I know that most people won't be listening :lalala:, but perhaps you should!

My guess, and this is only a guess, is that Obama is going to mention how the stimulus package is the start of a “comprehensive approach” to solving this current "crisis".

Next he will go on about how the only way for this plan to work is if we overhaul (socialize) health care. He will move from that to explain that the current housing "crisis" can only be dealt with by the government buying up bad loans. From there he will touch on foreign affairs, perhaps mentioning that we have to make sure that our currency isn’t devalued too much, because we will loose our credibility with the rest of the world.

To conclude my guess is that Obama is going to lay the groundwork for a much larger role for government in our lives, and in the market. Which if you notice the market is no long responding to "market forces" the market is hanging on the word of some government official! Sounds a little to me like the start of a (not so) beautiful Command Economy.

I will provide a transcript of his speech later tonight after it happens.

This has to be one of the strangest things I’ve seen in a long time. Sit back have a beer, and patrol the border. This is "Reality TV" at its finest.

Bellow is a screen shot of video from http://www.blueservo.net/

See the people above, in the boat, trying to get into Texas?

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This is amazing. All I have to say is WAY TO GO! At least someone is keeping an eye on the border, because both Republicans and Democrats don’t see the need. Keep up the good work!

Link to PDF -> HR_45_Current.pdf

This is what we have to look forward to for the next four years. This bill is not designed to protect individuals. As a matter of fact it will do just the opposite.. But we’re seeing a lot of that lately. Imagine needing to submit health information to the government in order to own a gun, including any guns that you already own. This requirement would be retroactive. The bill was proposed by Bobby Rush. Let’s get a little history on Bobby Rush.

http://www.house.gov/rush/bio.shtml

During the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960's, Congressman Rush worked to secure basic civil and human rights for African-Americans, women and other minorities. He was a member of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) from 1966 to 1968. Congressman Rush was a co-founder of the Illinois Black Panther Party in 1968.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/elections/candidate/494/

Rush ran a medical clinic that developed the nation's first mass sickle cell anemia testing program. He also served six months in prison for illegal possession of firearms.

Here’s where the other half of the story comes in. He was a member of the “Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee” right? Why did he do time for illegal possession of firearms? Sounds a little funny to me; it gets better though.

Rush introduced a 1993 bill that would have banned handguns for anyone who was not in law enforcement and added an increase in the licensing fee for gun dealers from $10 to $3,000.

H.R.45 has a name tagged to it; as all gun control bills do. In Chicago sixteen-year-old Blair Holt was shot and killed as he jumped in front of a gunman to save someone else on a CTA bus. The gunman had already broken more than three laws by having the gun on the bus in the first place. As a matter of fact Chicago already has state laws in-place similar to the bill proposed by Bobby Rush. I believe it is immoral to use this young man’s death as a means of disarming law abiding citizens. But hey, remember what White House Chief of Staff - Rahm Emanuel said, “You don’t ever want a crisis to go to waste; it’s an opportunity to do important things that you would otherwise avoid.”

The only good news is that the bill has no co-sponsors.

Europe doesn’t hate our president anymore, but its leaders are not being any more helpful.

This is a brilliant article by Jim Geraghty at National Review Online.

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NDQxMzdmMzdkOWFlNzVjYTkzZWVjMjNiZWFmODVjNmQ=

Wow Obama can pedal backwards almost as fast as he can get ridiculous legislation passed.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/02/20/obama-administration-affirms-bush-policy-detainee-rights/

Obama:

In a two-sentence court filing, department lawyers said the Obama administration agreed that detainees at Bagram Air Base cannot use U.S. courts to challenge their detentions. The filing shocked human rights attorneys.

After Obama took office, a federal judge in Washington gave the new administration a month to decide whether it wanted to stand by Bush's legal argument. Justice Department spokesman Dean Boyd says the filing speaks for itself.

"They've now embraced the Bush policy that you can create prisons outside the law," said Jonathan Hafetz, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union who has represented several detainees.

Well that's not going to sit well with the left. Change you can believe in? What's stranger is how he looked at this issue before he had someone open his eyes. The following was said just 19 days ago.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/02022009/news/politics/obama__sure__gitmo_detainees_could_attac_153235.htm

Obama:

"Can we guarantee that they're not going to try to participate in another attack? No," Obama said in an NBC interview that aired today.
"But what I can guarantee is that if we don't uphold our Constitution and our values, that over time that will make us less safe. And that will be a recruitment tool for organizations like al-Qaeda."

"Is it going to be easy?" Obama said in the interview. "No, because we've got a couple hundred of hard-core militants that, unfortunately, because of ... problems that we had previously in gathering evidence, we may not be able to try in ordinary courts but we don't want to release."

"I have to make the very best judgments I can make in terms of what's going to keep the American people safe and ... what's going to uphold our Constitution and our traditions of due process," he said. "And what I'm convinced of is [that] we can balance those interests in a way that makes all of us proud, but also assures that we're not attacked."

So the best way to keep the American people safe, while at the same time, uphold the Constitution; is to JUST DO WHAT BUSH DID! Is it just me? I remember everyone on the Obama bandwagon criticizing Bush the entire time he was in office for his methods of dealing with the detainees. How quickly people forget. I wonder why this hasn't received much press?

Tell me what you think.