Archive for May, 2010

Herman Cain

We learned some more bad news last week about ObamaCare. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has now reported that ObamaCare is projected to cost an additional $115 billion, and will exceed $1 trillion over the next 10 years.

Change for the better.

This latest revelation about ObamaCare is just another installment on a coming financial and health care disaster. The legislation was supposed to reduce the federal deficit, according to the president and the Democrats in Congress, but it will not.

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Lawrence J. Haas

With a headiness nourished by electoral victory, every incoming American president succumbs to “new president’s disease” – the confidence that, with more brains, more effort, and a better staff in and around the Oval Office, he will succeed on longstanding challenges where his predecessors have failed.

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you always got.

No challenge has so dominated the time of recent presidents as the fiery mix of issues that span the Middle East. But, in addressing them, our presidents have consistently operated on the basis of a conventional wisdom from our foreign policy establishment whose central tenets have repeatedly proved false.

With faulty assumptions about conflicts across the region, relations between key states and the motivations of those atop particular regimes driving their policies, our presidents have been doomed from the start.

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Andy Hefty

So I get this “Breaking News” alert in my e-mail.  Shocker number one:  I got my information from Fox News.  Imagine that.  A conservative like me not getting feeds from CNN, the site founded by Ted Turner, paragon of conservative thought and politics.

It says, “Obama declares ‘the system failed’ in BP oil spill, calls for new regulations.”

All hail!

Now, there for your reading pleasure is an entire day’s worth of shockers!

It surprises me to no end that “Obama declares” something.  Wow, do you mean that the President of the United States took himself away from his endless work schedule to appear before the media?  He actually got up from his desk, pushed aside his advisors, and said something publicly?  Imagine that.

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Bob Franken

There was a time in the not-so-distant past when some of us thought that “sexual orientation” was a briefing on getting it on…you know, those classes in high school we loved to attend where the prune faced teacher told us about the birds and the bees, until some puckered up parents group would scorch the board of education.

Won't ask, please don't tell.

But now we find it’s really about the Supreme Court and TV shows and politicians pandering to those who cling to their neanderthal cruel values. It’s about who is doing it with whom…particularly if its the birds and the birds or bees and the bees.

I really don’t understand why homosexuals are now called “gay” since the whole debate about the subject is so dreary and so unnecessary.

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Brett Noel

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Mark Watson

Unemployment news from the Labor Department caused jubilant reactions in the White House on Friday, and President Obama rushed to the microphones to crow.

According to Obama, his policies are directly responsible for the latest economic news which he and uncritical media mavens see as proof of an economic recovery in full swing.

Just a tad short.

What was the jubilant news? The unemployment rate rose from 9.7 percent in March to 9.9 percent in April.

Actually, the president didn’t highlight the rising unemployment levels when he was patting himself on the back.

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Mike Ball

We haven’t heard from our old friend Dr. Mike in quite a while. For new readers, Dr. Mike is an advice columnist whose main qualification for dispensing life-changing gems of wisdom is his Ph.D. in Melted Crayon Sculpture from the University of Tim Online ($29.95, two for $41.50).

Uh, no thanks.

Here is what we found in this week’s mail bag:

Dear Dr. Mike,

My wife’s cooking is a lot more enthusiastic than it is edible. In fact, after word of her “Liver-Tofurky Casserole Surprise” reached the Pentagon, she was hired as a consultant for the Army’s Chemical Warfare Division.

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Jamie Weinstein

As expected, President Barack Obama selected U.S. Solicitor General Elena Kagan as his nominee to replace retiring Justice John Paul Stevens on the Supreme Court on Monday. Considering how unfair and irresponsible Democratic Senators have behaved in handling Republican Supreme Court nominees in the recent past, Republican Senators have every right to vote against the former Harvard Law School dean for any reason under the sun. But in this case, it would be wise for Republicans not to play the role of obstructionists.

Could be worse.

Elections have consequences and one of those consequences is that a liberal president has the right to nominate who he wants to the Supreme Court. In most cases, they should be confirmed.  It just so happens that this time the president has nominated someone many legal experts consider a “blank slate.”

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