Year 2011! Obama is going to Gain back more support in USA! (758)

weeeeeeee all the way home.

I need to step to the garage and have my nightly ration of cigarettes. Fortunately I found some butts on the curb today.

Times are tough in America

Leigh must have can canned her way all the way to bed.

<joel~~~~~~~~ Leigh~~~~~~~~~>

:sorry emoticon:

:tripping over the desk emoticon, to get out the door:

ok...this is going to be first and the last post in this thread. you know dude, i have supported obama because i am more, in general, inclined toward the democrats for some obvious reasons. But if i start hating obama, it will be because of you!

Here is were the NKorean/SKorean crisis gets expensive for the
United States.

Our China Ambassador just had 'constructive consultation' with the Chinese on diffusing the situation. It is not the food and fuel that we give to the NKorean for them to keep their weapons safety but rather when to go China to ask them to place pressure on the NKorean to flick the safety on.......we lose our ability to ask for currency controls, better quality exported items,China to honor WTO agreements, etcetcetc.....

Asking China to help on Korea, places us "one friendly favor" over the line on these other issues. So when we do ask on these other issues, China yawns and stays the sleeping dragon. At least most of the time.

We lose more on the Chinese currency arrangement than we do in food and fuel shipments to NKorea. Economically for us to get the currency issue ironed out is pretty important. China knows this. So when ever we get fussie () about the currency issue, NKorea takes the safety off the weapons and off the rhetoric.

The regional focus moves to keeping WWIII from breaking out and the Chinese have again successfully deflected a serious discussion on the economic issues between the two countries.

This is because, the US foreign policy is single issue driven. One issue at a time. Solve that and move on to the next. We need to become more multi tasking to multiple issues solving in our foriegn policy when dealing with China.

Because kids, China has the single issue game plan all mapped out. Both how to block and deflect our attempts to discuss major singles issues with them. They are very good at this.

Had the US Ambassador....gone to the China leaders.....and said....we wish serious talks on NKorea and here is our team of negotiators they will be Soul next week. Also here is our team of negotiators on the Currency issue, they will be in Taiwan next week. And our team on the quality of China exports, they will be in Tokyo next week....please send your negotiation team to meet with them all.

Now you got something cooking with China. But being foreign policy single issue driven, that is not how we play the geo political game.

See all these other Chinese issues....effect also our regional allies ...Soul, Toyko, and Tapian all get involved with what ever we do with China. The currency thing effect them greatly.

But both GWB and Obama administrations have been single issued driven with China. As long as we take this approach, China is going to take our lunch on the playground and hand us back a empty paper sack.

To go to this broader multi issue negotiation with China...is not a easy government task. It is very complex. It is more like playing Star Trek's 3-D chess with the big Blue Computer than play chess with with your grand daddies old board and pieces with a novice player.

We can be single issue driven with allies like the UK and smaller countries. But with China......eventually we will not even get the paper sack back.

There is a GUD!

Neat little article out on "10 Conservative to Watch in 2011".

It is not the normal list of Palins, Huckabees, Romneys eithter.....

Here is the 10

Gov Scott of Florida..why?

Scott controls the 2012 swing state of Florida. And Florida got to two additional electrol votes in the recent census. The question here...how will Scott reapportion Florida to benefit the REP or the Tea Party best?

US Senator Kelly Ayotte from New Hampshie

Come on....the last time a Conservative woman came from NH as Senator was? Never. Ayotte is breaking the mold in New England.
She had Palin support to win in NH....but face tough Tea Party opposition....so she is kind of a momma bear but walks a different path than the New England Tea Party.

Kris Kobash Sect of State of Kansas

Kansas you say? Kobash is a conservative thinker type. Guess who wrote the AZ immigation bill? If you guess Kobash, you got it.
He also wrote Hazleton, PA illegal alien renter codes, Muslim requirements to register post 911, and ran on a stricter voter ID platform to easily win in Kansas. A young gun thinker type!

Amy Kremer, Chairwoman for the Tea Party Express

Amy Kremer....kept the TEA Party isolated from the REP party when the DEM were saying that they are one in the same. She ran a very successful PR campaign to explain Tea Party and REp were not symonious. She is moving into conservative issue lobbying on the hill now.

REP Allen West of Florida

Allen West is one of two black REP in the Congress. A former military officer that relieved of command after a bad intorragation of terrorist in Iraq. West brings a hardliner attitude to Islamic terrorism than most have. He is on the Homeland Security committee....to give Janet N some heart burn.....

Gov, John Kasich of Ohio

)) he is going to reshape Ohio's tax program is given the chance.. Kasich has been preaching ending income taxes for years.
Now he gets a chance to do it. Many are watching the changed tax laws effect in Ohio. Often States will try a governing experiment
and if successful it is quickly copied around the country.

REP Adam Kinzinger from IL

A former Iraq war Vet here. Only 32 in age. He with West are going to be the real life face of Iraq and Afghanistan in Congress. They have been there and done that. So know the story.
He takes on the environmentalist and global warming advocates.
Bring your body armor boys.....to the debate if your pushing carbon credits and environmetal issues with him.

AG Ken Cuccenilli of Virgina

Ken Cuccenelli.....went after the U of V Climate Control professors on fraud charges. He is a Tea Party favorite. With his proximity to Washington and the Beltway, now as the AG of
Virgina, he is looked to challenge Obama signed legislation in court action.

Senator Ken Johnson of Wisconsin.

Johnson is a Tea Party favorite. Coming into Washington with a desire to cut budgets and repeal health care. But he is also a idea man. He wants to look at Presidential war authorities for legilative change.

TX Railroad Commissioner Micheal Williams.

Williams was nearly the first black Senator from Texas. Had some politics gone differently there, he would have been making run.
He is Tea Party favorite. If the politic change....look for him to make run for Senate the next time around

There your 10 conservative names to watch in 2011. Each has to play a key role in the new government that is shaping up. If they do....the country has been taken back from DEM control.....

And, by the way leigh, still at this age, you look very pretty! Only freddy's GUD knows how pretty u really were when you were yonger!

Standing to eat!

What can I throw into the thread to give Dude his daily dose of
anxiety....decisions decisions decisions.....

Sadly a second person in AZ has passed away because reduced coverage because of the Obama cuts to medicaide. Another potential transplact pateint passed away because funds could not be found for the operation.

The fingers on this are soon to start pointing. Is it AZ State or Federal Gov't responsiblity? Is it REP or DEM fault? Is it Obama's fault or Palin's fault.

In someway, I think we have a shared responsibility here. We are the government of the United States A man or woman, that we elect represents us in the office they hold. So when the ball gets dropped....and it has been dropped in these two cases of tissue transplant surgery. Then it is we the people that failed right along with the elected leaders that cut the medicare funding.

As we push to 2014, when Obama care comes....in AZ alone....if this rate of surgery failures occurs.....another 6-8 will die. Put that across the country.....likely between 300 and 400 that are going to die because of the medicare cuts backs.

Is this to be President Obama fault? Well he did push for Obamacare. He campaigned and spoke on it 100s of times. But I don't think that it is 100% his fault. DEMs in Congress put the Obamacare package together, they are the ones that cut the Mediciade funding. They could have just as easily in the 2700 pages of Obamacare....place in supplemental funding for a interim organ tissue surgeries for 20010 to 2014. But did not, and did not let the REP have time to offer the suggestion.

What ever your logic or political ideology....Americans should not be dieing because of the lack of funds for a operation that has been done for 30 years. But they are. To DEMs maybe this is part of the 'hard times' that we need to go thru. Prior to Obamacare, funds were avialable for these procedures and now they are not. So your self imposed 'hard time' on the elderly organ reciepant, is getting people dead. Your shift to broaden our health care to everyone in the country, is costingly lives today.

REP told you so. We said that in a country of 304m people transitioning to a government health care managed systems, people were going to slip thru the cracks. Well they are....

So the growing question to DEM...with REP heated to repeal Obamacare.... are they going to continue to let people die.....so that they can have a nationwide government health care program?

House Leader Boehner and the Tea Party sat the DEM down for a reading of the US Constitution. That document that was trampled on the last couple of years.

DEMs .....wanted not only the Constitution read...but wanted all the sections of the document that have changed over the years. So the age old issues of race, religion, and wealth redistribution in the country could be entered in the reading and then into future House discussions.

When the section that reads..."no person, except a naturalized or a citizen of the United States' is eligible to be President Of the United States...a woman yelled out from gantry...."Except Obama".

Seems like birthers are alive and well in Congress these days, at least in the gantry.....

The REP Simpson chairing the house banged the gavel...halted the proceedings....and had the woman removed from the House!

The reading of the Constitution might seem like a small thing to many.....but a few comments....

Rep Jesse Jackson...."It is a consequence of who we are."
REP Gay Islee.....'it was special to us all"

It took about 1 and 1/2 hours to read......and might very well be the best 90 minutes of public service that this Congress offers the country.