SICK, SICK, SICK

I don't know about you, but I'm sick and tired of the elections already and we still have eleven months to go.  

Obama can't make a decision, not even to decide when to go to the toilet, without examining the political ramifications as to whether he should go on the first floor or  the second floor... (play on words intended).   For him, it never has been what's best for the country, it's been what is best for his socialist agenda.  So, he's back on the campaign trail in full lie and spin mode. 

Over on the Republican side, they are so tired of being tolerant of each other that they can't stand it.  The dirty political ads are already on the air waves and with Romney's multi-million dollar war chest, it can't help but to get worse as the weeks and months go on.  We've got as many guys running for the presidential nomination as there are on the Supreme Court, and they're now in full incivility mode.  With the exception of Newt Gingrich who has been reasonably civil up until now, can you imagine any one of them being able to get along with Congress if they can't get along with each other? 

Happy New Year?  I don't think so.  The stench of the dirty and rotten nastiness that permeates Washington politics is wafting out on the countryside, and I just wish they would all dry up and blow away.

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.  

THE GROWING NUCLEAR CONUNDRUM

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The Saudis have announced that they wish to start their own nuclear weapons program.  This substantiates my previous position and the position of others that allow Iran to have nukes will open the door to the entire Middle East having nukes. 

And won't that be a fine kettle of brewing stew, with Libya, Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Qatar, The Emirates, Egypt, Pakistan, Turkey and Israel all having "The Bomb?"  Just how many days do you think it would take for the entire Middle East to incinerate itself?  

Well, on second thought, maybe that's not a bad idea.   Except that one of those donkeys, probably Iran or Syria, is certainly going to have to lob one of those nukes off at Israel and that will start World War III. 

The world has been able to stop the proliferation of nuclear weapons through the strength of the existing nuclear "club," of which the leader has traditionally been the U.S.  However, we have lost our strength in the eyes of the world, thanks to Barry and his Nobel Peace Prize; what we see happening in Iran is the result. 

It is obvious that the reelection of Obama to the Presidency would in fact be dangerous to world peace. 

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 

OBAMA GEARS UP FOR MASSIVE VOTER FRAUD

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The Obama Administration is deliberately opening the door for massive voter fraud in the 2012 elections.   They are taking every possible step to see that illegal aliens gain the right to vote, although our elections laws specifically say that you must be a U.S. citizen to have that right.  They are fighting any and all attempts by individual states to crack down on illegal immigration according to U.S. law and they are refusing to enforce that law themselves.  They are also fighting to prevent states from requiring identification of voters. 

The tactics they are using are reminiscent of Chicago-style politics and patterned after Nazi and Soviet strategies. Our national media, totally under control of the Obama administration, is complicit in the crime by failing to report on it completely and accurately. 

It will take total awareness and the total rejection of these activities by the American people to prevent this obvious attempt to retain political control of the country by incompetent thugs. 

That’s MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.   

CONGRESS ENDS THE YEAR WITH ANOTHER LUMP OF COAL

Congress passed a two-month extension to the payroll tax cut and unemployment benefits this week and added to the large pile of dung it had already laid upon the American public in previous months.  The failure… the utter refusal… to deal with the deficit and to put in place meaningful and lasting debt reduction was the highlight of their dysfunction.  A close second was their willingness to let the national credit rating slip and then the administration followed up by sicking regulatory authorities on Standard & Poor’s for actually doing the dirty deed. 

Bickering was the order of the day as their approval rating slipped down, down, down to 11%.  They repaid the general public by foisting upon it this two-month “deal,” a deal that leaves both American business and the public in limbo for financial planning.  Scrooge himself could not have carried out the scenario with greater infuriating pageantry. 

Congress is not broken.  The American character of the people in Congress has deteriorated to a despicable level.  They are useless in their positions and have graduated to the point of doing far more harm to the country than good.  It would therefore be to our benefit if they did not meet again until 2013. 

At the very least, we need to stand together and ask for God’s help in removing every last one of the riffraff from office next year.  Change?  Yes, we need to change the dirty diaper of Washington, before the stench overwhelms us. 

That’s MY sad AMERICAN OPINION this Christmas. 

 

MY REPUBLICAN PICK FOR PRESIDENT

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We're just two weeks from the Iowa primaries and ready to begin a six-month primary season.  The time has come for me to stick my next out and make an endorsement. 

The problem is that, like you, I don't have the warm fuzzies for any current Republican in the field.  Yet, one has to make a pick.  It is much easier for  me to say who I don't like: Romney, the closet liberal and Perry, the Bush III.  The ones I consider worthy of mention are Gingrich and Bachmann; Paul is just too radical for the country at this time.  The rest are yawners.  

So, that gets me to Bachmann.  I just don't think she has the horsepower to be President.  I like her and her ideals, but Obama has saddled this country with enormous problems as a result of his gross mismanagement.  I can't see Bachmann working her way through them.  But, she IS my second choice. 

That leaves us with Newt.  Newt CAN out-debate Obama.  Newt has some good ideas.  Yes, he does have some baggage, but far less than Romney as far as I am concerned.  And, if we do our job and get rid of the irresponsible and non-responsive members of Congress, (95% of them), we should have a fresh Congress willing to keep the President in line and to work with him toward resolving these big issues.  Gingrich has a proven track record of working with both sides of the aisle in getting things done. 

There is a caveat to this endorsement, so I will word it this way:  Given the current candidates for the Presidency, I endorse Newt Gingrich.  He's the best overall candidate of the lot.  And that, if you examine each of them carefully as I have been doing, is a very logical conclusion.  

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 

EPA ON THE RAMPAGE!

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In the name of "sustainable development," the EPA wants to change the way they handle problems and make decisions in such a manner that the EPA will gain enormous power to further regulate businesses, communities and ecosystems. 

As you well know, the EPA is already running amok.  Expanding their power at a time when we need to be decreasing government influences in our daily lives is not good thinking by any means.  When you have a government agency that has the power to dictate to you as an individual what kind of light bulbs you must have in your house or how many gallons of water you can use to flush your toilet, you have an agency that has exceeded any level of government power ever contemplated by our forefathers.  

What's worse is that all of the agencies under Obama seem to be heading in the direction of expanding their sizes and regulatory authorities; EPA is simply the front-runner.  The dirty gun-deals perpetrated by the Department of Justice, the outright stupidity of the Department of Energy loan deals at the behest of the White House....these are all symptomatic of a government that is totally out of control.  

All of us as Americans need to stand together and put an end to this way of thinking and doing in November.  Let's start by removing every elected official we can from Washington.   

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 

SENATORS GOING AROUND THE BEND

A group of Senators has urged the FDA to ban the sale of flavored cigars on the basis that such gimmicks entice teenagers into trying them and getting on the nicotine habit.  I guess they are targeting grape flavored, orange, lemon, lime, mint... you name it.  A cigar is a cigar in my book, and adding flavor simply destroys the taste buds.  I think the whole scenario is not worthy of the Senators' time.  

Which brings me to the next point.  They simply have too much time on their hands.  They meet too often, accomplish nothing, and get paid lavish salaries and God only knows what they get under the table or in secret Swedish bank accounts from lobbyists.  That's why whatever they DO manage to pass is generally mundane and stupid. 

Which brings me to the final point: Since they have so much time to be legislating on cigar flavors, maybe they could manage to carve out a little time for budgets, taxes, jobs, and the economy.  Wellll... Now that I think about it, maybe they just can't handle the jobs for big boys.  Maybe we lowly peasants have things upside down.  Maybe these bigger challenges belong in kindergarten and we should leave the smaller challenges, such as cigar flavors, in the hands of Congress. 

Maybe we should send Howdy Doodie, Big Bird and Mister Rogers over there to the Hill to straighten things out? 

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 

NEWT vs. MITT vs. PROGRESSIVE

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The anti-Newt Republicans, or the Pro-Romney Twits, are taking a new tack: they're attacking Newt for being a Progressive.  Well, I think Newt does have some Progressive in him.  But, let's take a closer look. 

Barry is as far to the left Socialist-Marxist Progressive as you can get.  Ron Paul is as far to the other extreme as you can get.  I don't think this country is ready for four more years of extremism. Coming back from Ron toward the middle are the other candidates.  Bachmann is far right Conservative and I like her.  But, I don't know if the country is ready for her.  Perry is right there with her, and I like many things about him, too.  

Romney is a closet liberal.  He's far more Progressive than Gingrich.  Gingrich is a Conservative Progressive.  Romney is a liberal Progressive.  Progressives want bigger, more socialistic government.  Now, Gingerich, on the Progressive scale, is far more conservative than Obama or Romney.  On that basis, if you run Paul, Perry or Bachmann, they'll get shellacked by Obama.  Romney might win against Obama and I think Gingrich can out-debate Obama any day of the week and will win against Obama.  So, if he's less Progressive than Romney, he's an ideal fit.  Team him up with Perry or Bachmann or even Palin and I think you really have a winning ticket.   

I'm not endorsing Newt yet, but I'm leaning toward doing so.  I think this whole argument is detracting from the main goal here, which is NOT to sink Obama, but to restore our country and Gingrich, Perry or Bachmann will do that.  Let's keep our eyes on the goal post and not get sidetracked by Romneycrats. 

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.  

IT'S TIME TO CLEAN OUT THE COOP

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A recent poll finds that only 18% of the people think Congress is doing a good job.  Let's face it: there are few, if any, Members of Congress who were there prior to the 2010 elections who are doing a good job.  Furthermore, several of the "new guys" have already caved in to the establishment. 

I've said it over and over and over again that the problem is systemic; they have created a culture and that culture doesn't give a hoot what you want or think.  They don't give a tweet about the Constitution.  They don't give a chirp about what is ethical, moral or right for the country.  They are in it for themselves and themselves only, which is why they can't get anything done.  They are all so busy serving their own interests that they can't coordinate with anyone else.  

It's a culture, pure and simple.  It is often referred to as "the good old boy" network, or the "Washington Insiders."  So, it's not a matter of removing a few; we have to remove them all.  Democrat or Republican, these birds of a feather have to be chased out of their roosts... wings, drumsticks, bills and all.  

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 

DRONE DOWNING POINTS TO MILITARY STUPIDITY

The recent Iranian downing and capture of an unmanned Lockheed-Martin RQ-170 Sentinel stealth drone along the Afghanistan border raises a lot of questions about the thought processes of the American military hierarchy.  Why did it take almost a week for the U.S. to confirm that it had lost such an aircraft and that Iran most likely had it?  Don’t we keep closer track of these things than that?  Didn’t the aircraft ground handler know it was gone and where it went? 

The initial report out of Iran was that it had managed to penetrate the plane’s electronics and to steer to to the ground intact.  The U.S. position, when it finally admitted the plane was missing, was that it must have been shot down and, if so, there was no way the Iranians could have it on the ground and in one piece.  That position has not changed, although we now know the plane is in fact in Iranian possession and indeed intact.   The possibility that Iranians are technologically savvy enough to pull this off is moot; they have a lot of former students who attended MIT, Princeton, Harvard and Stanford. 

Now, you have a spy plane that is packed full of top secret electronic gear.  Why wasn’t it also packed with self-destruct explosives that would destroy it in the event of such a capture?  And, if it was so armed, why didn’t it destroy itself before the Iranians got it? 

Was somebody asleep at the switch?

Of course, there is the possibility that we wanted the Iranians to capture the aircraft.  But, those things are expensive and I cannot imagine why we would do such a thing.  The only scenario that makes sense to me is that our military is not as intellectually sharp as they would have us believe.  In that case, we’re spending a lot of money on a bunch of ill-conceived equipment and plans.    

That’s MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.  

“FAST AND FURIOUS” GETS FAST AND FURIOUS

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Things are finally warming up in the Congressional investigation of the Fast and Furious BATFE gun-running scandal.   Documents recently demanded and finally delivered from the White House indicate that top Department of Justice officials knew of, or were in on, the operation from the “git go.” 

While many Congressional Republicans have been calling for Attorney General Eric Holder to resign, and while he is going to be testifying on the Hill this week again, there was a loud clamor yesterday for the immediate firing of Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer.  Breuer evidently testified under oath that he knew nothing of a particular memo and they now have solid evidence that he did. 

Now, I want to be clear and to the point.  This scandal could and should bring down the Presidency.   The Justice Department had been openly defiant of Congressional attempts to get at the truth.  Beyond that, the current Administration is filled almost to the brim with Chicago Mob-Style crooks and thugs.  They report to no one, they take no prisoners.  They are ruining this country.  The damage they have already done can never be undone.   

They all need to be removed and after we accomplish that, we need to disinfect the whole damned city of Washington. 

That’s MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.  

WHY NOT TAX THE RICH?

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We've all heard the arguments; you can't tax the rich any more because the rich are paying most of the taxes already.  Well, I stipulate that as being a fact, that the rich pay most of the taxes.  But, upon closer examination, that is the only part of the premise that is true.  

Let s ask why the rich pay the majority of the taxes.  Since the tax we're discussing is based on income, the answer is that the rich are making most of the money in this country.  Logically, if they are making most of the money, they should pay most of the taxes.  The question now becomes, are they paying their fair share?  Is the proportion of dollar income they pay in taxes comparable to what the middle class pays, (the poor don't pay taxes).  I don't think they are.  

If Joe Middleclass pays $10,000 in taxes on $50,000 gross income, does Mike Richguy pay $1,000,000 in taxes on $5,000,000 in gross income?  I submit to you that Mike is paying far less than the $1,000,000 because he has more write-offs and tax loopholes to take advantage of; he can also hire a good tax accountant, whereas Joe can't.  I think Mike is paying closer to $350,000 in taxes and therein lies the rub.  

I conclude that some adjustment is indeed in order.  We don't have to skin the rich and we want to keep incentives for Americans to want to work hard, invest and grow their wealth.  But, we also need to level the playing field.  The consistent rhetoric coming out of the Republican Party is falling on deaf ears on this issue. 

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 

REPUBLICAN PARTY DYING ON THE VINE?

They make a lot of noise and they sound good, but when it comes to the clutch, they are worthless.  After the 2010 elections, when Americans made it clear that they wanted economic changes and that they were upset with the spending ways, we were faced with the challenge of passing a budget with meaningful cuts.  The Republicans “fought tooth and nail” against the spending that Obama wanted and, over a few days, the proposed cuts went from $500 billion to $38 billion and the Republicans caved in at $90 million. 

In August, Congress wrestled with the debt limit.  The Republicans “fought tooth and nail” against raising the ceiling without getting $4 trillion in cuts and they caved in with a “super committee” deal that would not ever succeed and with a $1.2 trillion cut in the budget that still escalated spending by $1 trillion.  Then they had the audacity to run around like chickens with their heads cut off while ballyhooing about how this was “one giant leap for future spending reform.” 

How they have to guts to call the membership of the Republican Party to ask for donations, I will never know. 

Now, they are dead-set to put a closet liberal and politician who is not to be trusted, a guy who invented RomneyCare… on the Republican ticket for President.  Hell, why didn’t they just put up John McCain again?  Maybe we could get Jeb Bush or even Bush 1 might run again.  Where’s Bob Dole hiding? Could we get Jimmy Carter on our ticket? 

The party is becoming irrelevant.  I’ve said it before and will say it again: “Why don’t they just rejoin the Democratic Party and end the charade?” 

If they really and truly cared about the future of America, they would change their ways. 

That’s MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 

OBAMA'S TRASH POLITICS HEATING UP

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The Obama campaign has launched it's 2012 campaign ads and has made it clear that it is prepared to spend tens of millions.. even hundreds of millions of dollars in attacking the Republican candidate, Fox News and conservative talk radio.  Karl Rove, President Bush's one time Chief of Staff, and other knowledgeable sources are convinced that this will be the dirtiest, most ruthless campaign ever launched by anyone in this country.  

The Obama team has nothing to brag about, no achievements to ballyhoo, and many problems to face including the economy.  The only position of strength he can take is attack, attack, attack.  In my opinion, the American public is sick and tired enough of negative campaigns that this methodology of Obama's may well be his swan song.  Indeed, many Democrat Party leaders have begun to turn their backs on Obama. 

Nevertheless, the Saul Alinsky Progressive leftists of the country have manage to acquire a great deal of power of these past three years and they are not likely to readily give it up.  With the money being raised by Obama, it is apparent to me that they are prepared to do anything necessary to win and, unfortunately, that means more ACORN style election tricks and the probability of outright threats and intimidation.  

But, this is the turning point in our history.  We must stand together, we must stand strong, and together we must defeat those who wish to turn our country to socialism. 

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.  

BILLIONS OF U.S. DOLLARS GOING TO EUROPE!

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The United States has agreed to prop up the International Monetary Fund and European currencies by offering an extended credit line to help bail out Greece and Italy.  Our government has not released the amount of money to be transferred.  

THIS IS OUR MONEY! WE'RE ALREADY IN DEEP FINANCIAL CRISIS!  WHAT IN THE HELL IS GOING ON? 

That's MY AMERICAN QUESTION, respectfully submitted. 

THE ILLEGAL AMNESTY DEBATE

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I am the first one to say that our current system of dealing with illegal immigration sucks.  Furthermore, it is unconstitutional because it gives one class of people, illegal Mexican immigrants, rights and privileges not provided to other classes. 

That having been said, whose fault is it that they are here?  Where does the blame really belong?  The knee-jerk reaction is, “If they hadn’t crossed the border illegally, we wouldn’t have this problem.”  I agree with that premise, but it is not as simple as that. 

If you tell your child not to touch the burner or he will get burned and he touches it anyway and does not get burned, you have just lost all of your credibility.  Soon, he will be touching the burner on a regular basis and sticking his tongue out at you while he does it.  If you reward him under these circumstances with a lollipop, you’re a goner. 

That’s exactly what has happened with the illegal issue.  If you can sneak across the border with your family, your children get a free and much better education, you get welfare and social security, and you get free health care.  The odds are that if you get caught, you’re not going to be deported.  So, why not take the risk? 

Now you have been here for ten years, you have established friends, you are earning a living and paying your taxes and the government wants to deport you?  Shouldn’t we really be looking at those responsible for establishing the incentives that brought you here?  In the eyes of the law, our government has created the “attractive nuisance” and it should be held responsible. 

The very first thing we have to do is to stop the freebies for anyone who makes it across the border after today.  We need to seal the borders and provide hefty penalties for crossing it illegally and we need to enforce them.  We need to take those who have arrived recently, say within the last five years, and deport them.  As for the rest, we can give them a two-year limited amnesty and give them that length of time to take the classes and become U.S. citizens or leave the country.   We can also require that they learn English and obtain employment.  Finally, we must enforce the laws against employers who knowingly hire illegal immigrants. 

That’s MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.