The Mess in Wisconsin

Isn’t is interesting that we often don’t practice what we preach? Look no farther than the union mess in Wisconsin to see it-

Truancy- Students get in big trouble for skipping school but Wisconsin teachers sure don’t think anything of doing it. A fine example they’re setting for the kids!

Faking an Excuse- I guess getting a fake excuse for an absence is okay if you’re anyone but a student. What’s next? Dogs eating the teacher’s employment certificates as a backup excuse?

Bullying- So using aggressive tactics to get your way is a grassroots movement when you’re a teacher, but when a tea party member is out protesting peacefully that is an Astroturf movement. Can anyone say "double standard"? There are a few people protesting while the majority of Wisconsin disapprovingly looks on.

Not Sharing- Unions are always after a bigger share of the financial pie but when it comes time to giving some of that pie back there is no interest in sharing. Sounds like Bobby and Sandy don’t want to set a good example and share in the pain with others!

It’s all About the Kids- When they say it’s all about the kids, they really mean it's the money. What have students gotten out of this protest? Have you seen the performance records for Wisconsin schools?

More money please!- Throwing money at education is not the answer for improving public education- it's finding ways to improve public education. If Wisconsin’s governor gives in, they’ll just be back for more.

Look for the Union Label- Like the federal government’s bloated size, today’s unions are showing more and more that they only exist to nourish themselves and not the members.

It’s Lunch and Recess Time!- It seems that these teachers show no inclination to come in from playtime. With three months off already and holidays as well as vacation and sick time, this only adds to their time off. Sure they have stress, but what about doctors, nurses, etc.?

The whole deal is Wisconsin is about unions facing the fact that they can no longer have it all. This will be a hard lesson to understand but the fact is that too few people have had it good for too long. They complain about give backs when many Americans have nothing to give in the first place. Welcome to reality, Wisconsin unions. It stinks, doesn’t it?

Barack, You Ain't No Reagan

In true Democratic fashion, the Dems are once again trying to steal from the rich to give to… their poor pitiful selves. President Reagan has the wherewithal to stand on his own legacy and take his rightful place in history as one of our greatest presidents. He created his own history and no one need embellish it with the fanciful tales of a president long since gone. Barack on the other hand has trouble standing on his own even before his first horrible, and hopefully only, presidential term.

Let’s see now first he was…oh yeah, that’s right, made in the mold of Kennedy. Yes, that young fresh face with so much hope for America that gave it the gumption to follow Jackie Gleason’s threat and go to the moon. Yes, I remember now, Michelle was the next Jackie O with her hideous, er, daring fashion statements that left a lot to be desired. Yeah, he’s Jack Kennedy all right.

No wait, I remember now, people next said Barack was the next FDR. Now we got it right. Yes, he gave Americans hope when there was no hope in the midst of a depression. He did so much through government to make a bad situation worse… yep just like Barack. Maybe there is something here. But thankfully, Obama cannot serve, or be served, for four terms. Yes, that’s the way it really was, Obama is the next FDR.

Just a cotton pickin’ minute here. No, Obama is really the next Reagan, because what he does and how he speaks is so Reaganesque. Yes, the similarities are startling. Both lived in the United States, both spoke American English and both lived in the White House… they’re practically twins joined at the hip. Unfortunately, Reagan is on the right and Obama is on the left. Makes perfect sense to me. If Reagan is like Obama, no wait, if Obama is like Reagan, then it makes perfect sense to award Obama the Nobel Peace Prize because that too was undeserved and very premature and oh so inappropriate.

I really think that if we want to peg Obama right there must be some rethinking here. I truly believe Obama should be compared to that great President Jimmy Carter… yeah, the guy that nearly drove us not into the ditch but over the cliff. The way Obama is spending he’s doing a great Jimmy Carter in trying to ruin this nation. Maybe he should be compared to Michael Dukakis who ran against Bush in 1988 and looked so ill at ease in that tank… like Obama trying to throw a baseball as the first pitch honoree (incidentally, he should be compared to his daughters on that one because he sure threw like a little girl- look it up on the internet and you’ll see what I mean).
        
Maybe he should be compared to Al Gore, who makes things up as he goes and still tries to convince people that global warming is real. Just like Obama tries to convince us that health care won’t make us sick and that the stimulus really worked. Thinking of all of this I see why he wants to emulate the guys he does; they were at least presidential. Yeah, Barack, stick with Reagan- even though your policies are a lot like W’s. Pres. Reagan, your legacy is safe especially with boneheads like Obama.  Happy Birthday Pres. Ronald Reagan, we miss you very much.

Is it Just Me or is this Room Shrinking?

With little or no surprise to anyone, the utter amateurishness of the Obama Administration is coming through loud and clear.  Only now there are, like with any misbehaving child, consequences. Take Obama for example… no please, really… take him. Seriously, it is hard to watch as Obama teeters on the brink of incompetency into irrelevance. First, he acts as an outsider watching the events in Egypt unfold; after all, I am sure he believes in Egyptian exceptionalism like he believes in American exceptionalism.  Then he is suddenly the power broker trying to ease Mubarak out and usher in a new government. This on the heels of our beloved VP Joltin’ Joe Biden saying that Mubarak is not really a dictator-- there’s that foreign policy know-how we still haven’t seen!

As Obama must act like a President instead of a Messiah, I am sure this is a humbling experience for him. I mean, why doesn’t he just go over there, orate his magic words to the people of Egypt and all is better? Hmmm. Reality is coming back to bite him in the butt again. Now he must act accordingly to avoid being seen like that evil George Bush who cozied up to corrupt people like China’s leader Zhou—hey, wait a minute, wasn’t Zhou just here with the royal treatment from Obama? Nah, couldn’t have been. Then Zhou was that guy?

 Look at health care, now. I know it hurts, but just look at it. It now appears to be a house of cards that is one judgment away from going the way of the dodo bird. At least the dodo bird showed some sign of viable life while it was here. If the Supreme Court somehow doesn’t manage to put a stake through health care’s heart, the states, at least 26 of them, are working to stop it in the courts any way they can. It must really hurt to be the national legal piñata, Barack.

On Wednesday, a court ruled that the Obama Administration (I use that last term loosely; should be more like clown car) showed contempt in reimplementing the oil moratorium after it was struck down in court. Yep, Barack, that judge just gave you a beat down!

Now unemployment is back up, inflation is rearing its head, Egypt is in chaos, Social Security is going broke for sure by 2037… Good thing we have such a smart guy in the White House.

Walk Like An Egyptian

Remember the good old days when Obama said if he was elected gasoline would never go over $2 a gallon because, unlike the evil W, he was not beholden to the oil industry? Remember when he said his very nomination would cause the oceans to heal? Remember when he said that all we had to do was talk to everyone, even our enemies and with a handshake instead of the gun we could come together to solve all the world’s problems like gentlemen?
          
Well, if Obama has proved one thing, it's that talk is cheap. These days he’s letting predator missions do his talking in Afghanistan and Pakistan. He’s letting his attorneys talk for him in court against 26 states vowing to overturn the health care law-- it seems they’re only a Supreme Court decision away from doing that very thing.

He agreed to meet unconditionally with any world leader and by simply showing up, he could regain the respect and admiration for the United States. There would be no need to display a cowboy attitude to the world, as this obviously got President Bush nowhere. Meet, greet, sip a little wine, dazzle them with Michelle, talk. Problem solved. Of course, after this meeting he would then wake up and have breakfast, but he is the only president to be able to so effectively “work” even while he is sleeping.

Now he is facing Egypt and is scolding the leaders for not showing greater restraint and giving the protesters his Presidential Seal of Approval. Respect them, work with them, and come to an agreeable solution. Remember the health care negotiations when Republicans were shut out of the process, told that Dems knew better, and how dare they go against his holiness? Now that the Republicans hold court in the House, Obama suddenly wants to work with them to “improve” (aka hold losses to a minimum) health care.

Back to Egypt. Funny how when Iran was holding protests, Obama said nary a word for days, and even then gave no hope to the protesters who were literally beat back into a controllable submission. His “Reagan Polish Resistance” moment came and he idly stood by like the commoner on Royal Grounds. When the time to take history by the horns comes, he is led by events and reacts to them. That is leadership at its weakest and just shows how when the chips are down, all Obama knows how to do is eat them.