High Ground Underground

The Inauguration Instead of the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir and a failure, we could have had the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and a competent executive.  It'll be a long 4 years. We’ll see if this time Obama can do better at keeping his oath to uphold/defend the constitution.  His address was widely seen as the most partisan,  belligerent & radical progressive in memory – not the lip service he occasionally gives to unity & cooperation.  He seems to forget how narrow his victory was – even with the clear support of the media, unions, minorities & every special interest group he could cobble together, and all his promised goodies.  As well as his distraction from his failures on the economy, etc., by demonizing his opponent.  It was hardly a vote of confidence or a landslide or mandate, as much as a vote of ignorance & greed.  In the inaugural he touted issues that he never mentioned in the campaign, and ignored the elephant in the roo

12/18/12 – French economist says U.S. abandoning it’s strengths Medved quoted the leading French economist who said that the U.S. still drives the world economic engine because of entrepreneurial spirit, the drive to innovate, and predictable taxes and regulations, but that the last few years they’ve forgotten these last 2 principles and have slowed.  They’ll revive when they return to these principles. 12/19/12 – Obama concern over gun control rather than fiscal cliff. Why doesn’t Obama put half the apparent energy he’s been putting into the school shooting and gun control into the fiscal cliff, spending, deficit & budget, rather than half-baked ridiculous offers.  He feels great urgency for the former, but has stated that the debt/deficit is of no near term concern – he’ll just kick that can down the road.  It’s not a pet liberal issue or concern they can play on for political advantage.  It’s the spending that buys them votes and keeps them in power.  No concern for