When will President Obama stop blaming President Bush for his problems?
When will President Obama accept responsibility for his policies slowing and delaying hiring and thus the highest unemployment in decades?
I heard a “State of Obama” Address.
The Constitution requires the President to report to Congress annually on the “State of the Union”. If Obama reported on the “State of the Union”, I missed it.
Most Presidents start their “State of the Union” Address with “The state of the union is …” followed by some adjective like “good” “strong”, or some less positive word. Obama didn’t do that. But, don’t tell him. We don’t need another long boring lecture.
Tomorrow (Tuesday) Massachusetts is holding a referendum on Obama’s “Progressive” Agenda.
Will the Democrats run a fair election? One Democrat talk show host said he’d vote 20 times if he lived in Massachusetts.
Will the Democrats play politics with seating the winner? They have already said it could take two weeks to seat the winner.
Will the Democrats look honest on Friday? I hope so.
The State Department should have pulled the underwear bomber’s multiple entry visa as soon as his father told embassy (State Department) personnel that he was a threat to America.
Today, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tried to divert blame by saying terrorism is caused by poverty. This is a lie, based on leftist ideology, not the facts. The underwear bomber’s father is one of the riches men in Nigeria, and richer than more than 90% of Americans.
Michael Leiter, the director of the National Counter Terrorism Center, went on a ski vacation the day after the Christmas Day attempt to blow up the flight from Amsterdam to Detroit.
He must have believed Janet Napolitano, the Secretary of Homeland Security, when she said “the system worked!”
The person who made the decision to give the underwear bomber a lawyer, when he wasn’t entitled to one committed treason. That person effectively ended all possible interrogation of the underwear bomber. This action clearly provided “aid and comfort” to our enemies in a time of war.
That person should take Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision to prosecute lawyers who gave advise to the CIA regarding “enhanced interrogation techniques”. That person probably should consider advise Attorney General Eric Holder to cease his efforts to criminalize policy differences with a previous administration.
“Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.”
The above paragraph is the Constitutional definition of treason which limits treason to 3 offenses:
The first two are pretty straight forward. If you joined Al-Qaeda, you would be guilty of adhering to an enemy of the United States and if you attacked a building, ship, soldiers, sailors or aircraft of the United States you would be guilty of levying war against the United States.
Giving “Aid and Comfort” to our enemies is much broader. Fund raising for an enemy would obviously qualify. Helping an enemy avoid capture would also qualify.
President Bush gave enemy combatants “Prisoner of War”status, even though they did not qualify under the Geneva Conventions. Was that giving “Aid and Comfort” to our enemies?
The Geneva Conventions say that suspected unlawful combatants should face a military tribunal that would determine if they were:
The Geneva Conventions don’t require trial by jury in a civilian court. Is giving enemy combatants trial by jury in a civilian court giving them “aid and comfort”?
If the Attorney General were to put someone on trial and the prosecution was ineffective and does not result in a conviction and the judges orders the prisoner released and he once again fights against the United States, will the Attorney General be guilty of treason?
Are the Bush and Obama Administration officials, who released detainees to Yemen who then planned the December 25th attempt to blow up a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit, guilty of treason or just stupidity?
The Senate’s Health Care Bill has a clause the says it can’t be repealed by a future Congress. Doesn’t it take a Constitutional Amendment to do that?
The Senate’s Health Care Bill treats people in different States differently. Doesn’t this violate the “equal protection” clause of the Constitution?
How else does this The Senate’s Health Care Bill violate the Constitution?
“Have I got a deal for you!”
You can start paying for health insurance in 2010, but you can’t have it until 2014, or later.
They are taking away funding for the Medicare Advantage programs, but claim they are not taking benefits away from Medicare.
They are cutting the amount doctors get paid for Medicare patients, but claim to improve patient care.
The Brevard County School Board is considering redistricting some neighborhoods to ease overcrowding at some schools and more efficiently use other schools.
The facilities department has proposed some options that violate their criteria:
The school board should also end “soft redistricting”, where children (and any siblings not yet in school) can continue to attend the old school while their neighbors go to the new school. In many cases this results in 2 busses entering the same neighborhood to take children to two different elementary schools. If money is so tight that teachers and staff haven’t had raises in two years, then how can the board justify this waste?