Tuesday May 31, 2011: I hope everyone out there had a happy and safe Memorial Day weekend. Now…onto better things…LET’S TALK ABOUT POLITICS!!!!!! Yeah! If the thought of that doesn’t pump you up, I don’t know what will. Okay, now that I’ve added some spice to this, let’s get to it!
So, New York Times (and every other major news outlet…this was just the one I chose) is reporting that the push to have the debt ceiling raised did not pull through. In an overwhelming 318-97 vote in the House of Representatives voted down the proposal to once again raise the debt ceiling clean. What this means (and I kid you not, this terminology was used in the article) is that it was proposed that the debt ceiling be raised without any attached plans to solve debt by another means. This includes cutting funding to things like unnecessary programs and selling land. No strings attached…clean. Now, I have said this before, and I will say it again. Simply raising the debt ceiling, so we as a nation can go on another hog-wild spending spree, is wrong. Other solutions need to be found; otherwise the United States will find itself at the bottom of the same black chasm of debt once again in only a few years’ time. Did you know that it was not just the Republicans that shot down this proposal? No…there were a lot of Democrats that did not agree with it. It’s about time that this country learns some responsibility. In the words of Tim Pawlenty, “We’re not free when we’re $10 trillion in debt as a nation.” Okay, so it’s a little more than $10 trillion right now, but the man has a point. When normal, average citizens are in debt, they are not free to live their lives to the fullest. People like this are bogged down with impending doom of the notice that will eventually come in the mail saying that you’re credit card bill is overdue. They are not free because the bank could take away their property at any time. Let me be the one to say, “America’s overdue notice has come.” It’s about time that this country is forced to take decisive action against the problem that is at hand. I foresee future legislation that will be a step in the right direction to solve the nation’s crisis. Perhaps funding for ash-trays that strategically break into three pieces will be eliminated (but I am all for bringing back funding to the astronaut program in NASA. We can’t just hitch rides with the Russians. We made it to the moon first…let’s continue the legacy.)
Alright, onto actual news…Sarah Palin visited Donald Trump in New York City on her super-secret tour of the east coast. Donald Trump said (and I quote), “[Sarah Palin is] terrific woman and a terrific friend”. He also hopes that she will join the pool of candidates who will fight for the Republican nomination. Ugh…why is he still in the news? He would be a joke in the GOP. It’s kind of like when Sanjaya Malakar was on American Idol. He couldn’t sing, and, yet, America kept voting him along because he was hysterical to watch. Donald Trump cannot become the Sanjaya of the GOP. It’s time that the media stops hyping him up and making the world care about him. From the way the article sounded, it looked like Palin and Trump’s encounter was no more than a shake of the hands and a flash of the camera. Why was that breaking news on USA Today’s Political page on their website? So she went up in Trump Tower, had a photo-op with the man, the two said some nice words to each other, and Palin went on her merry way. Things like the DEBT CEILING are more important. Enough is enough. Unless the man does something truly important, he is NOT newsworthy. Period. And another for emphasis. What the hey, I’ll throw in an exclamation just for kicks! But seriously…no more.
Finally, I move onto my last point of the evening. I’M TALKING ABOUT 2012 ELCTION UPDATES!!!!!! (and the crowd goes wild *RAH*) Alright, so this little gem that I just so happened to glaze over, does not have any potential GOP candidates as the focal story. No this is about Obama. Now, according to POLITICO, the people running Obama’s campaign were hoping that 2011 would be this great turnaround in the Great Recession. I don’t know about you, but I really don’t think that that is the case. Just the other day, I was watching CBS, and they reported that the prices on the real estate market have reached a new low. I’m pretty sure that’s a sign that not all is fine and dandy with our economy. Also, I’m sure that there is some poor, helpless Grandma somewhere that’s eating three month old cat food from a can that she had to chew open with her dentures. Poor Grandma! Anyway, his advisors are predicting that the ongoing recession is not going to help Obama in the polls. Really? I mean…REALLY?!?!? Are we as a nation really that stupid that we couldn’t figure out something like that on our own? Of course the economy is going to affect the man’s performance in the polls. Money makes the world go round, and it’s something that everybody cares about. This recession has hit everyone in some way. Obama had promised that he was going to do something about it, and it didn’t happen fast enough. Now people are going to think he did not do anything to fix the problem at all. Breaking something takes no effort, but fixing something takes time. Our economy is not going to be fixed overnight, and Obama cannot fix it overnight. Also, now that food and gas prices are going back up, he’s going to be hit extra hard with disapproval. Something like this was bound to happen.
Anyway, that is all for tonight. So…so long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, goodnight...keep ticking and stay informed!
Check out my sources….
http://www.politico.com/politico44/
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