Government Waste
Rick Klein of ABC News reports on the ABC website that the Obama administration has awarded a no bid contract worth 18 million dollars for the REDESIGN of the Recovery.gov Web site. In case you forget the website was designed to keep track of spending of taxpayer money from the TARP and Stimulus programs.
I have experience buying website builds and can assure you that I know of several website developers who would be able to develop and manage ANY site for much less. Perhaps the fact that the site was in Denny Hoyer’s district made the bidding UNNECESSARY.
Where is the same outrage that occurred during the Bush administration when they awarded no bid contracts. It was wrong then and it is wrong now.
Media Bias; Another Example
John Cook of the Website Gawker reports on the SECRET White House Party for select journalists (using the term journalists lightly). I recommend a trip to the site to read the entire post. Just another example of the Media being in bed with the Obama Administration. Interesting that I don’t see Fox News or the New York Post on the invite list.
“Reporters from roughly 30 television networks, newspapers, magazines, and web sites celebrated the Fourth of July with Barack Obama at the White House last weekend. Why didn’t you know that? Because they were sworn to secrecy…
……….What doesn’t make sense, at all, is why a group of reporters who have recently begun clinging to the notion that they are independent of Washington’s clubby morass of back-scratching self-congratulation would agree to attend an off-the-record party at the White House while one of their own is walled off in a pen like some forlorn scapegoat, doing the job they’re supposed to be doing.”
Time for Orrin Hatch to Retire
The country is going to hell in a hand basket and Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch has nothing better to do but have the Justice Department to investigate college football’s BCS because his Utah Utes did not get a major bowl. He cites potential violations of antitrust laws. The fact that he even conducted a hearing (at taxpayer expense) is an abomination.
Hey Senator you might want to concentrate on the Cap & Trade bill that will be before you soon that is going to tax individuals to the point that they won’t be able to even afford to go to a game. WAKE UP!
The Economy, Obama, The Media, The Foot In Mouth Vice President
Vice President Biden tells us that the Obama administration misread how bad the economy was. REALLY?
During the campaign and prior to the vote on the stimulus package do you not remember hearing over and over from both Biden and Obama “how this was the worst recession in history and the worst economy since the Great Depression.”
Now that the initial stimulus has not produced the desired results the trial balloon of another stimulus package has been floated. If at first your bad idea doesn’t work, try, try again. After all it is easy to print money.
Do you think that the media will ever start to ask a tough question? How about “Mr. President since the first stimulus package has not improved the economy what makes you think that a second on will?”
When you are in the tank for the administration questions like these would be out of line.
Cap & Trade; I Agree with Kyle-Anne Shiver
The July 7th Article by Kyle-Anne Shiver at the American Thinker the full article is well worth the read. Ms. Shiver had me with the first paragraph, that follows:
“I’m all for cap ‘n trade; it’s a nifty idea. Simply splendid. Positively stupendous. Brilliant beyond brilliant. I just have a different take on the whole notion. I prefer very stringent caps on taxes and spending, coupled with a 2010 trade-in of the entire U.S Congress”
Obama’s Nixonian White House, Helen Thomas
You know that the staged press events by the White House have gone too far when the very liberal Helen Thomas takes them to task. In her own words:
“Nixon didn’t try to do that. They couldn’t control. They didn’t try that. What the hell do they think we are, puppets? They’re supposed to stay out of our business. They are our public servants. We pay them. I’m not saying there has never been managed news before, but this is carried to fare-thee-well – for the town halls, for the press conferences. It’s blatant. They don’t give a damn if you know it or not. They ought to be hanging their heads in shame.”
Note to Ms. Thomas: Since you have been puppets since he began his run for the office you so dutifully helped him secure, you will be treated as puppets until you begin doing your job!
I Wonder If It Is Even Read or Taught In School Anymore?
I am old enough, some mornings I feel too old, to remember when the following document was required memorization in Public School. I doubt that there is time for that now with all of the time spent on global warming and other nonsense. But today a thanks to our Founders, the Brave who have given their lives and bodies to defend her and a Happy Birthday America and May God Continue To Bless You.
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
Dissent Becomes Terrorism In “Wacky” California
Only in California, I hope, does someone like Karen Bass become Speaker of the Assembly. Hope dashed since we have fellow Californian Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of House. This recent statement by Ms. Bass tells you all you need to know about how liberals think. In an interview with the Los Angeles Times she said that, “you vote for revenue (call it taxes like it is Ms. Bass) and your career is over.” Her reference was to the fact that Republicans were putting pressure on THEIR representatives to stop taxing and get spending under control.
In her remarks she was attempting to demonize talk radio buy stating that those opposed to more taxation were using “terrorist threats” not actually using their free speech rights. She further stated, “I guess it’s about free speech, but it’s extremely unfair.” Am I the only one who remembers when dissent was the highest form of patriotism (during Bush administration) now it is terrorism?
With leadership like Ms. Bass is it any wonder California is now issuing IOU’s rather than paying their bills?
