Posted by
William D. Dannenmaier on Thursday, June 25, 2009 7:51:05 AM
I believe I have the “Obama” touch. My three shepherds – Sheba, Yukon and Baxter – roll over and look for a rub on the belly or a treat when I approach them. I’m considering renaming them ABC, CBS and NBC.
I read that Obama has promised to create 500,000 new jobs this year. Yes, five hundred thousand. I didn’t realize he would need that many new government workers for his programs.
People who are old, which now includes me, and who grew up in a Christian nation can recall the joke about how a child, caught doing something that he or she knew was wrong, would say, “The devil made me do it.” The current Democratic leadership, their hands too often appearing in the cookie jar, has changed this. The new excuse is, “Bush made me do it.”
Obama is talking about putting a salary cap on top executives. Will that apply to Congress and entertainers such as Oprah and football and basketball stars? If not, why not?
The brilliant Biden, well known for being consistently wrong on important issues over the years, has been bragging about the increasing diversity of the United States. Ignoring the problems of every nation or area that has diversity (Northern Ireland, the Baltic States, numerous African nations) has anyone ever heard of the Tower of Babel? In the book of Genesis, the nations all agreed to come together in one place. The result was disaster. What is the future of a United States with multiple laws and multiple languages in which Muslims control one area, Hispanics another etc.? Brag on Biden.
The United States Constitution decrees that Congress shall make the laws and the Executive, under the President, shall enforce them. As a check on the President’s powers, all persons appointed to top level government positions by the President must be approved by Congress. Former Presidents have appointed “Czars,” who report only to the President and exercise Presidential powers, to solve emergency problems. Usually this requires only one or two during a Presidency. President Obama has appointed more in his first six months than all other Presidents combined. Articles I have read have given estimates between 15 and 21. All of these Czars report directly to Obama. He has asked for, and received, Congressional approval on none of these appointees. To date, only Senator Byrd of Virginia, a Democrat, has complained that Obama is usurping the powers of the Congress by placing appointees in positions of power without their receiving Congressional approval.
Am I alone in remembering that when Clinton became President one of his first acts was to fire all of the Inspector Generals and replace them with people of his own choosing? There was no outcry and little publicity from the press or television news at the time. Then, when Bush became President he fired three Inspector Generals for not doing their jobs. He was roundly criticized in major newspapers and television news programs for this act. There was no hint that they were investigating any people that he liked, in fact there was no hint they were investigating anything. Now, Obama has fired two Inspector Generals, both of whom were investigating, and in one case finding proof of, misdeeds on the part of persons who were wealthy and politically prominent Obama supporters. I have not seen this reported by the mass media, only by the Drudge Report. So much for the news reporting system which supposedly provides an informed citizenry.
I have read is that Obama declared himself a citizen of Indonesia at one college. Critics are now challenging his Constitutional eligibility to be President. I put little credibility into the value of these challenges. Everyone knows that Obama will lie for his own good at any time or place, why should he have been any different when it helped him get money as a college student?
I enjoyed the cartoons on Townhall.com today (Jun 22), but thought the one could have been improved. It showed an older couple looking at a beat-up, rusted pick-up truck surrounded by weeds with the caption, “…buy some gas and turn it in for our $4,500 clunker payment.” With my broken chest, bad heart and aching back, I thought a better one would be to have two women standing looking at an aged, bearded man in a rocker and wondering, “Is that $4500 clunker payment restricted to cars?”