AU to Barney - We don't love you

Barney Frank shouldn't be addressing "public affairs" at any time.

AU students protest Barney speech
About 130 American University students have signed an online petition of sorts asking the school's administration to withdraw an invitation to Barney Frank, who is slated to deliver a commencement address at AU's School of Public Affairs in a few weeks.

The students blame the fiery House Financial Services chairman for the financial meltdown, singling out his longtime support of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae as contributing to the severity of the crisis and magnitude of bailouts.

"Many of us are having trouble finding a job and are finding our ability to get into grad schools hindered by the economy, so it's seems inappropriate for Rep. Frank to deliver the commencement," says Sarah DeStefano, a senior from upstate New York who describes herself as a moderate Repubican.

"I would never expect American, which is a left-leaning school, to invite a Repubplican to the commencement, but this speaker of all speakers seems wrong," she added.

Many of the signees are members of the campus Young Republicans chapter but a handful are Dems or independents -- and one of the protesters is the vice-president of the campus Democrats, she said.

DeStefano has set up a Facebook "AU Students & Alumni Against Barney Frank @ SPA Commencement '09" page that has 128 signees.

On it, she claims Frank "helped lead us and the world into a global economic meltdown," and describes the Massachusetts Democrat as "excessively partisan and notoriously divisive during times when compromise and bipartisanship is needed the most."

Frank didn't immediately respond.

A really stupid way to deal with Cuba

Let's seal the deal and work out the details later. Is that how one would deal with a used car salesman? How about a communist? Barbara Lee thinks so.

U.S. lawmakers say normalize Cuba relations, then talk

"Most of the members of our delegation believe we need to actually normalize relations and then the details of what that means would follow," Representative Barbara Lee, who is also chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus, said at a news conference.

We The People Stimulus Package

Bravo!

Obama' Special Olympics economics

Obama's Swedish American Model

This is what this whole "economic crisis" is really about which is why Obama has been crying wolf for so long. There really isn't a wolf and people are seeing it for what it is.

Liberal Fascism: AIG Issue Is Simply a Stepping Stone Toward More Government Control

AIG Attainder Bill 90% Tax Unconstitutional

Bill of Attainder. The bill, while not mentioning AIG by name, is clearly meant to punish AIG executives who received large bonuses—a specific group of individuals in response to public outrage over the bonuses. Given this motivation, many believe that the legislation is a bill of attainder, and thus prohibited by Article I, Section 9, Clause 3 of the Constitution.

The really sad thing about this continuing serial thriller of clowns on crack is that Congress successfully made contractual bonuses the main focus instead of their role in this planned economic train wreck. A train wreck that Democrats in Congress engineered. The train wreck cover-up by Frank, Dodd, et al is a Democratic Congressional production that is pure CYA by the Democratic leadership and those Democrats, er-cough-cough-Frank-Dodd-cough-cough that used our money to wreck the train.

Bitching about the bonuses is like bitching about incorrect change, say 12 cents instead of 13 cents, back on a $100.00 bill. But distraction is the action on Capitol Hill, especially when one doesn't want the media to be able to explain the roots of the mess and one doesn't want their name prominently headlined as a culprit in crime. The "one" here would have a D after their name when sponsoring, cosponsoring and voting on legislation.

Remember, this all started with "something for nothing", otherwise known as mortgages to people that could not afford one and could actually not pay on one. To show their racial sensitivity, Congress ordered banks to give mortgages to those that couldn't possibly afford them and now blame the banks.

Hello Fannie. Hello Freddie.

Hello Barney. Hello Maxine.

Where's our damned money you pandering political losers?

If Congress sez it's so, It is. Isn't it?

Fiscal responsibility is a relative term to many in Congress.

Carter Obama; How incredibly appropriate

CARTER VISITS WHITE HOUSE...

One economic trainwreck learning (teaching?) from another.

Where are the fiscally responsible, ie. conservative, in Washington, DC?

Do they no longer exist or have they just lost their voice?

Nationalize the Banks, But Privatize the Military

In the world of the Obama Administration the world is viewed as not as it should be thus the world will have to change for the Administration. This seems to be written in jello just above the door entering the Oval Office.

In a rush to pass its stimulus legislation, that was not even read by members of Congress, and to try to nationalize banks that didn't want a government partnership, the Administration is attempting to control wider and wider swaths of business, industry and jobs in the United States. The Swedish model, if you will.

The Administration has stated that they know more about these areas than the private sector does and has urged Congress to pursue what they perceive as wrong-doing and to replace "incompetency" in the private sector with government actions to right the crippled ship "Economy." If continued, the ship will sink.

Thus, in the Administration's world view, if something is working and is competent, then the Administration must privatize it to punish it. Enter the privatization of medical care for soldiers wounded and maimed on the battlefields to which the United States government sent them to fight our nation's battles.

The American Legion Strongly Opposed to President's Plan to Charge Wounded Heroes for Treatment
The leader of the nation's largest veterans organization says he is "deeply disappointed and concerned" after a meeting with President Obama today to discuss a proposal to force private insurance companies to pay for the treatment of military veterans who have suffered service-connected disabilities and injuries. The Obama administration recently revealed a plan to require private insurance carriers to reimburse the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in such cases.

"It became apparent during our discussion today that the President intends to move forward with this unreasonable plan," said Commander David K. Rehbein of The American Legion. "He says he is looking to generate $540-million by this method, but refused to hear arguments about the moral and government-avowed obligations that would be compromised by it."
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"I only hope the administration will really listen to us then. This matter has far more serious ramifications than the President is imagining," concluded the Commander.

Some of those ramifications will be that soldiers who are Reserve and are self employed or that work for small business won't get the medical coverage they need and once that is realized by volunteers serving in the military, they will no longer see the military as a viable alternative, no matter how strongly they believe in the mission. Our military will then not be able to meet the recruitment levels needed to sustain a volunteer force thus, once again, forcing the Obama Administration will need to step in to fix it by instituting an unpopular draft which will dumb down the forces at a time when a creative and intelligent military is so desperately needed.

This would be a win-win for the Administration because they can keep the military more directly under their boot and at the same time make our military, a shining success, unpopular. Both of these objectives are sought because this Administration loathes the military, their mission and the whole ethos of the their culture.

To wed the Administration's fiscal irresponsibility to its anti-military culture, maybe they can make Congressman Barney Frank head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and he can do for the military what he has done for the housing industry.

Just as the Administration is killing business with its tainted kindness of control, it can kill the military with its illogically driven hatred through something as basic as medical care for serving our country.

How simply diabolical. How simply naive. How simply progressive.