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Kucinich flew to his own district on Airforce One with President Obama.  I wonder the how President convinced him to vote for the healthcare bill.

The whole idea to remove the Filibuster from the Senate is to make it more like the House of Representatives because the Senate, supposedly, isn’t working.

It’s not that the Senate doesn’t work, it does work, but it works in a very different way than the House of Representatives.

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The Senate is not ruled by it’s majority leader.  It’s ruled by a consensus which has to be built by both the majority leader and the minority leader.

This is not a shot taken at Harry Reid or any Democrat based on their position on an issue, it’s an opinion of how ineffectively the current leadership is building a consensus.

I do not think the problem is the rules, I think the problem in the Senate is the Senators.

At a Q&A someone asked Chief Justice Roberts how he felt about the President making comments about a recent decision that the court made during the State of the Union.  Roberts had an excellent answer:

I’ve been talking with some of my friends about this story. Here’s a comment they made about what happened in Austin last week:

…the media is going to take what he did and sweep it under the rug as bat shit crazy and ignore the point he was trying to make. To a godless man in a godless world that was his best option in his mind. He wanted to hurt the government like they hurt him, but he instead hurt innocents that had nothing to do with it. But how do you strike back at something so big and abstract as government? I’m sure he was right when he said he wouldnt be the last. If people don’t take notice of how the government is [screwing] its own citizens we are going to have more and more incidents like this. Basically, America will become its own terrorists.

I want to unequivocally condem the murder Joe Stack committed by flying an airplane into an IRS building. Joe Stack was a fed up man, who thought he was out of options and wanted to make a point.  It’s too bad that he decided to take his life and endanger others to make his point.

Read his suicide note.  It’s very well written.  He worked within the system, as best he could, obeying the rules and finally concluded the tax system is biased, so biased that it cost him:

$40,000+, 10 years of [his] life

What should we take from this act of violence?  Anything? Why was Joe Stack compelled to take his life?  That’s a scary place my mind rejects it out of hand.

I was watching President Obama at the House GOP retreat.  The biggest thing I noticed, unless I’m mistaken, he’s not reading from a teleprompter.  I think the President reads from the teleprompter too much and I have made fun of him for it.  So, I’d like to take this opportunity to say, this is one of his better presentations.

Mr. President, this is proof you don’t need a teleprompter to give a very well presented speech.  You came across as being more authentic and more confident.  Give more speeches without a teleprompter.

Question and Answers Session:

Speech:

Please hold the Health Care negotiations on C-SPAN.  Or, are you hiding something?  It’s too bad you’re going to break yet another campaign promise.  This would have been a pretty easy one to keep.

Obama promised — repeatedly — an end to closed-door negotiations and complete openness for the health care talks. But he hasn’t delivered. Instead of open talks of C-SPAN, we’ve gotten more of the same — talks behind closed doors at the White House and Congress.

Here is C-SPAN’s open letter requesting full access to the negotiations.

It’s that time of year again, when we all make resolutions to change something that we do for the betterment of ourselves.  Here’s a resolution everyone should adopt: Move Your Money to a local bank and/or credit union.

It’s our money and we can choose to move it where we wish.  Remember in It’s a Wonderful Life, how George Bailey stands up to Mr. Potter?  We don’t have to deal with these big banks, let’s put our money in the Bailey Building and Loan.

The idea is simple: If enough people who have money in one of the big four banks move it into smaller, more local, more traditional community banks, then collectively we, the people, will have taken a big step toward re-rigging the financial system so it becomes again the productive, stable engine for growth it’s meant to be.

Fed Chairman Bernanke:

From a technical perspective, the recession is very likely over at this point.

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it’s still going to feel like a very weak economy for some time, as many people will still find that their job security and their employment status is not what they wish it was.

We are no where near a recovery.  We haven’t even begun to feel the affects of the bailouts yet.  Only $2 Trillion of the possible $23.7 Trillion Dollars from the TARP money has even been spent yet.

Inflation here we come.

I’ve been looking to expand my Libertarian clothing and I came across this question:

Image taken from Liberty Stickers

It really got me thinking, and I can’t remember the last time someone said that.  As a child, it was a common phrase to me.  It has been years since I’ve heard it.

President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee went to her first set of confirmation hearings yesterday.  You can watch them live on the best network ever, C-SPAN!  I am wary of some of the things I’ve heard about her, namely the most popular quote used to justify a “no” vote for her.

“I would hope that a wise Latina woman, with the richness of her experiences, would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life,”

Congressman Poe gave a principled four minute speech about the qualifications of who should be nominated to the SCOTUS two months ago.