Taking advice from Bush and Obama?

So after playing the fear card to get the Nancy Pelosi money Stimulus giveaway package passed. President Obama is now telling people to buy stocks. Nothing has changed in Washington. George W. Bush told us to go shopping after 9/11 and now Obama is telling us to buy stocks. Both spent money we don't have with their fiscal irresponsibility.

STIMULUS & THE AUDACITY OF FEAR

"A failure to act, and act now, will turn crisis into a catastrophe." -- President Obama, Feb. 4.

Hmmm, that sounds just like President Bush now doesn't it.

Meet the new boss same as the old boss. Or Charles Krauthammer said in the Washington Post:

"So much for the president who in his inaugural address two weeks earlier declared "we have chosen hope over fear." Until, that is, you need fear to pass a bill. "

George Bush's Guava moment

At a press conference in Iraq yesterday President George Bush had two shoes thrown at him by an Iraqi journalist. This reminded me of the time of the time th locals in South America pelted Richard Nixon's limo with Guava fruit back in the fifties when he toured there. While the Iraqi man throwing the shoes had pretty good aim I was pretty impressed with George Bush. He may not have a quick mind but, his reflexes were pretty fast as he avoided being hit.

No more Kennedys!

Word of the street that another member of the elites is sniffing around for a government job. This time it's Caroline Kennedy daughter of President John F. Kennedy trying to put her butt down into the soon to be vacant Hillary Clinton Senate seat. ENOUGH already! It's time this country moved on and stop putting anymore Kennedy's into office. Though sometimes the policies they come up like Ted Kennedy's positions on illegal immigration are good for a laugh they tend to hurt middle class taxpayers in the long run. So I say no more Kennedys in government please and while we are at it the same goes for the Bushes.

And the Democrats are dumber.

You do not have to look to far to see that there is really no difference between the insane position of the Republicans and the Democrats when it comes to offshore oil drilling. It seems when the oil industry speaks about drilling for oil off our coasts even people like Barrack "change" Obama listen. Here is exhibit A:

"Obama said Friday that he would be willing to compromise on his position against offshore oil drilling if it were part of a more overarching strategy to lower energy costs.-CNN

But, back in June Obama was speaking a different tune:

"When I'm president, I intend to keep in place the moratorium here in Florida and around the country that prevents oil companies from drilling off Florida's coasts," Obama told reporters in Jacksonville in late June. "That's how we can protect our coastline and still make the investments that will reduce our dependence on foreign oil and bring down gas prices for good."

The fact is if you listen real close neither Juan McCain, the Dumbocrats like Obama or the oil companies are promising that if the oil companies get the moratorium lifted to drill off the U.S. coasts that the oil found will be used to provide energy to U.S. consumers. I will put this little tidbit of information in the "I told you so file" for later use.
Meanwhile back in the oil company board rooms:

"HOUSTON -Oil giants Chevron Corp. and Total SA wrapped up a string of gargantuan, record-breaking earnings reports Friday, a stretch in which six of the major international oil companies topped $50 billion in combined profit for the first time."

Hello suckers! Especially those who think voting for Obama means that there will be a real "change" in Washington.

The question of the day?

Ar least two dead in the Green Zone from rocket attacks. Bush out there talking about this being a test of the Iraqi government to control things. The question of the day:Is Baghdad burning?

Bush in Africa

"COTONOU, Benin - President Bush opened a coast-to-coast journey through Africa on Saturday by highlighting how U.S. aid can help a small western African nation like Benin develop and save lives. "- Associated Press

"Those dollars come with great compassion," Bush told Thomas Boni Yayi, the president of Benin. "We care when we see suffering. We believe we're all children of God."

Who exactly is this "we" George?


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The Stimulus Bill and the corruption that caused it.

President Bush and congress had their photo op yesterday with the signing of the "Stimulus" Bill. Since I have paid my bills and loans on time, saved money and had some investment and work income that will just barely put me over the threshold. I will probably not recieve a check from the IRS from this legislation. However, since the money for the refunds of the stimulus bill will be borrowed I will be helping to pay it back in the future. And they wonder why we taxpayers are getting so angry.

But, while the lapdog pack mainstream media is mostly drooling over the Roger Clemens testimony there are more important storys that deserve more attention from the media and we the people that are directly related to why the stimulas bill was even created. Luckily, Washington Post reporter Carrie Johnson has a look at the roots of this financial meltdown and the corruption that caused it. Here is one of the "money" quotes:

"FBI officials said yesterday that they are conducting criminal investigations of 16 companies, while their partners at the Securities and Exchange Commission are probing nearly two dozen more. Those federal investigations follow subpoenas from attorneys general in at least four states and class-action lawsuits that target home builders, lenders, credit-rating agencies and the banks that packaged groups of mortgages into securities. "


This is a much more important story than if Roger Clemens got needles stuck in his butt. I say to the FBI and Security and Exchange Commission investigators: GO GET EM!

What does this mean?

"President Bush and congressional leaders moved closer to agreeing on a compromise economic rescue package yesterday, fending off fresh protests from both the right and the left as they rushed to respond to a cascading series of economic troubles and to head off a potential recession." -Washington Post

I was boarding the Amtrak train at Union Station in Washington yesterday. When I looked up and saw a rainbow in the late afternoon sun. Is it just a coincidence that this rainbow appears after the Federal Reserve lowers the interest rates. Speaking of pots of money at the end of the rainbow. Here is another money quote:
" As markets roiled from a sharp sell-off around the world and the Federal Reserve cut interest rates at home, Bush met with House and Senate leaders to work out a package of tax breaks for consumers and businesses. In an important concession to Democrats, Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. signaled that he is open to including breaks even for those who pay little to no income taxes. "
I just hope that the Democrats and Bush mean that they will make sure that this money they want to give to people "who pay little of no income tax" will be Americans and not illegal immigrants who will send this money off to Mexico and other countries instead of it being spent here in the United States for our economy.

George Bush's Shahing moment.

As people get arrested and Pakistan goes under Marshall Law. George Bush in a White House photo op is hopping mad and tells General Musharraf to take off his uniform. Looks like people seem to have forgotten about the Shah of Iran and how it works out in the end when you tolerate tyrannies because the tyrant is friendly to us. Here is the money quote:

"A Bush administration official who works on Pakistan issues acknowledged that with the United States having already invested so much in General Musharraf, there was little Washington could do in response to the Pakistani president’s actions that did not have the potential to undermine American goals."-New York Times

The View from Washington

During my extended stay in Washington I decided to head over to the National Gallery of Art on Thursday to see the Edward Hopper exhibit. As I crossed Pennsylvania Ave. I noticed there was virtually no cars on the street even though it was midday. So I took this shot of the Capitol. I soon found out why there were no cars.

It seems Bush, Cheney or both were off to somewhere and that's why the streets were empty of cars. Because I was taking this picture I could not give the proper salute that I really wanted to give.

Solar Decathalon and the winner is...

I was down at the mall last week here in Washington D.C. where the Solar Decathlon was being held. This is a competition from universities around the world where students compete to build an energy efficient house. This years winner is Technische Universität Darmstadt who come from Germany. Which incidentally is going very heavy into solar power for energy use. Surprising to see that Al Gore did not show up I guess he's too busy after his winning the Nobel Peace prize for his power point demonstration to show up. Also missing was President George Bush who despite the fact that the Solar Decathlon was being held only a two minute walk from the back door of the White House never showed up. He went fishing instead or should I say fission.

Another reason why I won't be voting for Hillary

Well, Hillary Clinton has giving this lifelong registered Democrat another reason not to vote for her. She suppports New York Governor Spitzer's rewarding illegal immigrants with a drivers license"

" I KNOW EXACTLY WHAT GOVERNOR SPITZER’S TRYING TO DO AND IT MAKES A LOT OF SENSE, because he’s trying to get people out of the shadows. He’s trying to say,“O.K., come forward and we will give you this license.”- Hillary Clinton

Yeah he is also saying it's ok to break our laws we will still reward you with the right to drive. Jeez. First she agrees with George Bush and now she agrees with the deranged Idiot Spitzer. She wants to bring the illegals "out of the shadows". Have her come out here to my middle class community. I'll show here plenty of illegals who are standing around and they are not in the shadows. They are flaunting their illegality because of the failures of those in the Federal Government like her and Bush who have failed to protect our borders and enforce our immigration laws. Hillary Clinton like George Bush and Eliot Spitzer just don't get it:
"WHEN YOU REWARD ILLEGALITY YOU GET MORE OF IT!"

Forget Osama here is something to worry about.

Looking for a nice peaceful get away to the lake? Think again.

"A killer amoeba living in lakes enters the body through the nose and attacks the brain where it feeds until you die."

Here's the good news:
Even though encounters with the microscopic bug are extraordinarily rare,

and the bad news:

it's killed six boys and young men this year. The spike in cases has health officials concerned, and they are predicting more cases in the future.
According to the CDC, the amoeba called Naegleria fowleri killed 23 people in the United States, from 1995 to 2004. This year health officials noticed a spike with six cases — three in Florida, two in Texas and one in Arizona. The CDC knows of only several hundred cases worldwide since its discovery in Australia in the 1960s.

Hmmm... A brain eating Amoeba? I wonder if they have checked the ponds around the Bush's ranch in Crawford Texas.

Deal or no deal?

The Washington Post reports:
"The oil deal signed between Hunt Oil and the government in Iraq's Kurdish region earlier this month has raised eyebrows, in no small part because it appears to undercut President Bush's hope that Iraq could draft national legislation to share revenue from the country's vast oil reserves. Making the deal more curious is that it was crafted by one of the administration's staunchest supporters, Ray Hunt."

or is it a deal?

"Any oil deal has no standing as far as the government of Iraq is concerned," Iraq's oil minister, Hussain al-Shahristani, told reporters earlier this month. "All these contracts have to be approved by the federal authority before they are legal. This [contract] was not presented for approval. It has no standing."

Welcome to the New Iraq.

There's something in the wind.

The elitist limo liberal Senator Ted Kennedy is at it again. First it was his leading role in trying to ram through the illegal immigrant amnesty bill through the Senate. Now he is continuing to fight offshore wind energy projects off the coast of Nantucket because as his nephew Robert Kennedy Jr put it:
"the project would be built in one our family’s favorite sailing and yachting areas.”
As U.S. troops continue to die in Iraq to make sure that we will have access to it's oil fields and alternative energy sources like wind power would decrease our dependence on this oil. It has become increasingly clear that we need to take back our country from family political elites like the Kennedy's and the Bush's because they are only going to do what is good for their own interests and not what is good for America.

Money for nothing

Speaking of energy the Washington Post reports on a GAO report on another fine mess that George Bush got us into in Iraq:
"Iraq's crucial oil and electricity sectors still need roughly $50 billion to meet demand, analysts and officials say, even after the United States has poured more than $6 billion into them over more than four years."
How long can this nonsense go on? How much money do we taxpayers have to spend to fix this disaster. But, most importantly how much more blood will be spent for oil.

Bush law.

Now that George Bush's former drinking buddy and legal water boy Alberto R(aza) Gonzales is being deported out of the Justice Department. It appears that the arrogance of George Bush seems to show he still does not get it as evidenced by these quotes from today's Washington Post:

"Democratic Senate leaders have called on the White House to consult them closely during the selection process, but administration officials warned yesterday that the president intends to nominate an attorney general who agrees with his policies. "It is the president's prerogative to appoint someone who shares his views," a senior administration official said"

Shares his views? Like having an open border? Like not prosecuting people who have entered the country illegally until they have been caught six times. If that's the case he basically wants someone who does not uphold the law.

"They're less concerned about confirmability and more concerned about the candidate's ability to steer affairs in away that is consistent with good problem-solving down the road," said a lawyer familiar with the selection process. "That means some combination of being a straight arrow and having a forceful presence, along with the diplomatic skills necessary to deal with the Hill."

TRANSLATION: They want someone who will protect George Bush's ass no matter what arrogant and harmful policy he dreams up. It's less important that the Attorney General enforce U.S. law it's more important to defend and protect the Bush family especially George Bush.

Going, going Gonezales!

George W. Bush's legal waterboy Alberto (R.) Gonzales has finally resigned. Like an illegal immigrant Gonzales has been cleaning up the mess left by his gringo boss Jorge Bush for years. You knew to question his honesty when he announced that he was adding an "R" to his name but, said the R stood for nothing. Though people like me thought the R was his code word for "La Raza" the pro illegal immigrant group of Hispanics. I guess when your family has come here illegally it is seems it is easier for people like Gonzales to lie. twist and hide from the law. Like many of the illegals and their advocates Gonzales attempted to play the sympathy card with lines like:
"Even my worst days as attorney general have been better than my father's best days."
All the while refusing to explain how his family came into the United States. Nothing like having an Attorney General who has a family background of breaking the law. Meanwhile we had a mainstream press and columnists all too willing to overlook this issue. But, Gonzales' family history is what made it easy for Gonzales to do a Mexican hat dance with the law at the Justice Department and all through his career. Alberto Gonzales is the poster boy for Senator Grassley's observation that: "If your reward illegality you get more of it!" Like an illegal immigrant when caught Gonzales often used the No habla English defense when testifying before congress only he was proficient enough to say "I don't recall"

A Roving he will go.

"WASHINGTON - Karl Rove, a political adviser to U.S. President George W. Bush and a lightning rod for anger among Democrats, will leave the White House at the end of this month, Rove told the Wall Street Journal."-Washington Post

I guess it won't be long before Bush's brain will have left the building.