Saturday, May 16, 2009

Madam Speaker needs a timeout

When my 4 year old niece lies (as 4 year olds are known to do) she gets sent to timeout. She is placed on a specific spot to reflect on her mistakes and, hopefully, learn a lesson. The timeout doesn't last long, because she is only a 4 year old, and just a few minutes is a long time for a 4 year old. But having to take a timeout is an effective tool that her mother has learned to use with her to help her change her behavior.

I was reading about Nancy Pelosi's recent attempts to extricate herself from her tangle web of deceit and it hit me- "Nancy Pelosi needs a timeout". She needs to be set down in a corner somewhere and be told that her behavior is unacceptable. She needs to reflect on what she has done wrong and how she needs to change her behavior. And since she is a lot older and more responsible than a 4 year old, I would suggest that she needs to stay in time-out for quite awhile.

I would hope that while she is in timeout that she would begin to realize that the great position that has been awarded to her by the people of this country, comes with great responsibilities. Number one is to be honest and forthright with the American people. Her recent attempts to appease her left wing supporters by going along with the idea that there should be investigations and punishments for those that supported waterboarding, when all along, it turns out, she knew about it and supported it herself, gives us a sad look at her lack of integrity.

Who are the people she serves? A few loud mouthed left wing socialists? A wild and idiotic San Francisco citizenry? Or the whole country. She needs to recognize that when she was put into such a position of power, that she was given a great responsibility to see to the well-being of this nation as a whole.

Right now she is paying a huge price for her attempts to hide her own involvement in the "torture" debates. She apparently supported it then, but now wants us to believe that she knew nothing about what they were really doing. I believe she was right to support it then. We were in a time of extreme danger, and that danger was hidden from us. We had to get to the truth, or lose many more American lives. If she did give her approval, as the record indicates, then good for her. It was the right thing to do. But since then she has lost her bearings. She has given in to her baser instincts to try to destroy and get revenge on the past administration, and at the same time, try to distance herself from any responsibility for harsh measures that were taken in the pursuit of information. As a result she has lied repeatedly and tried to claim that the CIA and others are lying. So for that she needs some serious time in timeout.

She needs to be removed from her position as Speaker of the House. We now know that she will lie and deceive if it will give her the applause she craves from the looney left. She will destroy others, for her own self-preservation, or simply for revenge. Maybe some time sitting in the halls of Congress, as a regular member, thinking about what she has done wrong, will help her learn a lesson or two. But more importantly to the country, we will get that lying, deceiving, vengeful, and untrustworthy woman out of such an important political position.

Saturday, May 9, 2009

Justice or Empathy

Barrack Obama has stated that he will select a judge based on whether he or she has empathy. This is the exact opposite of what a judge should be judged by. The important roll of judges is to decide based on the rule of law and the constitution. Not on sympathy or empathy with specific groups or causes.

I see Obama's stated plan on how he will select a judge a disaster for this country. One of the things that happens when judges are confirmed is that they are questioned on how they interpret the law. If Obama's criteria is that they will overlook the rule of law to rule in favor of specific groups then we are in deep trouble. The basis and foundation of our society will crumble under such corruption by the third branch of our government.