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

The Oval Office and Grandmother's Rules!

Many years ago, folks had respect at all times in the Oval Office. In his book "A Different Drummer," former Reagan White House Aide Michael Deaver tells a story that epitomizes that respect.

As the story goes, he was accompanying President Reagan back to the Oval Office from the front lawn following the White Easter Egg Roll. Deaver describes the day as unseasonably warm and of how everyone was hot and sweaty upon their return. As everyone begins removing their suit coats and loosening their ties, he noticed that the President was not. Deaver suggested to the President that it would be fine if he did the same. With that, the President looked up towards his staff and remarked that his respect for the office and the hallowed they were occupying prevented him from doing so. With that Deaver said the entire staff tightened their ties, put there coats back on, and never again thought of entering the Oval in anything less than a suit and tie during the workday.

This last week, President Trump  invited presidents and administrators from Historically Black Colleges to the Oval Office for a meeting. During the meeting a photographer took a picture of the event. Everyone was standing around the President in a normal staged setting for photographers, except for White House advisor Kellyanne Conway who was sitting with on her feet on the Oval Office couch.

As for me, I’ll just say that she should have been standing and standing out of the way, not sitting in front of everyone on the couch, on her feet on the couch. BUT that should be a minor Protocol issue that can be corrected and not happen again; however, the press and liberals blew it up and then the ensuing retorts from the Right have followed keeping this in the news and making it a much bigger issue than it should be. Meanwhile, the realists of society sit here and give it the much-adieu-about-nothing head shrug.

But here’s the truth, the Oval Office is not just a work place, it’s not a lounging area, and it’s not a hangout spot. The Oval Office is a special place. This is the office of the Commander and Chief of the United States of America. This is where the people of America expect the work of the President to occur. It’s the one office where Americans demand the utmost of respect and decorum.

So whether it’s Kellyanne Conway’s feet on the couch, Obama’s feet on the Resolute Desk, or other frolicking in the Oval Office; it really doesn’t matter, disrespect is disrespect.

But like everything else in the last twenty-five years or so, both sides of the political aisle are trying to one-up each other on who has had the most, or the least respect for the Oval Office. As usual, it’s political gamesmanship, and another episode of the venomous back-and-forth that weakens us as One Country.

So how about rather than making it a Democrat/Republican issue, we simply use Grandmother’s age old test of, “Would you do that in your own home and with your own furniture?”

For the Record, that was a trick question. If you answered no, she would respond with, “Then don’t do it here.” If you answered yes she would respond with, “Well this isn’t your house!”

So just like Grandmother’s house, it’s never alright to disrespect the Oval Office, even unintentionally.

Keep your feet on the floor,
Bill

You’re Not Boycotting Trump…You’re Boycotting America!

                There are few men in America that garner the respect than Rep. John Lewis, but this boycott is not a reason for reverence. Lewis and some 60 or so of his peers in the House of Representatives are boycotting the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 45^th President of the United States.

                I can understand being opposed to a candidate for office and not being happy for their election; however, they were elected and they serve as our President. Just as Barack Obama was elected, Just as George W. Bush, Clinton, Bush-41, Reagan, Carter, and on and on. They may not be our choice, but once they take that oath of office they do indeed become “OUR” President – AND the inauguration is a celebration of “OUR” Country.

                When Obama was elected, I heard a lot of folks who wanted him to fail or called him “Their” or “The Democrat’s” President. That was wrong. Regardless of how you voted, the man elected to sit in the oval office is indeed “OUR” President and to wish him to fail is in turn wishing for our country to fail.

That’s why the members of the House who are boycotting the inaugural aren’t just boycotting Donald Trump, they’re boycotting America.

Yes, that’s a strong statement, but it’s the truth. Whether you voted for or against Donald Trump, this is the transfer of power that makes our country such an amazing place to live. Since 1797 there has been a peaceful, respectful, and amazing transfer of power that is unique for all Americans. Boycotting this event shows contempt for the process, and in turn for our country.

By starting this page of history with a boycott, these boycotters have only shown that they are already starting out on a foot of negative wishes, thoughts, and purpose. Yes, it is their right, But that doesn’t make it right.

John Lewis has a tremendous history in the Civil Rights Movement and was a friend of Martin Luther King. I think Dr. King would have looked to start this chapter of our history with good will in hopes of working together for the betterment of America. I believe Dr. King would attend the inauguration with respect, Christian reverence, and in prayer not only for our President, but for our country.

God Bless Us All,

Bill

Private Manning's Communtation!!

In the final 72 hours of the Obama Administration we are witnessing the pardon and commuting of prison sentences taking place at a disturbing pace, and in a disturbing manner. Yesterday’s commutation of Private Manning’s 35 year prison sentence is one of the icings on the cake.

Private Chelsea Manning, formerly Bradley Manning (I refuse to get into the whole transger issue), was convicted of violations of the espionage act and sentenced to 35 years in Federal Prison for his actions. Specifically, Private Manning illegally shared over 750,000 classified documents with WikiLeaks and, in turn, other outlets. These documents were of many different types including items as sensitive as troop movements, incident reports,  and after-action reports.

Documents that explained what our forces were doing, when they were doing them, and how they were doing them. Documents that gave out valuable data that allowed our enemies to know how, when, and where our forces would be conducting operations. Information that exposed the places our forces worked from, when they would be working there, and from what sources our intel was coming from thereby putting those sources in danger.

And even though the press or elected officials won’t say it, most military folks will tell you that the information that Private Manning exposed did put many people’s lives in danger, and most likely cost people their lives. This information was found on multiple terrorists computers including the one taken from Usama bin Laden’s computer. Safe to say they weren’t holding it for posterity, they were using it to attack our sources, our troops, and our security.

Private Manning deserves his term in prison. Actually, he probably deserves worse. The good American Veteran in me says he needs to serve his prison term, as a man. The spiteful, revenge-seeking Veteran in me says he should be released after he is given his sex-change operation, and then he should be flown over and dropped off with ISIS. Let's see how those who benefited most from his treason treat him as a woman (or whatever). Doubt he’d be happy with that.

Instead, he will be released sometime this summer, long after the Obama Administration is forgotten and most of the “Obama Legacy” is corrected. The concern for Private Manning should be his shelf life on the streets of a country he betrayed. He won’t be “just a citizen.” He will be a marked man….or whatever.

48 Hours To Go!!

Later,
Bill

Obama – The Private School Hypocrite

I don’t mean to keep picking on President Obama but when he makes it so easy I just can’t help myself. Don’t get me wrong; I do find him to be an Arrogantly Ignorant Blowhard. So I don’t mind pointing out his complete ineptness as he makes it far too easy for a smart-aleck like myself to find the humor and irony in a situation to pass on the opportunity to point out his hypocrisy.

AND he does make it easy.

Yesterday, at Georgetown University, the President was part of a discussion panel and decided to attack the rich and privileged for living in elitist neighborhoods and sending their children to private schools. He said that by doing so they live away from poverty and as a result never have to deal with the same issues that those of us in the masses have to.

Well that all sounds like a guy who came from the masses, who is living with them and fighting for them!

Only one problem – HE’S NOT!

Obama came from an upper middle-class background and attended mostly private schools growing up including high school at the elite Hawaiian Punahou School; a school that currently costs over $22,000 a year to attend.

Then he followed that up by attending college at Occidental, Columbia, and Harvard – All Private Schools. I won’t go into the whole “how all the tuition was paid for” and “what all happened to get him into these schools”; that’s covered enough by others.

But of course private schools in how he was educated. Surely after being forced to attend those dreaded private schools and with his current philosophy on social correctness he wouldn’t expose his own children to this continued hypocrisy…..RIGHT?

WRONG!!!!

First of all, the Obama’s live in a house in the elite Kenwood area of Chicago. A house they purchased for a measly $1.6 million, but there’s nothing elitist about that!

Then there’s the option of where to put his two daughters into school; surely the Obama’s do as they preach and have their children in public school?                  

NOPE!!

Now this is not a slight or a picking on of their children, but POTUS can’t tell the public how screwed up things are and then not walk the walk. Nope, the Obama’s have always had their children in private schools.  AHHHH….the hypocrisy continues.

Now I’m not picking on the Obama’s for living the life they can or for where they were educated or where they live. I believe it’s everyone’s right to live where they wish and educate their children as they have the means to and how they see fit.

I have lived all over and attended both public and private schools; and would never think of passing judgment because of where someone chooses to live or where they send their kids to school.

Neither Should the President.

As POTUS you can’t use the “do as I say, not as I do” argument; or at least you’re not supposed. Unfortunately this President does it all too often and no one ever seems to call him on it.

Just sad!

Bill

Failed Foreign Policy

This week Secretary of State John Kerry is meeting with his Russian counterpart and today even made a trip to Russian President Putin’s home in Sochi. The Russians have been laughing at us for the last few years once President Obama made his famous open-microphone remark to Putin-Puppet and former Russian President Medvedev. You remember that remark…the one where Obama said once the 2012 election was over he would be able to do whatever he needed to ease the Missile defense woes of the Putin Regime.

You know; the missile defense network that is in place to help protect the west from Russian aggression.

Of course the Obama chuckleheads have been under the impression that Russian aggression is a thing of the past – Tell that to Crimea and Ukraine. It’s just hard to believe that there might be someone on earth who honestly believes this current administration has even the slightest clue as to how to handle anything when it comes to foreign affairs. Just look at their track record.

Shortly after Obama comes into office there is a student uprising in Iran that could have tilted the balance of power there and overthrown the Iranian government putting the U.S. in a position to influence the future of Iran. What does the White House do – Wait for it – NOTHING. Nothing done by a new president who could have immediately set a high mark but instead dropped the ball and left thousands of students and revolutionaries out-to-dry (i.e., executed and imprisoned).

Then there’s Obama’s first Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s “Reset” button with the Russians in 2009. We should have known this would be a failure when the button actually had the Russian word for “Overcharged” on it rather than the planned “Reset.”

You would think the State Department might have one fluent Russian Speaker – I mean at least ONE!!

Then President Obama exercises his delusions of grandeur and gives the OK for a SEAL Team strike on Osama bin Laden’s family rather than just bomb the tar out of the terrorist leader’s home. So, for this stroke of the President’s Ego, several of our finest were risked and we lost a Top Secret Helicopter. THEN the Pakistani Doctor who helped our Intell folks find OBL’s actual location gets left behind and is jailed by the Pakistanis……You Know, our allies.

Then there’s the Chinese takeover of several atolls in the Spratly Islands. The Spratly Islands are a set of reefs, atolls, and small islands in the South China Sea that is both strategic and oil-rich. They have been disputed property between China, Vietnam, the Philippines, and Malaysia for years. Until the Obama Regime took command the balance of power in this strategic region had been kept mainly by the U.S. Navy to maintain the peace and allow for free use of international shipping lanes. Since 2009 the Spratly Islands have been highly militarized by the Chinese as they have been dredging and building up the islands with airstrips, piers, and other permanent structures. Ahh…..who cares about freedom of navigation?

Next is the Arab Spring. Remember how that was supposed to create peace, stagnate Islamic extremism, and allow for greater freedoms while cooling extremist terrorism………How’s that working out?

Of course then there’s:

-          -ISIS

-          -Benghazi

-          -Crimea

-          -Ukraine

-          -Fighting alongside the Iranians in Iraq and against them in Yemen

-          -Fighting again in Iraq

-          -Trading five terrorists for a traitor

-          -Failed Iranian Nuke Deal (be honest, there is no deal)

-          -Allied Arab leaders not coming to DC this week even at Obama’s request

There isn’t one significantly positive foreign policy item the President can hang his hat on – AT ALL.

Al Qaeda is still alive, ISIS is not the junior varsity, Russia is stronger than at any time since the cold war, our European Allies are extremely leery since the NSA leaks, and the prestige and clout of the United States and the office of the President has gone to absolute zero with all the failed “redlines” and all the ambiguously diluted “Let me be clear on this” statements made in the last six years.

Just Sad, and that’s just his Foreign Policy; unfortunately it’s also our foreign policy.

19 more months to go…….

Bill

Is the Presidential Spine Ever Arriving?

Maybe it was because I was raised at a time when an ultimatum by the President of the United States meant something and carried considerable weight. Or perhaps it is because as the United States of America we should strive to be as strong as possible and be leaders in the world. Apparently President Obama is not in that same path of belief.

Regardless of which President you talk about, none of the preceding Presidents in history have provided the shallow, confused, and just overall weak leadership President Obama has consistently and steadfastly exhibited. Today, when faced with two tremendous situations in Israel and Ukraine the President makes a five minute statement that was embarrassing to say the least. Of course it would be surprising if any world leader even paid much attention to his comments on much of anything at this point in his presidency.

Pertaining to Israel the President stated the same talking points as Secretary of State John Kerry did yesterday on the Sunday Morning Talk Shows. Of course that was after Kerry’s open-mike gaff where he stated the case that many already fear the administration has. President Obama said that the Israelis have every right to protect themselves and to destroy the tunnels Hamas has used to attack them. THEN he went on to say that now is a time for cessation of hostilities and for Israel to retract to the 2012 borders and allow for diplomacy.

Of course just a few days ago when both sides agreed to a cease-fire Israel did so while Hamas Terrorists continue to fire rockets into Israel. Now Obama wants Israel to stop their operations which will only result in allowing Hamas to regroup as it always has in the past. Let me spell it out this failure of an administration. Hamas is a terrorist organization. They are sworn to Israel’s destruction making them the equivalent of what Al Qaeda is to the United States.

Many people do not understand, but for us in the United States, and more to the point those of us in Texas, this would be the equivalent of Al Qaeda Having possession of Galveston Island, firing rockets into Texas, hiding in schools and hospitals, and using women and children as human shields all while being forced by the world community to suck it up and deal with it.

Of course with the current White House Administration, that sort of appeasement would not be too hard to believe; however, for those of us in Texas I think we would prefer to handle this a little differently; just as we are already having to on the Texas Mexico border.

So the President makes one of his grandiose statements basically saying the Israelis have the right to protect themselves; HOWEVER, now it’s time for them to stop. As ridiculous as that was, then he turns to the utter tragedy that is the downed Malaysian Airliner.

First he rightfully identifies the Russians as being directly and indirectly responsible for this incident. That was honestly well done and should be acknowledged as such. Then he states that Putin must do the following: stop the tampering of the wreckage site, grant access to international investigators, and provide for the dignified return of the bodies of these victims. All in all that was excellent…..then he blew it.

Unfortunately the President reduces the toughness of his initial indictment of Russian responsibility by then issuing yet another of his fruitless “Red Line” statements just as he has in the past and declaring that that if the Russians persist in this current direction they will continue to isolate themselves and risk a penalty that will cost them greatly……….HUH?

What does that mean? Probably nothing which is about the same thing as when he stated that there would be a dire consequences for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad should he use Chemical and Biological weapons. By the way, NOTHING happened when the Syrian President allowed the use of Chemical weapons….TWICE!

Clearly Vladimir Putin is not afraid of the stupendously ignorant drivel that disguises itself for foreign policy emanating from this President and his administration. Of course what did we expect from a community organizer and self-promoter who is more concerned with campaigning, fundraising, and which club to use from 100 yards out than he is that actual running of the country?

It is pathetic that at a time when the world needs strong leadership the United States is led by such incompetence.

God Bless those in harm’s way and the families of Flight 17,

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

What is a Phony Scandal?

Since the President started his new “Phony Scandal” line of speechifying last week I have been thinking hard about the scandals that have been the hallmark of his Presidency and just what makes them Phony.  At first I wondered which scandals he was talking about. Today, White House Spokesman and resident tool, Jay Carney, identified the two that he thought the most important – Benghazi and the IRS.

So after having the two pointed out I finally figured it out – so let’s take a look!

Benghazi – What do we know as a fact? We know that four Americans died at the hands of a terrorist led attack on our consulate and base of operations in Benghazi. We know that at the outset of this attack that the diplomats, military leaders, and the administration knew it was an organized terrorist attack. So where’s the Phony part of this?

It’s that the administration and the officials appointed by the President (Sec. of State, Sec. of Defense, CIA, NSA, etc.) came up with a phony set of reasons for the attack based on the phony notion that the Phony Attack originated due to the reaction of the mob to an internet video.  

We also know that these phony talking points flew directly in the face of the Libyan President when he immediately said it was terrorism. That led to the Libyan President restricting the FBI’s access in country and allowed the press to go over the consulate weeks before the FBI and also led to leaders in places like Tunisia to restrict FBI access to the suspects they had in custody.

In the end I’m afraid the President might have something right. I mean even though we lost four dedicated Americans, not to mention the President’s direct representative to Libya, he was right in labeling this a “Phony Scandal!”

The IRS – What do we know about this scandal? We know that throughout history the IRS has, at times, been used for political purposes and the delays over the last few years in granting tax-exempt status to Conservative groups has been another in a long line of Political targeting by an administration. We know this happened and that it was more than just a few rouge field agents in the Cleveland office.

So where is the Phony Scandal here? I guess that goes to the President saying he would get to the bottom of this and then allowing the claims that it was only a few agents in Cleveland to be permeated throughout the press in an attempt to minimize the conspiracy throughout the IRS and his administration.

Then to have one of the prime players take the 5^th after she had already made a statement was ridiculous. But then you have liberal congressmen attack the IG who showed no partisanship as he also identified liberal groups with the same issue; albeit conservative petitions were blocked at a more than 20 to 1 ratio.

Those are merely the only two “phony scandals” they want to discuss. I wonder about the rest. There are others but I think it’s a good starting point to discuss these alone.

But move along folks, the scandal clearly falls on the shoulders of those doing the investigating and the accusing, not those doing the cover up. I mean we have more important things to look forward to. Like ObamaCare coming online in 2014….what’s that….oh he moved it…..coming online in 2015.

Things like a new jobs stimulus plan to tackle shovel ready jobs like bridge building and such….wait….didn’t we spend like a trillion dollars on shovel-ready stimulus stuff already…..MOVE ALONG!

Or things like job stimulus….lower education cost….Quantitative Easing (aka – money printing)….Keystone pipeline obstruction (what the hell, let the Chinese have it)….Solyndra (wait, that is sooooo 2012)!

Man….the list just keeps on coming!!!

I need a Tylenol!

Bill

FEMA Reneges on the President’s Promise to West

Before I get into the meat and bones of this I first want to point out that in general, I believe that we are all responsible for ourselves and when tragedy strikes that we must rely on ourselves first, our family second, and our friends and communities third. I believe that it is up to us to help out our fellow citizens and not wait for a government entity to come and bail us out of tragic situations regardless of whether they are the work of nature or manmade.


With that said, I like so many in Central Texas are extremely perplexed by FEMA’s refusal to render anymore aid to the people of West Texas following the destruction this past April as a result of the explosion of a fertilizer plant in that small town. Normally I would not immediately look to the government for help; however, like so many other issues politicians use to enhance their persona, the President promised something that FEMA is now saying they will not deliver on.

Following the tragedy, President Obama came to Central Texas, met with the citizens of West and then gave a speech at Baylor University in which he spoke about how it didn’t matter what else transpired after this tragedy, America would not forget about the victims of this tragedy. He singled out several of the people of West and explained about how important it is to keep these communities intact and to make sure they are protected.

Here is an excerpt of his speech, “We’re Americans, too, and we stand with you, and we do not forget. And we’ll be there even after the cameras leave and after the attention turns elsewhere. Your country will remain ever ready to help you recover and rebuild and reclaim your community.” This line received much applause and many tears from victims who felt reassured and secure in the President’s comments.

Less than two months later; FEMA has agreed to help the U.S. Small Business Administration in providing $7 million in aid and low-interest loans; however, in a letter from FEMA director Chris Fugate to the governor, FEMA has denied the major disaster declaration that would have given West money to rebuild. Of course after the fires that destroyed hundreds of homes in the Bastrop, Texas area went unaided by FEMA just 18 months ago, why should we expect an explosion in West to be treated any different.

After all, it was just an explosions that left a 93 foot crater, leveled the intermediate school, caused severe damage to the junior high and senior high school, leveled almost a hundred homes and in some way affected the homes and businesses of every citizen of this town of 2,800 Americans – NOT TO MENTION took the lives of 10 first responders.

Officials in West say they are getting estimates that say it will cost around $57 million to make the necessary repairs to bring West back to normal. It seems like the federal government could take a little chunk of the tax-payer (and/or borrowed) money they are sending to Egypt, or Brazil, or China, or Libya, or anywhere else for that matter and send West what it needs to make repairs.

Like I said above, normally I wouldn’t think the government should be too involved in solving the problems of people in the face of disaster unless it’s unavoidable (meteor crashing to Earth, terrorist bombing a site that is supposed to be protected by the government, or some other out of the ordinary sort of tragedy).

But this time the President made a trip to Central Texas, used Americans as props, and used an the event to make a speech about how the people of West would be taken care of. If you’re going to make a promise, then live up to it Mr. President.

Now is the time!

God Bless west,
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

Another Day, Another Rant!!

I know – I know!!

How lucky can you be to have two rants in as many days!! Just so much happening today I just felt like needed to vent a little. So let’s get to it!!

1.       Venezuela’s Dictator Hugo Chavez has died. His Vice-President blamed the US for contaminating Chavez with cancer, but President Obama is hopeful we can build a relationship with their new government. Did he not just listen? Anyway, you remember Chavez? He is infamous for wanting to befriend Comrade Obama and for calling George W. Bush “el Diablo” during an address to the UN. Funny thing is, I do believe Hugo is about to meet el Diablo for real!!

2.       The White House is discontinuing the White House Tour on the 9^th of March. According to a White House recording it is due to sequestration. I know this disappoints many folks; however, if the White House thinks that canceling the availability of an unguided tour will help with the sequester then I guess we must defer to their better judgment.

3.       As if the TSA hasn’t already made some of the most asinine decisions possible with security screenings in the last few years, now they are in the process of changing the allowed items on a flight and how the security process will work? Well no, you still can’t take a box cutter on board nor a razor, and yes you still have to take off those dangerous shoes and belts before you board your flight, BUT now you will be allowed to being your pocket knife on board…HUH? I guess it’s important to remember that this is the same organization that takes away plastic toy hammers from children and will frisk granny in a wheel chair so I suppose this makes sense…

4.       The state legislature is looking at what to do to make Texas schools more competitive in the area of college preparedness. How about we worry about the thousands of kids not going to college and how to put some vocational education and training back in schools. That way those of us who have kids who go through 13 years of school can graduate with a marketable skill like welding, cosmetology, and automotive repair. We used to do it and it worked, but somewhere we lost site of the importance of skilled labor and now it is expected that inside the next decade America will have a shortfall of 10% to 20% of the skilled workers we need!

5.       The State Legislature is also working to move the primary date from March to February so that the state’s primary will be more in play for the upcoming 2016 presidential election; however, the move forward will cost the state delegates to the national convention. So in the end we need to either leave it where it is or move it to January 1^st so we can have the first primary in the nation and people can vote on New Year’s Day, which is a holiday.

Okay, that’s the quick and ugly. Hope it helped you as much as it helped me!!

Till Later,

Bill

Rant of This Week!!

I know I have been writing a lot lately but I am trying to become more consistent with it so everyone will know that they can check for something new on a regular basis. So without further adieu, here is the latest series of rants.

1.       $1.5 trillion in aid to Egypt this year – REALLY. I guess that makes sense what with the passing what the Democrats swear will be the “Sequestration Apocalypse!” What’s another $1.5 trillion on the backside of $6 trillion in debt already tacked on by the Obama Regime and given to a government that has shown they are not our ally and are led by clearly anti-American extremists! See, I told you it makes sense.

2.       Congrats to the Texas State House members who have and are carrying water and cowering to Speaker Straus and his henchmen. Looks like we will have very little to nothing conservative come out of this Legislative Session. News flash for those who voted for Straus as Speaker…We’re keeping score of your voting record!!

3.       I was watching the Alamo the other night and I realized had William Barrett Travis backtracked in drawing his line in the sand like Obama does on the truth, the Alamo defenders would have had to set up for the final siege in New Orleans.

4.       During the years under the Obama Regime the size of the federal spending has expanded by a little over 20%. Sequestration takes the proposed 3.5% plus increase in the budget (or spending since we still have no budget) for this year and lessens it to 1.1%. So by the end of this year the Obama Regime will have overseen an increase on Federal Government spending of over 21% since 2009 and a rise in the national Debt of close to $7.5 trillion! Yeah...they’re that GOOD!

5.       By the way, Dennis Rodman now has more intelligence on what goes on in North Korea than the CIA. After finding it so easy for Rodman to get in with Little Kim in North Korea it now looks like maybe we should send RuPaul to Iran!!

Okay folks; that’s the short and skinny for this week. Hope you enjoyed it.

More to come later!!

Bill

Answering the talking points from those who speak “STUPID”

Since the President and his Lemmings have been going around preaching propaganda for the last few weeks, I have been bombarded with insults and silly accusations from my “friends” on the left. As recently as this morning I was faced with yet another attack of the stupids from another of my unfortunate dimwitted friends.

As a result, I responded to his flagrantly ridiculously unintelligent arguments with the following rebuttal. But once I completed the response I felt compelled to forward it on in a blog post just in case any of you are confronted with anyone spouting any of these inaccurate rants from the ignorant masquerading as the Stupid following the Pied Piper in the White House.

“If the Bush tax cuts were so great then why did our economy tank after 8 years of it?”

The Bush tax cuts helped stabilize the economy after the post-internet bubble and should have been allowed to sunset as it was originally passed; however, both parties were instrumental in its extension and it was a housing marketing scheme initialized during the Carter Administration and strengthened during the Clinton years that actually had more to do with the 2008 meltdown. A scheme addressed for removal by Bush in 2005, but fought for by Barney Frank and his pal Chris Dodd – LOOK IT UP.

“Time to pay the piper for two wars and those brainiacs who got us into this mess.”

I agree that putting two wars on a credit card was a bad idea; however, this one goes on both parties as they both voted for it…before they voted against it.

“I don't understand why so many middle class people want to protect these rich bastards who don't give two shits about you! It's not their sons and daughters fighting for your freedom.”

Actually, participation in the military, and the war, is based on desire to serve and/or better yourself. Statistically, percentage wise the numbers are a wash over who serves and who doesn’t. But service to the country is voluntary and regardless of whether there is a draft or not Democrats will always seek to cry the social justice foul over perceived inadequacies in military service.

“They aren't the ones trying to figure out how they are going to feed their children tomorrow! They aren't the ones sacrificing to put their kids through college!”

How come folks who come to America from thousands of miles away can always work however many jobs they need to meet whatever demands they have to in order to feed their children and put them through school, yet someone on welfare can’t walk their ass across the street to even feed theirs? If feeding children is such a problem, then you think the President would worry more about feeding them and less about universal Pre-K and government sponsored Wi-Fi.

“They spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to people who figure out ways around tax codes to save millions! You think that money goes back in the economy? BS”

Republicans have been calling for tax reform and the flat tax for years, which by the way, is the only way to keep the rich from hiring tax attorney’s to get out of paying taxes. And since only about 51% of Americans actually pay taxes then why wouldn’t people who have to pay taxes work to find ways to pay the lowest amount they can regardless of their pay-grade?

Hope that helps a little!

Bill

My New Politically Incorrect Rant

In my new-found quest to remove the barriers created by the politically correct morons of our time, I am feeling a little chippy tonight and thought I would write a powerful and direct to the point rant. So I sat down and wrote this instead! I hope you enjoy it.

1.       When President Obama was first elected President he promised a transparent and open government the likes we have all wanted and not seen in this country; however, his Royal Transparency has once again missed the date to submit his annual Budget to the congress. Nothing like missing a constitutionally mandated requirement four out of five years that he has been in office. But with all his transparency, it’s really not necessary to worry about the legalities of everything.

Did someone just here a drone fly by?

2.       President Obama also promised the most color blind, all inclusive cabinet in the history of the presidentdom (I just coined a new word). To be honest, he tried hard his first term. Of course George W. Bush holds the record for minority appointments closely followed by Bill Clinton. But Barack has made up for that shortfall by nominating all white men this time around.……… Hmmm, heartwarming!!

3.       The Coalition for American-Islamic Relations, CAIR for short, was eight ways of upset with the Coca-Cola television ad from the Super Bowl. Their spokesmen got on all manner of airwaves to say how upset Islamic folks were with the proliferation of the stereotype of Arabs riding Camels and such. Of course his complaints sound credible until you realize CAIR is an organization of like almost 400 people founded by three members of the Islamic Association of Palestine, who has had a hard time since being reportedly linked with other groups raising money for Hamas. You remember Hamas, that silly group trying to destroy Israel and all traces of Western Civilization. Personally, I thought the Vegas showgirls in the ad were awesome!!

4.       Warning for smokers, Under ObamaCare your health insurance is going to go up by 50% according to various insurance companies and the Government Accountability Office. Woo-Hoo, Now to get after those pesky drinkers!!

5.       So let me get this straight. Most illegal aliens come to America because they are looking for a better life and don’t trust government – RIGHT! So as part of the “Pathway” to citizenship proposed by the President and Congress (aka the government), these same people have to turn themselves in, pay their back taxes plus a fine, and then get in the back of the immigration line. GEE, with their trust, or distrust of government I wonder how many of these folks will get past step number one – BRILLIANT!!

6.       Bouncy lip-synced the National Anthem at the Inauguration and sung at the Super Bowl. I could have cared less about her lip-syncing but after listening to her sing live at the Super Bowl, I think she should have lip-synced there too.

7.       Mr. Global-Warming himself, Al Gore has sold his liberal-spewing Current TV to the Al Jazeera, the network built by the oil-rich global warmers and used for terrorist propaganda proliferation! On the Bright side for old Al, now he has an estimated fortune in the neighborhood of $300 million; or about $70 million more than Mitt Romney – But who’s counting!!

Well that’s all for tonight. Have a nice sleep as you ponder my politically incorrect wisdom!!

Night Y’all,

Bill

Buy People homes or Saddle an Ant?

Sometimes we hear about the trips the President takes and how expensive they are, but rarely do we consider just how much the cost of those trips are actually worth to us. Well let’s just take a look at it in terms we can all understand.

 

 

Wednesday, President Obama packed up the whole show and flew out to Las Vegas to give a speech at a campaign-style rally filled with his supporters to outline his immigration policy. A policy that is nothing more than the same rhetoric-without-a-real-plan that he has been spewing out for the last five years. Once again, lots of talk but nothing tangible to put your hands on or to read with your eyes – JUST MORE TALK.

 

 

So let’s look at the money spent for the President’s Day in the Nevada Sun. On average it takes about three hours to and from Las Vegas from Washington D.C., counting the time on the ground. Now according to the white House’s own figures, the President traveling on Air Force on with his entourage costs approximately $1.2 million per hour. So for six hours of travel time, that will start the bill at $7.2 million.

 

 

Then there is the time and money spent on the event site and setup, overtime for the Las Vegas PD, feeding the entourage, and transportation on the ground. The figure I get for all that based on previous trips of the same sort is around $300 thousand. So for this day trip excursion, the trip’s prior security teamwork, and the other incidentals involved the total cost come to about $8 million dollars on the low side.

 

 

So in the end, for a speech he could have given outside his office in the Rose Garden, he traveled to La Vegas and wasted $8 million to regurgitate the same old rhetoric that gave us absolutely nothing of any substance.

 

 

So let’s see what the $8 million could do for you.

 

 

First of all, $8 million dollars is nearly 80% of the yearly budget of Milam County where I live. But in terms most of us can understand let’s look at what you can buy. If you are interested in cars, you could buy about 6300 first class round trip airfares from Washington DC to Las Vegas, 150 Ford F-150 Raptors, 65 Corvette ZR1s, and about eighty 2,000 sq ft houses.

 

 

Next week he’s going to make another day trip, this time to Wisconsin or Michigan (I lose track with this guy). He’s going to give yet another speech on jobs (like we haven’t heard that one before), which is ironic since his little attended Jobs Council expired today. Maybe this time he could just walk out his office door and meet the press in the Rose Garden to give his speech. Then he take the money he will be saving not taking this trip and send it to Wisconsin or Michigan, where I am sure those folks can make much better use of it than he is.

 

 

Now yes I know all Presidents make trips away from DC, that’s part of the job. But in my life I can’t remember a President taking more trips just to stage yet another outlandish speech of limited substance merely for the purpose of sparking some excitement into his lemmings while framing a picture for his worshippers to slobber over giving him another event with which he can stroke his own ego.

 

 

I don’t know…..maybe more could get done in Washington DC if the President stayed put, maybe he could hold more constructive meetings with the leaders of congress, and maybe he could make better use of his time there rather than gallivanting around the country in search of the perfect audience for his limitless rhetoric which, if it was measured in leather, couldn’t saddle an ant!

 

 

But you get the idea, each trip could buy 80 families a new home, but instead of being responsible with the people’s money, he’ll take a trip to Las Vegas. Maybe next time he’ll take Senator Bob Menendez with him for a good time. Remember, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas!!

 

 

Viva Las Vegas!!

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