The BP oil spill is testing more than our gulf coast.
It is testing our two party system. (No, I did not forget the libertarians, the tea partiers or the communists.)
Before the spill, it was not that hard to figure out how either party would react to any issue. Abortion, crime, big government, big business.
The spill has redefined it all. What happens when big business causes a disaster that affects the environment and causes economic harm to vast republican enclaves?? Mass confusion.
Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson, fresh from an embarrasing loss to Tea Party candidate, Governor Rick Perry of the country of Texas, makes good on a campaign promise by reversing a promise to resign her senate seat.
Her reasoning: she is needed in the Senate. Well senator, if you think your job in Washington was not done, then why did you run in the first place for a position that would have taken you away from a place that so desperatly needs you?
The simple answer, she is a liar who knows that there are no consequences.
Have you noticed how recent elections dont really mean anything?
Take Texas, for example, please.
Perry, the career politician is facing Hutchinson, the career politician. What do we get? Career politicians without new ideas. We lose.
For lieutenant governor we have a choice between a delli king and a former district attorney who hates to be alone in his retirement. What do these guys want? What do we get? Nothing. Whoever we choose, we are the loosers.
If there is one phrase I'm sick of hearing the Liberal Left use it's "Moving forward". The current administration and most of Congress repeat these words over and over. It's no real surprise, however, given their number of mistakes and incompetent deeds that they want us to keep going forward and not look back.
I resolve to do whatever I can in 2010 to replace those in Congress that have forgotten those they serve.
I resolve to do whatever I can in 2010 to replace those in Congress that have forgotten why they serve.
I resolve to do whatever I can in 2010 to support only those candidates that will listen and then speak for the people.
The current debacle known as the effort to reform health care, is demonstrating how little respect the party in power has for its own leader.
Not that it was much different under the Bush administration. In the end, when the global economy needed emergency intervention, most, if not all republicans voted against the stimulus bill and rescuing the auto industry, as Bush was on the other side of the attitude.
Obama is not doing any better. His party, (why did I just say "his") barely mustered the needed votes to pass a health care reform bill in each house.
Meg Whitman, the former boss of eBay is running for governor of California. And she should. So should more people that know anything about running a business and nothing about politics. Not that she does not know about politics, who doesnt. But she know how to run a business and that is what we need right now, as Washington is spending billions and has no idea what they are doing.
Specter may have made the blunder of his political life when he switched parties and became a democrat.
He immediatly lost his seniority and therefore his powerful positions on key senate committees.
Maybe he just switch back. Its like the 5 second rule. You drop something on the floor but its ok to eat it as long as it gets picked up in less than 5 seconds.
Or maybe its a sign that he is past his prime and should just pack it in.
A 100 day test may be a tradition, but since people actually watch and pay attention to what the media does, is dangerous.
What is the point in trying to determine whether a mere human being can do anything in 100 days? You do know that we now live in a global economy? You do know that we have more complex issues than anyone can handle over a span of several decades, let alone years?
This 100 review is a tradition whose' day has come. How about a quaterly review? How about a mid term review?
Hi, Everyone this my first post on this forum, so I wanted to take a second and reflect on our current economic state.
I feel at this point that the president strongly believes that spending more money right now will put us in a better position to compete in the future marketplace.
