Journalist Pardoned

Former President Bill Clinton has met with Kim Jong Il dictator of North Korea. Four and a half months being detained for supposedly entering the country illegally, have been pardoned. Bill Clinton commanding tremendous respect in N Korea, must have been in negotiations prior to the trip over there. Arrived in an unmarked jet, as a civilian to meet with Jong Il, and escort the two reporters home. After successfully doing so the questions is asked, after months of high profile conflicts of nuclear testing going on in N Korea, is this a sign that they are wanting back in the good graces of the United States government? With some one like Kim Jong Il you may never know until it happens, it is a one man rule and he seems to run the show on his own schedule. With much gratitude that the two women were released and allowed to return home after being sentenced to 12 years of hard labor, we welcome them home.

Cash for Clunkers

Well the government has found themselves out of money again on one of their widely exciting subsidising programs. This one is the CARS program that has put allot of consumer is the motion to trade in their old clunker and a new, more fuel efficient car. Well this went into action last Friday and was heavily publicized by the dealers and the auto companies. After 22,782 vehicles sold and $96 million of tax payer money spent, were do we go from here? Well only time will tell, but another question I have is when to we know something works? If we were to just be giving cars away that were payed for by tax dollars, till we ran out of money would that be considered a success if we were able to give away 20,000 cars? I am sure we could look at it that way.

The Ole Blue Dogs

Well today the Blue Dog Coalition has reached a plan. "We have reached an agreement that will allow health care reform to move forward," Rep. Mike Ross, D-Ark., said. They have been cutting and chopping these plans in order to gain the support of the Liberal Democrats, and any of the Republicans they can. However, this plan only cuts about $100 billion off of the trillion dollar plan. And the more and more the constituents are finding out that these plans entail they are becoming more and more sceptical about the whole thing. Exactly what our president was afraid of. Again we are seeing that they are putting a rush on the bill in order to keep all of the details out of the line light. I would like to see something as big as what they are trying to do with health care reform I would like to see them take some time and really find the best options.

Common Sense

So President Obama is now being put under the spotlight again for claiming that the officer involved in the arrest of a professor in his own home, is stupid. I just want to know when we are going to take a step back from the right and the left in everything and rely on a little common sense. The right is saying that the officer is now guilty before proven Innocent, and the left is claiming, well as Rev. Al Sharpton put it a black mans worst nightmare. You know what from my non partisan approach to this is this: What happen was stupid any way you look at, I do not think that the officer involved is a racist, and for some reason out to get this professor. Nor do I think it is right that the man was arrested in his own home after showing proof that he lived in the home. If I had a police officer in my home attempting to arrest me on account of something I have not done then I would have some words as well. But as far as this being a malicious act on the officers, I do not see that was the case.

Midyear Fiscal update

Former Princeton economics professor, and Fed head Ben Bernanke went before Congress this week with his midyear update on monetary policy and the economy. In so many words, Bernanke is taking credit for avoiding total collapse of our financial system; he is cautiously optimistic about economic recovery by year-end and 2 to 3 percent growth in 2010; and says he has the tools and wisdom for a carefully crafted liquidity-exit strategy that will prevent future inflation and more asset bubbles.

Obama Polla

A new poll suggests public approval of the way President Barack Obama is handling health care reform is slipping.
The Washington Post-ABC News survey says since April, Obama's approval rating on the issue has declined from 57 percent to 49 percent, with disapproval rising from 29 percent to 44 percent.
The president's overall approval rating stands at 59 percent positive and 37 percent negative. It's the first time Obama's approval rating has fallen below 60 percent in Post-ABC polling since he took office.
The poll has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
Obama advisers are urging critics of their health care overhaul to wait for Congress to finish writing legislation before issuing verdicts.
The president will hold a round-table discussion today with health-care providers at the Children's National Medical Center in Washington.

Thanks to FOX News.com

The end of the race is the hardest.

Health care reform has been on the agenda of the President well before he entered the White House. And now he is one step close to seeing this one through. But how is a country that is already headed towards major financial problems going to be able to subsidise this 50 million people who do not have health coverage? We already are seeing this system attempted with Medicare and Medicaid, not to mention the VA which heaven forbid our system end up like that government ran system. President Obama in a speech today says "I realize that the last few miles of any race are the hardest to run. But I have to say now is not the time to slow down. And now's certainly not the time to lose heart," he said. "We are going to get this done. We will reform health care. It will happen this year." Again we are seeing a rush on a bill that will change the course of this nation in many ways. My question again is why they rush?