Kerry and Other One Percenters Should Share the Pain

http://news.yahoo.com/kerry-testifies-panel-chairs-150446984–politics.html

Since Obama is asking for shared sacrifice, can Obama, whose wealth went from 9 hundred thousand to 12 million in four years, serve the nation free of charge and forgo his pension and health benefits? The same can be asked of Kerry who will get a Senate pension, Social Security, free health benefits and many perks of office as Sec. State. With 184 million, he is definitely the one percent. Will he share the pain by foregoing salary and benefits? It seems amazing to me that the Occupy Wall Street people and the others who rage against the “one percenters” and against people who make over 250 thousands that these same protesters willingly are ruled by people like Senator Kerry who has 184 million$$$$. Actually, it is the problem with our political scene that people whose personal wealth is enormous, attack the personal wealth of other people. And it is a problem when our leaders and pundits whose children all go to schools with high security, armed guards and even personal bodyguards, these same people, say that the rest of us should not have weapons to defend ourselves in our own homes and that armed guards in schools are too dangerous to the children. I think it is called hypocrisy.

By the way, I know these things are not profound but they are things about which I believe we should be talking. Hey, none of us has a corner on the truth. But it seems to me that so much of what our political leaders say to us is phony.

Gun Control is not a solution

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/bloomberg-advising-white-house-gun-legislation-190643237–politics.html

It is people like Michael Bloomberg who think that you solve the obesity problem by selling only sixteen oz. drinks instead of thirty-two oz. What stops a person from buying two 16 oz drinks? He also thinks that merely controlling free and law-abiding citizens will answer the moral decay evidenced in wanton acts of murder. It seems that the answer of Obama, Biden, Bloomberg and others is to have the federal government control everything, while ignoring the plain fact that these are moral, spiritual and behavioral problems which will not be solved by new regulations further controlling people who simply seek to defend themselves against rabid criminals or insane murderers.

General McChrystal and President Obama

http://news.yahoo.com/mcchrystal-regrets-magazine-flap-career-killer-122932698–politics.html

I am a vet of thirty years of service, honorably retired and I have only the highest respect for a soldier who achieved four star rank. I note here that many are stating things in absolute terms, such as you NEVER, or you SHOULD have known, or freedom of speech is yours when your enlistment is over, or that ANY insubordination to the civilian order is insubordination to the Constitution. WOW aren’t we all perfect little children all standing straight in line and doing everything we are told and never, never being naughty. Second WOW, saying anything derogatory is a matter of interpretation and is not forbidden in private conversation although some would say, but not the Constitution, that there is never private conversation in the military. Third WOW is that freedom of speech, which is a fundamental Constitutional right is somehow given up in the military, well, tell that to the Judge Advocate and get a lesson in the code of military justice which is not allowed to circumvent the Constitution. Final WOW, the idea that any insubordination to the civilian order is insubordination to the Constitution is absurd. All military personnel are taught that there are such things as illegal orders, unethical and immoral practices and shady dealings and they are required to be insubordinate to those who require such practices whether it be the President or a Sargeant. So the use of ANY is dead wrong. Final point, go back and read the Rolling Stone article which I don’t believe anyone here has done. You are all overstating the offense with terms that are inaccurate. General McChrystal resigned and the President accepted his resignation because of the political embarrassment caused by the inaccuracies of the RS article and because General McChrystal felt the uproar adversely affected the mission in Afghanistan.

Nixon was a Great President

http://news.yahoo.com/nixon-remembered-centennial-salute-california-birthplace-080129516.html

In a very good and under read book, titled, Silent Coup, the Removal of a President, by Len Colodny and Robert Gettlin, the Watergate Affair is looked at uniquely. It is a good read and may still be available via Amazon. Anyway, there were plenty of phoney’s involved and one of them may not have been President Nixon. It does need to be remembered that in the election Watergate gave President Nixon absolutely no edge over George Mc Govern. Nixon won his election, as did Obama, “Fair and square” And we all seem to forget that Nixon won forty eight States, or was it forty nine? So if we want to talk about a mandate, he definitely had one and he lied about nothing in order to win the confidence of the people. Rather, Watergate was the undoing of the people’s free decision. It was a Silent Coup. And by whom? By Senators like Sam Erwin, a professed hater of Nixon. Factually, it was revealed a few weeks ago that Judge Sirica of the Federal circuit court, shared private, privileged information concerning Nixon and other defendents with the Special Prosecutor, which I believe was illegal and required him to recuse himself from any further ruling in the case. When the Judge is willing to help the Prosecutor and consistently rules against you and is unethical enough to consider you guilty until proven innocent, well, that is plain wrong.

Obama and Reid Now Must do something and not just talk.

Yes. Since anything the House has already passed was Dead on Arrival in the Senate. And since anything the House may have been able to do was declared Dead on Arrival by Harry Reid. And since anything that was done or could have been done was declared to be a “…item I will veto…” by President Obama- Now it is the turn of the President to actually put something in writing. His proposals so far have been talk and speeches and sound bites. As we know, talk, speeches and sound bites are not proposed legislation and cannot be submitted to the House in that form. Therefore, it is now the President and the Senate who must propose something to the House.

A Citizens Call to Action On Gun Control

https://www.usconcealedcarry.com/mindset/a-call-to-duty/?utm_source=SilverpopMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=CCR%2012-21-2012%20Prospects%20(2)&utm_content=

A very thoughtful and passionate prposal for citizen action in light of school invasion and children’s murder.

It is the President and the Administration that is Stopping a Solution to the Fiscal Cliff

As reference see previous post concerning the Revenge Politics advocated by the Daily Beast.

“I can tell you the most recent promise the president has broken. He campaigned on a balanced approach to deficit reduction with more spending cuts than increased taxes. He even talked about it in the 2nd or 3rd debate. Instead he is proposing to raise taxes $1.6 trillion (the first year he has already outlined how it is to be spent on “stimulus” so no deficit reduction there at all). The spending cut is a POSSIBLE $400 billion over 10 years but nothing definite outlined.
For those of you who are math deficient, that is $4 in tax increases for every $1 of possible (but not likely) spending cuts. ”

It is very distressing to see the willingness of our people to accept the lie that the President only wants to tax the top two percent while everybody else gets a tax cut. The facts of the President’s proposal are exactly opposite to what he tells the people.

Secondly, Pres. Obama wants the Congress to give away its right to review the debt ceiling and approve or deny raising it. Why should they? The Constitution gives the power of the purse to the Congress, specifically the House of Representatives. When they are asked to give up this right, then we the people who voted for them are asked to give up this right. We should not do it.

The Daily Beast newsletter may believe that it is right, just and proper for Obama to take revenge on the Republicans of the Congress for opposing him. I do not agree. The Congress is supposed to prevent tyranny by a systematic review of the Executive and the Judicial just as these branches of government are, in turn, to review the Congress. This is not a system of revenge politics as proposed by Pelosi and Reid. It is the Constitution.

Lastly, I believe that the rules of our social contract intend that the President is the President of the whole nation and not only of those who voted for him. He is not supposed to be the President of the Democrats and the enemy of the Republicans. If the Daily Beast believes such foolishness, then Obama is supposed to be the enemy of 48 percent of the citizens and the friend of the remainder. If that is the case, can anyone blame the 48 % of the citizens to do all in their power during the next four years to opposed Obama who, in this case, is said to be their enemy?

Yes, the Democrat party won the Presidency but that is no excuse for attempts to destroy the Republican party. Likewise, the Republicans won the majority in the House of Representatives and that is no excuse for always opposing the Democrat President. The same applies to the Senate.

This writer is distressed by all of what Secretary Geithner calls “political theater.” I agree that it is a necessary part of the political process, however, he then turns around and says that the House of Representatives, symbolized by the Speaker, is required to prove to the Executive how much they are willing to raise taxes. That is absurd. The Constitution gives the power of taxation to the Congress and not the President. Secondly, the House need prove nothing to the President. He is required to submit his proposals to the House and they are required to debate, argue and either accept, reject or modify them. What Geithner here proposes is to accomplish the legislation in a conference with the White House before it is even submitted to the Congress. I disagree.

Let the President put his proposal to the House. Let the administration, by using their Congressional Democrat proxies, argue their case before the full 495 Representatives. And let the House vote and send it onto the Senate. Only in this way will progress be made.

And Senator Harry Reid should stop bragging that any House of Representatives budget proposal that is not pre approved by Obama is Dead On Arrival in the Senate. Who is the obstructionist in this process? There are many and they are: The President, Nancy Pelosi, Reid, Geithner. What the Republicans are trying very hard to do is to play according to the rule book which is called the Constitution. There may be some who adhere to the Revenge politics advocated by the Daily Beast. I do not.

Daily Beast Newsletter to Destroy Democracy

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/12/01/michael-tomasky-on-obama-s-republican-revenge-over-the-debt-limit.html?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=cheatsheet_morning&cid=newsletter%3Bemail%3Bcheatsheet_morning&utm_term=Cheat%20Sheet

Read it for yourself and decide. This is revenge politics and the USA be damned. This is an indication of total disregard for the seperation of powers and the nation be damned. This is an article that promotes Obama over everything much like the Nazi’s chanted Germany over everything. The sadness here is that the daily beast editors have nothing in their newletter about what is really good for America. Oh, Yes, I forgot, whatever the daily beast feels will make the democrat party stronger and what the daily beast editors feel will elevate Obama to the status of Ruler.

Romney’s Concession Speech was a Class Act

http://thestir.cafemom.com/in_the_news/146205/mitt_romneys_concession_speech_now Since I suuported him, I thought he would be the best and I think that this speech reveals that the Republicans had supported the very best candidate they had. He probably won’t be in government any more and that’s too bad. His abilities on behalf of our nation are very welcome. Who knows maybe we are big enough to invite him to participate. What could be wrong with that.

Will Obama Offer Romney a Cabinet Position?

There is a rumor that he will. But you know about rumors!!

I think that offering Mitt Romney a cabinet position would be awesome. Would he accept? Let’s be honest and human, after all Mitt is a human so we all realize what a crushing emotional burden his loss is to him. I am only his supporter and I feel really sad. Yet, would I be big enough to accept such an offer. Truth…I don’t know. I hope that I would and I probably would but I don’t want to be joe the righteous here. Nonetheless, an offer of the President to Governor Romney would indeed be most gracious. Hilary took the offer but it can be argued whether she did a good job. Mitt would definitely do a good job but philosophical reasons may hinder him. Yet, is it better be inside the halls of power influencing decisions, or outside shouting at the walls? We’ll see. This is all probably the citizen’s wishful thinking. But if it were to happen it would be revolutionary.