The Professor Gates controversy in Cambridge is the perfect metaphor for the entire Obama presidency. To paraphrase Mr. Obama's answer to a reporter's question about the Gates incident at his recent press conference about health care, he effectively said "I know I'm biased,......I don't have the facts,.......but I'll speak out anyway."
When has that NOT been the case with Obama? He speaks with bias and without facts all the time, and supports other Democrats in doing the same. He has signed enormous spending bills that neither he nor the Congress have read - which I would interpret as a form of speaking without the facts. While pushing his radical health care agenda on a conference call with some liberal bloggers he admitted he hadn't read the bill he was arguing in support of. Again, speaking without the facts.
At least Obama has now admitted to speaking with bias and without facts. But most of us who have been paying attention knew that already!
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Questions for Congress About Health Care
The letter below was sent to my senators, Warner and Webb, this morning. All Americans should be contacting their members of Congress with direct questions to expose the hypocrisy of their imposing laws on us that they are not bound by themselves.
Senators Warner and Webb,
As President Obama rushes to nationalize yet another part of our economy – health care – and exert ever greater federal control over Americans’ lives, there are important questions you need to answer for your constituents.
When the health care bill comes to the Senate, will you offer or support an amendment that would require all members of Congress – past and present – to give up their current health care plans and join the plan Mr. Obama plans to force on the American people?
If not, how can you explain to the American people why we should pay for those who are supposed to be serving us and representing us in Washington to have better health care than we can get ourselves?
Please grant your constituents the courtesy of direct answers to the straightforward questions above. We have all received enough form letters from Congress – please actually answer the questions.
Respectfully
Lou
Senators Warner and Webb,
As President Obama rushes to nationalize yet another part of our economy – health care – and exert ever greater federal control over Americans’ lives, there are important questions you need to answer for your constituents.
When the health care bill comes to the Senate, will you offer or support an amendment that would require all members of Congress – past and present – to give up their current health care plans and join the plan Mr. Obama plans to force on the American people?
If not, how can you explain to the American people why we should pay for those who are supposed to be serving us and representing us in Washington to have better health care than we can get ourselves?
Please grant your constituents the courtesy of direct answers to the straightforward questions above. We have all received enough form letters from Congress – please actually answer the questions.
Respectfully
Lou
Thursday, July 9, 2009
Energy Lunacy
The Department of Energy was formed in October of 1977, when various other agencies focused on energy issues were combined. One of the primary missions of the D.O.E. was - and is - to improve the "energy security" of the United States by reducing our dependence on foreign oil. And how have Americans benefited from their investment in this federal bureaucracy (2010 budget request to Congress - $26.3 billion)? Our dependence on foreign oil has grown from 28% of total consumption in 1972 to 53% today.
Only in government could this type of gross failure to achieve stated objectives be tolerated. In the free market, without tax dollars to continuously fund this kind of ineptitude, such an enterprise would have been shut down long ago. Of course, this bureaucracy has been aided greatly in setting this record of incompetence by Democrats in Congress and the White House - who steadfastly refuse to allow Americans to access the resources we have within our own borders that could substantially reduce our dependence on foreign energy sources.
And now the Obama administration wants to take this model of "success" and apply it to even more of our economy, most specifically health and the battle against global "climate change" (notice that its now referred to as "climate change" and not "global warming" because the earth has actually been cooling for 11 years).
Other than our outstanding military, is there anything the federal government provides that could not be done better by the states or private enterprise?
Given the monumental failure of the Department of Energy, and other federal bureaucracies involved in our "energy strategy", there is no basis whatsoever for any confidence that Obama's new energy plan will be anything but a disaster. Obama himself acknowledged that under his plan "electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket".
A federal government purposely pursuing a policy that it knows will cause the cost of the energy that drives the American economy to "skyrocket" would be ridiculous at any time. But in the midst of the economic downturn we're now experiencing it is simply beyond stupid.
Only in government could this type of gross failure to achieve stated objectives be tolerated. In the free market, without tax dollars to continuously fund this kind of ineptitude, such an enterprise would have been shut down long ago. Of course, this bureaucracy has been aided greatly in setting this record of incompetence by Democrats in Congress and the White House - who steadfastly refuse to allow Americans to access the resources we have within our own borders that could substantially reduce our dependence on foreign energy sources.
And now the Obama administration wants to take this model of "success" and apply it to even more of our economy, most specifically health and the battle against global "climate change" (notice that its now referred to as "climate change" and not "global warming" because the earth has actually been cooling for 11 years).
Other than our outstanding military, is there anything the federal government provides that could not be done better by the states or private enterprise?
Given the monumental failure of the Department of Energy, and other federal bureaucracies involved in our "energy strategy", there is no basis whatsoever for any confidence that Obama's new energy plan will be anything but a disaster. Obama himself acknowledged that under his plan "electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket".
A federal government purposely pursuing a policy that it knows will cause the cost of the energy that drives the American economy to "skyrocket" would be ridiculous at any time. But in the midst of the economic downturn we're now experiencing it is simply beyond stupid.
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Where are the flags?
Last night I took a walk with my wife and dog. It was a beautiful evening for a stroll through our Fairfax County, VA neighborhood. But some things seemed to be missing.
We first moved to Fairfax County over twenty years ago. Back then, it seemed a profoundly patriotic place - close to the national capitol, many military and ex-military residents and a sense of real closeness to the history of what made our country great. And on the 4th of July holiday American flags could be seen everywhere - on most homes and flying in front of most places of business.
Sadly, that all seems to have changed. During our walk last night I counted American flags flying from fewer than 1 in 20 homes. I took another walk this morning to see if I'd see anything different - if perhaps people had taken their flags in just before dark on July 3rd and put them back up on the morning of the 4th. But that was not the case. There were no more flags flying this morning than there were last night. In our neighborhood of over 900 homes, you could drive up and down every street and not see more than 50 flags.
Of course, when we moved here there was a President in office who so profoundly respected his country and his duty as President that he never went into the Oval Office without a suit coat on. Since then, we've had a President who couldn't keep his pants on in the Oval Office and now we have one who - as a candidate for President - refused to wear an American flag pin on his lapel. And as President now, besides driving our country rapidly into bankruptcy, he's spent most of his time in office telling the world what a terrible place America is and how awful its people have been to the rest of the world for the past two centuries.
I guess it shouldn't be surprising that with a President in office who takes no pride in our flag or our country's greatness we'd see less American pride on display in our neighborhood on July 4th. But it is still deeply disappointing.
We first moved to Fairfax County over twenty years ago. Back then, it seemed a profoundly patriotic place - close to the national capitol, many military and ex-military residents and a sense of real closeness to the history of what made our country great. And on the 4th of July holiday American flags could be seen everywhere - on most homes and flying in front of most places of business.
Sadly, that all seems to have changed. During our walk last night I counted American flags flying from fewer than 1 in 20 homes. I took another walk this morning to see if I'd see anything different - if perhaps people had taken their flags in just before dark on July 3rd and put them back up on the morning of the 4th. But that was not the case. There were no more flags flying this morning than there were last night. In our neighborhood of over 900 homes, you could drive up and down every street and not see more than 50 flags.
Of course, when we moved here there was a President in office who so profoundly respected his country and his duty as President that he never went into the Oval Office without a suit coat on. Since then, we've had a President who couldn't keep his pants on in the Oval Office and now we have one who - as a candidate for President - refused to wear an American flag pin on his lapel. And as President now, besides driving our country rapidly into bankruptcy, he's spent most of his time in office telling the world what a terrible place America is and how awful its people have been to the rest of the world for the past two centuries.
I guess it shouldn't be surprising that with a President in office who takes no pride in our flag or our country's greatness we'd see less American pride on display in our neighborhood on July 4th. But it is still deeply disappointing.
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