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Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden

  • Larger payraise for troops?

    The other day I wrote about the Obama Administration requesting a smaller pay raise for the troops. TSO said it was ploy so Democrats in Congress could pretend to be outraged and demand more for the troops than voters in those troubled districts would reward the “outraged” members of Congress with another two years in office.

    Well right on schedule comes Democrat Glen Nye;

    Amid reports that the Administration will only request a military pay raise of 1.4% this year – the lowest since the return of the all-volunteer military in 1973 – Nye sent a firm letter to House leaders, stating that military personnel should get a pay increase “worthy of their service and sacrifice.”

    “We must not balance the budget on the backs of our military personnel. There are many areas where we need to cut federal spending, and I applaud efforts to do so, but the compensation paid to our troops is not one of them,” wrote Nye, who serves on the House Armed Services Committee and the House Veterans Affairs Committee.

    Congressman Glenn Nye already has a winning track record when it comes to fighting to protect military personnel and veterans.

    Well, however it happens, I’m glad the troops are getting what they need.

  • Sorry, I didn’t watch

    I got through the first few minutes of President Obama’s State of the Union Address last night and I got the feeling that I was being scolded. Yeah, well, I’m 54 years old and I have great grandchildren, so I really don’t need that. Especially from some clown who talks with his nose in the air.

    This morning, however, I watched him scold the Supreme Court for not seeing things the way his young, stupid ass, sees things. I’m pretty sure some of them felt like walking out, too.

    The truth is; I’ve watched him almost everyday with that condescending scolding voice for more than a year and I’m sick of it. I’d rather watch South Park. So there’s my summation of his remarks last night.

    But you can feel free to comment on the speech – the one-way conversation Obama had with America last night.

  • Hondurans figure it all out for themselves

    All of the deal making and wet kisses to Chavez from the Obama Administration, the handjobs Hillary gave to the OAS – all for naught according to the BBC.

    Deposed Honduran leader Manuel Zelaya has left the Brazilian embassy there and is heading into exile in the Dominican Republic, reports say.

    His departure marks the end of efforts to return to office after soldiers first forced him into exile on 28 June.

    Earlier, the newly-elected Honduran President, Porfirio Lobo, promised him safe passage to the airport as part of a reconciliation process.

    Mr Lobo was sworn in at a ceremony in the capital, Tegucigalpa.

    Under a deal struck by the two men, Mr Zelaya agreed to fly to exile in the Dominican Republic as a way to avoid prosecution in Honduras on charges he violated the constitution while in office.

    Imagine that – all of those little, backwards brown people worked it all out for themselves without Daniel Ortiz sending in his Nicaraguan troops, without Hugo Chavez launching an attack, without Hillary having the interim president thrown in jail. Their constitution ruled the day despite the Obama Administration’s best efforts to subvert their constitution.

    As I’ve said countless times over the last few months, Zelaya should feel lucky – a lot of other presidents in that area were deposed feet first. Now he gets to live in relative luxury in Dom Rep. And Chavez was denied another member of ALBA.

    While Obama votes “present” on constitutional rule in Central America.

  • Smaller payraise for troops?

    A few weeks ago I wrote that retired military checks got smaller this year compared to last year, despite the fact that our costs of living had risen – 2.7% the last six months of 2009 according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Well, now it’s time for the active duty to shoulder their part of the White House budget, too, according to Stars & Stripes;

    The White House will propose a 1.4 percent military pay increase in 2011, which if approved would be the smallest since the start of all-volunteer military in 1973.

    That figure represents a steep drop from the 3.9 percent boost troops saw earlier this month.

    White House officials said the 1.4 percent figure, which will be included in the fiscal 2011 budget to be unveiled Monday, is based on projected private sector wage increases for next year.

    So even though the cost of living is increasing, the cost of living increases are decreasing. I think I said back in 2008 that the first people to bear the brunt of Democrat spending increases will be the military and retirees. I’m not prophetic, I’m just speaking from experience. Keep that in mind when you listen to the State of the Union Address.

  • Americans coming around?

    Two CNN polls released January 25th might mean that most Americans are coming around to the fact that Democrats are bad for the country. One story at CNN goes through the entire spiel without mentioning that the Stimulus package was Obama’s plan in the first place;

    Nearly three out of four Americans think that at least half of the money spent in the federal stimulus plan has been wasted, according to a new national poll.

    A CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Monday morning also indicates that 63 percent of the public thinks that projects in the plan were included for purely political reasons and will have no economic benefit, with 36 percent saying those projects will benefit the economy.

    Twenty-one percent of people questioned in the poll say nearly all the money in the stimulus has been wasted, with 24 percent feeling that most money has been wasted and an additional 29 percent saying that about half has been wasted. Twenty-one percent say only a little has been wasted and 4 percent think that no stimulus dollars have been wasted.

    Can you imagine how hard it was for them to not mention Obama in the article even once. If only Americans come to the realization that the stimulus was smoke and mirrors when the rest of us did back in November ’08. I think the switch in the mood occurred when folks realized that none of the stimulus was targeted at them.

    The other poll shows Americans don’t think Democrats deserve control of Congress;

    Americans are divided on whether Democratic control of Congress is good for the country, according to a new national poll.

    A CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Monday also indicates that 7 in 10 Americans believe that the Democrats’ loss of their 60 seat supermajority in the Senate is a positive move for the country.

    Forty-five percent of people questioned in the poll said Democratic control of Congress is a good thing, with 48 percent disagreeing. The margin is within the survey’s sampling error. But the results are a shift from last June, when 50 percent felt that Democratic control of both chambers of Congress was good and 41 percent felt it was bad for the country.

    Of course, CNN are doing this ten months before the election – don’t expect any polls like this in late October.

  • Guantanamo’s last holdouts

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    While Anthony Camerino and some guy who looks like Michael Scott from “The Office” were in the office of Bob Filner the other day trying to get Guantanamo Bay detainee facility shut down, look what the Obama Administration announced according to the New York Times;

    The Obama administration has decided to continue to imprison without trials nearly 50 detainees at the Guantánamo Bay military prison in Cuba because a high-level task force has concluded that they are too difficult to prosecute but too dangerous to release, an administration official said on Thursday.

    However, the administration has decided that nearly 40 other detainees should be prosecuted for terrorism or related war crimes. And the remaining prisoners, about 110 men, should be repatriated or transferred to other countries for possible release, the official said, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak about the numbers.

    So where are the mobs in the street vocally condemning the president for continuing the Bush policy of holding criminals without trials? The only people concerned about it are leftovers from the last decade who don’t know anything else. Do you honestly think that this administration would do something that really that unpopular? Where are the active duty troops that are worried they’re going to be killed by new recruits who fill the ranks of the Taliban and al Qaeda because of the continued operations at Guantanamo?

    Of course, Air Force Major (promotable) Anthony Camerino still clings to the atrocities of Guantanamo – that’s his only claim to fame. He’s stuck in the aughts. So is Soltz and his crowd – they have to stay in business and raise money without pissing off their MoveOn masters in regards to their President. Anything they can do to keep Bush Derangement Syndrome on life support helps them.

    But on my last foray to VoteVets, they had the guts to call me a “troll with a political agenda”. And the Bush detainee program is beginning to look like the only viable solution to a complicated problem. Camerino and Soltz are just wrong.

  • OFA: Keep elections fair (for us)

    Organizing For America, the DNC’s front group for Obamabots, sent another BFF email to me this morning warning that corporations now have a free-for-all opportunity to pour their money into elections;

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    Of course, they fail to mention that the Supreme Court also freed up contribution limits to campaigns from individuals and unions in addition to corporations. Chuckie Schumer blames the Court’s decision for the losses the Democrats expect at the polls in November, instead of their own incompetence;

    “The bottom line is, the Supreme Court has just predetermined the winners of next November’s election. It won’t be the Republican or the Democrats and it won’t be the American people; it will be corporate America,” Senator Charles Schumer, a Democrat from New York, said.

    That’s why Schumer thinks that a Congressional investigation of the Court’s decision doesn’t violate the separation of powers of the three branches of the federal government. Buncha idiot drama queens.

  • Bledsoe admits al Qaeda links

    Carlos Bledsoe who murdered PVT William Long outside of a Little Rock recruiting station last spring has admitted that he is a jihadist for al Qaeda and asked that his not guilty plea be vacated according to Fox News;

    Abdulhakim Muhammad’s attorney, Claiborne Ferguson, said Thursday night that his client sent a letter earlier this month to the judge in his case asking to change his plea to capital murder and attempted capital murder charges.

    Ferguson said he hadn’t discussed the request with his client before the letter was sent. Under Arkansas law prosecutors would have to agree and waive the death penalty before the judge could consider it, Ferguson said.

    Of course, Ferguson claims that his client is unbalanced and that’s why he confessed, but a conversion to Islam and a trip to Yemen for training say otherwise. And there must’ve been a reason that the FBI was tailing and investigating Bledsoe before the killing.