A Rejection of "Change"; Obama Style

I have not posted to this blog for quite awhile...mostly due to my daughter's denigration of my opinions.  She thinks that I am bordering on dementia.

However, I am not bordering on dementia; I simply have a very different view of the future of our country.

I am a constitutional conservative.  I believe that the federal government has limited powers as enumerated in the 10th amendment.   I believe that the Health Care Law is a violation of the constitution.  I believe that abortion law is a state issue. (I am pro choice, but I believe it is a state issue.)

I think we MUST  raise the retirement age to save Social Security; we MUST add a means tested deductible to Medicare; we must add a means adjustment to collecting Social Security.

We have trying times ahead.  Let's lead and make some hard decisions.  We have done that in the past...I hope we do it in the future.

Sarah Palin and the Saints

I am a New Orleans native who does not follow football...but I have usually had an open ear to how the Saints were doing...not that I watch the games, but in general I paid attention to how they were doing.  But the last few years I have lost track of them.  One of my brothers, who calls me every couple of weeks kept bragging and bragging about the Saints this season....to the point that I finally shut him up by promising to travel to his residence for a Super Bowl Party if the Saints made it there.  He lives in North Carolina and I live in Nebraska, so this was no small promise.  Not that I expected to have to live up to this promise...but I did.  We drove there and spent three days partying and celebrating the Saints.  We even celebrated the Saints before they won...well you'd have to be from Louisiana to appreciate that.

Sarah Palin rose up from political nowhere land as the Saints rose from being the Ain'ts to a real contender for the title.  It took the Saints a little longer to rise up than Sarah, but they both came from out of nowhere and broke all sorts of records.

The Saints were not the favorite in the Super Bowl; the powers that be in the NFL were predicting that Peyton Manning would out perform the Saints.  And the powers that be in the political world are predicting that Sarah Palin is a flash in the pan and could not even win the Republican nomination for president in 2012.

Hmmm.....Sarah has made some shrewd political decisions, not traditional decisions, but good decisions.  So have the Saints!  Drew Breas...surgery and a come back.  Sarah, resignation and a come back.

Most of the country underestimated the Saints; most of the country has underestimated Sarah Palin.  Football is not politics, but how America thinks about football and politics is about the same.

Bottom line.....the left should continue to attack Sarah for everything because she is a very real threat to them in 2010 and, I hope, in 2012.

State of the Union 2010

I have watched many State of the Union addresses ....never have I been lectured to so obviously.

President Obama has decided that "we the people" do not understand what he proposes and that all Republicans are evil and refuse to cooperate.

Never have so many been so wrong.  The American people do understand what what our legislative branch has tried to do; we have rejected it.  And no state could have sent a louder message than Massachuttes.

Our president chose to try to embarass the Supreme Court, a branch of government equal to the Executive branch and to the Legislative branch.  Of course the court justices are not able to talk to the press about  their decision, and Obama knows that, so Obama's word will reverberate with the MSM.

Obama did not hear the Scott heard round the world.  He dismisses the Tea Party Movement just as more of us join the movement.

He may well be one term president....and not one that created the "change" he wanted.

Republicans Beware

Scott Brown's win in MA on Tuesday gave a real boost to those of us that have been blogging and/or demonstrating against Obamacare.  The Democrats have taken a step back.

I am very afraid that Republicans will rest on their laurels and not put forth a cohesive plan to give Americans what they want....a plan to control cost, allow innovation, and keep us (the US) innovating.  Wow, is that a tall order. 

But, I believe we can do it....but not by national order.

Election Postponed in Hawaii?

In an article that has been buried on internet web sites and in my own local paper is the fact that one of Hawaii's congressmen is resigning next month to pursue a campaign for the governorship. The real news is that since Hawaii's election office has only a $5000 budget until July (I hope that includes the salaries of the personnel in the office) they have decided they may not hold a special election and just wait until the September primary elections and the November election.  Hawaii may be one congressperson short until then.

There is the possibility that an accounting error may turn up $1.3 million is funds, but a state legislator thinks that the money, if found to be available, could probably be better spent on the poor people in her state.

Although this story has been pretty much buried, I think it is worth front page news!  What are the responsibilities of states?  I suppose few state constitutions actually prioritize their functions, but it seems to me that holding elections in a timely manner should be at the top of any list that might exist.  It is seriously dangerous to do otherwise.

With many state budgets in trouble this year and a regularly scheduled election in November, what would happen if some of the states just postponed their elections until they had enough money to afford to hold them?  Or what if some misguided legislatures decided to spend the money on entitlements instead of the elections?  What would happen to our republic? 

Yes, this is pretty much over reacting.  But the thought that a state would just let a seat be empty until the regular election rolled around was pretty astounding to me.

http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/20100105/NEWS01/1050357