July 2011 Blog Posts (408)

This week the House of Representatives and the Senate spent all week trying to wrap up a new 3.0 debt deal and pass it along to the President before the end of the day on Tuesday, Aug. 2. This has been the drop dead date announced by Treasury Secretary Geithner back in May in order to avert a lapse in the borrowing authority of our federal government.

The Senate finally gave up on the possibility of being able to pass the 3.0 debt deal around 8pm Sunday evening only to try again tomorrow…

I keep hearing that the Tea Party Congressmen are stupid and intransigent and that they are irresponsibly holding up a compromise solution to the debt ceiling crisis. Sadly the drive by media has had considerable success selling this idea.  I have also heard all my life that politicians will invaribly say almost anything to get elected, but forget their promises after they have taken office.  Is this true of the Tea Party caucus?  Did any of them indicate during their campaigns that they…

In the fairy tale political world of government budget planning, up is down and we can all live happily ever after by spending other people's money on whatever seems to be a good idea at the time.

We can predict rosy economic growth scenarios, regardless of our own income, debts, or economic reality.  It's time for American voters to wake up!  Spending and debt is off the charts, not just in Washington DC, but…

We must not raise the debt ceiling.  Now is the time to draw the line.  Now is the time to send a strong message to the rating Agencies and to Wall Street that it shall not be business as usual in America.  How much "new spending" is just waiting for a raise in the debt ceiling?  How much talk is going on about getting rid of automatic COLAs?  Why aren't we hearing about a complete government freeze?  There is no stomache in Washington to do business other than usual.  IT IS UP TO ALL…

At the July 27, 2011 Sarasota County Commission meeting a group of local patriotic citizens decided to speak about Agenda 21 during the open citizen comments. Each spoke for three minutes and did not mince words. The Commissioners listend intently. Jon Thaxton during one presentation actually took out his copy of…

GradeGov membership as of July 31 DEM/INDEP=44% GOP=54%

Happy Sunday! The White House, Sen. McConnell and the Speaker of House are very close to a deal that will start in the Senate as early as mid-afternoon today if in fact the Speaker can get an OK from his side of the Capitol. The basics are:

-$2.8 T increase in the debt thru 2013

--Cuts adding up to $1 T and hoping for an add'l $1.8T found by the super-committee

--No tax increases…

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I am not a psychologist nor do I have any special insights into what makes Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik tick.  However, I do have common sense and I am a Christian. For me the answer to the headline question is simple. If he was ever a Christian, he stopped being one the moment he began contemplating…

Congress is once again spending their weekend in session and voting on dueling debt bills. The House passed a debt increase bill created by  Speaker Boehner last night by a vote of 218 to 210. Within an hour, the Senate killed the bill by a vote of 59 to 41. Sen. Reid then made some changes to his debt increase proposal and brought that measure up on the Senate floor. He then used a parliamentary procedure called cloture which requires 60 votes to limit the debate on the Reid amdt.…

(washingtonpost.com) - A year-long military-led investigation has concluded that U.S. taxpayer money has been indirectly funneled to the Taliban under a $2.16 billion transportation contract that the United States has funded in part to promote Afghan businesses.

The unreleased investigation…