You can't imagine the amount of unadulterated bullshit that I've read today about the nut jobs that attended the tea parties yesterday in protest of government spending. And I do mean bullshit. Some of the very same people who were saying that dissent is patriotic when it was George W. Bush's policies being protested against are the ones who are ( Read more... )

Being a member of the Loyal Opposition(tm) comes with certain responsibilities. One of them is to offer props and congrats when the President does something right. I should not always post when I disagree. So with that in mind, I offer props and congrats to President Obama for quick passage of the Lily Ledbetter Act into law. No one should be ( Read more... )

I didn't see it at first but now it's clear. With the nominations of Tim Geithner as Secretary of the Treasurary, Nancy Killefer as Chief Performance Officer and Tom Daschle as Secretary of Health and Human Services it all comes into focus. Obama is raising tax revenues by finding people who owe taxes and put then in the public spotlight. It's ( Read more... )

I wish to offer my congratulations to Barack Obama and his supporters. His election as the 44th president of the United States will hopefully be the final healing this nation needs to get us past the racial divide that has plagued us for far too long. His victory speach demonstrates that he realizes that he must now transcend party lines and race ( Read more... )

Today is election day. Exercise you right to vote. Be part of the process not part of the problem. It doesn't matter if your candidate wins or loses today. The important thing today is that you are the one who gets to make the choice. So go and exercise a right that far too few people in this world get to have. Vote. Win or lose today, you ( Read more... )

Cut for those not interested in politics.

( An article describing why I think Obama shouldn't be president )

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McCain spanked Obama's ass in the debate tonight! Wow, Obama is soooo not ready to lead anything let alone a counrty. WOW!

The link below is to a WSJ article about the smoke and mirrors of the Obama "tax plan".

Welcome back to 1977.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122385651698727257.html

Behind the cut are a few of my responses to comments that I have read in other journals over the last few days. I have placed them behind a cut so as not to offend the more sensitive readers.

( The insensitivity starts here. )