Today I met my law enforcement husband at KFC for lunch, and as I walked to the table with food in hand, there was a wallet laying on the floor next to the table. I picked it up and handed it to him. He checked the ID and found a business card inside and we were able to locate the owner who came back to pick it up. He was very, very appreciative. 

On our way out the door, I said to my husband, just cause it struck me as pretty stinking funny, "Now, if I were a liberal, I would have kept that, cause I deserve some of what you've got!" He got a good chuckle out of that. Then expanded on it more as we walked out to our cars. Here are some of the things we came up with.

 - Suspect gets caught in burglary of your home, he says

"I'm not stealing, I am redistributing your wealth!"

"I'm not stealing, I deserve some of what you've got!"

 Of course there were a couple others that I cant remember, but we got some good chuckles out of that! 

During the campaign Obama decried the $2.9 trillion in deficits during the Bush years, and now will double the national debt. Spend more than any President in the history of the world and borrow and print more money than any country can afford to do. All in the name of 'Crisis'.

He condemned earmarks during the campaign. The Obama administration now believes it can wave through 8,500 of them in the omnibus-spending bill, part of the biggest spending increase since World War II. Now he claims that earmarks are necessary and can be good.

The Bama says the economy is fundamentally sound. Does he suppose the nation doesn't recall him attacking John McCain last September for saying the same thing. The economy being much worse that it was in September.

The Bama vowed to end "the same partisanship and pettiness and immaturity that has poisoned our politics." Yet his administration geared up MoveOn.org to lead a left-wing coalition to pressure Republicans and centrist Democrats, organized a daily conference call to coordinate liberal attack dogs, and strategized with Americans United for Change on ads depicting the GOP as the party of "no." Where is the bipartisanship?

Here is the bama's agenda on Veterans as posted on whitehouse.gov: Allow all veterans back into the VA- Reverse the 2003 ban on enrolling modest income veterans.

Strengthen VA Care: Make the VA a leader of national healthcare reform so that veterans get the best care (etc.).

Fully Fund VA Medical Care: Fully fund the VA so it has all the resourses it needs to serve the veterans who need it. (etc.)

Fix the benefits bureaucracy (etc.)

Improve mental health treatment (etc.)

Expand  Veterans Centers.(etc.)

All these claims he makes, and then he turns around and tries to make our wounded and disabled veterans have their treatment paid for through their own private health insurance! This is the most outrageous.

And still, people dont see it. WAKE UP PEOPLE!!! 

I am fearful of the road that our government is going down. I know that we cannot become a socialist country overnight. But how long could it actually take? I am trying to not be doom and gloom.

Can I take solace in the fact that we will have the Senatorial elections in 2010 and maybe we can get rid of some of these ultra liberals? That we can maybe get some conservative Republicans or Libertarians into those seats so that some of these socialistic agendas can be defeated.

Or, because the ultra liberals have so brainwashed the non-thinking Americans, will we lose the battle in the Senate seats also?

If we do turn down the ugly socialist road, the nationalized health care, etc., when the 2012 presidential elections bring in a new President, how quickly can it be turned back around?

Dear Prime Minister Brown:

 Your Honor, please accept my sincerest apologies for the gifts that President and Mrs. Obama gave to you and your children during your first visit and meeting with the new President of the United States.

 The gifts that you were given show a blatant lack of respect for not only you personally, your country and his own position as our President but also for the people of the United States. I can honestly say that President Obama and his opinions are not indicative of the entire United States of America and her citizens.

 Again, please accept my sincerest apologies for the blunder of the Obama family and his administration. As the Prime Minister of Great Britain, you have my utmost respect.

 Regards,

If the Bama is supposed to represent us Americans, I am thoroughly embarrassed to be an American. The Bama has made a mockery of not only the Presidential Office, but the US. 

So many people wanted this "average American" for our President, someone who was just like your neighbor, someone you could reach out and touch. Well, guess what, that's what you got, but worse. You got a president who cant function without a telepromter, a president who throws concerts and block parties on a weekly basis (all the while, condemning the banks and other large corporations for their excesses, parties, private jets, etc., when the Federal Gov't cant seem to balance a budget, is BORROWING BILLIONS AND BILLIONS from other COUNTRIES, and has so much wasteful spending it is sickening.) A president who does nothing but travel to town hall meetings for speeches. A president who gives heads of states DVD collections as a gift! A president who doesnt think it is necessary to wear a coat and tie into the Oval Office.

 This gift to Gordon Brown issue just makes me sick. The Bama is clueless, completely and totally. Not only clueless, but classless. 

 Personally, I want a President who is untouchable. I want to be in awe of the leader of my country. Impressed by his intelligence, by his strength, by his commitment to this country, by his ability to govern this country and maintain positive relations with our allies. I dont want the guy next door who is in awe of celebrities, the guy next door who doesnt have the knowledge and respect of the origin of our country and its government that the Presidency DEMANDS. I want a President who has the RESPECT for the Office, the RESPECT for the White House, RESPECT for the Oval Office that it DEMANDS.

 I am embarrassed by his politics.

 I am embarrassed by his complete lack of class.

 I am embarrassed by his complete and apparent lack of respect for this country and the principals on which it was founded. 

I just wanted to respond to Rahm and some of his answers during the interview with CBS on March 1, 2009.

He must really think we Americans in the working middle class are complete idiots. I dont have a college education and even I can see right through him and Obama.

Good morning, Mr. Emmanuel.It was a big week last week. It's going to be another big one this week. When the president told the joint session of Congress on Tuesday there was nothing more important than bringing the deficit down, House Democrats, led by Speaker Pelosi, jumped to their feet with applause.Yet on Wednesday, those same Democrats passed a spending bill to keep the government running for the rest of this fiscal year that contained 9,000 -- count 'em -- 9,000 earmarks, costing nearly $8 billion.The Senate is going to act on that bill this week, will send it to the president for his signature. It looks like most of those earmarks are going to stay in.Is the president going to sign this bill?

EMANUEL: As you noted, that's last year's business. Second is when President Obama came to office, two major bills were passed without earmarks. The major economic recovery act -- earmark-free; the children's health care bill -- earmark-free. He has said clearly his policies about earmarks, which is you've got to be -- more accountability, more transparency, and a reduction. This bill has some of those, but he has enunciated his view and given an indication, when he was a senator, he, like I, when I was a member of Congress, put his own individual request on his own Web page. That policy has now been adopted because the most important thing is to be transparent and accountable for what you ask.Because what the American people want to know is, do these individual congressional earmarks meet a worthy public objective, or are they just an individual desire of a member of Congress?And that's why transparency and accountability are so important

ME: The Stimulus Bill was earmark free? Are you kidding me???? Obama also said that NEXT year there will be no earmarks. Ummm, which means that there ARE earmarks in this years....That budget was last years business but it was still passed by THIS administration, those 9000 earmarks did NOT have to be in there! Does he really think that because he says it was last years business that it will not occur to us that Congress intentionally put the budget off til Obama was in office?

SCHIEFFER: Well, I understand that. But why didn't he just tell the Senate, look, take these things out of here; I've told people we were not going to have these earmarks; then send it back to me?

EMANUEL: What he has always said is -- and what he's clear is, again, the economic recovery act, earmark-free, a major bill.Second, this is last year's business. And third most importantly, we're going to have to make some other changes, going forward, to reduce and bring more -- reduce the ultimate number and bring the transparency. And that's the policy that he enunciated in his campaign.

QUESTION DODGED!!!

SCHIEFFER: But it sounds to me like what you're -- what he's about to do, here, is say, well I don't like this but I'm going to go ahead and sign it, but I'm going to warn you, don't ever do it again. Is that what's about to happen here?

EMANUEL: In not so many words, yes.

ME: So, he is NOT doing what he said.

SCHIEFFER: You cannot say, though, can you, that this is all something he inherited, this deficit. I mean, there are things in this budget that were not in George Bush's budget, talking about health care and all of these other things.

SCHIEFFER: What the Republicans also say, it raises taxes on everybody. I think everybody expected that taxes on upper-income people were going to go up. Barack Obama said during the campaign that that's what he planned to do. But Newt Gingrich and some of the other Republicans say when people find out that when you're talking about these things you're talking about on the energy front, it's going to be a new tax on everybody that uses electricity, who drives a car, and there's going to be tax increases in myriad other ways.

EMANUEL: Well, first of all, let's be very clear. Because I've seen these scare tactic before. You've seen it too, Bob. 95 percent of Americans, working Americans, will have a tax cut. As the president said Tuesday night, 95 percent of Americans will have a tax cut. And starting April 1st, they'll see it, which the Republicans voted against in large measure in the House and in the Senate.The Republicans voted against a porkulous spending bill, they voted against the tax cuts because they wanted more tax cuts, not no tax cuts! Again, just tell part of the story. Second, nobody will see a tax increase for two years, when we get out of this recession. And he ran on, as you noted, the fact that the wealthy 2 percent will have their marginal rates go back to where they were under Bill Clinton, when we produced 22 million jobs, and their deductions will go back to where they were under Ronald Reagan. We're going really just back to that point, that starting point.So there will be these scare tactics of trying to talk about the fact that everybody is going to see increases. And the president couldn't have been clearer Tuesday night that working, middle-class families will get a tax cut.In addition to that, more and more will get assistance so they can go to college in a society and a time economically where you earn what you learn, we're going to help more people go to college and have the most educated workforce.We're also fundamentally -- the most important thing economically is getting an energy policy and a health care policy that ensures that the economy and members of our society and our country can get a health care system that works for them, rather than them working for that health care system, and an energy policy that weans us off dependence on foreign oil and towards an independent policy on energy.

ME: Going BACK to where they were under Clinton is HIGHER than they are now - which is an INCREASE, same point with the DEDUCTIONS - we are losing deductions, which means paying higher taxes. Listen to this: I am 38 years old and in the 80's under Reagan, I wasnt working and paying taxes and taking deductions, I was just graduating high school and starting college. I wasnt paying the 40% tax rates under Reagan (down from 70% before his election) So if tax rates/deductions go BACK to the rates/deductions under Reagan, it is and INCREASE for me! Does the Obama administration really think we are stupid? Ok, now I have children and yes I want them to go to college. But do I think it is my neighbor's responsibility who doesnt have children to pay for my kid's college education? Hell no! No no no. I dont think it is my responsibility to pay for some other kid to go to college, party, do drugs, get laid and fail out.

SCHIEFFER: Aren't there more tax increases in this plan than Barack Obama talked about during the campaign? For example, on upper- income people, talking about reducing the deductions they can take on charitable giving. Aren't you going to get a lot of opposition from places like where Barack Obama used to work, charitable enterprises, when he was a community organizer?

EMANUEL: There will be, you know, voices of criticism. But I want everybody to be reassured by the fact, these are the rates that were -- the deductions that Ronald Reagan had, and the marginal rate is where Bill Clinton and the time in the '90s, we had. That's what they are. There's not like just something totally radically new. We're going back to those points.

ME: Which, again, is still an INCREASE from what we have been forking out over the last 8 years. Yeah, this is change alright. But is it the change you really wanted? Higher taxes and less deductions.For now, that is all I can get my brain around. This man frustrates the hell out of me.

I am a 38 year old woman who grew up with a staunch Republican father. My grandfather was a staunch Democrat. I heard both sides for many years. Yet until this past summer I did nothing, didn't make a concerted effort to inform myself. It isn't that I didn't care, it was more along the lines that I didn't think I knew enough or was smart (politically) enough to make a really good, informed political decision. This has changed dramatically. These days I am living and breathing politics. 

I have learned several things. I am a Conservative. I also learned that I may or may not be a Republican, I may be a Libertarian, or even an independent. I am still researching and deciding on that. But I do know, I am not a liberal democrat!

My husband, who thinks I am out of my mind these days and is terribly sick of listening to the news, goes back and forth. Sometimes I think he is a Conservative like myself, and others I think he is a liberal democrat in sheep's clothing. I will have to figure him out later! He wants the government to stay out of our lives, low taxes, etc. but then thinks nationalizing health care is a great idea! Ummmm, I dont think you can have it both ways....

I will say it. I want Obama to fail. I don't want his policies to succeed. That doesnt mean I dont want the US to succeed. Just his policies, because if they do, we will be a socialist country. I do not support Obama, did not vote for him. And just because he won the election doesnt mean I have to get over it and accept it. It doesnt mean that everyone in the US wanted what he is doing today. Now, there are a couple things he has in the works that I do agree with. I am a former military wife and I am thrilled with the fact that he is giving service members increased incomes, and working towards more and better VA benefits. I think that is fabulous. But I think in most other things, he says he is going to do one thing and does the complete and total opposite. 

Examples: He stated there would be no lobbyists in his administration - LIE 

   He speaks to Bush's fiscal irresponsibility yet turns around and DOUBLES the budget.

   He states that he is working towards bipartisanship, yet what he wants is for the conservatives to fold on their principals and just agree with the liberals. 

I do like listening to Rush, Beck and Hannity. There are times when I think Rush can be a hair on the extreme side, but all in all, he is a true conservative and is spot on when it comes to the conservative values.

I think Obama's stimulus plan stinks to high heaven! There is so much pork in that bill it is disgusting.

I think his nationalizing of health care is absolutely one of the worst things he can do to us. The government (Republicans and Dems alike) have completely mismanaged Medicare and Social Security - what makes anyone think that they would be able to take on something so massive as all healthcare!

I cant believe the amount of crap spending that is in this years budget (and loved in his speech when he said NEXT YEAR there will be no earmarks. - Guess he has to make sure he pays back all the favors this year then.) Lets complain about the 1.7 trillion dollar budget and then DOUBLE it!! Really?

I have some very real fears of the things that are coming around the corner with this man as our leader. There are some nights, it keeps me awake. 

Did you know that you could give every man, woman and child in this country a million dollars and it would still only be HALF of the amount of Obama's stimulus. There are 303 million people in the US. That would be 303 billion dollars. That would give my family alone 3 million. What would we do with that? We would pay off our mortgage (good for the banks), pay off our car loan (good for the banks), invest in the stocks that are soooo low right now (good for wall street), open up a small business that would probably employ an additional 3 people (good for economy and creates jobs plus our business would purchase from other businesses) And there would be some fun purchases in there too (again, good for the economy) Yes, there may be some negatives to that plan, but I am not an economist so I dont know all the ins and outs, but I like that plan. Like it alot!

I know I am doing quite a bit of rambling, but I did want to get some thoughts down. This is really my first blog, so hopefully I will get better at it, better at organizing my thoughts!