It looks like the auto bailout is going to happen despite the American people being overwhelmingly against it (because that rarely influences Congress, who knows sooooo much better than all the rest of us). The latest deal is slightly less bad than the first one, being only about $15 billion rather than $25-50 billion. Still, it's a public bailout of a mismanaged private company, and it is guaranteed that they'll be back for more in a matter of months because this will do nothing to fix the actual problem: the unions. Some on the Right are speculating that this is the first of what will be a one-two punch, with this being a just-enough-to-get-by bailout until the Obama-Reid-Pelosi trifecta takes power, when another much bigger bailout will get rammed through. At that point, one of the hooks the government will put on the money is that the Big 3 will have to make drastic moves toward 'green' cars, which will ultimately make them less safe and more expensive. We'll see if that actually happens, but it wouldn't surprise me at all. Anyway, the White House has apparently signaled that it'll sign a deal sent up by Congress, and a vote is expected tomorrow, though some Republicans are talking about a filibuster. So, now's your last chance to express your displeasure at the idiots in Washington who are throwing your tax dollars down a union-clogged toilet.
If you've been following the Barack Obama birth certificate controversy, this is the last chapter. A lawsuit to force the investigation of his real birth certificate reached the Supreme Court last week, so there was a chance that it could be heard before the highest court in the land. They turned it down (which is not at all uncommon - very few requests that get to the SC actually get heard). The whole controversy may or may not be true, and I firmly believe that the American people deserve the truth about all of our elected representatives, but this is the end of the line since there's no real proof of a problem. From this point, there's really nothing to be done about it, so we all need to just move on and focus on the issues going forward. Think about it this way: how tiresome did it get to listen to liberals whine for the past eight years about the totally ridiculous notion that Bush stole the election in 2000? Exactly. Let's move on, be adults, and focus on what's important. We're stuck with Obama, so we need to look to the future of how to protect this country rather than potential scandals of what may have been.
It's unfortunate to know that the change America could really use -- actual responsibility and real leadership in government -- is simply not happening.
There's my two cents.
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