Meanwhile, North Korea continues to launch missile tests and threaten the U.S. with attacks if anything is done to prevent them or their pursuit of nuclear weapons. Our response, they are a “grave threat” and we are “looking into it.” Now, because the Bush Administration took North Korea off the terror list, we are trying to decide if we should put them back on. It is like the green, red and yellow cards my kindergartner gets at school. If they are having a good day, they keep the green card next to their name. When they start misbehaving, they get the yellow card for a warning, and when the teacher has had it, the red card goes up along with a note home. Right now, North Korea has a yellow card and we are trying to decide if we want to switch them to red and send a note to the mother of all foreign affairs, the dysfunctional United Nations.

We also had members of the Congressional Black Caucus visit Cuba. “Former President Fidel Castro is very engaging, very energetic,” said CBC Chairwoman Barbara Lee, a California Democrat. “Our conclusion is, given the new direction in our foreign policy, that it’s time to look at a new direction in our policy toward Cuba.” Lee and others gave much praise to Castro, saying that he was warm and receptive to them. Lee described her time with Castro as, “quite a moment to behold.” Representative Bobby Rush, an Illinois Democrat said, “It was almost like listening to an old friend”, and “In my household I told Castro he is known as the ultimate survivor.” I guess that would be true if your old friend is a communist tyrant who is a human rights abuser, suppresses free speech, fair elections and imprisons political dissenters.

Now we have our State Department telling its embassies and consulates around the world that “they may invite representatives from the government of Iran” to their Independence Day celebrations which are gatherings that usually have hot dogs, red-white-and-blue decorations, fireworks and is a general celebration of America, it’s roots and values. Nothing like a friendly barbecue to show that the communication lines are open with a government that wants to wipe Israel off the face of the earth and whose leader despises America.

This was announced right before Secretary Clinton went to El Salvador where she is trying to improve relations in Latin America because they are concerned about the influence that Iran has been gaining there. Of course while there, as is the pattern with the Democrats (they did it for eight years, so I guess habits are hard to break) Clinton blamed the Bush administration and their policy in Latin America for the Iranian influence.

Even with the ongoing violence taking place in Iran today, with protesters marching in the streets, risking their lives in opposition to the current government and their election controversy, State Department spokesman, Ian Kelly said, “There’s no thought to rescinding the invitations to Iranian diplomats. We have made a strategic decision to engage on a number of fronts with Iran. And — and we tried many years of isolation, and we’re pursuing a different path now.”

So to recap our foreign policy: we gave a plastic “red button” to Russia that didn’t translate correctly; we went to Mexico and falsely accused the U.S. of supplying bad guys with guns; told the people in Mexico City that they have a “marvelous Virgin”; begged China to buy up more of our debt because we can’t stop spending like drunken sailors; we sent Gitmo detainees off to live in a paradise governed by our ally without notifying them; we have scolded North Korea; engaged Fidel Castro, the communist dictator, and praised him; and now we are going to invite representatives from Iran to come and celebrate America’s birthday with hot dogs, which depending on what kind you buy, they can’t even eat because Muslims don’t eat pork. With three and a half years left to this administration and it’s foreign policy, I think the clown car is going to be really big.

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I think at some point during the primary season, Obama held a closed door meeting with those in the mainstream media and said this, “Look deep into my eyes. You are starting to feel very sleepy. I will count to ten and when I reach ten, you will come out of your deep sleep and believe the following until I clap my hands: Barack Obama is great, He will save this country, he will lower the sea levels, all his ideas are great, you will champion his policies even if they are at the demise of the United States of America, you will campaign, uh, I mean write glowing articles about him and how smart he is, you will not question anything he does or do any real reporting. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, wait, also, you must know that he is above everyone else and is God-like, ten. Thank you all for coming to this press conference and I hope that I answered all of your questions.”

Apparently, Obama has not clapped his hands yet. This is the only explanation for Evan Thomas, editor of Newsweek saying the following, “Well, we were the good guys in 1984, it felt that way. It hasn’t felt that way in recent years. So Obama’s had, really, a different task. We’re seen too often as the bad guys. And he, he has a very different job from … Reagan was all about America, and you talked about it. Obama is – we are above that now. We’re not just parochial, we’re not just chauvinistic, we’re not just provincial. We stand for something, I mean in a way Obama’s standing above the country, above above the world, he’s sort of God.”

Mr. Thomas went on “He’s going to bring all different sides together…Obama is trying to sort of tamper everything down. He doesn’t even use the word terror. He uses extremism. He’s all about let us reason together…He’s the teacher. He is going to say, ‘now, children, stop fighting and quarreling with each other.’ And he has a kind of a moral authority that he – he can – he can do that.”

And to reinforce this idea even more, he said this, “We’re understanding what Obama is. He is the great teacher. He is this guy that stands above everybody. There’s some condescension in it. But, he stands above everybody and says, ‘Now, listen. You people have to stop blaming each other unreasonably. You have to get along here and I am going to show you the way.’ It is a pretty brave role in many ways. ”

Those in the mainstream media with the “thrills running up their leg” over Obama and starry-eyed reporting of him, they can’t really believe what they are saying, can they? Do they realize how they look and sound to the American people with their reporting on this Administration, it’s policies and the current party controlling Congress? I am convinced that at some point, they were hypnotized and will continue to be until their fearless leader claps his hands and they snap out of it. This is has to be the explanation for anyone believing that Obama is God-like, that it is okay for him to have condescension and think he is above everyone, and that as President of the United States, he is above being about America.

Wait a minute, there are many not in the media who think the same way. He must have somehow used hypnosis on the citizens of the United States and maybe the only thing to save you from having your mind taken over by the smoothness and ill-truths of Barack Obama was and is the shield of knowing the Constitution of the United States, the history of this nation, the true nature of the enemies we face and the promise of freedom and greatness that this country stands for. Yes, that must be it.

“Rule one: Never allow a crisis to go to waste. They are opportunities to do big things.” These are the words of Barack Obama’s Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel. It appears that the President, his administration and a willing Democratic Congress are using Emanuel’s rule to push through their agenda, without questions, at the expense of the American people.

After Barack Obama became President, he quickly worked to pass his stimulus bill, The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. He claimed that “A failure to act, and act now, will turn crisis into a catastrophe and guarantee a longer recession, a less robust recovery, and a more uncertain future,” He pushed for such fast action that neither he nor Congress had time to actually read the bill, or maybe they didn’t care to, that spent $787 billion dollars. The White House estimates that the government will create a record $1.8 trillion budget deficit this year which is more than four times last year’s all-time high.

Since the passage of the stimulus bill, our economy has continued to decline and our unemployment rate is now at 9.4 percent, a 25 year high. Under Obama’s plan, the unemployment rate was supposed to peak at 8 percent. The answer President Obama has come up with now is to spend more money even faster, though he admitted in an interview, “Well, we are out of money now. We are operating in deep deficits, not caused by any decisions we’ve made on health care so far.”

Then came the announcement that Supreme Court Justice David Souter will retire in October. Once again, it must be a crisis because President Obama has set a deadline for a vote on nominee Sonia Sotamayor by the start of the Senate’s five-week recess in August, and Senator Leahy has obeyed. Leahy announced the confirmation hearings will begin on July 13.

Apparently Senator Leahy made the announcement of the confirmation hearings before letting the Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee know the date had been set. The Republicans had urged for the hearings to be set for September since there are ten times as many cases to review than Justice Roberts had. Hearings in September would allow plenty of time for Sotomayor to prepare to take over in early October.

Senator Jeff Sessions has now asked Sotomayor to provide more detail on her questionnaire because some of her answers were incomplete. “The least we can expect is complete and full answers,” commented Senator Sessions and six other Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee agreed and joined Sessions in his written request to Sotomayor. The Democrats are following the rule, hold the hearings quickly, while answers are incomplete and no one has time to comb through her records because it’s a crisis and, “they are opportunities to do big things.”

So now to health care. President Obama is now making the rounds and campaigning (the thing he does best) on fast passage of a health care bill. He said, “We can’t afford to put this off,” in a meeting with Senate Democrats. “This window between now and the August recess I think is going to be the make-or-break period. This is the time where we’ve got to get this running.”

Once again, we find ourselves with our President lecturing us on the need for fast action. Are we to move so fast again that there will be no time to actually read the bill? What happened to the promised 5 days of bills being out on the internet for the public to browse before being signed? Obama has said that rising health care costs are unsustainable for families, businesses and governments and wants immediate congressional action on a health care bill so it can be passed by the end of the year.

With the current administration, we can expect everything to be a crisis. Immediate action to a crisis with this administration and the Democrats in Congress, enables the them to pass legislation or Supreme Court nominees, without any real debate or questions. This just shows that in the arena of ideas and solutions, the Obama administration and the Democrats have none.

So I leave you with Rahm Emanuel’s words again, “Rule one: Never allow a crisis to go to waste. They are opportunities to do big things.” When will the American people wake up and pull the blanket of wool, that Obama and the Democrats have so intricately weaved, off of their eyes?

By: Kelli Krauss

General Motors is now owned by the government which has a majority 60 percent ownership. We the taxpayers will be pumping another 30 billion dollars into GM and this is on top of the 20 billion they have already received.

Upon the government takeover of the 100 year old car company, our President, Barack Obama said this, “I will not pretend the hard times are over. More jobs will be lost. More plants will close. More dealerships will shut their doors, and so will many parts suppliers. But I want you to know that what you’re doing is making a sacrifice for the next generation . . . so that your children and all of our children can grow up in an America that still makes things, that still builds cars, that still strives for a better future.”

We can’t forget what the President said while talking about possible tax increases in an interview with George Stephanopoulos “Everybody’s going to have to give,” Obama said. “Everybody’s going to have to have some skin in the game.”

On the eve of making a speech about sacrifice to GM employees, how some will lose their jobs but they need to look at the big picture and help the next generation, President Obama and his lovely wife, Michelle, flew to New York city for a “date night.” They had a cozy dinner, took in a Broadway show and then jetted back to D.C. Not a cheap trip when you tally up everything that had to be flown there and shut down for them. I bet there are a lot of GM employees that would have liked to take their wives on a “date night” to New York at the taxpayers expense.

Only a true elitist would say you sacrifice your job and income, but don’t forget to pay taxes on any income you do earn to pay for the bailout we are giving the company that demolished your job and to pay for my extravagant and overindulgent “date night.”

Let’s not forget how Obama scolded corporate executives when he said: “You can’t get corporate jets. You can’t go take a trip to Las Vegas, or go down to the Super Bowl on the taxpayers’ dime.”

Give me a break! Now the defense will start. Hey, President Bush took vacations and went on trips!! Yes, yes he did, but not all the while lecturing the taxpayers on how they need to have “skin in the game” and to “sacrifice” their job and income for the next generation. I, as I am sure most people, do not begrudge the President and First Lady for wanting a date night, but was there not a suitable place in Washington, D.C. that night?

Then comes the argument that he promised his wife while campaigning that he would take her to a Broadway show. To that I say, could he not have said this, “No honey, you can’t go to that Broadway show. Times are hard and I need to set an example. But I want you to know that what you’re doing is making a sacrifice for the next generation . . . so that your children and all of our children can grow up in an America that still makes things, that still builds cars, that still strives for a better future. So they can be taxed and pay for a President’s extravagant date night.”

By Kelli Krauss

At a town-hall-style meeting in Rio Rancho, New Mexico President Obama said, “We can’t keep on just borrowing from China. We have to pay interest on that debt, and that means we are mortgaging our children’s future with more and more debt.” He called the current deficit spending “unsustainable” and said that interest rates for consumers will go up if we continue to borrow from other countries.

Please excuse me while I bang my head against the wall!!! Is this not what we have been saying since January 20, 2009? Some of us have been saying it since the fall when the first financial rescue package was signed. This is what the Tea Parties on April 15th were about. More and more people are getting fed up with the spending in Washington and this Congress and Administration have been so good at it. Even John McCain, who I do not always agree with, called the current spending practices in Washington “generational theft”.

It is being reported that the Obama administration has revised it’s own estimates for the deficit this year to a record $1.84 trillion, which is up 5 percent from their February numbers and the 2010 deficit is being estimated at $1.26 trillion, up 7.4 percent from February.

Why is President Obama agreeing with us now? I guarantee it is not because he wants to stop spending. This is Obama paving the way for a tax increase and it will not be just for the “rich”. As he said during his campaign when gas prices were skyrocketing, “High gas prices are just fine by me, I just wish we could have raised them more slowly.” Will this be his model for tax increases?

Those of us who did not vote for him knew this was coming. So as the saying goes “Buyer beware”. Or in this case, “Obama-buyer beware”.

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by Kelli Krauss

I find it hard to believe that the same government body that was unable to properly run their own restaurants, cafeterias and coffee shops is now suggesting they take over health care for all Americans. In 2008, Congress voted to privatize the running of their dining areas after four decades of taxpayer bailouts. This is proof of how efficient the government is.

Obama’s first pick for HHS Secretary, Tom Daschle, wrote a book about health care and it is so telling of how those on the left want to control it. He states in the book that a Federal Health Board should be created to make decisions on proper treatment for the masses.

I don’t know about you, but the last group of people that I would want to be in charge of making health care decisions for me or my family would be some bureaucratic arm of the government. Those decisions should be made by the doctor and the patient.

Recently a doctor wanted to start a program where he would charge an individual $70 a month for any number of visits they needed. Sounds like a great plan right? Not to the government or the insurance lobby. That doctor is not allowed to offer such a plan.

Tort reform also needs to be addressed to solve the health care problem. If a doctor has to pay an astronomical amount in malpractice insurance, what happens to his operating costs? It goes up and that gets passed along to us. As long as we have an environment where people can sue a doctor for absolutely anything, we will have a problem with health care. Former Vice Presidential candidate, John Edwards, made his millions from these types of frivolous lawsuits.

There are many reasons why we have health care problems in the United States and there are many ways in which we can solve them. I promise you though, government take-over of it, is not the answer.