The Honeymoon is over

This just in...President Obama scored his first major legislative victory on Wednesday with passage of an $825 billion economic stimulus package by a sharply divided House of Representatives, 244-188. Just eight days into his presidency and wishing for a more bi-partisan victory; President Obama received all that he had asked for thanks in part by the Democratic Majority in the House. As true to form every single Republican voted against the measure saying that they wanted more tax cuts and less spending. According to Reuters, all but a few Democrats voted for the measure. Next stop: The US Senate where an even larger and more expensive package is expected to pass. The bill would then go into conference to hammer out the solid detalils. The final bill should be ready for President Obama to sign within the middle of next month. I guess the Obama honeymoon is no over and so soon after.

It's a bird, it's a plane...

Well it's been several days since the inauguration of the nations 44th President. I wasn't privileged to be in DC during this historic event but I did get to see it on Television and I guess it was better since I wasn't out there in the bitter cold and in the confines of my home. While I was watching several things stuck out as funny the first was when former Presidents HW Bush and Clinton were in the breeze hall way prior to being announced to the those in attendance they were talking in the hallway thus causing a bottleneck in the timing of the festivities. The next one was when now former President George W. Bush was introduced several people in the crowd started chanting "Na-Na, Hey-Hey Goodbye". Now it was somewhat expected but it was still shocking. Daniel Ryan, the Ector County Democrat Club president; who was in attendance told me that some in the crowd actually wanted to boo but instead resorted to this. The last one was during the administering of the Presidential Oath of Office, Chief Justice John Roberts flubbed the words tripping up the President-Elect. They did finish the oath but in order to curb skeptics the Chief Justice re-did the oath the next evening. Some say that this oath is purely ceremonial and that there is no need for this as the 20th Amendment provides that the term of the President ends on January 20th at high noon with the new term commencing at the samt time.

Finally

The day long awaited is finally here...the day we can say sionara to a man that shouldn't have been president in the first place and say hello to a man that is the answer to a dream that was spoken about several decades ago.

Shall we all recall the debacle called Election 2000? That day will live inside many hearts as the day the American nation took many steps backwards too many to count. It seemed like each day we would take giant leaps backwards until that fateful day on September 11, 2001; the day we were attacked but not by the Iraqis as our 43rd President would have us still believe but by militants that came out of Afghanistan. In fact the lot of perpretrators that committed this heinous act were from Saudi Arabia not from Iraq. It seems like these past eight years were just a serious of blunders and misteps from the handling of the "War On Terror", a concept created by the outgoing president and the handling of the hurricane relief to the final financial crisis.

Speaking on the "War On Terror", we have gone so far away from this concept it's ridiculous. We are now bogged down in a conflict where we have become literal "baby-sitters" while they thumb their noses at us and throw their shoes at the President. Now I'm not really going to condemn that action as he probably did what alot of us wanted to do over the years but couldn't since we might of ended up in Gitmo and don't get me started about that.


But all in all here is to a wonderful four to eight years. Hopefully that is enough time to fix all the wrong 43 did to our country. Hail President Barack Obama and Vice-President Joseph Biden.