In all fairness I need to point out that Cain also didn’t sign the pledge either. I ignored him entirely because, well he isn’t going to be the nominee and he doesn’t carry that same decades old Waffle House Brand that Mittens does.

Sorry for some reason I can’t get the HTML Link embed to work so here’s the link to story and video. =)

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/romney-cain-opt-signing-anti-abortion-pledge/story?id=13876080

Taxation without Representation is Tyranny! Sure sounds like a replay of a history not learned from, at the very least a history not properly taught any more in our classrooms. It also seems thatAmerican Citizens today are feeling just about the same as they did back in the 1760′s. Only 17% feel that the Government acts with the consent of the people. That means 83% feel they are lacking in the representation aspect of government.

Remember that other old school mantra, Those who don’t learn from past mistakes are destined to repeat them. Seems the Democrats have no love of history and Obama is fine with his part playing King George.

Republicans might accept a “mini” deal with the Obama administration on raising the debt limit, Senator John Cornyn of Texas, a Republican leader, said yesterday on “Fox News Sunday.”
The idea may delay politically difficult decisions if it’s structured to postpone action on a larger package of spending cuts or revenue increases until after the 2012 election cycle, an analyst said.

Translation: We’re so scared of making the wrong decision and hurting our chances of getting back to the front of the line come 2012 that we’ll just let the nation waddle in fear and uncertainty and not make any tough decisions until after the election! This is a decision based in fear for their own selves and not the citizens they allegedly work for!

Cornyn said that while Republicans would prefer a long-term settlement, they would accept a shorter-term agreement if that’s all they could get done. The Treasury Department has projected that on Aug. 2 the U.S. will no longer be able to meet obligations if the legal debt ceiling isn’t raised.

Translation: We Republicans are going to cave to the fear mongering story put out there by this administration that if we don’t raise the debt ceiling RIGHT NOW we will begin defaulting on our federal debt and the country will collapse around our very knees! American Citizens are too stupid to understand that we have more than enough income coming in to pay the interest on our debts and we will only default if the administration CHOOSES to default! If only Cornyn could get us stooopid Americans too understand how tough he has it and how hard his job is.

Here’s what I call a classic political ploy, something we normally see and call the Democrats on!

“The problem with a mini-deal is we have a maxi problem,” said Cornyn, who is in charge of the 2012 Republican Senate campaign strategy. “We’ll take the savings we can get now, and we will re-litigate this as we get closer to the election.”

Translation: Let’s not deal with this tough issue now and begin the task of easing the suffering of the American Tax Payer! No let’s drag it out till 2012 and politicize the economic suffering of our fellow citizens for our own benefit…..right?

You all can read the rest of the article if you want. If this is Cornyn’s plan, to pass the buck down the road and hope we don’t notice or that releasing this on Independence Day might some how ease the fallout over lackluster leadership I believe he’s sorely mistaken. It’s time to stand firm, forget about self interests and do what’s right for the country. It is time to take the soap box back from Obama and let the people know who is standing in the way of fixing this floundering economic ship. Please Senator Cornyn, listen to US and NOT the DC pundits who are as out of touch with Main St. USA as anyone could possibly be.
Force the Legislative and Executive Branches to do their jobs and if they don’t scream it to the world while whe’re still able to listen!

In the end, I was able to resolve every competing consideration but one. The interests and wishes of my family is the most important consideration of all. If I have disappointed you, I will always be sorry.

Personally I didn’t find Mitch to be very exciting. I know a lot of Republicans, particularly D.C. Republicans, were high on Mitch because he won in a Blue State, got himself re-elected even, and was able to pass legislation that is considered conservative in that very state. He should have had success considering he had a large Republican majority to both houses of the Indiana General Assembly in 2010. In the end I think the Minority Walk Out helped him more than it hurt. His “truce” comment over social issues didn’t play well with us conservatives but I almost have to understand where he’s coming from as I have said myself many times that if we can’t fix this economic nightmare our country is in… social issues won’t matter one bit.
All in all if Daniels had won the nomination he would have had my vote. I would have liked to see what he could have added to the process, what influence he would have had over the direction of the field. For now we’ll just have to sit back and see how this effects the cast of characters to come.

The White House claims the EO would make the federal government more transparent. But a quick look at who Obama chose to exempt from the EO shows this is false: unions that sign collective bargaining contracts with the federal government would be exempt from the “disclosure” requirements. The clear intent of this bill is to suppress speech and punish Obama’s enemies.

I find it interesting that 11 Republican Senators allowed John McConnell to become a Federal District Judge because they didn’t want to be seen as violating senate etiquette and protocol. They would be hard pressed to find a more unfit Judge whose beliefs are so at odds with our own. But hey lets be all civil and give the Dictator what he wants because God knows Obama’s going to play by the rules and follow proper etiquette and precedent when he doesn’t get exactly what he wants….right?

The Constitution, our Representatives, the citizens of this country mean absolutely squat to Obama. Power and control are all he cares about and this Disclose Act will allow him to punish those who don’t get in line and march to his jack booted beat.

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The Wikileaks website has released some diplomatic cables that shows that the United States provided Russia with sensitive nuclear intel on the UK’s nuclear deterrent capabilities AFTER the UK asked them not too. All of this was a demand made by Russia as part of the new START Treaty. A treaty that provided no benefit to the United States and had NOTHING to do with the UK.

A series of classified messages sent to Washington by US negotiators show how information on Britain’s nuclear capability was crucial to securing Russia’s support for the “New START” deal.

Although the treaty was not supposed to have any impact on Britain, the leaked cables show that Russia used the talks to demand more information about the UK’s Trident missiles, which are manufactured and maintained in the US.

Washington lobbied London in 2009 for permission to supply Moscow with detailed data about the performance of UK missiles. The UK refused, but the US agreed to hand over the serial numbers of Trident missiles it transfers to Britain.

Professor Malcolm Chalmers said: “This appears to be significant because while the UK has announced how many missiles it possesses, there has been no way for the Russians to verify this. Over time, the unique identifiers will provide them with another data point to gauge the size of the British arsenal.”

Duncan Lennox, editor of Jane’s Strategic Weapons Systems, said: “They want to find out whether Britain has more missiles than we say we have, and having the unique identifiers might help them.”

While the US and Russia have long permitted inspections of each other’s nuclear weapons, Britain has sought to maintain some secrecy to compensate for the relatively small size of its arsenal.

This is just one more example of the disease to our foreign policy that this administration is. I mean look at the incompetent neophytes that he is putting in charge of our diplomacy. Obama had no choice but to fire Cynthia Stroum, his Ambassador to Luxembourg. She raised a lot of money for Obama during his campaign and somehow that was enough for him to hand her an Ambassadorship. She has left the Embassy in a shambles and unable to perform its duties.

According to an internal State Department report released Thursday, less than a week after she quit, Stroum’s management of the U.S. Embassy in the tiny country was abysmal. The report says her tenure of about one year was fraught with personality conflicts, verbal abuse and questionable expenditures on travel, wine and liquor.

Sounds like Nancy Pelosi’s sister was in charge there.
Wine and liquor expenditures aside this woman is a walking talking disaster area.

… the report paints a picture of a corrosive atmosphere at the small embassy, with the ambassador running roughshod over staff, threatening to read their e-mails, largely concerned about job-related perks and involved in improper purchases.

The situation was so bad that the inspector general recommended that the State Department dispatch medical personnel to Luxembourg to test the stress levels of embassy employees. It said at least four staffers quit or sought transfers to Iraq and Afghanistan during her tenure, unusual steps for diplomats assigned to a modern, Western European capital.

As I said I hope our relationships with our allies survive this administration.
The next one will definitely be spending a lot of time repairing those relationships.
I am not knowledgeable enough about such matters to know what can be done about this now but it NEEDS to be investigated and some one needs to be taken to task over this.

God Bless America…..we’re going to need it.

An unrealistic set of Rules of Engagement,
An unrealistic time frame with which to accomplish the task at hand,
An enemy that KNOWS your exit plans and time frame
And an American Administration without the testicular fortitude nor the actual desire to win this war. That is the very sobering reality we find ourselves in.
You can’t have it both ways, Herschel Smith over at The Captain’s Journal does a great job breaking down the effects the current R.O.E. are having on the War in Afghanistan given
the constraints our forces are being placed under. How does it even make sense to say your worried about civilian casualties so don’t return fire if there’s any chance of civilian injuries or death yet NOT protect the locals from the Taliban themselves anymore? These 1/2 efforts will drive the locals into the Taliban’s arms and kill locally provided intelligence for sure if the fact that you’re leaving them to the radicals in a couple of months anyway hasn’t done the trick. Hat tip to Israel Matzav for his coverage of this and this quote from

J.E. Dyer, who blogs at both Contentions and in Hot Air’s Green Room, in addition to writing her own blog, The Optimistic Conservative, comments:

These ROE have been in place for some time now (they’re from the McChrystal period), and they do interfere with effectiveness in “win the population” COIN. Ironically, now that the tactics have shifted more to hunting and killing the Taliban and other imported terrorists, hearts-n-minds COIN is on the back burner and our exposed troops’ security footing has changed. It has changed for the better, but in the long run the more lethal tactics are for the worse. They are only being approved as a means of making good on Obama’s determination to withdraw troops entirely starting in July 2011. They aren’t making the villagers of Afghanistan safer or giving them any incentive to be loyal to the central government.

The Taliban hold more of Afghanistan now than they did in August 2009, when McChrystal first forwarded his surge strategy to the boss. The Taliban are killing more Afghans now than they have at any time since 2001. Obama’s failure to implement a surge with robustness and dispatch has only made it harder to do what he’s trying to do between now and July. The Taliban have places to hide in the north, west, and extreme northeast that they didn’t have a year ago. What was always needed was a package of BOTH the lethal pursuit tactics and the more restrained COIN among the villagers (what McChrystal wanted to do, with a specific geographic focus), but Obama took forever last year to ultimately decide against that all-out effort. He’s been trying to do one or the other, and that’s just not going to work.

Given the damage Obama has done to the relationships with our allies and the weakness he’s shown our enemies and rivals I don’t think the United States has ever been so alone on this little blue planet of ours.

The sale was first announced on Aug. 31, and the lawmakers claim that it could give Moscow control of up to 20 percent of the U.S. national uranium extraction capability and a controlling interest in one of the country’s largest uranium mining sites.

So this administration is willing to give Russia a controlling interest in one of our country’s largest uranium mining operations, at a time when we are supposedly trying to prevent nuclear proliferation,
by giving control of that operation to one of the largest proliferaters of nuclear technologies to America hating, terrorist supporting countries. Is it even possible to fabricate some justification for this or the damage to national security that it brings? I don’t think so and neither would any logical person with even the slightest care about the security of their country.

Uranium One,USA has put out a fact sheet that shows full well Russia’s intentions to gain majority control of this facility.

A fact sheet on the website of Uranium One says the company intends to complete the transaction by the end of the year. The Russian concern already owns a 23.1 percent share of Uranium One’s common stock and is seeking a controlling 51 percent share in the subsidiary.

Obama is allowing a foreign country that is no friend to us to gain control of a company that deals in a commodity that can be used to make weapons that can destroy our country and kill untold millions around the globe. And this country, Russia, has shown over and over again that they are not our friends and do NOT have our best interests at heart.
If this goes through, and they are trying to ram it through quickly, it will be a crime against the national security of our country.
Remember all the hoopla over the management contracts for the operation of some US Seaports by the United Arab Emirates? This makes that look like a Klondike Cop Comedy. I pray that our overwhelming victory come Nov. 2nd will allow us to bring an end to this travesty right away.

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