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Bob LovellAlaska Governor Sarah Palin has issued a brief statement today that she will resign as Governor later this month and will not seek reelection. Noticeably missing from her statement was any reason for this decision.
So here are some Top Possible Reasons for Sarah Palin's resignation:
We Americans like to assert that democracy is the best form of government, and that our country does it better than anyone. But, as we approach our Independence Day, how many of us really understand what democracy means?
It is no secret the unions helped, if indeed they were not critical in, President Obama get elected; it is estimated they spent over a billion dollars in union dues to ensure his election. The list of Obama’s “paybacks” for the union support are fairly well documented, starting with his repeal of Executive Order 13201, signed by President Bush, which said private-sector employees could be forced to pay some union dues, but could not be forced to pay any dues or fees earmarked for union politics, lobbying, and other non-bargaining activities. This was repealed only two weeks into Obama’s administration. Clearly now the unions can spend even more money supporting Democrats and other leftists.
Obama famously said he was “deeply concerned” about the election results in Iran and “It is not productive, given the history of US-Iranian relations, to be seen as meddling” so he didn’t want to comment on it. He followed that with he did not want to make the US the issue with the protestors so the rulers couldn’t blame the Great Satan again. He also made some weak statement about he wasn’t sure that the election results were actually wrong so Ahmedinejad could have been elected by the people.
I’ve been accused of nothing but Obama bashing, so I thought I’d write a post on what I see as the positive things Obama has done. As I vehemently disagree with leftist positions, the list is logically fairly short, but not everything he has done is bad—except in the economic realm.
Now that it seems the Iranian “revolution” has been put down by force and it doesn’t appear, to me, to have any chance of resurrection in the near future, I would be curious to hear how Obama supporters and opponents feel the President did in the crisis. Was he measured and Presidential? Was he a coward? Was he the ideal mixture of reason and calm calculation?
The “People’s House” took another step toward idiocy yesterday in approving the remarkably flawed and absurdly named “American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009” by a vote of 219-212. While eight Democrats (actually it was 44, my error-tk) as well as eight Republicans crossed party lines, our Michigan representatives dutifully voted right along party lines; all eight Democrats supported it and all seven Republicans opposed. The American Conservative Party looks very good to me right now. This abysmal piece of legislation was supported by President Obama who “declared global warming and energy independence among his top priorities, and Friday evening he hailed the House vote.” Not surprisingly, Al Gore was in on this too as well as the rest of the usual suspects. Let’s see what this does.
Seems like everyone Obama tapped for an appointive office had tax problems of some sort or another; no wonder he makes use of the czars who don’t have to be approved or vetted by the Senate. On the other hand, it seems like every current Republican has a sex problem of some sort. Vice and dishonesty seem to be the only bipartisan things in Washington. Disgusting.
Every state is entitled to have two US Senators represent them. Except, apparently, Minnesota.
Al Franken ran as a Democratic challenger to incumbent Republican Senator Norm Coleman last year. It was a very close election, and the candidates requested recounts of various parts of the state, which was perfectly reasonable. The recounts showed Al Franken to be the winner.
And here we are, 7 months later, and Senator-elect Franken has not been sworn in or seated.
Who? For those of you who ignore possible ethics lapses in Washington with the change in administrations, you may not want to learn about Gerald Walpin, the former Inspector General (IG) of the Corporation for National and Community Service, the organization that runs AmeriCorps. This is another of the “private-public” partnership organizations that hands out taxpayers’ money for (hopefully) worthy causes. If you are not familiar with our government operations, the IG has a unique place in the functioning of organizations. In fact, the IG is so unique there is a special law, not a regulation but an actual law, that covers the firing of an IG; it “requires the president to give Congress 30 days' notice, plus an explanation of cause, before firing an inspector general.” It is hard to believe Obama was not familiar with the 2008 Inspectors General Reform Act as he was one of the sponsors while in the Senate; looking at how Democrats neglect to read the laws they pass though, perhaps he didn’t know what it said.
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