I don’t understand how folks in our country can expect the President to suddenly change his spots. If there was ever a politician that was predictable when he was elected, this one was that one. I think Obama is more committed to being a liberal progressive than being an effective politician. The impact of this president will be viewed by historians as the most crippling for our country twenty years down the road. We could not have elected a more committed liberal than we did with Obama.
The Democrats had a lot to say about Barack Obama when he was a candidate. Not a one ever characterized him as a moderate. He has always been on the left side of his own party.
During the first two years of his presidency he continually demonstrated his liberal intent. Combined with the overwhelming majorities and most liberal leadership in both houses of the congress President Obama trampled on the Constitution and the rights of most Americans without a lick of resistance. Two years of the perfect storm.
Remember when he reminded John McCain that he had won the election.
Even now, following the election, the balance of power has shifted in the House to the Republicans and nearly balanced the vote in the Senate but the President and his management team who run the bureaucracies continue to march with regulatory changes that will cripple efforts to create jobs for many years to come.
By itself the EPA will dictate our National Energy Policy by preventing our domestic energy resources from being exploited through lawsuits by watchdogs at every critical point in the permitting processes.
We won’t build any oil refineries or nuclear power plants or hydroelectric dams. Period.
They won’t even let some of the preferred Green Energy sources be developed with federal subsidies because of the lawsuits. Their campaign is to cripple, not develop better policies.
The Congress gave up closer oversight because it was easy. It takes a lot of effort to do your job and hold the President’s bureaucrats accountable. The Checks and Balances laid out in the Constitution were set up to prevent one branch from gaining too much power.
Having so many liberal judges in the Federal Court System, the courts have taken a more aggressive approach to legislation than we should be comfortable with. That would leave us with the weakest Congress in the history of our country.
Americans cannot be hoodwinked by a President who is trying to re-spin himself into a moderate. If the Republicans fall for any of his spiel, it will give him breathing space to regroup. The stakes are too high for America to lose our momentum now. Keep the heat on!
No Loss for Words 
What’s Happening in Africa?
by Steve DanaThe news out of Cairo does not bode well for “President” Mubarak’s government in Egypt. Following the ouster of the long standing government in Tunisia, the trend in North Africa is a little disturbing.
I know that peace in the international community requires that our government forge alliances with standing foreign governments that don’t resemble our own whether that be in structure or values.
If you believe that everyone in the world should believe what we believe then our government’s mission is to convert them to our way of thinking; regardless of the ramifications.
I suspect that foreign countries who have a strong belief in their structure of government would advocate for their own model.
That does create a source of conflict for us and them.
If we can agree that China, Russia, North Korea or Iran is entitled to adopt positions on human rights that are different from our own without us criticizing them, then we can co-exist by agreeing to disagree. If we cannot agree on this, then we are doomed to fight for the overthrow of their governments so we can install one more sympathetic to our own personal world view.
In spite of our differences, we have been good friends with President Mubarak for decades. That relationship has been the foundation for peace in North Africa.
So now, our foreign policy is in a quandary. Do we support a President and a government that has been such a great friend to peace in the region but in conflict with our social view of the world or do we throw him over to the uncertainty of an unknown government?
On the one hand, if the new government supported our human rights agenda, then we could get on board and root for the overthrow. On the other hand, if this were to signal the shift of power to a non-secular Muslim controlled government that did little to address human rights issues but put the power in the hands of the people would that be better or worse than what we have today?
The problem we face in imposing our social agenda on the world is convincing them that what we have works better than what they already have.
It is clear that we are divided in our own country about whether one agenda is preferable to another so how is it that we can impose our conflict on everyone else?
We support kings and dictators all around the globe because it serves the security needs of our country. Do we send the message to them that even though we have treaties with them we are working behind the scenes to overthrow their governments?
When did it become our job to make these decisions for the rest of the world? The mine field we have entered in the past couple weeks with Tunisia and Egypt will have repercussions around the globe because our treaties don’t promise to defend against internal threats.
Our current administration champions the undermining of long standing governments if it furthers their social agenda even if it achieves their goals at the cost of security in the world. This turn of events in North Africa is not a good omen for peace between nations.
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