It looks like the summer is really over. President Barack Obama will hold a news conference at the White House on September 10. The last time this happened was in May when President Obama was forced to address the Gulf oil spill. The White House said President Obama would use the news conference as an opportunity to discuss his administration’s work on the economy, or lack there of. This is the way the President has acted in the past as after the conference he goes on a road trip to Wisconsin and Ohio for economic events. This of course is chock full campaign money raising event for the Democratic Party. We have seen this President stay away from news conferences, preferring instead to communicate through one-on-one media interviews. It is hard for him to speak without a teleprompter. The white house is more afraid then it has been in the past with the press corp. The love affair with this President is coming to an end and after mid term elections, when he is out of majority nobody will care what he says anymore. Remember in 1994 when Newt Gingrich had a contract with America while President Clinton sat in the White House basically watching politics and nations business happen without him. We a little luck we can relieve that with President Obama in the role of President Clinton.
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The Obama administration widened the scope of U.S. financial penalties against North Korea, escalating pressure on the Pyongyang regime to give up its nuclear weapons. The Treasury Department is freezing the assets of several individuals, companies and organizations allegedly linked to Pyongyang’s nuclear program. The Treasury Department also said that additional U.S. sanctions would be announced in the weeks ahead. President Barack Obama issued an executive order that penalizes certain North Korean activities said to violate U.N. Security Council resolutions. These activities include arms sales, money laundering, the counterfeiting of goods and currency, bulk cash smuggling and drug trafficking. The administration also froze the assets of three other individuals and five other North Korean organizations. This is not new as Secretary of State Clinton had announced this intention to expand sanctions against North Korea when she was in Seoul in July. Clinton said at the time that new U.S. sanctions were meant to warn Pyongyang to resist further military provocations. It was good they waited for former President Jimmy Carter to return from his trip to North Korea last week. There is a world agreement that North Korea is believed to have enough weapons-grade plutonium for at least half a dozen atomic bombs. The threats of five nations China, Russia, South Korea, the U.S. and Japan have not convinced North Korea to dismantle its nuclear program in exchange for aid and other concessions.
The race in West Virginia to fill the Senate seat vacated by the late Robert C. Byrd is taking shape. Governor Joe Manchin won the Democratic nomination and will face GOP primary winner John Raese. Byrd was elected to a record ninth term in 2006 the state Legislature decided on a primary date about two weeks later and gave candidates just four days to register and about a month to campaign. We can expect that Manchin’s support will be from coal and utility industries as they provided more than a quarter of the $1.2 million he has raised. We think this is a election that can be taken as if you remember President Obama lost West Virginia in 2008. Republican nominee John McCain won handily with 56 percent of the vote. John Raese, was the last person to lose to Byrd in 2006. Mountain Party candidate Jesse Johnson is also vying for the seat in November. This is a classic case of hard working union members supporting the party line. The battle they will raise is the rich Republican business man so we will hear the same old arguments from both sides. This is not going to be easy to beat a popular governor with union support so just because he has the money it is an up hill climb for Raese.
Let agree to uneven the playing field is the message that came out of Martha Vineyard, Massachusetts from President Obama today. The shame he is trying to pull of is telling Americans Republicans should join him in opposing a Supreme Court ruling that vastly increased how much corporations and unions can spend on campaign ads. Somehow how thought this was forced on the Supreme Court and that the GOP wants to keep the public in the dark about who is behind where the money comes from. We do not blame the GOP at all because when the money starts rolling in it is coming from corporations. The unions do not have enough to compete and with 10% unemployment gripping the land neither does all those hope and changers from two years ago. President Obama wants money out of politics so he can go back to what works hand out for illegal’s and poor people keeping them down and beholding to his administration. Money is the great equalizer and when the dust settles on November second, the corporation dollars are going to flow against every incumbent, healthcare voting, and cap n trade liberal they can oust. This is a big issue as ad time will be swallowed up quickly and Democrats know they cannot compete. The Republican fired back in their address like they do not know what is really going accusing Democrats of out-of-control spending and taxing, arguing in favor of slashing government expenditures instead of worrying about election cycle politics.
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Remember the old adage if you keep telling yourself something over and over again you start to believe it. We believe that is the case for crazy Vice President Joe Biden who went out on a limb boldly predicted that voters would reject Republican tea party candidates. This is further proof this bozo is numb to the primaries that have already happened. Crazy Joe was not done there. Then he went on to say Democrats would retain control of Congress this November. This group may have won with smoke and mirrors the last time but the incompetence, inexperienced, naïve, flip flop regime has been exposed for the fraud that it is. The hope and change machine is out of gas and there is no filling station in sight. Wacko Joe thinks he is going to wake up on November third with a Democratic majority in the House and a Democratic majority in the Senate, adding that Democrats will do better than expected in gubernatorial races, too. We understand this speech was to the DNC at a two-day meeting. This just shows you how out of touch with real America these guys happen to be. The only truth is come November all 435 House seats, 37 Senate seats and 37 governors races are on the line. As each day passes the news is their worst enemy the Labor Department reported that the number of people applying for unemployment benefits reached the half-million mark last week for the first time since November. There is no one but foolish Joe that would bet on anything he was selling, when the dust clears on November second the country will be closer to the middle leaning to the right. The last time the country had a President and Congress this messed up, Republicans held the White House from 1980 to 1992.
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Funny the thing that can happen on the way to the coliseum, so true as Senator Sam Brownback has placed a hold on President Obama’s nominee to be U.S. ambassador to Turkey. This is due to a century-old dispute that has been in Congress for decades. Francis Riccardione’s nomination is on hold due to Senator Sam Brownback belief that the U.S. Congress where he sponsored the resolution to recognize Armenian Genocide that may have taken places during World War I by Turkey. Congress has never passed a resolution and no president ever said genocide during the annual April proclamation marking Armenian Remembrance Day. If you remember Candidate Barack Obama pledged recognition for the Armenian plight. The bigger problem is Turkey made a side deal with Brazil and Iran over trading nuclear fuel undermining sanctions by the United Nations. There is also the issue of vocal support by Turkey about its relations with neighboring Iran simultaneous with diminishing relations with one-time ally Israel. President Obama is in tough shape over this one as relations with Turkey could go either way and to take on the issue of a genocide resolution in order to get Riccardione confirmed seems unwarranted based on the bigger picture. It is to bad this administration of Ivy League elitist do not have any people in the administration with world standing as the reason there is respect or dialog is the world knows President Obama and his administration as not ready for prime time and this is another example.
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Here is a shocking revelation and another chance to be called a birther. The Obama administration has come out opposed to something the country is mostly in favor of. The administration says it is wrong to try to change the constitutional amendment that grants automatic citizenship to babies born in the United States. This is not shocking as the president himself would not be president without this amendment. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says she is surprised that Republican congressional leaders are joining a push to reconsider the 14th Amendment instead of working with Democrats on comprehensive immigration reform. Here is a new flash it is called doing what the people are asking for as we out here are fed up giving a free ride while hard working American citizens are unemployed or paying for more undocumented citizens. It was a triple header when White House spokesman Robert Gibbs says President Barack Obama agrees with Napolitano. We would like to also declare that Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky has said he supports holding hearings to reconsider the citizenship rights of the illegal immigrant’s babies born in the U.S. We know this is election season hyperbolae but is it any clearer that the leadership in Washington is so out of touch.
We were told if we pump 787 Billion dollars into the economy in the dead of night in early 2009 we would never see unemployment over 8%. That was wrong and the person that said it is leaving. So is it any surprise that 18 months later that New applications for unemployment insurance rose to their highest level in almost six months. First time claims for jobless benefits edged up by 2,000 to a seasonally adjusted 484,000, while of course analysts had expected a drop. This is the highest total since February and initial claims have risen three of the last four weeks. We are only 6,000 applications away from the high point of the year. Back in January, we peaked at 490,000. Is it no wonder Tuesday the Federal Reserve lowered its assessment of the recovery? The focus of this President should not be vacations, running around the country campaigning, or fighting for global warming bills. The only thing on his desk should be ideas on job creation as we are falling down again. The difference is this time he and lame stream media cannot blame Bush. We are also hopefully not going to fall for another American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, which we knew was not going to work. These pages said back then it would have been wiser and went further to give each American tax payer a credit card to by items and jump start the economy that way then this failed piece of legislature.
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Maybe we should have gone with match on. Now that former World Wrestling Entertainment CEO Linda McMahon, the newly nominated Republican Senate candidate in Connecticut is set to run against Democrat Richard Blumenthal she is ready to fight. Republican Senate candidate Linda McMahon appeared on a network news program ABC’s “Good Morning America, saying she is willing to spend whatever it takes to win. McMahon has made millions with her involvement with World Wrestling Entertainment. She threw the number that must have made democrats choke; she plans to spend up to $50 million of her own money in the fall. Even in highbrow Connecticut that is a lot of personal coin to drop on a senate race, we wonder if Democrat Richard Blumenthal has come out of shock when he heard the news. She told ABC that it’s money I’ve earned. It’s money I’m willing to invest. This is going to be a good one as we move toward November second. Richard Blumenthal is not in the same league as the lawyer has been the Attorney General of Connecticut since 1991. The good news is current senator in the seat Christopher Dodd will not have a job. There is one person who you would love to see on the unemployment line, the problem is he has healthcare for life and collects a pension the day after Linda McMahon is sworn in.
One again there is more proof that this election is going to be played by Tea Party rules. America has adopted the Tea party Contract for America and seems to be running with it. Tea Party candidate Ken Buck a Weld County prosecutor has defeated former Lt. Gov. Jane Norton to clinch Colorado’s Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate. The Tuesday vote proves that politicians with close connections to Washington are an endangered species. Lt. Gov. Jane Norton had been endorsed by GOP leaders and she co-chaired John McCain’s presidential campaign in Colorado. We are not sure calling her a Washington insider is fair as she has never been in Washington. The bottom line is this is guilt by association. On the democrat side, they clearly did not get the memo from the nation as they sent Democratic Senator Michael Bennet even though his primary challengers tried a relentless anti-establishment assault. In fairness to Bennet he was only appointed last year after predecessor Ken Salazar became Interior Secretary. This is the match up and it appears to be a good one as Weld County prosecutor Republican Tea Party candidate Ken Buck versus former superintendent of Denver Public Schools appointed Senator Michael Bennet in November.
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This President told us he would change Washington. He said it was going to be different. Today was another example of how nothing changed and everything is the same as it ever was. The House pushed through an emergency $26 billion jobs bill that Democrats said would save 300,000 teachers, police and others from election-year layoffs. President Barack Obama immediately signed it into law. The troublesome thing is these people do not understand you cannot keep spending at sometime you have to cut. They never do and look like never will. If we need to give money to fund unemployment, and the stimulus then somebody has give back. We understand losing 300,000 teachers and police is bad. Does anyone really believe that number? Does anyone think the union would let it happen? This one-day expensive session was a giveaway to teacher union and another example of wasteful Washington spending. The vote was 247-161 the only good news is the aid for the states is to be paid for mostly by closing a tax loophole used by multinational corporations and by reducing food stamp benefits for the poor. The legislation provides $10 billion to school districts to rehire laid-off teachers and an additional $16 billion would extend for six months increased Medicaid payments to the states. That would free money for states to meet other budget priorities, including keeping more than 150,000 police officers and other public workers on the payroll. Today your government spent another $26 billion they did not have to give money to states that already spent it and factored into their budgets when will it end when does it stop?
It really has been like Christmas this summer. The primary season has been fun it looks like Charlie Rangel is going to have to walk away, the President is losing people and the unemployment is stuck. Can the new get any better for a November second mid-term elections? Yes it can the House ethics committee announced three counts of alleged ethics violations against California Democrat Maxine Waters, including a charge that she requested federal help for a bank where her husband owned stock and had served on its board. Do not let this shake your confidence in the system. Max gets the Maxine Waters is a 10-term representative from Los Angeles. She has denied any wrongdoing and had urged the committee to come forth with details of the charges so that she can defend herself in a trial expected to take place this fall. Her three counts is trumped by Rangel, 13. The best part is Waters chairs the Financial Services subcommittee on housing and community opportunity. It is amazing how the power and graft these people wheel blinds them to right and wrong. Waters contends that the National Bankers Association requested the meeting, which was held on behalf of the association, not OneUnited. When it all comes out the bottom line is OneUnited received $12 million in bailout money. Waters husband financial interest in OneUnited was about $175,000 which would have been worthless if OneUnited had not received federal funds. Waters has tried to say she has always been an advocate on behalf of minority banks, except OneUnited is not in California, so for her to allow them to benefit on her behalf is engaging in improper action or influenced.
Get your popcorn this is going to be a good one. We love C-Span and it is great when it is debate season as you can see races from other cities. The best will be a square off between California Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer slated to debate her Republican challenger, Carly Fiorina, on September first. This will happen at St. Mary’s College in the eastern San Francisco Bay area city of Moraga. The San Francisco Chronicle, KTVU-TV and KQED public radio are co-sponsors of the hour-long evening debate. This should be a great debate not just because of the differences on the range of issues, including job-creation and the role of government. We think this is going to be great television because Barbara Boxer the three terms Senator is well spoken and even though a wackoo believes in her convictions. We always love when a business person run as they have a proven track record of actually doing things which is a hurdle for a politician to prove. The former Hewlett-Packard Co. CEO is running for the first time and is reminiscent of the Mitt Romney Ted Kennedy race of 2004. Romney a very successful businessman was running against a life long politician and tried to make a track record of solving problems on to Washington. This is a different time and we think boxer is beatable let go Carly.
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We know in every presidency you have appointments that are going to last 2 years, 4 years even more. It is funny that this administration is having trouble keeping folks even two years. What is more revealing is the people leaving from the economic team. They always like for past presidents say the leaving was planned, family commitment or burnt out from rigorous schedule. We have a feeling this is something more. Christina Romer announced resignation as the chairwoman of the Council of Economic Advisers to return to a post at the University of California at Berkeley. This follows the July departure of Peter Orszag as director of the Office of Management and Budget. Christina Romer, was the only woman in the inner circle of the President Obama economic advisers and has had a reported tense relations with Lawrence Summers, the director of the National Economic Council. We will miss Romer it was her who said unemployment would not top 8 percent if Obama’s $787 billion stimulus package became law. We feel that this is more of people running away before they can be blamed for no jump start to the economy. We know that at some point this is going to turn ugly as the blame is going to someday point all the way to the top. If the senate and house flip Republican in the fall we are going to see the real infighting begin. It always better to resign and walk away then be fired as a scapegoat.
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It is Thursday night let us try to get out the vote. Here are some great candidates we need to support in the upcoming election on November 2, 2010. The conservatives have got to take back the House. It would be great if they could also capture back the Senate. The truth is everything is up for grabs and it could go either way. The way incumbents are going down it is any ones guess right now. Never forget the Stimulus Bill passed in the dark of night, Bailouts for Wall Street, Banks and GM, Healthcare passed after weeks of backroom deals. There have been two terrible Supreme Court Justice Confirmations, and the Attorney General handing rights down to the state of Arizona. We all can say if this is the change the democrats hoped for, they must be crazy.
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Another election day and the list of incumbents on the unemployment line is still growing. We love every Tuesday as each one brings more gloom for the lifetime pols. Every time you think of all the backroom deals and the climate of Washington it is a refreshing change that new blood is on the way. Michigan takes care of business by ousting Representative Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick. She had won seven straight terms, but will be denied an eighth. If you are keeping score and we are that is the sixth, the fourth in the House. We cannot wait for more primaries over the next two months. The balance in Washington will change if not democrat to republican at least by those who believe they are owed favors. Imagine all the pork and expectations lost, the war chest of fund raising, and the plain beauty of it all. Political newcomer Rick Snyder is the Republican nominee against Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero in the Michigan race to succeed outgoing Democratic Governor Jennifer Granholm. Michigan has the nation’s second-highest unemployment rate at 13.2 percent. This has only been the case for a couple of months as Nevada is now leading the way with 14.2 Percent with the last numbers from June.
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It is funny how you never think these things are possible. Then you find out companies in bankruptcy pay their CEO a bonus for driving them into the toilet. You can justify that as it is a private company and if that is how they operate it will kill them in the end. Did you know it happens in Washington? President Barack Obama has frozen any cash bonuses or similar discretionary pay boosts for political appointees. Having a government job with free healthcare and a pension we thought was enough. Turns out is not as you can get a bonus for spending tax payer money while being accountable to no one. The president called this a prudent example of cost-cutting at a time when many families are just trying to get by financially. This is going to affect at least 2,900 people on the federal payroll, it is good to know that close to 3,000 people earned cash bonuses and discretionary pay boosts. The move will save about $1.9 million a year. President Obama hinted there could be a salary freeze for senior political appointees throughout the government, but needs approval of Congress. The freeze takes effect immediately and lasts through the budget year ending September 2011. This does not apply to all federal workers only those that are political appointees. We do not mind paying for performance but the bottom line is the results on the first 557 days of this administration are poor and there is no way to justify cash bonuses or discretionary pay boosts anytime soon.
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The Fox News Channel has been granted a much-coveted front-row seat in the White House briefing room. Thanks to the fact the Helen Thomas went loony, or loonier. The White House Correspondents Association reports that an Associated Press reporter will be moved to the front-row center seat previously occupied by Helen Thomas since 1960. This means that the Fox correspondent will be able to jump up a row into the AP’s empty front-row seat. The red headed step child of the liberal elite National Public Radio, will move their correspondent up one row to the Fox old second-row seat. There was quite a battle for this seat as the players were Bloomberg News, NPR, AP and Fox lobbied for the Thomas seat. This sparked outrage from both Working Assets and MoveOn.org. They actually tried to claim it should have been given to NPR because they have no political lean. Anyone who has ever listened to NPR for more than a half hours know this is false. The best part of the story is that the upgrade was given to Fox as an acknowledgment of their length of service and commitment said the White House Correspondents Association board. We have to wonder if this was President Obama’s people throwing a bone to Fox. The President has been tough on them and on November third he is going to need all the friends he can get.
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Representative Charles Rangel is going to use a three-way defense for his list of 13 alleged ethical issues. I didn’t do it, I did it, but was inattentive. We want a public trial this fall that can be in the middle of the election season. The Democratic candidates can try to back peddle as they defend their party’s ethics. They se it coming as at least six Democrats have asked Representative Charles Rangel the 20-term lawmaker to resign. If we could double dip and get Representative Maxine Waters, to face an ethics trial at the same time it would be a great fall. She was bagged improperly trying to help a bank, where her husband owned stock that was seeking a federal bailout. We hope the writing is on the wall for Rangel, who is 80, the former chairman of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee. For good time Charlie to say that his soliciting donations from corporate deep pockets and foundations that went to the Rangel Center at City College of New York are not suspicious as at best. Rangel did not have to grant any political favors, but it is a total misuse of his public office for private gain. Will we ever be able to prove Rangel used the Ways and Means Committee to provide preferential treatment or favors to potential contributors, probably not? We do know hundreds of thousands of dollars in assets and income were reported years after they should have been. Rangel’s voluntary revisions on those forms shows guilt alone and he should want to step down. This is not in a Democrats nature as there is no blame big enough and no scandal that cannot be pushed a side. All we can hope is a September trial and November fallout inline with November 2.
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We do not want to pile on a bad situation but one has to wonder as the estimates of the number of graves at Arlington National Cemetery that might be affected by mix-ups grew from hundreds to as many as 6,600. Is this not going to be the same problems we fear with national healthcare? The cemetery’s former superintendent blamed his staff and a lack of resources which is exactly the mess we are expecting for national healthcare. John Metzler, seems like a stand up guy as he ran the military burial ground for 19 years, and has accepted full responsibility for the problems. Army investigators have a conclusion and Metzler disagreed saying it was turnover of cemetery employees and the poor technology that they were using for tracking. This is the same fate we expect as when national healthcare is being run by a government agency that has no idea how to administrate these two dynamics will collide. The remains that may have been misidentified or misplaced because the system used to track grave sites was relying on mostly a complicated paper trail which was vulnerable to errors. Let us hope the government can handle healthcare with more technology including checks and balances. How silly does that sentence sound based on the story we reference.
