Top Ten Signs Obama Is Overconfident By David Letterman
July 31, 2008
Thanks to the Late Show:
Proposed bill to change Oklahoma to “Oklobama” Offered Bush 20 bucks for the “Mission Accomplished” banner Asked guy at Staples, “Which chair will work best in an oval-shaped office?” The affair with Barbara Walters Having head measured for Mount Rushmore Guy sits around eating soup all day He’s voting for Nader Offered McCain a job in gift shop at Obama Presidential Library Announced his running mate will be Andy Dick Been cruising for chicks with John Edwards
Newest Edition of the Carnival of Ohio Politics
July 30, 2008
The Carnival of Ohio Politics #128 is up and ready for your reading pleasure courtesey of Jill Zimon Miller of Writes Like She Talks. Jill always does a nice job editing all of the entires, but you really should check out her blog. She is a great writer and always has very thought-provoking topics that she discusses. Her blog is one that I read several times a day and there is always something new an interesting!
More On Foreclosures
July 30, 2008
Its a big day for the American people. Our government has come to the rescue in an unusally rare bipartisan effort to stem foreclosures. According to the AP, both parties were eager to prove they were in touch and trying to help those Americans that are facing a financial crisis. Interesting that bipartisanship can happen right before an election, isn’t it?
According to the article:
The FHA could insure $300 billion in such mortgages, which would be available to homeowners who showed they could afford a new loan.
It goes on to say:
It provides $180 million in pre-foreclosure counseling for struggling homeowners.
The Treasury Department gains unlimited power, until the end of 2009, to lend money to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac or buy their stock should they need it. The Federal Reserve takes on a new “consultative” role overseeing the companies.
The measure includes $15 billion in tax cuts, including a significant expansion of the low-income housing tax credit and a credit of up to $7,500 for first-time home buyers for houses purchased between April 9, 2008, and July 1, 2009.
Democratic leaders, recognizing that the measure could be one of the last items to become law during what’s left of their abbreviated election-year schedule, tacked on an $800 billion increase, to $10.6 trillion, in the statutory limit on the national debt.
So what do you think? Why did it take an election to get democrats and republicans to spend our money in unison?
Obama Wants MORE of Your Money
July 24, 2008
Although the official request for an extra $9.5 million came from the United States Secret Service, if you read this article, you will soon find out that a lot of it has to do with Obama playing President right now in Europe. This whole trip has been such a farce to me. From his voting no on troop funding, saying the surge won’t work, and to now somewhat admitting that it has been successful, Obama is traipsing through the Middle East and Europe as if he is some kind of statesman already. If we look at the facts, he is clearly not. He is a junior senator with maybe 1.5 years of experience and has been running for president ever since. I guess that this Obama Love-Fest would giving him more foreign policy experience than he previously except that he is simply doing this for the cameras and he already has his mind made up on all of the issues. Did anyone really think he would go to Iraq and change his position, even slightly? His move-on friends would never let that happen.
Franklin County to the Rescue
July 21, 2008
This article about from the Columbus Dispatch details plans by Columbus and Franklin County to help bail out citizens that are facing forclosure. The idea is to help keep people in their homes and to also go after some of the predatory lenders that may have been somewhat deceiving when they lent money in the first place.
A statistic in the article that I was unaware of is that “Ohio’s foreclosure rate was sixth-highest in the nation last month.” That’s pretty amazing. It is never good to be in the top ten for such bad things as human misery.
For me this is somewhat of a tough call so I am asking for your opinion. Is it fair for the government to spend large amounts of money to help borrowers, many of which never had the means to buy the house in the first place? I know that $3 million may not sound like a lot of money, but it is just the tip of the iceberg. On a side note… isn’t it crazy when we are so numb to hearing numbers in the millions and billions that we just kind of shrug our shoulders and not think twice about spending that amount of money?
I do feel sorry for people in these situations. Many cannot afford the houses because the the crippled economy. What do we do to help?
Ethnic Slurs Everywhere
July 18, 2008
I admit I haven’t been very active blogging lately. I guess I haven’t been in the “mood.” I don’t know. Anyway, I have been following the latest Jesse Jackson controversy and I think enough has really been said about that. However, today I read an article from the Associated Press that talks of an immigrant from Mexico that came to the United States to find a better life. This man, Luis Ramirez, was beaten to death by a mob (some including high school students) and will return to Mexico in a coffin leaving behind fiancee and two children.
According to the article, “despite witness reports that the attackers yelled ethnic slurs, authorities say the beating wasn’t racially motivated.”
When will people stop learning to hate based purely on skin color or ethnicity?
Congressional Approval Rating Tanks
July 14, 2008
Congratulations to our members of Congress that have managed to fall to a 9% approval rating in the current Rasmussen Reports poll. According to the article, this is the first time in history that single digits have occurred.
Add this to the approval rating of President Bush (31%) and we’ve got quite a gang up there in Washington, don’t we? Now I am no big fan of President Bush, but the obvious story here is the continuing decline of the congressional approval rating.
What’s going on with our democratically-controlled congress?
Positions Being Driven By Polls and Focus Groups
July 9, 2008
While I don’t by into the cute labels like “flip-flopper in-chief,” I do worry as a democrat that “our guy” has no core of beliefs. What seems to be driving Senator Obama? I found an older article from the Washington Post that details “changes of position” during the primary from both Obama and Clinton. For Senator Obama they list the following:
1. Union money being called special interest money
2. His promise to accept public financing
3. Ending the Cuba embargo
4. Illegal immigration
5. Decriminalizing marijuans
This post from Time is more up to date. It adds to the list:
6. D.C. Gun Ban
7. Welfare Reform
8. FISA Bill
Two others that are not mentioned are:
9. Jerusalem being the undivided capital of Israel
10. Meeting With Terror Leaders With No Pre-Conditions
Anyone care to add to the list?
The Sucking Sounds Continues In Ohio
July 8, 2008
Remember when Ross Perot warned of the sucking sound of jobs heading from the United States to south of the border? Well, the sucking sound now is jobs flooding out of Ohio. According to NBC4, Cardinal Health Care, located in Dublin, Ohio, announced that it will restructure and will cut 600 jobs.
This seems to be more evidence of the lousy economy for which we can thank both the republicans and democrats. When will either party decide to step up and help out the citizens of this country that are hurting from gas prices, home foreclosures, and the increase of products and goods that are necessary to survive?
Happy 4th of July
July 5, 2008
I’m sure many of us are getting tired of the divisiveness of the campaign season thus far. I’m a total political junkie, but I admit that I’ve been getting a little sick of it lately. It has afterall been going on forever. But today is a day where people of all parties can come together and be proud to be Americans and that in my view is pretty darn important.
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