This article goes a long way towards explaining what's really going on. Even still, Buchanan forgets to point out one of the most important facts. The nation doesn't default on the debt until we stop paying interest on the debt. The national equivalent of making the minimum payment.

The Republicans hold all the cards here. Republicans would show an amazing inability to lead should they cave on this. I only hope that the people we sent to Washington in November are indeed who we thought they were.

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Obama's Twitter town hall turned out to be a little awkward. As it turns out Obama didn't do the typing. The man who was typing quickly became fatigued because there was no "Uhh" key on the keyboard. Also many of the answers were too long to squeeze into 140 characters. Obama's "Yes or No" answers won't fit within 140 characters.

"He's just answering the questions. He's not typing and tweeting," White House press secretary Jay Carney said of the event announced Thursday. It will be webcast, and focus on jobs and the economy.

By now it should be clear that Obama has no plan which will lead to a growth in hiring; at least for the private sector. Why would he hold a town hall to ask "average Americans" about the economy? Shouldn't the president be leading on this? Shouldn't the administration have a plan already? What happened to Obama's "laser like" focus on jobs back in Dec. of 2009?

"Though the job losses we were experiencing earlier this year have slowed dramatically, we're still not creating enough new jobs each month to make up for the ones we're losing," Obama said last week. "For families and communities across the country, this recession will not end until we completely turn that tide."

The new focus on jobs comes as the first stimulus plan's impact remains unclear. The Obama administration says more than 640,000 jobs have been saved or created by employers who received funds. The Congressional Budget Office this week put the figure at 600,000 to 1.6 million after considering other factors, such as the impact on consumer demand from tax cuts, unemployment insurance extensions and spending by the newly employed. It said unemployment would have been up to 0.9 percentage points higher without the stimulus.

I almost forgot about the jobs that were saved or created. It's quite plausible really, it's no different than calculating how much rain didn't fall in any given area. Is this really supposed to be taken seriously by anyone?

How did the focus shift from "creating jobs" in 2009 to "we need more revenue" in 2011? It would seem to me that those two things go hand in hand.

I will get into a more in-depth compare and contrast about the economy in the near future.

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I have completed the upgrades to the site and have brought it back online.

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The site requires some maintenance that I've been putting off due to time constraints. The site should be down some time between Wednesday (the 29th of June) and Tuesday (the 5th of July). I plan to make the changes quickly so the site shouldn't be down for long. So, if you come here and the site doesn't load, you know what's going on.

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Palin, I believe, is honest in her concern for the United States and wants to help put things back in order.

Recently there has been a ridiculous media blitz trying to find something that Palin has said, or emailed that might be used against her. A few newspapers actually solicited their readers in helping to pour through more than 24,000 emails made by Palin while she was governor of Alaska. The hope was to find something provocative or damaging in the emails.

To believe that Palin would have made inappropriate emails, you would have to believe that she is a fraud and doesn't believe what she says. This, of course, gets into the psychology of the people who want to bring her down.

People have a tendency to project themselves onto others to some extent. Take Obama voters for example. There is a very brilliant article here which explains this behavior to a fine point. Most Obama voters convinced themselves that Obama really stood for the best of whatever they themselves stood for. This projection can also work the other way. The people who were pouring through the Palin emails had to believe that she was dishonest like they are. Why else would they go through the emails expecting to find something? Why else would they put their credibility on the line if they didn't think the odds were in their favor?

By scouring 24,000 emails and coming up with nothing damaging; Sara Palin is now more effective than ever. The search for dirt has in-turn polished Sara Palin's image.

I hope that Palin knows she is most effective from the outside of any campaign. She's an interesting case. Most people I've spoken to agree nearly 100% with what Palin says, but when I ask them if she should run for president they often say, "...I like her, but I don't think she can win". People can sense that she is honest which makes it easier for them to trust her judgement --they know that she actually believes what she says.

I personally think that Sara Palin is most effective as an outside force whose endorsement holds incredible political value. If Palin does run on a presidential ticket, she would have to overcome all of the negative press she received while on the McCain ticket.

Don't get me wrong. If it were a race between Sara Palin and Obama, I would vote for Palin without a second thought.

Tell me what you think...

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