Civility in the Modern Political Era

With this week’s death and funeral services of President George H. W. Bush, we have seen a great deal of civility and national unity. It always does my heart well to see this sort of camaraderie in our country, especially considering the constant bickering, name-calling, and hateful talk that normally comes from Washington, and the rest of the nation on a daily basis.

Regardless of your feeling for the former president, one thing that is apparent is that during the time of Bush 41 and before, there was greater cooperation and thoughtfulness in every part of the political arena. Prior to and during Bush 41’s presidency, there were disagreements over issues and differing plans on what was best for the country, but those disagreements were generally handled in a professional and respectable manner even when members hated the other members.

In today’s government it’s quite the opposite. Today, the hatred is openly displayed and even if the members of the two parties actually get along, they can’t be seen as such in the public eye. It’s too hard for these members to admit that while they don’t agree with the other side, they actually can have a friendship with each other. It’s too hard because we as a society can’t believe that we can be friends with those who have different political views.

When Jack Kemp died a few years back, thee was talk about how to bring civility back into politics. When John McCain died recently, there was once again talk of bringing civility back into politics. And this week once again, we talk of how civility has been lost in the halls of government. Yet in reality, all this talk will fade in the next week.

This time next week we will once again be in a place where one state party is trying to boost membership by offering bumper stickers that don’t promote their party, but make fun on the other party’s losing nominee. Next week will see the leader of one party spewing venom at the other party’s leader and vice versa. We will see on PAC running ads not promoting their stance on an issue, but attacking the values of the alternative view. Not telling us why they’re right and the other view is wrong, but simply why those who believe opposite of them are a racist, or degenerate, or whatever attack they can make not to give their views substance, but to denigrate those who subscribe to the opposing view.

Can we get back to a place of civility in American politics and government?  I don’t know.

But regardless of the leadership we are to follow, civility starts like all things in politics – at the local level.

We must learn to be civil to each other, we must learn to be respectful of each other, and most importantly we must learn to make our arguments in support of what we believe and now to denigrate those who believe opposite of us. Until we learn to do that, we are doomed to the same partisan bickering that has our country in a death spiral. AND make no mistake, that is the direction America is heading.

God Speed 41 and God Bless America,
Bill

Rant For The Week!!

Here is a little rant on a Tuesday evening for everyone to enjoy.

1. With all the commotion about the Duggar family scandal, I find it ironic that the press is giving Republican Presidential Candidate Mike Huckabee a hard time for his friendship with this family when Democrat Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton has been married to an accused sexual predator for 40 years…….HMMMMM!!

2. Sad anniversary as today marks one year since the JV….err…..ISIS took control of Iraqi city of Mosul.

     

3. In case you were counting, this year the Senate has already voted on 31 bills. That’s impressive since last year, under the supreme rule of Harry Reid; the Senate was only able to complete votes on 12 pieces of legislation.

        

4. Before Hillary is crowned the Democrat’s successor to Obama, take a look at a recent Wisconsin straw pool which Hillary barely won 49% to 41% over Bernie Sanders.

        

5. Remember last month when everyone in DC was going crazy about Amtrak funding? Wonder what happened to that?      OH YEAH…that Caitlyn chick…….

       

6. This week a Pakistani Court acquitted 8 of the 10 men who took part in the attack on 14 year old Malala Yousafzai. You remember her; she wrote a women’s rights blog and was shot in the face by this group of adult men while sitting on her school bus. Yeah….Pakistan….They’re our friends!

     

7. By the way, when President Obama starts to give President Putin advice about how to make his people happy he might want to check on that. Putin’s approval ratings by Russian voters are in the 80% range as polled by third party sources and not by the Russian media. Just to get an idea of how big that is, it’s twice as high as Obama’s own approval rating by American voters.

       

8. Lastly, today I was in a conversation discussing the rough handling of the disrespectful young lady who caused much of the problem in McKinney, Texas. I was asked how I would have reacted had that been my child? I simply smiled and let them know that my child would have had enough respect for the authorities and themselves to NOT be there.

Phew…..eight items and they’re short enough to read quickly….Just some things to think about.

Later

Bill

A Rant for the Fourth Week of June!!

I felt like I needed to shoot out a new rant and get this blog up and running again……It’s been a while.

-          Hillary Clinton first claimed that her and Slick Willie were poor upon leaving the White House…of course they made $12 million the first year out of the white house and she was already a Senator getting paid as such……But honestly…...It was hell for them.

-          Now Hillary claims that her and SW are not as rich as other multi-millionaires (she made $5 million last year). If you just go by those two numbers then they have cleared over $1 million a year since leaving the White House and that does even include the other 11 years in between. Go ahead Hillary….keep using that line of logic….that should connect with common folk….or at least the DEM Lemmings!

-          The IRS requires seven years of records for their auditing purposes, yet they can’t even keep up with emails from two years ago that congress wants for their auditing purposes. I’m not sure why someone doesn’t subpoena the NSA for the IRS’s emails……they gotta be there somewhere.

-          This week the President spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin and according to Josh Earnest, the new White House Propaganda Minister…errrrr….Spokesman, the President told Putin that if he didn’t back down from his current aggressive position that there would be “additional costs” to pay for their aggression. I’m sure old Vlad is shaking in his boots over that threat. Let’s see….the community organizer vs. the former KGB Colonel…….WHATEVER!!!!

-          Lastly, I am glad that the leaders of Texas have taken the next step to help secure the southern border of the state from the influx of illegal immigrants and criminals. Now if we could better control the influx of immigrants across the rest of our borders from the liberal havens like California before we are outnumbered.

Well there you go. I didn’t mention a few things, but I intend to write about them in the coming days.

Thank You For Your Support,

Bill

The Benghazi Truth Must Be Heard

On September 11, 2012, Ambassador Chris Stevens, state department official Sean Smith, and two members of Embassy Security and former Navy SEALs, Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods were MURDERED in Benghazi, Libya in a terrorist attack that was planned and coordinated with Libyan forces tied to Al Qaeda. Sadly, the Obama Administration and Hillary Clinton don’t care. In fact, they’d rather it go away just as that tool Jay Carney has insinuated in his daily press briefings.

Back to the story; at nightfall of this prolific date, 125 to 150 terrorists closed off access to the state department facility in Benghazi and attacked with weapons including AK-47s, NATO Firearms, hand-grenades, mortars, RPGs and other military style weapons many of which were indirectly provided to these terrorists to defeat Muammar Kaddafi by the same Obama Administration that brought us a “Fast and Furious” program that lead to Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry’s death.

Back to Benghazi; today we had another round of testimony to the House Committee investigating this incident and once again the Democrats on the committee claimed that the Republicans were playing politics with this issue; however, just as they often play the race card, the Democrats always seem to be the ones who try and squeak out of their indiscretions by claiming that those who are investigating are only doing so for reasons of political expediency, racism, sexism, or any other ism that will project the possibility of “disenfranchising” someone based on race, religion, or political belief.

But this is not about any of that, this is about responsibility for foreign diplomats and the cover-up of events that lead to the death of four Americans who were neglected and left to die at the hands of an Al Qaeda affiliate by an Administration that has made a living recently selling the American people on the fact that they have Al Qaeda on the run. Unfortunately, on this night the only place Al Qaeda was running to was the Benghazi Consulate to kill Americans. And every since, the Obama Administration and Hillary Clinton have lied and coerce people to cover-up the facts that they were responsible for doing nothing to help those poor souls.

This is an issue that has been a huge concern and should be to us all as Americans. September 11, 2012, is an anniversary that should hold huge significance when dealing with security here at home much less a place like Libya where concern for security should have been doubly significant and IT WASN’T.

Four men who were in Libya serving their country were left to die by the very people who sent them there. These very men reported early on that this was a terrorist attack but President Obama and Secretary Clinton left them there to DIE. This facility had been attacked twice before in the last year and judged to be unable to stand up to an attack; yet there was the Ambassador holding meetings there on September 11^th – ON SEPTEMBER 11^th!

When the ambassador called to say this was an attack no one reacted to help and he was left to die. Now state department officials and military leaders looking to cover their asses have said there was no way to get anyone or any forces there in time to help. But we know there were forces in Tripoli that wanted to go help and they were denied that opportunity by their superiors.

We know that Doherty and Powers held on for six or seven hours before they were finally overrun and murdered when a single flight overhead by an aircraft could have made all the difference. Believe it or not, air power has an amazing affect on the psyche of a less sophisticated enemy. But no aircraft were sent and flurries of excuses have been used to explain this.

We know that there are Military Fast Response teams stationed in Europe that could have been on scene in around four hours and that they were put on standby by Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, but those forces were later told to stand down by administration officials. As a result, the Fast Response Team did not arrive and Glen Doherty and Ty Woods were killed in the second attack that COULD HAVE BEEN PREVENTED!

We know that the so-called anti-Muslim video had nothing to do with the attack and that there was never a demonstration because of that video. We know the Libyan President stated this was a result of an attack from terrorist but the Obama Administration and Hilary Clinton kept up the talk of this resulting from a demonstration about this video.

Now the administration and Clinton hold tight to the claims that this was all based on poor intelligence from the CIA. By the way, that’s a lie also as the actual talking points initially issued by the CIA were later published and spoke of the truth while they were later changed greatly before being presented as the fact by the White House and UN Ambassador Susan Rice.

But the real insult is the fact that even though this was done there has been not even the slightest hint of a modicum of responsibility by President Obama or by Hilary Clinton. And why would they? They lied, won an election (aided by Candy Crowley on this issue), and are set. Any responsibility now would only do irreparable harm to a consistently failing Obama Administration and destroy the future Presidential aspirations of Hillary Clinton.

In 2008 there was a Campaign ad by the Hillary Clinton Campaign that used the old Reagan era adage of a call at 3:00 in the morning. Sadly, neither Hillary Clinton nor Barack Obama showed the ability to answer that call when it mattered. AND, unfortunately their incompetence and inaction prior to, during, and following this incident resulted in the needless deaths of four Americans.

Four men who were not just names on a page or faces in a picture but men with wives, children, parents, friends and colleagues. These were men who would sit down to breakfast with their loved ones, fished with their kids, played golf with their friends, watched football on Sunday and lived among us. These were Americans like you and me who were in Libya representing their country and deserved opportunity to live.

During my years in the Navy, working overseas in all corners of the world, I had the opportunity to serve with confidence under four Presidents.  And even though these Presidents all handled matters with different degrees of covert and overt operations, we always felt like we would never be left completely on our own.

Too bad we can’t say that for these four brave Americans.

How about some truth Mr. President?

Enjoy Retirement Hillary. And by the way; IT DOES MATTER!

God Bless the four we all lost,

Bill

My Newest Rant!!

 

 

 

 

Here are a few of the things that have got me going this week.

1.     The Italian Supreme Court has ruled that Amanda Knox will be tried again in the Italian courts for murder and that if she is found guilty then the Italian government will ask for her extradition. First off, I guess the Italians have never heard of Double Jeopardy. Don’t worry Amanda, they would never get the extradition and they really can’t threaten anyone. I mean their track record of using force over the last 200 years has shown them unable to beat anything but an egg.

2.     An Alameda County, California Administrator who earns around $422,000.00 a year and will continue to do so even after she retires. I was going to write a major comment on how the President only makes $400,000.00 a year and has a little more to worry about than the Alameda County Administrator. But then I realized; who cares, it’s Alameda County?

3.     Hilary Clinton resigned as Secretary of State claiming to have visited more countries than any other Secretary of State; however, like her boss, no one can remember her ever visiting a country of any consequence when it really mattered. Now I’m not a John Kerry fan by any means, but at great pain to myself I have to give him a little credit. In just a little over a month he has visited some pretty rough regions and handed out some pretty tough warnings. I just hope he doesn’t have to back them up, that’s when he’ll find out who he’s working for and then he’ll find out what those in Benghazi did.

4.     America must be proud of the president sending Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi to Pope Francis’ inauguration. I mean here’s a Catholic  lady who is on the outs with her Bishop and a vice-president who, as a Catholic, wouldn’t kiss the papal ring because his Momma told him he deserves more respect than even the Pope. And she’s right, just look at his career filled with lying, racial, plagiaristic comments, what’s not to respect – NICE JOB JOE!

5.     We are halfway through the bi-annual legislative session here in Texas and to date there hasn’t been anything of consequence to happen out of the ordinary. The only thing I can think of that has been proposed is to move the primary date up so that Texas will have more of a say in future presidential elections. Here’s a thought, how about the RNC and the DNC get together and decide on a primary date for all the states and let all the primaries happen on the same date. Yes I know that is a states right issue; however, the two parties could make it happen by limiting delegates for states not cooperating. Of course it requires the legislating of the legislators which is always an almost impossible legislative task.

Well, hang in there. I’ll think of all of you while I’m in Vegas!! Maybe I’ll take a few minutes to write while I’m there…..then again, maybe not!!

Later,

Bill

Benghazi Hearings Rant – The Reality of the Situation.

So I’ve only discussed this a little bit, but after today’s performance from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, I feel like making a little rant to get some things off my chest. First of all I think I speak for most people when I say that I am very tired of the overuse of the phrase, “with all due respect.”

When I was in the Navy we were always taught to have respect for our seniors and not to disagree with them in public unless we first use the phrase, “with all due respect.” So using that phrase is equivalent to a lady in the south starting a comment about another person with the phrase, “Bless her/his little heart.”

Today I must have heard that phrase about a million times and in this overly-charged, politically-correct world that we live in I think it’s time for us to remove some of that political correctness and just lay it out as it really is. So here we go!!

The Benghazi debacle is the biggest bunch of SNAFU that I have seen since the stained dress, or Iran-Contra, or Watergate, or Scooter Libby, or the….well hell, I can’t go into them all, but safe it to say this is a mess and the real truth is pretty well been figured out but no one wants to just come out and admit to it all.

Today we had congressmen questioning the Secretary of State. Each of them got a whopping five minutes of time to question her and except for Secretary Clinton; NOONE was prepared for the day’s events. Between the grandstanding by the congressmen and the evasive avoidance of answering a question once posed, nothing was accomplished except a lot of cross talk and that smelly stuff you try not to step in while in a stable.

Now I am not going to get into too many details as I do not want to bore anyone and I am not writing a book, which I could with this mess. But I will touch on the main points and the ridiculousness of this all. First let’s go with the part that bothers me the most. Libya one of the hotbeds of foreign troubles then and now should have been one of the priorities of the foreign service; however, the new embassy in Tripoli and the consulate in Benghazi had less security as far as physical barriers and security personnel than those in England and France – HUH.

Just seems like this a war zone and the countless requests for more security from the personnel on the ground in Libya it would appear logical for more security to be provided here.  But apparently, due to the small number of personnel assigned to the embassy staff in Libya, more security was not authorized. Apparently the size of the staff and not the security of the country is the deciding factor involved with determining the size of the security detail assigned.

Of course the four State Department individuals responsible for this lack of common sense were later suspended from service as a publicity stunt with a Friday afternoon press release; however, they were later reassigned to other departments in the state department. So apparently their ineptness that resulted in the death of four people, including the U.S. Ambassador, was not enough to warrant their permanent removal from the service – AMAZING!!

Then let’s look at the talking points that were designed to deal with the immediate fallout associated with this horrible event.  Within 24 hours most everyone on the planet with even a modicum of intelligence knew this was a terrorist attack. But the Obama Administration’s story that this was a demonstration that got out of hand was the story that the administration went forward with for two weeks because they either thought no one would find out the truth, or that as a populace us Americans were just gullible enough to accept this ridiculous explanation.

Today Secretary Clinton tried to walk that back and say that she and the President both called it a specific act of terrorism right from the beginning. But other than speaking in generalities about the evil of terrorism n general, neither of them called it terrorism and both taped Public Service Announcements (or commercials) that played on Arab television apologizing for the video they continued to blame for the incident. Meanwhile four American families are burying their murdered loved ones back here in the states.

They believed that us American suckers would buy this whole story hook, line, and sinker. They even rolled out U.N. Ambassador (and former Secretary of State hopeful) Susan Rice to go on the Sunday morning new show circuit and recite this finely crafted lie in hopes that Americans would buy this poisoned bill of goods; and guess what, far too many of the voters did.

But now we know the truth, Rice was unleashed with a set of talking points designed to blame the deaths of these fine men on a video and not disclose the inadequate capabilities of the Secretary of State, her staff, the intelligence community at large, and even the President himself. Today Clinton said she was not there when these talking points were developed but that is a point of discussion also since there are currently five differing lists of who were in those meetings and she is on two of them. Which begs another questions, if there was a group meeting to determine what had happened and she was in Washington then why wasn’t she in that meeting?

Today, a rattled Hillary Clinton made the screaming statement that it did not matter if it was an organized attack or a group of individuals who decided to kill some Americans. Well I beg to differ when you reason in the fact that just a few days ago American intelligence and the Foreign Service missed the very organized attack on the petroleum production site in Algeria. An organized attack that utilized many weapons that will probably be traced back to the Libyans rebels we aided.

It would be interesting to find out how many of the weapons used in Algeria actually came from Libya. Of course we would have to be able to trace those weapons and since the current administration can’t even trace the weapons they allowed to be illegally sold and smuggled into Mexico, well I guess we’re not going to get anywhere with that investigation either. See how far the ineptness goes when there is a leadership vacuum at the top.

Today Secretary Clinton said that serving overseas in the Foreign Service was inherently dangerous and those who served knew that when they signed on. But I am sure they figured they would be given the resources to do their jobs with at least a minimum of security requirements. When I was in the Navy and we were overseas I always knew that many times we would be in a dangerous situation; you kind of take that for granted. But whether the President was Reagan, Bush, Clinton, or Bush again; I never felt like we were inadequately provided at least that minimal amount of security.

Then there is the argument that Hillary Clinton made trying to lessen the importance of the State Departments incompetence. She tried to rationalize their deaths by saying that they knew their job was hazardous and that their acceptance of that knowledge essentially excused the State Department for the incompetence that cost them their lives; as ludicrous and asinine as that sounds that is precisely why she made that statement.

Later, Secretary Clinton, with the help of several liberal congressmen, went on to attack congress for a failure to fund the state Department with enough funds to provide the proper security in Libya. But the truth is the Military made an offer to augment the Libyan embassy security staff and that offer was rejected by State Department personnel. You know, those folks who were suspended on a Friday and working in another department with the month – BRILLIANT!!

Maybe if the State Department would have saved some money on Secretary Clinton’s travel, or if the Obama Administration had not funded those thoroughbreds like Solyndra, they might have been able to afford the additional security.

Well that is not the end of it, but that is all I am going to write about this evening. I feel like that is enough to ingest this evening. In the future I intend to praise the positive and hammer the negative that occurs in Washington, Austin, and for me, right here in Milam County, Texas.

With All Due Respect…Goodnight!!

Bill

New Rant for Y’all

Well I’m sitting here watching the first presidential debate and I thought I would just hit you with a short little rant!!

1.       Just a short note on taxes, you can raise more money by building a larger tax base far easier than by raising taxes – PERIOD. You can raise taxes on businesses, and small business owners but that just prevents them from hiring new people who in turn will be a bigger drain on government entitlements. So if you keep taxes low and allow those business owners to take that money and invest it, then they will hire new employees who will pay taxes thereby growing the tax base by generating more revenue in businesses and with more people earning an income instead of receiving entitlements.

2.       Yes we need regulations in the marketplace; but when they are so strict that they limit business at every step of the way, then they are too restrictive. Currently bureaucratic government regulatory efforts are stifling new business. This must change!!

3.       In the world of the never-ending nightmare, United States Secretary of State Hilary Clinton was once again shown to be running an ill-prepared-to-handle-the-world organization as exposed by the attack on the consulate in Benghazi. It seems that the company in charge of the security there (Blue Mountain Libya) could not get the support and aide from their parent company (Blue Mountain UK) and requested help from a third party but the state Department’s Contract Officer would not approve that and said the threat was not that bad. Now they will not let the FBI in to investigate the scene because they said it was too dangerous – imagine that!!

4.     When will liberals understand that the states are better prepared to handle what goes on with programs that serve their constituents more than the federal government? EXAMPLE…..I doubt the cost of living is the same in Texas as it is in Massachusetts. My family and I can live comfortable on $100,000.00 a year in Texas, but I bet I would be struggling in Boston. The same plan that will work in Massachusetts WILL NOT work for the entire nation as a whole. Oh and by the way, the plan in Massachusetts did not raise taxes; ObamaCare (did you know Microsoft Word autocorrects for ObamaCare) has at least 22 new taxes in it.

5.       By the way, while we keep talking about comprehensive bills addressing issues like medical care, immigration, energy, taxes, and others; the true way to address them is by individual bills that address specific issues, not one all encompassing, comprehensive bill. There has NEVER been a successful Comprehensive bill ever!!

Well that’s it for right now. I am going to watch the last 30 minutes of the debate and then take four aspirin and hit the sack before I get sick!!

Ya’ll hang in there; we just have a short time to go until we are done with the election!!

Where’s that Aspirin?

Bill

A New Rant for Y’all

Okay folks, here is a new rant for you this week. I know you’ll love it!!

1.       Campaign finance numbers are in for June and here are the results:

a.       President Obama raised $46 million and spent $58 million.

b.      Mitt Romney raised $33 million and spent $27.5 million.

Results: Even in Campaign mode President Obama works at a deficit!!

2.       Congrats to ABC News for jumping the gun and removing all doubt that they are the left-leaning news source we all knew them to be. During the Friday morning news programs ABC reporter Brian Ross tried to tie the Aurora, Colorado shooter to the Tea Party. Outstanding job in quality reporting once again from a news source that claims to be a leading player in quality news – WHATEVER!!

3.       Another congrats goes out the New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg and PBS newsman Bill Moyer who is also a New York City resident. Both have already jumped the gun calling for stricter gun-control laws; however, what neither wants to talk about is the fact that they reside in a city with arguably the strictest gun-control laws in the country and still had to confiscate over 4,000 guns last year. Most of which were taken AFTER being used in a crime which means that there are probably many more illegal firearms throughout New York City. Nice job of using a tragic event to push a liberal idea that clearly has not worked in THEIR OWN HOMETOWN!!

4.       In the world of the never-ending nightmare, United States Secretary of State Hilary Clinton was heckled and had tomatoes thrown at her motorcade on her way out of Cairo, Egypt. And all of this occurred while the Arab mob heckled her to chants of “MONICA, MONICA!!” See, even in an Arab speaking country they can still pronounce Monica correctly – imagine that!!

 Well that’s it!! Yeah I know it’s a short rant this week but I got a lot going on what with early voting for the run-off and all.

But in a moment of seriousness, I would like to say God Bless the folks in Aurora. I think I speak for most folks when I say our prayers are with you all. And God Speed Sally Ride, you were a role model for little girls and a hero to us all.

 Until next time,

Bill

Gore Begot the Internet, Obama Begot the Hybrid?

This week Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood claimed that through the efforts of the Obama Administration the hybrid car industry had been jump-started. LaHood then startlingly asked the question of who would have thought you would have seen a Lexus Hybrid two years ago?

WELL…….ME!!!!

That’s because the Lexus Hybrid came out in 2005, which for those of you interested in statistics would mean that Lexus gave us their hybrid seven years ago. So, since seven years is more than two years I guess Secretary LaHood must not have gotten the memo. But who knows, Maybe President Obama was working hard as an Illinois state congressman to get the hybrid made.

And we thought Al Gore was a tremendous asset with his invention, The Internet?

Well Secretary LaHood needs to look a little closer at facts before he opens the old mouth. It was actually during the Clinton Administration that hybrids were first made a real priority by requiring that car companies develop useable hybrid models to help conserve energy and improve the environment. Yeah, I know you all never expected me to give credit to the Clinton administration for being involved in this, but there they are. Of course years later the time requirements were lengthened and/or lowered as the development of the hybrids met certain development issues that needed to be addressed and overcome.

As time went by though car companies like GM put these developments on the back burner and actually worked to slow the development of electric vehicles with their recall of and consequent destruction of their EV-1 electric car (which was very popular with consumers) and then the purchase of the most up-to-date battery manufacturer to stop the production of the batteries that would revolutionize hybrid and electric vehicles.

But while GM and Chrysler proceeded very slowly if at all, foreign auto manufacturers and Ford (through their partnership with Mazda) set out to produce these hybrids with the knowledge that an increase in world oil use would mean these vehicles would eventually be in more demand in the coming years. As a result of these companies and their diligent work, cars like the Toyota Prius and Ford Escort hybrid began to be common place on American roads in the last three or four years and have been in high demand during gas price hikes making them more of the norm on the road today.

So while a RINO like Ray LaHood might be impressed with, and in many ways helping to create the propaganda that the Obama Administration lives on, I guess they feel the need to make up some good news and achievements for their sad performance rather than try and run for reelection on the President’s tremendous record of achievements.

What’s that…Record…..Oh Yeah, I forgot. Never mind

Guess I’ll still be waiting for the hybrid F-150!

Where are my keys?

Bill

When to Say When

Okay – the North Koreans have nukes. They have tested the missiles over and over like last 4th of July, a few weeks ago, and several other times in the last few years. All that our government has said is, “ah, there’s no worries until they get a nuclear (or is it Nucular) warhead.”

Well guess what folks, they have it and they tested it underground this last weekend – Memorial Day weekend. Get it, test the missile on the 4th of July and test the nuke on Memorial Day. Got to give it to ole Kim Jong Il, he can read an American holiday calendar.

Seriously, NO ONE has done squat on this issue since Bill Clinton was president (and yes, that did hurt to say). Well, I mean nothing significant. Now there’s been a lot of talk by Bush and letter writing by Obama, but nothing that will create any results. I think it is time for the President to stand up and DO something.

What is it he will likely do? Pressure China, no wait, we can’t do that, who would loan us the money to pay for the stimulus or the new $3.6 trillion budget. Military strike, maybe about ten years too late but what the heck. Shake our fist and rattle our chains…Ahh, the old standby.

Well this one is not above President Obama’s pay grade. Actually, nothing is above his pay grade anymore and he now has to step forward and take some action.

I’m moving into the Bunker,
Bill