Posted by
William D. Dannenmaier on Saturday, July 24, 2010 9:09:21 AM
Today, July 12, provided the best political quote I’ve seen in months. Senator Corker, Republican, in discussing the bailout of Fanny Mae and Freddy Mac, proposed that anyone taking out a loan from them to purchase a house be required to put down a minimum of a 5% down payment. Senator Chris Dodd, in rebuttal, was quoted as saying, “… passage of such a requirement would restrict home ownership to only those who can afford it.”
Wasn’t that great? I told Sheila that since we both enjoy swimming we should move to California at the start of next summer and purchase a million dollar home with a full swimming pool through our government lending agencies. We can live there and swim all summer without paying a cent on the mortgage because it would take at least three or four months for them to foreclose. Then we could return to our hovel in the hills after a great summer.
Explaining this to my bride, I realized there was a problem. We are not members of a privileged minority; we are only members of the oppressed majority. We would not qualify for a loan.
South Carolina Democratic leaders are questioning how Alvin Greene entered and won the Democratic primary to become their candidate for the United States Senate. Reading the Fox news article (June 14) on the subject, especially the comments, was hilarious. The political leaders are questioning Mr. Greene’s intelligence and sanity. Notice, they are not questioning the intelligence and sanity of persons who voted for him, nor the Democratic leaders’ competence in failing to put up a candidate more appealing than an unemployed man, facing sexual charges who was given a military discharge other than honorable.
Arizona, tiring of waiting for the Federal Government to enforce Federal immigration laws, passed an immigration law and is enforcing it. Now the Arizona government is considering a law to forbid the issuance of birth certificates to children born of illegal immigrants. Governor Jindal of Louisiana, tiring of waiting for approval from Obama’s agencies has ordered his National Guard to begin building a sea wall to protect the Louisiana coast from the oil spill. It all seems proper. Diversity is the holy grail of education and diversity is practiced in the work place as a protection against lawsuits. It seems only proper to practice diversity among the States. It used to be called “States rights,” which everyone knew was wrong, but diversity is good.
Today, June 16th, the Wall Street Journal reported Obama’s Afghanistan efforts are receiving severe criticism in the Senate. I don’t understand their problem. His successes there match his success in containing the ObamaGulf oil spill.
One of the funniest news articles I’ve read in the past month, although reporters don’t appear to have seen the irony in it, was Obama’s Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Geithner, going to Europe and lecturing the European leaders on THEIR need to reduce their debts.
The story of the Russian “spies” was fun to read. These eleven “spies” found the good life in the United States, and were enjoying it. According to published reports I have read they never supplied Russia with any information worth having, but they successfully cheated Russia out of hundreds of thousands of dollars to support their lavish life styles. At home, prison awaits. They should have applied for political asylum immediately before being “exchanged”. One question: if they received asylum, would they have been allowed to keep the million dollar homes they purchased with Russian money?
An interesting article questioning the failure of Michelle Obama to accompany her husband on trips to Muslim nations when Laura Bush had accompanied her husband on similar trips, pointed out that it is against Muslim law for a Muslim leader to have his wife accompany him on such trips, not against the law for a non-Muslim leader to bring his wife. There appear to be more and more indications, none in national news, that Mr. Obama is not only our first Black president, he is also our first Muslim president.
Larry Elder’s article, “The Wall Street ‘Revolt’ Against the Democrats” (8 July 2010) was interesting. He used facts to destroy (and I thought ridicule) an article in the Washington Post in which a partial report of facts was to the benefit of the Democratic Party. The article he criticized is not the first of its kind. The Washington Post appears more interested in endorsing and supporting Obama and the Democratic Party than in factual reporting. Could they be hiring reporters and editors from the New York Times?