Obama: Folks Feeling Buyer’s Remorse?

Whenever I see an Obama bumper sticker on a car, I wonder if the person is happy with what he or she got. As for me, I’d like to tell the dissatisfied Obama voter “I warned you, fool!”.

A couple of articles about this dissatisfaction:  Polls find rising concern with Obama on key issues and Rural Dems have beef with Obama. Some highlights:

• “They don’t get rural America,” said Rep. Dennis Cardoza, a Democrat who represents California’s agriculture-rich Central Valley. “They form their views of the world in large cities.”
• In rural America, especially, the looming closures pose a dire threat. Car dealers are not only an economic linchpin of many county-seat towns but also offer support for institutions and a way of life that can’t be easily replaced.
• Obama, who took office in January, remains popular with Americans, although his overall job approval rating slipped to 56 percent, down 5 points from April, according to an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.
• But 58 percent of respondents said Obama and Congress should focus on keeping the budget deficit down, even if takes longer for the economy to recover. The Congressional Budget Office estimates the federal deficit could top $1.8 trillion this fiscal year — by far a record.
• The poll also found that Americans were alarmed by the amount of money doled out to boost the economy and a majority thought the government should focus instead on reducing the federal deficit.

There was no mention in the articles about Obama grandiose plans to nationalize the health care industry.

I had also read earlier (sorry, no link) that the hard leftists were angry with Obama for no ending the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, not opening up the military to gays, and bailing out the wall street capitalists.

EPA To Regulate CO2 – Does This Include Breathing?

In the idiocy of the moment, the EPA has declared green house gasses a pollutant. As a mammal, this concerns me greatly. It should likewise register alarm for you, my fellow mammals. We release carbon dioxide, CO2, when we exhale. By implication then, the EPA would be able to regulate population levels. Not alarmed yet? Then here is another thought: The feds who will be doing the regulating are the same ones who regulated the financial system into the sewer.

BTW climate change is caused by changes in sunspot activities, not gasses. The science is here.

Are you happy with Obamunism yet? Keep the change!

Attended Prescott, AZ Tea Party 4/15/2009

I learned that tea means Taxed Enough Already. I knew that we are overtaxed, I did not know someone made an acronym from “tea”.

Gary and I went to the Tea Party last night. We stayed about an hour and then the cold got to us. I was very happy to see several familiar faces there – you know who you are! There were some good signs being waived around, plus some folks were carrying Gadsden flags.

The Courier estimated there were 2K people in attendance. An excellent turn out. Gary took some photos, if he puts them on his blog I’ll provide a link.

Update: Here’s the link to the photos Gary took.

Tea Party in Prescott, AZ 4/15/2009

There’s going to be a Tea Party in Prescott, AZ at the courthouse 6-8pm Wed. 4/15/2009.  I plan to attend, but it it’s snowing I might wimp out

Tea Parties are about protesting runaway bailouts to financial oligarchs and excessive taxation. More here.

Somali Pirate Saga

Have you been following the Somali Pirate Saga in the news this week? Here’s the remedy for the  problem from William S. Lind:

Cleaning up Somali piracy should take tens days, a fortnight at most. It’s not hard. International ships and aircraft hunt down and sink the pirates’ vessels at sea. (As in the 17th and 18th centuries, there are very few pirate “ships;” most pirates operate from open boats, now as then.) Any ship taken by pirates is immediately re-taken by some state’s navy or Marines. Captured pirates are hanged from the nearest yardarm, without trial, as common law allows. Ports out of which pirates frequently sail, such as Eyl, are bombarded, and any likely pirate craft are destroyed. This is a script any admiral from the age of sail would know by heart.

Lind says this is is a measure of the growing world disorder as the nation state system breaks down.