AMERICAN SPEECHLESS OPINION?

I’m speechless. I don’t know where to begin. The President’s State of the Union address is old news and every two-bit opinion maker, including me, has already had their say. I’d like to kick Obama around the parking lot a few times, but what’s the use? He’s either too dumb to understand how Americans really think, or he just doesn’t care. Reid and Pelosi? Hell, they’re now rated so low in the polls that no one wants to read about them anymore.


What can I dig up to say about the illustrious Barney Frank? It’s been a while since I fried his fanny on these pages; let’s see…


January 29, 2010, good old Barney provided some us with more of his famous wisdom. He told the BBC of a "constitutional crisis" in the United States. He was complaining about the 60 vote filibuster-proof Senate that Scott Brown’s election disrupted. He reported that a financial reform package, passed in the House, is going to get torpedoed in the Senate by a filibuster. Obviously, he still harbors an internal hatred for democracy in action. If he was smart, he order Brown to come over to his office, and then he’d pull seniority on him and tell him about the facts of life as a lawmaker from Massachusetts. I’d like to see him do that.


Well, that’s all I can say about Barney. I’m running out of material. Oh… Hillary. I don’t think I’ve had a word to say about Hillary since before the election. And now… I’m going to have to applaud her for finally showing some intelligence. She’s made it clear she will not stay on as Secretary of State if Obama gets a second term, and she’s not going to run for President, either. Now, if she WERE going to run against Obama in 2012, it would only be polite and expected for her to vacate her job first. So, for her to say she’s not running…. Well, that’s kind of like saying she doesn’t really want to stick around for another four years with Obama. If anything, it’s a slap at his face. It’ll be interesting to see what happens next in that relationship.


Only half a blog ready to post and I’m running out of important things to discuss.


One of the nation’s top golfers is calling it quits. No, it’s not Tiger Woods, it’s John Daly. In his day, John could hit a golf ball so far that sometimes it would circle the globe and slam him in his butt. Daly is 43 years old and has struggled with his game for years. While he could hit a ball a mile, you never really knew for sure where it was going to go and he’s not that great a putter. If he does quit, I’ll be sorry to see him go, but Tiger might want to buy his 9-iron.


Mumbling right along… I see that Bin Laden has come out of his cave long enough to claim that the United States is causing global warming. Well, I’ve got this to say about that… What does he think those explosions and plane bombs on 9/11 did, contribute to global cooling? Did Al Gore move in with him, or what? We need to take him out, and not to dinner, either. Here we can use our satellites to spot a fly on one of Tiger’s golf balls, but we can’t find Osama even after eight years pass? For some reason, I suspect we don’t want to find him. Maybe we owe him some money for the national debt? God knows, we owe everyone else on the planet.


No, I don’t want to discuss health care; that subject is bound to be back in the forefront before a fortnight passes. Jobs? This is interesting. Three different people in the Obama administration came up with three different figures as to how many jobs have been saved or created with the Recovery Act. They opted to go with 2,000,000. What that is based on, I don’t know. How do you measure jobs saved? The boss looked at his employee with a mean glance, and the employment Czar warned the boss not to fire him, so they saved a job? An accountant was there to watch this exchange and reported it to the ARA website, the site that’s the laughing stock of Washington? Wasn’t it Obama himself who said that figures really don’t matter, back when the website was claiming jobs saved in Congressional Districts that don’t exist?


Here’s the sad part of this, and as a religious man I have a difficult time relating to this: Every day, we have been losing more and more jobs. People have been losing cars, houses, spouses… businesses… And we’ve been talking about everything else under the sun except jobs. This is not economics, or politics, or health care time… it’s humanitarian time. Get people to work, dammit.

But, my guess is that we’ll still be jawboning about health care six months from now and unemployment will be sky high. How can we sleep at night? Why aren’t we standing on the steps of the Capitol shouting from the tops of our lungs and demanding jobs?


There, that does it. Sorry I didn’t have much to say today, but


That’s MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.