Political Republican Opinion

Political Republican Opinion:

With only 17 days to go before the inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama, Democrats are already rubbing their hands together, eager to get their hands on as much money as they can from what will surely be one of the most irresponsible spending sprees in our nation’s history.

An article that recently appeared in Reuters reports that five governors – all Democrats - have banded together, asking the federal government for a $1 trillion bailout. That money would only help struggling states remain above water until the beginning of 2010, however. They are crossing their fingers and hoping for an economic recovery by the end of the year or else they’ll be lining up, asking for more next year. How’s that for a sound fiscal plan?

Democratic Governor Jim Doyle of Wisconsin said, “quite a number” of other governors are supporting the trillion dollar initiative, adding, “the Obama team has been very receptive to listening to us.”

Banks, insurance companies, automobile manufacturers and now state governments are all lining up, hoping to cash in. Hey, as long as we are unconcerned about having future generations pay for fixing our current economic woes, why not do the most sensible thing of all during this mad spending spree? That is, give the money to the people!

According to the Boston Globe and CNN.com, the federal government is now willing to spend as much as $7 trillion to rescue the economy. That’s $23,000 per American or $60,000 per household. Just imagine what the effect on the economy would be if each family were to receive a nice, fat $60,000 check from the government.

Families facing severe debt would be able to get themselves back on the right track. If families were able to pay off their debts, the banks wouldn’t need a bailout. $60,000 would also make a nice little down payment. This would have to be pretty good news for the housing and construction industries. Retailers would be raking in the dough, auto makers would no longer need a bailout and manufacturing of all sorts would shoot through the roof. All of this extra business activity would mean an explosion in the number of jobs created and, with that many more people employed, still more spending would occur.

Of course, this more sensible redistribution of money would never happen under a Democratic plan. If people were able to succeed and the economy was able to right itself in this manner, what would we need all of the excess government for? If there weren’t unfortunate people, the Democratic Party’s base would erode to nothing. Sure, there would always be the handful of tree huggers, animal rights advocates and global warming alarmists to go after. Hardly enough of a voting block to sustain a political party, though.

No, the five Democratic Governors have it right if their goal is to sustain and increase the size of the Democratic Party’s base. Create a larger government to oversee massive new projects, take government control of more and more private business entities and give the people just enough money to make it look like they are fighting for them but don’t give them enough to break their dependence on the Party.

Or, we could let the natural process of a Capitalist market correct itself as it has done time and time again. If not, I like my plan better. I don’t have any children and don’t ever plan to, so I am more inclined to take the $60,000 and let your children worry about paying it back!

Political Republican Opinion Quote of the Day: “Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what’s going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?” – Will Rogers

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Political Republican Opinion:

The rise in piracy along the Indian Ocean and Gulf of Aden in recent months has given rise to fears that a premature withdrawal of US military forces in Iraq would lead to an explosion of piracy in the region and increased attacks on Iraqi citizens.

During a press conference held in Baghdad yesterday, Iraqi defense minister, Abdel Qader Jassem Mohammed al-Obeidi, warned that if coalition forces “withdraw precipitously, our gulf will become like the Gulf of Aden, where there have been 95 acts of piracy.”[1]

The ever-increasing boldness of the Somali-based piracy rings is apparent. Originally content with seizing fishing trawlers, returning the ships to their owners for a sizeable ransom, the pirates have moved on to bigger, better and more expensive vessels. Cargo ships have been frequent recent targets and now, with the seizure of the Sirius Star, a Saudi oil tanker, it appears that there is no limit to the type of ship that the ruthless mercenaries are willing to count on for their booty.

According to the London-based research organization, Chatham House, the average ransom request is $1 million.[2] An estimated $100 million has already been collected by the marauders this year, alone.[3] The pirates controlling the Saudi oil tanker are demanding $25 million for its safe return. With the cost of the tanker in the range of $148 million and its precious crude oil cargo valued at over $100 million, a $25 million request for the safe release of the crew, ship and cargo are a relative bargain, it would seem.

“What’s this have to do with us?” you may ask.

Close to 20,000 ships pass through the Gulf of Aden every year; it is the main trade route for dry and manufactured goods between Asia, Europe and the Americas. The extra costs associated with bolstered security for these vessels would surely be passed down to consumers if it was at all practical to arm these ships; but, because they are not equipped to defend themselves, many shipping companies have chosen to avoid the Gulf of Aden altogether. Instead, some companies have chosen to take the long route around the southern tip of Africa, which adds an extra three weeks to shipping time. This further increases the costs associated with getting goods to the United States estimated at an extra $20,000 to $30,000 per day.[4]

If the cost to our pocketbooks is not enough, more serious national security issues dwarf those concerns. The pirates have begun using satellite tracking devices, heavy weaponry and intelligence picked up from sources in ports. In an interview on Fox News this morning, former Scotland Yard chief inspector and National Extremism Tactical Coordination Unit (NETCU) Superintendent, Steve Pearl, said the piracy groups are being aided by Islamic fundamentalists who are more than happy to receive kickbacks for their intelligence gathering assistance.

Nato, the United States and numerous European nations have all sent ships to the region to try to stop the piracy. Nevertheless, the number of attacks on merchant ships has increased. South Korea, Japan, and Saudi Arabia are now also considering sending warships to help secure the area.

As the world scrambles for answers to the piracy problem, Iraq is understandably concerned about its own national security. Obeidi said in the press conference that Iraqi territory risks being attacked by neighboring states, referring to Turkey’s bombing of Turkish Kurdish PKK rebels in the mountainous regions of northern Iraq.

“Today, Iraq is the target of bombing from abroad but it is limited because the (US-led) coalition represents a dissuasion force. If it is not there any more, the whole country risks being the target of shooting, even (the southern port of) Basra, and they will justify their actions by referring to information on a PKK base there,” the Iraqi defense minister said.

Obeidi also said his country has turned into “a battleground for different foreign intelligence services,” adding, “Iraqi security forces, backed by the coalition, must impose a limit on their activities, of which Iraqis are the victims.”

One can only wonder if Barack Obama will continue to hold firm on his plan to extricate US troops from the Iraqi arena. As is usually the case, the world looks a whole lot more complicated when viewed from inside the Oval Office. Let’s hope that the people Barack Obama surrounds himself with have the wisdom and experience to guide the inexperienced new President-elect in the right direction and that he has the wisdom to make the right choices.

Political Republican Opinion Quote of the Day: “The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.” - Deng Xiaoping

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Political Republican Opinion Blog Guest Writer: Tony Newell

Ask any magician and he will tell you virtually every trick in the book relies, to some extent, upon distraction. Get the audience to look at the right hand while the left hides a quarter, or these days, a giraffe.

Something tells me Savior-Elect Obama knows a thing or two about magic. In fact, it seems he has elevated the art to include the most effective distractive force known to man - his mouth.

He began, at least as a headliner, by telling us his campaign would eschew race altogether, and instead focus on issues that matter to ordinary people. The niftiness of turning hope and warmth and soul-tickling into “issues” aside, Obama’s ability to sell this above-race- shtick to millions of Americans, all while glibly reminding us of how he doesn’t look like those “ guys on the dollar bills” or allowing his disciples in the press to denounce any criticism of him as racist, is nothing short of impressive.

Then Obama, after promising to accept public financing for his general election campaign, decided he would opt out once it was clear John McCain would never match him dollar for dollar. For most candidates, that kind of stunt haunts them through November – but not Obama. An effortless rhetorical tweak and a few more meters about “change” and “politics as usual,” and everything is dandy.

But this we’ve heard. This we know.

Now is when the words begin to curdle. Now is when burden of responsibility manifests substance. Indefatigably, Barack Obama has promised to unite Washington and bring the country and its leaders together in a common cause for hope and prosperity and dandelions.

But, where is this unity?

So far the President-Elect’s strategy has been to stack his staff and cabinet with ardent progressive after partisan liberal, and if there isn’t a sufficiently liberal candidate to fill a position, it goes to a rival. After all, isn’t there an adage regarding the proximity of friends and enemies?

Again, not exactly surprising to Obama’s many detractors. It would appear, in fact, that our forty-fourth President is poised to lend himself quite well to predictability.

With that mentioned, allow me to briefly indulge in a bit of prognostication.

Burdened with the responsibility of, well, responsibility, I imagine Barack Obama is going to have a tougher time keeping the crowd than he had winning it over. A seemingly inevitable nuclear Iran, a schizophrenic economy and a dysfunctional congress to exacerbate it are only the beginning of what the Messiah is going to have to face from the very start.

Granted, it’s been my contention that, from this point on, the current economic atrophy will largely correct itself. However, the threats of Islamofacism and a contumacious Iran will do no such thing. Not only will both threats require sacrifice and resolve, but an audacity that has very little to do with hope and more to do with reality - there will be no more voting “present.”

Given the imminence of geo-political turmoil, Obama’s next sleight of mouth will probably mean an increase in tough talk with Iran; probably to the extent of sufficiently convincing most Americans that he is nobody’s dove and that he really, really means business. This posturing, naturally, will be concomitant with “hard-nose negotiations” with Iran. These negotiations, of course, will take months if not years. After all, some will argue, Obama is a smooth talker, just give him some time.

Eventually, Obama will have afforded Iran enough time to enrich enough Uranium to cross the “point of no return”-that is where an airstrike will result in a catastrophic release of radiation. At this point, any decisive and tolerable military option will be off the table and the game will have changed. President Obama will blame the failure on the previous administration, claiming he never had enough time to halt Iran’s progress, Israel is left to defend itself alone and the discussion in the U.S. immediately shifts to how we will successfully live with a nuclear Iran - assuredly an argument already being perfected by Obama’s “experts” (and one that is completely unacceptable).

Naturally, I, and to be fair many others, could be wrong; and, I truly hope we are. But if not, the next chapter of our American story will be a grim one that all the charm and all the poetry in the world will not ameliorate.

Let’s hope this next President has some other tricks up his sleeve; let’s hope he is saving the real magic for the big stage. But, if what we see is what we get, I fear we are in for a wicked show.

The Political Republican Opinion Blog would like to thank Tony Newell for his submission and welcomes any other writers to send in their Conservative articles to be published, as well (just submit them via the Contact Us page).

Political Republican Opinion Blog Quote of the Day: “I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.” - Detronius Arbiter

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Political Republican Opinion:

After losing the presidential election and witnessing their second consecutive landslide defeat in both houses of Congress, the Republican Party is scrambling. Despite claims that the mainstream media was biased toward Barack Obama (they were), they have no one to blame but themselves.

The Party clearly needs to do a better job of defining themselves and also must take a serious look at some of the antiquated parts of their platform if they are to regain the trust of the American public and show that they really exist to defend the rights of individuals.

So, what will it take for the Republican Party to re-energize itself in the modern era? Ten things need to be accomplished before the GOP can climb out of its funk and re-emerge as the pragmatic leaders they once were:

1. Fiscal Responsibility

Republican Congressmen must re-establish themselves as the Party of fiscal responsibility. The ridiculous spending that occurred during the Republican-led Congressional years from 2000-2006 will not soon be forgotten.

The GOP can begin to redeem themselves in the next two years by following a simple principle: Not a single Republican should request earmarks and should oppose any piece of legislation that contains even an ounce of pork. Even if the rest of the legislation in a bill is acceptable, Republicans must loudly state their objections to it and declare that pork is the reason that it will not get their support.

2. Cut Federal Spending:

Americans are beginning to look seriously at their own budgets, making cuts to “wants” and concentrating on “needs.” Congress should be doing the same. Republicans in both the House and the Senate should lobby adamantly for cuts to federal programs that are wasting taxpayer money.

3. Communicate with the Media:

Actions don’t speak louder than words when those actions are never noticed because the words are never heard. Party members need to issue press releases and appear on any and all radio and television shows where they can show what they are doing to promote savings to taxpayers and tell the American public who is standing in the way of their efforts. I, for one, want to know which members of Congress are standing in the way of progress!

4. Learn the Power of Social Media:

The GOP has already taken the first step in communicating on the newest news medium - the Internet - by setting up the Republican For A Reason website. Although this was a good first step, the site is poorly optimized and its lack of buttons for social bookmarking shows that the Republican National Committee does not yet understand the concept.

There is no more powerful way to get your message out on the web than to promote it through hub pages and social networks. If the webmaster for the site hasn’t taken the time to set up social bookmarking buttons, it is doubtful that he/she has taken the time to perform any of the manual submission chores associated with social bookmarking, either.

5. Change the Republican Position on Abortion:

While it is important to stand firm on its position regarding partial birth abortions, the federal funding of abortions and the Born Alive Act, until the GOP axes the Human Life Amendment from their agenda, they will always be alienating over half of the US voting base.

This does not mean that Republicans shouldn’t state what they personally believe and what they would do if they or a family member was confronted with an unexpected pregnancy. It does, however, mean that the GOP needs to realize that these are highly personal decisions and that looking to overturn Roe vs. Wade will not accomplish anything other than to diminish their potential voter base.

Just as prohibition did nothing to stop the consumption of alcohol in this country, making abortions illegal would return us to the far more dangerous illegal abortions practices that occurred before Roe vs. Wade.

Instead, Republican Congressmen should concentrate their efforts on ensuring that women facing this highly emotionally decision have all the facts and alternatives available to them and that those who choose to make the unsettling choice for an abortion, have the emotional support they need and that the procedures are being performed in the safest way possible.

6. Traditional Marriage:

Again, I believe that the Republican Party has missed the boat here. A federal mandate on the definition of marriage is unnecessary and is counterproductive to the concept of a republic of people who are free to make their own decisions without federal government intervention.

States and the people who live in those states need to have the freedom to make these decisions. Each state can makes its own laws relating to this issue and whether or not they will recognize same-sex marriages that may have been legal in other states. The individual will then have the ability to choose where they want to live based upon those laws.

Why the federal government believes they need to dive into this tempest in a teapot is beyond me.

7. Fight to overturn the Kelo Decision:

An individual’s right to property is a concept originally introduced by John Locke and later refined by Thomas Paine in his book, The Rights of Man. In that book, Paine wrote, “The right to property being inviolable and sacred, no one ought to be deprived of it, except in cases of evident public necessity, legally ascertained, and on condition of just indemnity.”

When the US Supreme Court upheld the decision by the state of Connecticut’s highest court - that the government could seize individual homes and property from citizens in order to benefit the interests of a private land developer without just compensation in the form of current market value - a serious breach of trust occurred.

Sandra Day O’Connor correctly argued that the decision eliminates “any distinction between private and public use of property—and thereby effectively delete[s] the words ‘for public use’ from the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment.”

There was no evident public necessity for the takeover of these peoples’ homes (unless you consider a Pfizer, Inc. research facility, a pedestrian riverwalk, a state park, a U.S. Coast Guard Museum and a “small urban village” including a waterfront hotel “necessities”) nor were the former owners justly compensated for their property (unless you consider valuing the property at pre-development rates a fair estimate of a property’s value).

Until the GOP proves that the individual is more important than corporate interests, people will always be skeptical about whose rights the Party is really fighting for. The Republican Party needs to let the American public know that they will fight to reinstitute the principle of property rights that was important to our founding fathers and that they will battle to overturn the horrible precedent set by the Supreme Court in the Kelo Decision that allowed a developer to steal a person’s property.

8. Energy Independence:

The Republican Party needs to do a much better job of convincing the American public that they are willing to explore every viable form of energy that exists. While it is true that they should continue their fight to allow drilling in ANWR and off the coast of the United States, they need to show that the GOP plan involves far more than “drill here, drill now.”

The Republican Party needs to step out of the shadows and into the light, showing that they are at the forefront on alternative energy issues. Paying lip service to the concept of human involvement in global warming is not enough. There are far more important issues at hand when it comes to energy independence.

Our national security and economic survival depends on weaning ourselves off oil for our energy needs. While we are drilling for our own supplies, I would like to see a Republican panel put together that would focus entirely on funding research for wind, solar, clean coal and nuclear technologies. Forget being bipartisan here; the GOP needs to show the nation that it is the real Party of energy independence.

9. Judges:

The Republican Party needs to emphasize their belief in the US Constitution and that they will only support judges who interpret the Constitution, rather than legislate from the bench based upon their own individual beliefs. This will help to ensure that the [un]Fairness Doctrine is held as an unconstitutional Act and that our right to bear arms remains intact.

10. Less Government Means More Freedom:

The Republican Party needs to stop sending out mixed signals. If the GOP truly believes that there should be less government intervention in the lives of Americans, they cannot possibly support some of the stances listed above that restrict the freedoms of so many Americans.

Tolerance for others who are different from us is the key to social harmony and what makes the American melting pot the model for all societies. Until the Republican Party proves that they can keep their hands out of our pockets and their noses out of our lives, they will struggle to gain the acceptance of the American public at large.

Political Republican Opinion Quote of the Day: “Facts are stubborn things; and, whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” – John Adams

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Political Republican Opinion:

We haven’t heard from the good ole’ boys at the Red State update in awhile.

After the election, the boys were quite upset about Barack Obama’s win. In part one of the update, the boys re-evaluate whether the good old USA is worth living in anymore …

After booking their airline tickets, Jackie and Dunlap head for Canada in search of a more optimistic future. They soon find out, however, that the answer to a better life isn’t in the Great White North.

A card from a special person causes them to rethink their move …

I hope these good ole’ boys do better than our last candidate did. One thing’s for sure; they won’t be pandering across the aisle for crossover votes!

Political Republican Opinion Quote of the Day: “To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.” – Thomas Paine

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Political Republican Opinion:

It’s the bottom of the ninth, with two outs and the home team is at the plate. The score is tied and the runner on first, Andy Amphetamine, has taken a wide lead off of the bag.

The pitcher, Henry (HGH) Humphries, glances over his left shoulder, decides his heat is enough to negate the runner’s big lead and he fires a rocket toward the plate.

The batter, Sammy Steroid, anticipating the star pitcher would be offering his famous, flaming, fastball, begins swinging as the ball is leaving the hurler’s hand. An explosive transfer of weight occurs as he pushes off of his back leg and begins his swing.

Both dugouts feel the air from the pumped-up behemoth’s tremendous swing as he connects with the ball, launching it down the left field line over the leaping third baseman, Andy Alcoholic.

Left fielder Craig Cocaine, realizing he won’t quite make it to the ball, lets it whiz by, preferring to play the ricochet off of the wall. He gallops at breakneck speed toward the wall, fields the carom on the fly, pivots, and rifles a one-hopper toward the plate. It’s going to be a close play.

Wesley Workout, the gym rat catcher, senses the potential game-winning runner streaking toward him, just feet away from the plate, as he snaps up the one-hopper. The muscle-bound catcher braces himself for the inevitable collision, his body easily absorbing the brutal shock, as he holds onto the ball.

Out number three; the game moves on to extra innings …

My apologies to baseball “purists;” but, as a fan of the game of baseball, I can’t imagine a more exciting play than the one illustrated above. I don’t care what these guys have done to get themselves into the shape they are in. I am only interested in seeing riveting action.

From the time that the first ball was thrown, players of the game of baseball (and all other walks of life be it other sports, academia or the business world) have been doing whatever they could to be the best. If a “magic pill” that could make a person jump higher, run faster and react quicker existed fifty years ago, I guarantee you that players would have been lining up to take it.

We have no idea what players were doing in the “golden era of the game” because the media, both professional and amateur, was not the same as it is today. “But steroids are illegal,” the purists say, conveniently forgetting that their hero, Babe Ruth, was downing more alcohol during prohibition than a body should be able to endure.

“It’s cheating the players who do it the right way,” they continue, and this is a valid point! I can’t help but wonder; however, where to draw the line? Is it “natural” to spend hours in the gym, sculpting each muscle of one’s body? Is it “natural” to take supplements that have not made it onto the banned list? How many cups of coffee or energy drinks constitute crossing that line between natural and artificial performance?

Each player must make his own decision. Does he have enough natural ability to keep up with other players? Does he have the work ethic to spend the hours in the gym necessary to keep each muscle at its peak? How many extra hours beyond the already countless road trip time is he willing to spend away from his family? Is it worth risking his reputation? Is it worth risking being caught by the law?

These are undoubtedly tough decisions to make. Decisions made tougher still, when a player sees the benefits that are being derived from players who are not “doing it the right way.” When a starting roster spot is on the line, how much is he willing to risk for that spot?

This is a game. It is entertainment. I find it so unbelievably offensive that 20 million dollars of taxpayers’ hard-earned money was spent on the Mitchell Report. I find it incomprehensible that our government officials felt that there were not things in this country that the money could not have been better spent on.

I realize that there are those who believe that our impressionable youth look at some of the record-breaking players of today’s era of baseball and think, “if it worked for them, it may work for me!” I also believe that if the higher-and-mightier-than-thou media and government officials did not focus so much effort on exposing those players, the youth of America might not even be looking at steroids as a potential performance booster.

As is the situation with many of these “role model” cases, it is up to each parent to raise their own kids. It is up to them to instill the moral values that will shape the decisions their children make as they leave the nest and face the tough decisions in life. It is far too convenient in today’s society to always pass the buck, blaming others for the problems that each individual is surely responsible for.

I, myself, choose free will. I have the power to make my own decisions and the responsibility of dealing with the consequences of those decisions. Should I watch another re-run of Seinfeld or the game tonight? If it’s as exciting as the fictitious game referenced above, I’ll take the baseball game every time!

Political Republican Opinion Quote of the Day: “When I was a small boy growing up in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing and as we sat there in the warnth of a summer afternoon on a riverbank, we talked about what we wanted to do when we grew up. I told him that I wanted to be a real major league baseball player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he’d like to be President of the United States. Neither of us got our wish.” - Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Political Republican Opinion:

In an interview earlier this week, US House of Representatives member, Paul Broun, called President-elect Barack Obama a Marxist and likened him to Adolf Hitler. His words could not have been clearer:

“It may sound a bit crazy and off base, but the thing is, he’s the one who proposed this national security force,” Broun told the AP in the Monday interview. “I’m just trying to bring attention to the fact that we may - may not, I hope not - but we may have a problem with that type of philosophy of radical socialism or Marxism.”

Broun’s comments were in reference to a July speech by Barack Obama in which the President-elect called for “a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well funded” as the US military.

Broun told the AP, “That’s exactly what Hitler did in Nazi Germany and it’s exactly what the Soviet Union did. When he’s proposing to have a national security force that’s answering to him that is as strong as the US military, he’s showing me signs of being a Marxist.”

“We can’t be lulled into complacency,” Broun continued, “You have to remember that Adolf Hitler was elected in a democratic Germany. I’m not comparing him to Adolf Hitler. What I’m saying is there is the potential.”

Now, after a sea of protests in regards to the comments, the Georgia representative is backpedaling:

“I regret putting it that way,” Broun told WGAC radio in Augusta, GA. “I apologize to anyone who has taken offense at that.”

Broun added, “The point I tried to make is that he is extremely liberal, he has promoted a lot of socialistic ideas, and it just makes me concerned.”

Don’t you just love it when someone insults another person and then pretends he didn’t mean the insult by saying that he didn’t intend to offend anyone? Isn’t it pitiful when a Congressman slinks away with his tail between his legs?

You said it, Mr Broun, now be a man and stand behind your words. There are surely invertebrates with more backbone than you. If I lived in Georgia, I wouldn’t re-elect you solely on your lack of mettle!

The Obama transition office, however, didn’t seem at all offended by the Congressman. In fact, they had no comments at all in regards to the Congressman’s allegations.

It seems eerily like the shrug given when “Joe the Plumber” challenged Barack Obama for his notion of “spreading the wealth around.” Their indifference to Broun’s words is highly disturbing to say the least!

Political Republican Opinion Quote of the Day: “The real menace of our republic is this invisible government which, like a giant octopus, sprawls its slimy length over City, State, and Nation… It seizes in its long and powerful tentacles our executive officers, our legislative bodies, our schools, our courts, our newspapers, and every agency created for the public protection.”– John F. Hylan (Mayor of New York City, 1918-1925)

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Political Republican Opinion:

A clip from a Finnish documentary about elections in America has recently appeared on YouTube. The clip shows a public elementary school teacher in Ashville North Carolina asking students who they support in the election.

One student, whose father is in the military, says she is supporting John McCain. “Oh, Jesus,” the teacher replies, before telling the girl that our troops are fighting “a senseless war” in Iraq. She tells the child that John McCain says that our troops could stay in Iraq for another 100 years and implies that the child may never see her daddy again.

When questioned by the interviewer, the teacher says that she can support who she wants to support as long as she doesn’t browbeat another person for the candidate that they support. This teacher clearly has an ill-conceived definition of the word “browbeat,” as she ridicules the child in front of her classmates. It is a shocking example of how poorly educated the people teaching our students really are. She cannot even properly pronounce Barack Obama’s name. Apparently, the public school system has no problem with bringing up Jesus’ name as long as it is in vain, though.

This has got to stop! I will not support a school system that believes that it must indoctrinate our children at an early age to think the way that it wants them to think. The school system has long supported the pro-union Democratic Party but they must not be able to kidnap our children’s thoughts.

I have no problem with a balanced discussion of political matters in a classroom where that discussion belongs, like a social studies class, and at an appropriate grade level. We need a law on the books that terminates any teacher immediately who injects their political opinions into a classroom that is paid for with taxpayer money. When I went to public school, none of this kind of stuff ever happened. We actually spent our time on math, reading and writing.

Since I do not speak Finnish, I can only wonder what conclusion was reached by the filmers of this documentary. I imagine it was that America is indoctrinating children in the school system starting at an early age. See the video clip, below:

Political Republican Opinion Quote of the Day: “There is no accountability in the public school system - except for coaches. You know what happens to a losing coach. You fire him. A losing teacher can go on losing for 30 years and then go to glory.” – Ross Perot

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Political Republican Opinion:

According to WTHR - Eyewitness News, Indianapolis, 375 people who were part of Barack Obama’s “Vote Corps Program” - a group hired to get last-second voters into the polls for Barack Obama - lined up in front of Obama headquarters yesterday, angrily demanding the money they were owed for their services.

Police were called to the scene to control the mob and make sure that things did not get out of hand.

Although all of the people did eventually get paid, many of them were shorted pay for the hours they worked.

“It should have been $480. It’s $230,” complained Imani Sankofa.

“They gave us $10 an hour. So we added it. I added up all the hours, so it was supposed to be at least $120. All I get is $90,” said Charles Martin.

“I worked nine hours a day for 4 days and got paid half of what I should have earned,” said Randall Waldon.

The Obama campaign promised to mail the underpaid workers a check for the amount they were shorted, but quite a few were skeptical.

“They say that they gonna call you or they going to mail it to you, but I don’t know. We’ll see what happens,” said Antron Grose.

“Talking about they’ll mail it to us. I ain’t worried about that, man. They’re not going to mail nothin’,” Martin groused.

Hopefully, Barack Obama makes good on the pay he owes to the people who worked so hard to get him elected. Otherwise, it’s not looking good for the rest of America that are counting on Barack Obama to keep his promises.

You can read the full WTHR article here: Obama campaign: Unpaid wages resolved.

Political Republican Opinion Quote of the Day: “The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.” - George Stephanopolous

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Political Republican Opinion:

Congratulations to our new President-elect. The election is over and the country has decided upon Barack Obama as our new incoming President. Out of respect for the position, I have removed the ads for the “NoBama” T-Shirt and the “Obama Nation” book from the sidebar.

I have always believed that no matter what one’s own personal views are, the President of the United States is a person who deserves the utmost respect of the citizens of this country. He is your country to the rest of the world and vulgar attacks on him, whoever he may be, weaken our country in the eyes of other nations of the world.

Before entering the blogging world, I wrote a top-rated article for Helium about this. In that article, I wrote, “It does not matter if you voted for him or not. It does not matter if you agree with all of the President’s decisions. You may not like the way your sister is dressing lately, but you most certainly would not sit idly by as someone calls her a tramp!”

This is not to say that the President shouldn’t be held accountable for things over which he has control. In most cases and in other years, though, I have given the President a pass, since the House of Representatives and the Senate are chiefly responsible for enacting the laws that shape our country’s policies. The President only has the power to veto those Acts and, even in those cases, a President’s vetoes can be overridden with enough Congressional support for any particular bill.

Barack Obama, however, will not have the luxury of being able to blame Congress. The Democrats have a HUGE majority in both houses of Congress. He should have a free pass in getting anything he has promised through the Legislative Branch. Barack Obama has been given the penultimate opportunity to pass with flying colors or to fail miserably.

Only time will tell which it will be.

I have copied his entire website and will be adding a section to my blog entitled “The Obama Report Card.” It will be divided into sections so that visitors to the blog can check on President Obama’s progress in getting the things he has promised that are important to them, accomplished. Each section will have a list and the items on the list will appear in RED until they are accomplished. Once completed, the items will turn GREEN.

I encourage all visitors to the blog to not only check out that list to see how he is progressing, but to remind me of any items that President Obama has accomplished that I have neglected to change from red to green. There is no immediate rush to get the report card section onto the website (yes, I’ve already started it), since it will be another two-and-a-half months until President-elect Obama is inaugurated.

I will continue to criticize the members of the legislature when they are doing something that I see as being detrimental to our country’s interests or to Conservative principles. I, too, reserve the right to respectfully post my disagreements with decisions made by the new President.

Hopefully, President Obama will not receive the same level of disrespect, regardless of the job he is doing, as our current President has and I discourage any who comment on this blog in the future from using discourteous language. I also hope that all of my fears of Barack Obama have been unfounded and that he turns out to be a fantastic President, leading our country to new and great heights.

Political Republican Opinion Quote of the Day: “I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.” – Thomas Jefferson

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