Session of Congress soon over... then you can remove mask!

The American people complain about the way we are perceived in foreign countries and resent it.  However, their own politicians perceive them as worse, and they don’t seem to mind - for instance, Jack Murtha calls the people in his district “rednecks and racists” just before the election and they voted him back in!!!  Obama said the people in Pennsylvania “were hung up on their guns and religion and have no empathy for others,” and Pennsylvania voted to give Obama its electoral votes.  Now we have Harry Reid saying how the visitors and tourists who come to Washington smell.  How’s that grab you?  Now I understand that the 3/4 billion visitor center built in DC that saves Harry Reid from having to smell us common people.

Another thing I have heard but don’t know it for a fact is that the historical aspects of this center doesn’t even mention religion and its place in the history of this country.  Without it, this country would never been formed and succeeded - no question.  One thing I would say is that when Congress is not in session and Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and others of this type leave, DC must be a much cooler place with the hot air removed, and I am sure it smells better too.

I have heard so many people faulting President Bush for not giving hopeful speeches, and yet if he did the media would be on the sidelines mocking him and thus it would serve no purpose.  The media was in love with Clinton and Obama and whatever they would say would be applauded and given breathless admiration.  I have never seen a President so hated, especially by the fourth estate.  It is matched only by the love and adulation for Obama.  He even sends thrills down the leg of Chris Matthews, a member of the MSNBC political arm of the Democratic party.  MSNBC stands for Most Stupid News Being Concocted.  What recourse does the American people have when 70 percent are against the bailouts for financial companies, auto companies, and the unions, and yet it seems Congress is going to go along with this fiasco?

They call us names, go against our wishes, and yet they keep their jobs.  My cry is: WHY?  I have never cared so much for the health of the current President elect, but when you think who would follow Obama, Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi, I think you would agree with me that I should care.  Can you imagine one of them as President - a nightmare!  I can only hope that Obama governs as well as he ran his campaign.  He defeated the Clintons - no small feat.  Of course, he also defeated the Republican nominee who ran a sorry campaign but was handicapped by the burden of a sagging economy and having to run against the fourth estate also.

Would someone please explain to me how these bailouts are not leading to socialism and how this country that has been built on a free market and competition can still be the country we grew up with.  It seems to me that if we continue in this manner, we may as well join the European Union.  We cannot be the bulwark for freedoms throughout the world.  If we allow ourselves to become a socialist state, we will sacrifice our strength, resilience, and competitiveness.  Can you imagine the European Union being able to carry the staff of freedom against tyrants?  See how they help us in NATO - or do they?  Could they take over the 25 percent we pay to keep the UN viable?  No, but that doesn’t mean I am for the UN.  I think to close the UN down would be a better help to freedoms of all nations.

Too many shifting sands!

Any Republicans who vote for the bailout of the auto companies and their unions will probably also vote for the card check that the unions and Democrats wish for.  Should they choose to vote for those items, they are actually giving aid and comfort to the Democratic base.  How STUPID are they?  We shall see.  As far as the Democrats having a filibuster proof majority, they already do with McCain, Specter, Collins, and Snowe.  The Republicans do not get the loyalty from their members that the Democrats do.