The new administration is again, flexing their muscles and deciding they don't have to follow the Constitution.  The Secretary of Treasury, Turbo Tax Geithner, thinks the government should be able to take over companies that they don't feel are doing business properly or may possibly fail.  They want dictate the salaries of corporate employees.  They want to bailout the newspaper industry essentially making newspapers "state-run".  State-run newspaper, why does that sound familar? Hmmmm, Venezuela, North Korea, China, Syria, Cuba....Sounds like Communism to me.

While I don't agree with the bonuses paid out to some of the AIG bigs, they had contracts.  Congress can't swoop in after the fact and write legislation to tax the money at a 90% rate.  If they do it to one specific group of people, what is going to stop them from doing to others?

Hey Congress, how about you stop voting yourself a raise every year, give up your lifetime healthcare, and give back the money to the people? <sound of crickets> I didn't think so.  Congress forgets that they work for us.

The media darling, dubbed the new "Great Communicator", seems to be having trouble with his trusty teleprompter.  During a joint address yesterday with Irish PM Brian Cowen, Cowen began his speech after Obama, only to realize he was re-reading Obama's speech. Cowen turned to Obama and said "That's your speech".  Here comes Obama to save the day.  He turns to the teleprompter and begins to read what is there, only to thank himself for inviting everyone.  Turns out, the speech was switched to Cowen's.  I guess it was better than hearing "Ummm, I would like to ummm, thank, ummmmm, everyone for ummmm...."

What I find amusing is that a lot of people are surprised that he brings his teleprompter everywhere.  Where was everyone during the campaign process?  Obama cannot make a speech or speak to anyone without it!

Reagan was "The Great Communicator", Obama is "The Teleprompter President".

I think the 2008 Electoral Map by county is very interesting.  Unless you live in a big city or right on the border, the country is still red.  The country is still Conservative...

Oh Chris Matthews.  He's so worried about Big Bad Fox News Network being in the bag for the Right but take a look at what he says last Thursday on MSNBC.

"You know what?" Matthews said. "I want to do everything I can to make this thing work, this new Presidency work"  When pressed on his claim, asked if it his his job as a journalist to make the Presidency work, he replies,  "Yeah, that's my job. My job is to help this country...to make this work succsesfully, because this country needs a successful Presidency, more than anything right now," Matthews said. 

Now what I think Matthews meant was that it's his job to make a Democratic presidency work.

How about the Washington Post?  They admitted their bias for Obama.  Let's take a look at the breakdown of their election stories:

• Op-Ed opinion pieces on Obama, 32, McCain, 13
• Negative pieces on Obama, 32, McCain58

Let's not forget the L.A. Times.  They actually have a video, that they will not release, of the 2003 farewell party for Rashid Khalidi, a radical Palestinian Liberation Organization spokesman/adviser.  The event was sponsored by the Arab American Action Network, an anti-Israel group.  In attendance were Barack Obama and Bill Ayers.  
 

President Elect Obama saw it fit to take a shot at Nancy Reagan during his 1st press conference today.  When asked if he has spoken to any of the former presidents, he said, "I have spoken to all of them who are living," he says. "I didn’t want to get into a Nancy Reagan thing about doing any séances."  Wasn't it Hillary Clinton that used to "speak" to Eleanor Roosevelt?