in Louisiana, you can thank God, literally, for the right to carry firearms in Church. The aim here is very clear. The gun lobby wants the 2nd Amendment to define the only American right not subject to modification. They have even objected to banning firearms sales to individuals that America's anti-terrorism folks consider a danger to our nation. Over a six year period, 91% of individuals on the terrorist watch list who applied for permits to buy guns were approved. Why not, I guess; guns don't kill people, airplanes flown into buildings kill people. What [Read the rest of this article...]

If you want a laugh, ask the "pro-business" types who have spent a year or more talking about why health care reform is a bad deal, what happens when a cost center explodes like that in a given business. With all of the current nonsense about a "debt crisis" invading the media (and by extension, the public), I thought it was time to refocus on the real sources of economic doom and gloom in our democracy. Our nation fought a one year battle, culminating in the package of groundbreaking (if not incomplete) legislation remaking the medical marketplace. Now, as the federal government unveils the rules written in enforcement of that law, the nation needs to be reminded why the battle is fought, and what comes next. [Read the rest of this article...]

The modern Republican Party has become a model of self-contradiction. A party loaded to the rafters with self-proclaimed freedom-lovers was forced to justify a systematic destruction of civil liberties; acts perpetrated by a Republican President and Republican Congress under the auspices of the Patriot Act and the Military Commissions Act. Conservatives had to find methods for dealing with the same Republican power structure as it violated the tenants of fiscal conservatism by doubling the national debt; debt that had been reduced by the fiscal policies of the previous Democratic administration. Finally, Republican stalwarts heard Mr. Bush repeatedly claim to listen to the generals, then watched as he fired one soldier after another who [Read the rest of this article...]

I am often amused when American exceptionalists like Bauer, people who take great offense when the President indicates that our nation is not perfect, are able to so quickly condemn our nation to mediocrity. I was raised with the belief that the United States can do, well, pretty much anything it has the will to. On the subject of clean energy, it is easy to show that Gary Bauer's only proof for his assertions in this release, is in fact Gary Bauer's imagination. [Read the rest of this article...]

This disaster will see its conclusion, not because of the capabilities of industry, but because of the power, will, and intellect of a nation pulling together. The harness of that power is something we citizens like to call the government. That government’s leader, elected (whether Ms. Rabinowitz likes it or not) with a mandate by the people of the United States, is President Obama. When industry can’t handle the problem, the government of we the people can. Mr. Obama is a very capable leader and this will get fixed; but like Churchill before him, when the Nazis have already taken the Low Countries, it will take some time to clean up the mess. [Read the rest of this article...]