Gulf’s Biggest Threat: BP or Obama?
June 22nd, 2010
The oil spill that followed the explosion at the Deepwater Horizon platform in the Gulf of Mexico will plague the regional environment for years, even decades, to come with devastating effects on the regional economy that will be felt across the nation. The ongoing destruction from the leak, the endless investigations, allegations and law suites will fill headlines indefinitely and emerge again as some argue for greater government regulation while others use it as another example of how dismal government regulators are at the task with which they are charged. While there are a multitude of looming questions, some of which may never be answered, it is quite clear that a string of terrible decisions began with the inception of drilling, continued through the government response, and go on day after day with no end in sight. Read the rest of this entry »
President Barack Obama delivered his State of the Union address Wednesday night in typical campaign mode devoid of much detail while still blaming former President George W. Bush and Republicans for the nation’s ills and the lack of progress moving the economy toward real recovery. When asked yesterday if he would listen to the speech, Fred Thompson retorted how else would we know what Bush did wrong. After being President for a year now and coming to national prominence two years prior as a presidential candidate Barack Obama continues to deny his associations, acknowledge his shortcomings, or pursue the wishes of the American people while insisting he is misunderstood or victim to the malicious intent of the uncooperative opposition. The only thing we learn from the State of the Union Address is that the state of Obama hasn’t change one bit. 
Anita MonCrief, like so many others in urban America, was drawn to ACORN’s promise of bringing a better life to the disadvantaged in low income minority communities across the nation. But unlike most who join the ranks of ACORN, Anita attained recognition from the faculty at the University of Alabama where she graduated with an award for academic excellence. Her subsequent experience, before joining ACORN included interning as a legislative assistant with the American Bar Association Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative and as an election observer with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. ACORN saw the opportunity to exploit experience that would require access to priority election agendas. What they didn’t see was Anita’s strong moral compass and the courage to back her convictions. 
Van Jones received raves from Chicago lawyer Valerie Jerrett where she spoke at an August 16th Netroots meeting stating:
While Attorney General Eric Holder collects evidence to make a case against former Bush Administration officials over the firing of 9 Federal prosecutors in 2007, public trust of the Obama Administration is collapsing as evidenced by wide spread protests in townhall meetings against congressional supporters trying to explain their support of pending health care reform legislation. To counter the public outcry, progressives have been summoning the paid thugs from the SEIU and ACORN. Further angering earnest citizens concerned, not only with the government health care proposal, but the progressive movements threat to liberties, the facts behind some of the firings would only incite concerned citizens all the more. 
This Independence Day marks the 233rd anniversary of the American Declaration of Independence. But it also marks a year in which the liberty of individual citizens will be diminished to an extent unimaginable only a year ago. Only time tell how long we will tolerate the transgressions that progressives have set in motion with policies that take control of industry, banking, health care and energy watching the administration distribute the spoils as political patronage. At the same time, those who threaten our liberties will receive preferential treatment from the justice department while those represent a threat to the administration will be attacked. The vision that is unfolding comes from the mind of a community organizer not a student of The Constitution, the individual liberties expressed in the Declaration of Independence or the Bill of Rights. 
The streets of Tehran are in chaos following Friday’s highly charged elections that brought out 85% of eligible voters. The government of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad rushed to release the results Saturday showing a landslide victory that stunned supporters of the primary opposition candidate Hossein Mousavi. In what most anticipated would be a close election, some believing Mousavi would emerge victorious, the governments announcement that Ahmadinejad received 62.6% of the vote to Mousavi’s 33.75 was hardly believable. 
When President-elect Barack Obama met with then President George W. Bush at the White House last November they spoke of providing short term liquidity for the beleaguered auto industry. Conveying the hopes of Obama, John Podesta reported 
The First Hundred Days is an arbitrary benchmark political commentators have used to judge the early success of new administrations since the election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. You can bet that columnists from the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post along with other liberal print publications and the television news divisions at NBC, ABC, CBS, MSNBC and CNN have all prepared carefully crafted presentations exclaiming the accomplishments of the chosen one. Today’s events, however, will make “brilliance” a hard sell on this 98th day, promising the 99th, the eve of the event, will be filled with questions of the President’s incompetance and deception.
Reacting to the widespread protests over government budgetary policy, billed as “Tea Parties” and held on “Tax Day” April 15, Janeane Garofalo, a sometimes actress, liberal radio host, and truly clueless political commentator, blasted the protesters on Keith Olberman’s “Countdown” on MSNBC referring to the protesters as