What do you call a man who;
Has over four decades serving the public in law enforcement,- Is responsible for over 10,000 inmates in his prison system,
- Doesn’t coddle prisoners and has over 2,ooo housed in an outdoor tent city to keep costs down,
- Doesn’t coddle prisoners and has forbid pornography, smoking, and coffee and restricts TV watching,
- Offers the cheapest meals in the jails costing an average of 15 cents a meal and are only served twice daily to cut costs,
- Requires inmates to work and provide labor to the community,
A repeated tome in this blog is the desire for business leaders who are not coddling up to politicians to gain favor and subsequent breaks from government toadies. It seems like General Motors, Chrysler, BP, AIG, Goldman Sachs executive accept the pound of flesh that they have give to political expediency. The dutifully appear before Congress to be berated and belittled, slink off to their boardroom to lick their wounds only to emerge like the Phoenix with even more power and favor from government.
I am seeking Wyatt.
Even though this post is about, perhaps our next president, I am going to start it with quotes from two prominent politicians;
“Republican leaders haven’t come up with “a single, solitary new idea” to help the American people recover from the economic recession.”
Barack Obama
“You lie”
Joe Wilson
Maybe Barack Obama was being Clintonesque parsing “single,” “solitary,” “new” in his mind to justify the lie. I’ll admit that many Republicans have no new ideas and many of them are progressive and probably agree with Obama’s direction, just not his speed. I would argue that the same could be said of Obama’s vision for America. His plan for “spreading the wealth” is not a new idea. His plan has been tried numerous times always with the same result…either failure (see Greece) or totalitarianism (Cuba, Venezuela, etc.).
Update – March 4, 2010: Texas’ Governor Rick Perry has been one of the most outspoken national voices critical of the Washington power grabs. So what does Texas Senator K. Baily Hutchison do? She runs against him. The conservative-lite Hutchison decided that Texas no longer needed a strong voice in their Governor’s mansion.
Texas Republicans disagreed. Yeah Texas! Governor Perry trounced Senator Hutchison on Tuesday by a 52 percent to 30 percent margin. I used to have great respect for Ms. Hutchison, but I am tired of conservatives going after other conservatives while letting RHINOs alone. Hopefully another real conservative will challenge Senator Hutchison when she wants another term in the U.S. Senate.
Update – Lord Christopher Monckton has gotten some attention at least on Fox News and other balanced media outlets. I am still impressed with his love of United States and his passion for pulling back the curtains to expose the man made global warming (AKA climate change) schemes. Al Gore has still managed to avoid debating anyone of stature and most recently several liberals have suggested Sarah Palin as an adversary. I love Sarah Palin, but she is not the person I want to put up against Gore.
Betsy McCaughey is the former lieutenant governor from New York. It is unclear how a Pittsburgher ended up in New York, but we will forgive her as she has become one of the most articulate voices for sanity in the health care debate. In a nutshell, she has been speaking against the massive overhaul proposed by the Obama Administration. She has had the nerve to use facts and figures to dispute claims by Pelosi, Reid, and Obama to scare folks into supporting their efforts. With all of their efforts, however, Rasmussen reports that 54 percent of Americans oppose the new plan (44% strongly opposed) while 42 percent (down from 45%) support the plan (only 23% strongly support).
Sail on, O Ship of State!
Sail on, O Union, strong and great!
Humanity with all its fears,
With all the hopes of future years,
Is hanging breathless on thy fate!
The begining of this Longfellow poem was used by Lord Christopher Moncton to end his address at Bethel University last week. I had never heard that poem before, but Lord Monckton told the audience that it was also used by Winston Churchill in an address to FDR as we entered World War II. It shows the deep love, respect, and hope that our country represents to many in the world. Lord Monckton also said these touching words:
Unfortunately for Minnesota, they are recently most known for having a former boa-wearing wrestler as a governor and a tax-evading, “comedy” writer as their newest senator. There is a bright spot withing the land of 10,000 lakes beside Republican Governor Tim Pawlenty and she is Representative Michele Bachmann.
Rep. Bachmann first appeared on my radar when she spoke out strongly about the 2010 census. The federal government has a constitutional authority to conduct a count of the number of citizens:
Andrew Breitbart seems to be doing what most of the news media will not do…bring us the news. Maybe the media never did it and there were not alternative sources like Breitbart. Breitbart has been at the forefront of the recent exposure of ACORN as a corrupt organization. To be fair, Glen Beck and Bill O’Reilly have been investigating and reporting on ACORN for a while. Their problem was that their reports were full of detail and facts.
My first exposure to Governor Rick Perry of the Great State of Texas was listening to an interview when he was visiting the Left State of Pennsylvania a few years ago. Gov. Perry and the correspondent (sorry, but I can neither remember nor find references to this interview) were discussing the Texas Legislature and their activity. This is of great interest to Pennsylvanians as we have one of the largest (and costliest) legislatures in the country.
