President Obama announced today on Saturday that he would not take any action against Syria without the consent of Congress. And we all know what a wonderful record the President has of submitting bills to Congress and having them act on it. This is the same Congress, not to be excessively blunt, that wants to Impeach this President as soon as they return to Washington. Their instinct had virtually never been "to do the right thing" and less to help out this President, politically in any way. Of course Bashier Assad knows now he has a lot of extra time to do - whatever else he has planned. And Al Qaida and all those Islamic nations that came out and comdemned the gassing by Assad- - they also have been sent a "Message" by this president's delays. Vladimir Putin of course praised the British parliament for it's thumbs down vote yesterday. You know, I'm beginning to wonder that what if Pearl Harbor had never happened and Roosevelt was trying to get us to go to war against Germany- - and there was photographic evidence of the Jewish death camps- - whether such pictures would have in themselves overcome the apathy of the American people then. Considering the number of ways where American laws are out of step with the developed nations of most of the rest of the world- - one has to wonder. As I look at the Wars that the American people have been for, they seem much more based on hysteria, if not outright lies- - then they are in any true moral outrage about an issue.
I think the general idea is to find common ground with people and advance your agenda on the basis of that. Actually there are very few things the president has never "compromised his principles" on. One is on abortion. The President hasn't given an inch. He's still staunchly for "partial birth abortions" and the President has never repuliated his stance on "wrongful life" fetuses that survived an abortion procedure. He approved such a "wrongful life" bill while an Illinois congressman. He says knowing when life begins is "beyond his pay grade", which is a silly answer. But if you aren't sure about something, shouldn't you err on the side of life rather than death. It's no wonder the president seems less than urgently concerned about the lives of children dying a horrible death in Syria, when he obviously isn't concerned about lives of young babies that are taken in a medical prodedure right here in the United States. The other Issue in which the President has bent very little is his own Affordable Care Act, which is Thee great albitros around this President's neck. For instance suppose I were president Obama right now. And someone came up to me and said "You know Mr President- - I know of a way to put these republicans in a much more cooporative mood to pass needed jobs bills and energy bills this country sorely need. I know of a way you can increase your odds of even getting them to look at your legislation in such areas as this immigration bill, which is stalled in the house. And in the bargain- - you can stimulate the economy and increase incentives for job hiring, simplify the insurance industry, and cut health insurance rates for the vast majority of Americans, and give Americans the insurance plans they really want". And of course I'd be all ears at this and say "How?" And the other guy would say "Just sign one of these forty-plus bills abolishing Obama Care. You'd make a lot of people really happy really fast." I was just looking at a link from Judy on Fox news about Obama Care and how unworkable it is. Sure a lot of its parts have been put on hold- - but there is still a lot of planned chaos coming down the pike. The President lied to the American people when he said "If you like the medical insurance plan you can have now, you can keep it. This is about 85% of Americans". This is simply not true. Virtually every insurance plan will be altered in a significant way as far as giving people coverage they don't want or need. Most people will have their rates hiked significantly. Young people in particular, those just starting out who can least afford it- will pay between seventy and ninety percent more for their Health Insurence. Even older people will pay more for it- - but the rise for them will be less significant. This bill rewards people who have neglected their health- - heavy smokers- - and those who have eaten all the wrong foods throughout their lives. And the rest of us have to subsedize that. Insurance companies are getting out of the coverage business entirely rather than have to jump through all the hoops that the Affordable Care plan requires of them. Doctors are also finding ways to get out of the plan. Of course the plan is a major block on the new hiring of employees, and fans the uncertainty factor in small business particularly. And of course you know about the fact that full time employment will be discouraged as businesses feel pressure to avoid that thirty hour per week limit on not paying certain benefits to their employees. So the President lied about two big things. You CAN'T keep the insurance you have now, even if you like it, and you WILL be paying significantly more for coverage you don't even want or need- - after Obamacare goes into effect. But the President is obsessed with this "legacy" that somehow if he fails at all else, and he's failing on a whole front of issues- - at least there will linger this THING that he managed to cram down all our throats.
In terms of Syria- - I've already discussed this till I'm blue in the fact. I think I'm suffering from adrenal burn out like that Purity commercial on KTLK talked about just now. I'm dog tired right now- - and I think I have a definite case of Obama burn-out. It's getting to the point where nobody cares. I've criticized "God" for not being Timely in his answering of people's prayers. Obama already has not responded in a Timely manner because the Syrians have had ample opportunity to ready themselves for the expected attack. It's like the President is taking the same position that the Florida court system took on Trayvon Martin. "OK, If I gotta, then I gotta- - but I'll only be going through the motions". I was going to splice other remarks in here at this time. David Cruise and Moe
Kelly and Nicole Sandler are all arrayed against intervention in Syria
employing arguments that make little sense to me. None of these people stopped to think that if
the President does nothing it’s going to play right into the hands of people
like Glen Beck, calling the President “inattentive- - so that lives were
lost”. Remember that? How can they be upset at four lives needlessly lost in Bengazi and the fuel that added to the Republican charges- - and yet somehow the deaths of 1400 innocents, will somehow be ignored by these same Republicans. If you don't think this will provide an abiding source of "fodder" for the Republicans in the coming months - - you're kidding yourselves! If the situation deteriorates any further in
Syria you know the Republicans are going to launch a “Who lost Syria?” campaign
like Harry Truman faced with China. John
Kerry says “People are watching us around the world to see what kind of moral
judgements we’ll make on this situation”.
The idea of national honor is suddenly one of those expressions nobody
is allowed to use now.
Global warming is an issue we SHOULD all be concerned about. One day this week we had ninety and even over one hundred degree weather- - combined with violent thunder and even hail storms. I said to Bill "Do my eyes deceive me or is that hail coming down in those pictures?" "It's hail" he said. You have the Yousemite fire that has raged for over a week and even now is only 35% contained. You have a major drought throughout all parts of the west, with accompanying forest fires that are almost expected to set records for severity- - on an anual basis. I guess this Yousemite fire has already burned 350 square miles. Smoke from it is making its way into the San Juaquin Valley. They said the recomended ammount of Carbon Dioxide in the atnosphere is 350 parts per Million or something. And we have already exceeded that. It's now a question of if or when we will surpass the "danger figure". We already have. We have seen more flookish weather in the past few years than I ever remember growing up. I hope one area where the President DOES stand his ground is on the Canadian pipeline to Texas. They say the proposed pipeline has "passed all the environmental tests". I don't believe it. The question to me if not whether there will be a major leak in the pipeline but WHEN. Why do we need an energy policy in the 21st century with its head securely burried in the nineteenth century? Makes no sense. Somebody made a joke about how this President has shown what a Black man can accomplish if he's intelligent and dedicated and hard working, and does everything wall street wants him to do". The Republicans want to impeach this President. Actually I think we'd do better as a country with Joe Byden as President. The big reason why I am against impeachment is because it would take precious time away from the many things the Republican House should be working on. I'm surprised how gung ho they are in impeachment given the few working days Congress will be in session the remainder of the year.
You know they had a book out many years ago called "Games People Play". Today I'd like to talk about the Polyanna game. Hillary made a key point in her campaign of 2008 for President. She said that "making a speech" and lofty expressions are fine as far as they go. But they won't get legislation passed. Sure you needed a Jesse Jackson and a Martin Luther King- - but just as and probably More important to the equation was having Lyndon Johnson as President who was willing to push for Civil Rights Legislation. I've seen leaders and pastors talking about how they are such Positive People and they hate negativity and will criticize it when ever is comes up in conversation from their perisheners. It's not that they are really into Positivism, but what they are really are is into Denial. They will pump people's skirts full of sunshine right up to the day they leave- - without any notice because - - God called them to another post, and of course you can't disobey God. Of the other varient of this is "I don't want to be dragged down by your problems and negativity- - and I think it's just God's way of telling you that- - "You have your own path to pursue- - that doesn't involve my help". Why- - that "own path" line sounds almost mystic, doesn't it? President Obama was all pie in the sky to get elected- - but he's pretty much absent from the Front- - when it gets into battle down in the trenches. Pastors embrace this pie in the sky positivism as their way of saying that they are somehow above it all- - and that problems of ordenary people are beneathe them. Think about it.
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