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A Comedian in the White House...I Kid You Not!

Posted by New-Politico.Org on Friday, March 20, 2009 8:54:53 PM
Yesterday night the President of the United States of America, the most powerful man on the planet, was on a late night comedy show. This was a first time. Now that the precedent has been set, I am fairly sure it will not be the last time. This is a pity. This is a terrible shame. I feel that it degrades the office of the President. It lowers the station of our chief executive to that of every brainless starlet or drug deranged celebrity who has ever been dragged across the Tonight Show set. Entertainers, most of them, are singularly without any self-esteem. This is evident by the way they dress, by the way they live their lives and by the way they raise their children. How many Americans would want any one of a host of movie idols raising their children? Yet, that is what our President lowered himself to last night. It is fine for the President to be interviewed in the White House or in a Hotel room by a reporter who has obtained permission to do so. The questions may be serious or lighthearted, but for the President to appear in a forum that is meant to entertain is out of place and demeaning. Campaigning politicians have frequently visited late night television land, but they are ordinary citizens running for office and hoping to reach as many people as possible, to convey their message. The President, especially this President, given the unbridled, unfettered, wide-eyed fascination/admiration that the media have for him, could summon up all three networks and a host of cable stations to give him a half hour slot in prime time for him to talk to the people. Brian Williams, Katie Couric, Larry King, Anderson Cooper, Charlie Gibson and Chris Matthews would come running; heavily slobbering all the way. He does not have to lower himself to the level of a David Letterman, a Jay Leno or heaven forgive us all, a Jon Stewart, with an audience, in attendance, responding to applause signs.
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IS AIG HIRING?

Posted by New-Politico.Org on Wednesday, March 18, 2009 2:28:05 PM
I am job hunting. If I don't find work soon, I will loose my home. One I have lived in for thirty years. I have cut back on every luxury I enjoyed in the recent past to conserve my severely reduced income.
As you read this Ed Liddy is addressing congress.

He is making all kinds of excuses as to why AIG has to give out the bonuses that everyone is upset about. He wants to keep the company going so that they can pay back the tax payer. If you believe that you are an unsuspecting simpleton, and if I do, so am I. Liddy says he has asked all those who received bonuses to return them, if they received more than $100,000. Liddy would not say who these people were. Barney Frank has threatened to subpoena their names. Liddy says that death threats have been received. His request for secrecy is merely to protect his employees. The payments made were retention payments. Payments made to keep employees in place. Employees who failed, miserably, at what they had to do. We, the people, kept them solvent. Why does AIG need to retain losers who failed at their jobs? 

It turns out now that all this a smoke and mirrors. The funds doled out to AIG have gone to help foreign banks and Goldman Sachs. These institutions would have lost a great deal if they had not received funds through AIG. So it was not just to protect stockholders, it was to protect many of their partners in crime.
This morning Newt Gingrich, in his letter on the internet has offered these facts to enlighten the American people. We have given AIG $170 billion which boils down to $1224 per tax payer. Personally, that would have made four car payments for me. It would have helped pay a third of one months mortgage, it would have given me free utilities for eight months and telephone services for a whole year. On the national front, Newt says that $170 billion would have allowed us to double the number of aircraft carriers in out Navy’s fleet. Two million Americans could have got a four year education at a public university for that money.

WE COULD HAVE GIVEN MORE THAN 40 MILLIION DOLLARS TO EACH FAMILY WHO HAS LOST A SOLDIER IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN WITH THAT MONEY!!!

Instead we are dolling this money out to dead beat losers who are threatening to resign if they have to give back these bonuses. All these facts serve as an indication of exactly how much money is at play here. The American people have become desensitized to the words used to quantify money. We hear the word “billion” so often that it doesn’t have the effect it should, anymore. Now, thanks to Newt Gingrich and other watch dogs who are looking out for us, we know.

We need to stand up and let our feeling be known. After all, when was the last time you got $1224 free of charge…..?
For a family of four that would be almost $5000.
Are we mad?
You bet we are!

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Hari Kari American Style

Posted by New-Politico.Org on Tuesday, March 17, 2009 3:04:55 PM
Now it seems as though Chris Dodd knew about the AIG bonuses. The Dodd Amendment actually contains loopholes allowing AIG to give their loser executives these large bonuses which are coming out of my paycheck. Are you asking us (read “We the People”) to believe that the Obama administration didn’t realize that this was in force? They didn’t know that the amendment had these provisions. And, we have to trust them to have their eye on the ball for everything else?  Is there anything else they knew about and forgot to mention to the American people? Can someone remind me how to spell transparency?
Senator Grassley, on Capital Hill suggested that like the Japanese, who when they fail and disappoint others, quietly rip out their viscera with a dagger to regain their honor, the executives of AIG should go forth and do likewise. I agree. It would be messy, but thoroughly enjoyable. Perhaps Chris Dodd and Barney Frank could do the same thing. Hari Kari….American Style. It could be televised live. The rating would sore through the roof.

Someone who is about to be sacrificed is poor little Timmy Geithner. The bus is coming trundling down the hill and White House spokesmen are saying that the President has full confidence in Mr. Geithner. Now here’s a little translation. When your boss tells the public that he has full confidence in you, he’s getting ready to fire you. Anyone want to make book on the fact that Geithner will resign in the next two weeks?

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Profiling Liberal Style!

Posted by New-Politico.Org on Saturday, March 14, 2009 9:11:17 PM
Let’s be clear about something.
Most Americans couldn’t care less about each other’s ethnicity.
We don’t give a hoot about whether you are an Italian American, a Polish American, A Native American, an African American, a Philippine American, an Irish American or a Indian American. No one is saying that you cannot speak Spanish to your children and family or eat Panset for Thanksgiving or get plastered on St. Paddy’s day or Columbus Day. That’s your prerogative. That’s your Right as an American. You own the right to do whatever you want to, as long as it is legal and it does not infringe on someone else’s rights.
Involved as I am in a job search, I am obliged to fill in copious application forms which have, as a part of the questions one is asked, a section on ethnicity. I am asked if I am Spanish, or Asian or if I am of one or more races or if I am of mixed race. Who decided to identify me as belonging to some group or other? And, isn’t this profiling? Isn’t this what the ACLU is constantly getting hemorrhoids over?
I get the feeling that if I can be hustled into a coral of similar looking people from the same part of the planet I can be afforded some extra privilege. As though I need all the help I can get. I am one of those Idiot Americans who need help getting a job. I am one of those Idiot Americans who need help taking care of my children. I am one of those Idiot Americans who cannot make life choices sufficiently well enough to survive. I, as a brown person, have been profiled to death. And the profiling is being done at the insistence of the very people who raise their liberal eye brows and roll their liberal eyes at the very thought of pulling an Arab looking twenty-something young man off a commercial aircraft if he looks suspicious. Even if he looks like Mohamed Atta’s twin brother!
When will this stop. When will I be just a plain good ol’ American…with no bloody adjectives or qualifiers.

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TRANSPARENCY? HUH?

Posted by New-Politico.Org on Saturday, March 14, 2009 8:48:18 PM
Whatever happened to transparency?

Recall the campaign promise about how nothing would be signed into law unless the American People had had a chance to peruse it on the internet for a full five days. When it came time for the budget to be signed, our beacon of hope and “change we could believe in” conveniently forgot about that promise. The budget was signed within a thirty-six hour period. Was it even ever on the White House website?

We have already seen other promises broken.

The one about lobbyists.

There would be no former lobbyists working in the Obama White House. Then suddenly the rule had to be suspended because there were two people without whom the country would collapse.

Now picture George Bush breaking a widely touted promise like the “no-lobbyist” one. The New York Times, Media Matters, the Daily Kos, and the Huffington Post would have had paroxysms. Chris Matthews, Tom Brokaw and the idiot comedians on late night television would have fainted in sheer disbelief that the President of the United States could lie with such impunity. President Bush would have been called out and publicly disgraced.

What about the promise regarding no porcine earmarks. President Obama was going to abolish earmarks. Now, we are being told, by the same President, that earmarks are a valuable device that Senators and Representatives can use to bring much needed Federal Funds to their districts and to their States. It is clear that Obama’s promises are like proverbial piecrusts…they crumble easily. President Obama’s legacy will a memorable one, but no other part of it will stand out in our memories as much as his ability to bend with the political wind; his ability to shift positions for political expediency.

He never tells it like it is….he tells it the way you want to hear it.

This is change we can believe in?

Can we even remember how to spell change?
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