Rahm Emmanuel's departure from the white house is being billed as a victory by the Obama staff, that he is leaving to get his dream job of being mayor of Chicago, that's like leaving as the CEO of Haliburton to become a bus boy aboard a Greenpeace ship. The White House Chief of Staff is tantamount to being the CEO of America, the job is not just the running of over 2000 employee's and the Presidential Office and Senior Staff, it is the job of basically running the country. The President says do this for domestic policy for the country and the COS makes it happen. Leaving this job to run for Mayor of Chicago? Hmmmm I don't think so. Perhaps our commander in Chief is at the point where he has seen his numbers tank all the way to the flush zone, and see's his hopes for re-election somewhere between slim and none and figures that if he changes the overall theme of the Office Place and the Advice he gets from his most senior of staff that he has a chance. Rahm Emmanuel was seen as a terrible choice for White house Chief of Staff originally because he was seen as so anti bipartisan that the republicans where sure to roll out a legislative agenda that did nothing but challenge the white house to a duel on a daily basis, and Emmanuel's response was always somewhere between kiss my hula hoop and bite me. No I think that President Obama decided to shake things up a little to save the possible chance for a second term. Now all he needs to do is get Carl Rove to take the job as White house Chief of Staff and actually legislating and governing might just get done, well no probably not. As you all read the report below how do you take the news? Am I crazy or do they seem ( by them I mean AP ) to be giving Rahm Emmanuel credit for all the good things that happened and blaming President Obama for all the bad? Rahm Emmanuel's Afghanistan surge? Rahm Emmanuel's health care reform? Who is it that has that semi round office next to the Chief of Staff you know that umm OVAL yea that's it Oval office isn't the President the one who gets the credit good or bad? Does President Obama think were all going to fall for the head fake or the banana in the tail pipe again? Here is a good comment from the below article: "He has been the energetic inspirational leader of us taking the Presidents promises and agenda and enacting them into law." really? I don't think so Guantanamo bay: I promise that closing this base and trying these criminals in our legal system will be done by the end of my first year in office, ummm nope, still open. We will have total universal health care coverage...nope just a semi start ( I give President Obama a little credit on this, what he got done was hard enough but the wrong approach in my opinion) My whole point being it is not the Chief of Staff that gets the praise and blame for Presidential performance, It is the President. I am encouraged though, maybe the new Chief of Staff will point out to President Obama that the Iranians are in fact spinning up thousands of centrifuges refining Power plant grade Uranium into weapons grade Uranium and that's probably why they have kicked out the IAEA inspectors, and Achmadinijad has spun up his rhetoric about Israel. Without debating religion, America needs to always stand by Israel, not just because they are Jesus Christs Chosen People according to my bible, but because it is the right thing to do. We stick up for the underdog, and when a country the size of Rhode Island is being threatened by a neighboring country with extinction by a neighbor who is making a nuclear device we stand up and say NO YOU DON'T, and when a new president says I want to meet with this country diplomatically and see if I can talk them down toward middle ground,( what exactly is middle ground between extermination and pushing a country into the sea?) he should be voted out of office. When he has failed so miserably in his first two years in office and he decides to fire his chief of staff he should say so publicly, tell the American People that we were headed in the wrong direction and I have realized we need to change course and so I have made some staff changes. The next thing to happen should be that President Obama should hire a Chief of Staff that is a true bipartisan Executive Leader. The below article sure says a lot about the Obama Administration read on I have more to say.....
Thu Sep 30, 2:48 pm ET
WASHINGTON (AFP) – The White House lavished praise on the leadership of hard-charging chief of staff Rahm Emanuel Thursday, on the eve of his planned departure to run for mayor of Chicago.
Spokesman Robert Gibbs would not officially confirm fresh reports on the timing of Emanuel's departure but said President Barack Obama had scheduled a personnel announcement for Friday in the East Room of the White House.
There have been hints for days that Emanuel will be leaving to campaign for his dream job running his home city, and that Pete Rouse, a key Obama adviser will replace him in the key post on a temporary basis.
Emanuel, Obama's political enforcer, has been intimately involved in every aspect of the administration, from his Afghan troop surge to his landmark health reform, and his departure will change the complexion of Obama's staff.
"The title 'chief of staff' in many ways, says it all. He has been the energetic, inspirational leader of us, taking the president's promises and agenda and enacting them into law."
Emanuel, a profane, hard-knuckled Washington operative will become the latest top White House official to leave, ahead of an expected rebuke from voters for Obama's Democrats in the congressional polls in November.
A rebuke from voters for President Obama's Democrats in the congressional polls in November, I think more like a bludgeoning by the voters but time will tell. I would sure like to see someone with a calming effect on America talk to the voters and urge caution in the midterm elections. Admit that the country is frustrated and that mistakes have been made on both sides of the Isle but URGE voters to make smart choices, not to just vote a party out, or most dangerous of all to vote all incumbents out of office. This would be disastrous leaving the country with a majority of inexperience. I would rather see us go to the old age homes ( interject humorous laugh here) and find some Reganesque politicians and play it safe for a little while. I remember in Reagan's first term, double digit inflation, mortgage rates around 18-20% and a recession that just wouldn't let up, President Reagan stood fast on his Economic agenda and by the beginning of 1983 his plan was working even better than he had promised GDP increased in a single quarter by .04% almost triple what was expected, and inflation was kept in check. Caution is what we need although caution with firm resolve for change. I don't believe that President Obama will really want a second term and I also believe that another Democrat will challenge him and maybe it will be his VP, Joe Bidden ( which as a Republican would be a damn smart thing to do, split with President Obama on the basics, use his son serving in the military and site fundamental differences in our use of force policies). When was the last time we saw a liberal Democrat in favor of wielding our military might? I am hoping that by the end of the Midterm elections we have our Field of challengers put forward by the Republicans, Mike Pence of Indiana is a good choice, perhaps too conservative and soft spoken to make a strong run at it, but a great choice, and a damn fine man of character and trustworthiness. At least at a minimum we can break the logjam by taking back the house and maybe the senate as well but always remember that decision's are made by those that show up and yes your vote does count probably now more than ever. In Closing I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands one nation UNDER GOD with liberty and justice for all.
Thanks for reading,
Kevin
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
The Declaration of Independence a brief review
"That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government..." Colonel Oliver North (right) and I in 2008
We have allowed the press to dig so far into the pasts of potential candidates that they are forced to drop out of races because in the sixth grade they smoked a cigarette in the bathroom with four friends they haven't seen since sixth grade. Our candidates today are scrutinized in ways that the framers could not have possibly hoped to imagine, nor would they have tolerated. They envisioned the citizen politician the farmer politician that would go to Washington and serve a term or two and come home, their obligation to there country fulfilled.In essence the framers of the Deceleration of Independence and the drafters of the United States Constitution envisioned term limits.
The far left says we have term limits they are called elections, the far right is against term limits because it could do harm to all the pac money they spend to get Conservative Christians elected, what is needed to pass a term limits amendment is more Reagan Democrats and centrist Republicans and a majority republican House and Senate. However in today's world the election is a bought and paid for event. A Senator elected today needs to start raising $2000 per day for their re-election campaign. How then are they actually doing the work of the people they were elected by if so much of their time is spent trying to save their Gig? Term limits make sense, maybe not a limit of one term or two but how about a four term limit. I think that would make sense but the Idea isn't about what I think, its about what the country thinks.
We complain about what is wrong but then we look to others to fix whats wrong. Usually we look to the politicians we are upset with to fix the problems we find with them. It is the equivalent of asking the drug dealers to please move to a different street corner. Either way they say no and now your on their hit list. Politics in this country is becoming a game of full court press instead of chess. The framers envisioned intellectual discussions and bipartisanism, not a roll up your sleeves donnybrook over getting reading books paid for and in the classroom for our children. For that matter the framers were by and large federalists meaning that they believed the US Government should allow the power over the States to rest with the States, not with the Federal government.
"That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,
This was then an incredibly inflamatory statement being made to the King of England to let him know enough is enough, it was bold thinking it was loud expressionism it was the equivelent of asking the King to Step Outside and put up his dukes. Deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. In other words we have to give our consent for power to the government over we the people. We need to stand as a nation to our leaders and force them to read the Declaration of Independece outloud once a week in the house and senate until they get that we get what it's all about. We give our consent to be ruled by our government, the government today acts as though they give us the right to live under their rules, that we do not have the power to make that decission, and this is one of those things that must change.
In order to change this, we need more people involved in the process, and these people need to be informed as to what our framers of the government envisioned. We need to make sure the vision of these great men who gave us so much of themselves lives on, that we continue to carry the torche they lit and handed down. No one believes that progress should ever stop or that the framers thought the work was done and complete this is eveidenced by our money take out a one dollar bill and look at the back of it, at the pyramid and the Latin Words Annuit Coeptis roughly translated He (GOD) favors our good works, further evidencing the fact that we are a country of Christians by an overwhelming majority of 83%, this is not meant in any way to downplay the Awesome Americans that are Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, eccetera. The money says GOD favors our good works not the Christian GOD, not the Hindu God or the Jewish GOD it says GOD, why? Because freedom of worship was one of the tennants of the declaration of independence.
I sit here in my home in the United States of America, in the Commonwealth of Kentucky having been appointed a Kentucky Colonel by former Governor Ernie Fletcher, (http://kycolonels.org/) and blessed more than I could ever have imagined, I don't want to ever give the impression that I am unhappy with America, I am a combat veteran of the United States Army and believe that I live in the best country in the history of the world. I simply want to see America continue to grow in a way that honors our Founding Fathers!
Lastly in closing, I pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of America and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible for liberty and justice for all.
Kevin Jankoski
More Iranian rhetoric, with little hope of relief for our Israeli brothers.....
While this short Blog Post doesn't do a whole lot to stay within it's stated goals of pointing out the constitutionality of our political process, none the less I feel it's important to say the following:
When Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made comments at his appearance at the United Nations and began his speech with the bizarre claim that the US Orchestrated 9/11, the diplomats of several countries got up and made no attempt to keep their departure quiet, (in fact they walked past doors that would have made their leaving less noticeable) they wanted to make it known that although he may be the President of a Country he is in fact nothing more than a thug and a madman.
Here is the crux of my post tonight, why haven't we and other countries walked out every time he makes the claim that he is going to push the Zionists into the sea, when he talks about exterminating the Jews like rodents, when he says that they must work towards a goal of a world free of Zionists, why doesn't everyone get up and walk away? In fact why doesn't someone walk up to the podium and "bitch slap" this two bit joke? I mean really he is nothing more than a crazy man that just says whatever he thinks into any microphone put in front of him. I for one think that the Mossad should have one of their best and brightest switch the microphone that he is to use with one that spurts a special potion in his face that turns him Jewish, then he should be forced to spend the rest of his life walking in open air markets in Israel or riding the public bus system throughout Israel so he can see the fear that Jesus's chosen people live in every day of their existence.
This is 2012, and I guess I am just having a little bt of a problem understanding why the greatest country on earth just sits Idly by and allows this madman to have his time in the sun? Why do we allow him a visa to enter this country to speak at the UN? Isn't there a precident where we have banned dictators from comming to America? I mean it should be simple no Mr. Ahmedinijad you can not enter The United States, why? Well because your Nuckin Futz thats why.
Israel is the size of Rhode Island, they are our Ally, and the Jewish People are just trying to survive in the promised land. The reason that none of these so called madmen have not tried to attack Israel directly is because we have said if you mess with them your messing with us and therefore subject to an ass kicking at the hands of the most powerful Army in the World.
The current US administration has done little if anything to help in the Iranian subject, he talked a great game during the election in 2008. He wanted everyone to know that he needed to open talks because he was so good at talking that he could talk the Iranians down from there nasty position towards Israel as well as the suppression of their own citizens. All the while allowing Mahmoud Ahmadinijad to steal the presidency yet again, and doing nothing to stop several thousand centrifuges from spinning up and turning out weapons grade uranium all for what the Iranians call peaceful purposes. Peaceful Purposes? Highly enriched uranium isn't any good for much of anything except for making nuclear weapons of mass distruction.
I often wonder if the entire world could just drop their political or business aspirations and just join hands and minds across the planet in support of an Iran that opens up their nuclear facilities to IAEA inspections and get rid of the nut jobs running the country and demand the moderates and pro western reformers have the freedom of speech that all people should be able to have. While walking out of the UN when this mad man begins his speech may show him that the diplomats have no respect for him the whole world needs to do the same. We need to push for the whole world to walk out on him.
The Israeli's need to know that even the average Americans support standing beside Israel, and almost every single military man and woman serving in our Armed Forces feels as if Israel is not just an Ally but an extension of the people they are sworn to protect. I appreciate Israel's restraint in not attacking the nuclear facilities Iran has been feverishly building. I believe they know the difficulty that it would cause but I applaud Israel for their restraint as they live every day under the threat of terrorist bombs in open air markets, yet they survive, and they fight on asking only for peace and the ability to co exist with their neighbors. So in closing walking out of the room when a madman talks is the first step not allowing him in the building is the second.
In closing, I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation UNDER GOD indivisible with liberty and justice for all.
When Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made comments at his appearance at the United Nations and began his speech with the bizarre claim that the US Orchestrated 9/11, the diplomats of several countries got up and made no attempt to keep their departure quiet, (in fact they walked past doors that would have made their leaving less noticeable) they wanted to make it known that although he may be the President of a Country he is in fact nothing more than a thug and a madman.
Here is the crux of my post tonight, why haven't we and other countries walked out every time he makes the claim that he is going to push the Zionists into the sea, when he talks about exterminating the Jews like rodents, when he says that they must work towards a goal of a world free of Zionists, why doesn't everyone get up and walk away? In fact why doesn't someone walk up to the podium and "bitch slap" this two bit joke? I mean really he is nothing more than a crazy man that just says whatever he thinks into any microphone put in front of him. I for one think that the Mossad should have one of their best and brightest switch the microphone that he is to use with one that spurts a special potion in his face that turns him Jewish, then he should be forced to spend the rest of his life walking in open air markets in Israel or riding the public bus system throughout Israel so he can see the fear that Jesus's chosen people live in every day of their existence.
This is 2012, and I guess I am just having a little bt of a problem understanding why the greatest country on earth just sits Idly by and allows this madman to have his time in the sun? Why do we allow him a visa to enter this country to speak at the UN? Isn't there a precident where we have banned dictators from comming to America? I mean it should be simple no Mr. Ahmedinijad you can not enter The United States, why? Well because your Nuckin Futz thats why.
Israel is the size of Rhode Island, they are our Ally, and the Jewish People are just trying to survive in the promised land. The reason that none of these so called madmen have not tried to attack Israel directly is because we have said if you mess with them your messing with us and therefore subject to an ass kicking at the hands of the most powerful Army in the World.
The current US administration has done little if anything to help in the Iranian subject, he talked a great game during the election in 2008. He wanted everyone to know that he needed to open talks because he was so good at talking that he could talk the Iranians down from there nasty position towards Israel as well as the suppression of their own citizens. All the while allowing Mahmoud Ahmadinijad to steal the presidency yet again, and doing nothing to stop several thousand centrifuges from spinning up and turning out weapons grade uranium all for what the Iranians call peaceful purposes. Peaceful Purposes? Highly enriched uranium isn't any good for much of anything except for making nuclear weapons of mass distruction.
I often wonder if the entire world could just drop their political or business aspirations and just join hands and minds across the planet in support of an Iran that opens up their nuclear facilities to IAEA inspections and get rid of the nut jobs running the country and demand the moderates and pro western reformers have the freedom of speech that all people should be able to have. While walking out of the UN when this mad man begins his speech may show him that the diplomats have no respect for him the whole world needs to do the same. We need to push for the whole world to walk out on him.
The Israeli's need to know that even the average Americans support standing beside Israel, and almost every single military man and woman serving in our Armed Forces feels as if Israel is not just an Ally but an extension of the people they are sworn to protect. I appreciate Israel's restraint in not attacking the nuclear facilities Iran has been feverishly building. I believe they know the difficulty that it would cause but I applaud Israel for their restraint as they live every day under the threat of terrorist bombs in open air markets, yet they survive, and they fight on asking only for peace and the ability to co exist with their neighbors. So in closing walking out of the room when a madman talks is the first step not allowing him in the building is the second.
In closing, I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation UNDER GOD indivisible with liberty and justice for all.
Sunday, September 26, 2010
The Far Left Wing (wing nuts) are at it again over the VA read on........
In the last two weeks I have heard so much about how Senator and Hero John McCain wanted to privatize the VA and incorporate it into some kind of risky Wall Street run privatized entity. I have never read so much and heard so much BUNK from the wing nuts of the left. I am a Veteran of the United States Army and proudly served and would do so again if I were healthy enough to. Instead I spend a lot of time at the local VA hospital, I volunteer there and I use the services there I am confined to a wheelchair after multiple back surgeries, but that's not Germaine to the blog, other than to say I surely use the services of the Veterans Administration Hospital and Health care System.
Let me say first I have never ever been treated with as much respect as I am at the VA (I use the VA Hospital where I live in Louisville Kentucky which is a yearly best award winner pretty consistently) at any private health care office. Additionally there are signs in the waiting room that say if you have not been called back to see the Doctor after 15 minutes after signing in, please check in back at the desk to ensure we have not overlooked you....amazing my former private Doctor didn't care if I waited an hour or more.
I often times bring my camera to take pictures and talk to World War II veterans as well as Vietnam Veterans as well. I Always talk to the other Vets. the topic this week was ......yup you guessed it, the privatization of the VA. Let me hit you with the fine points, is John McCain trying to privatize the VA? NO! Is he proposing something new? Yes! Here is what's on the good Senators mind, vouchers! As soon as the discussion in the coffee shop came to this I had all kinds of questions, even from employees. Read the proposal from the Senator and what you find from my hero, is that he simply wants to give veterans more options. Let me explain in greater detail using me as a hypothetical guinea pig with a bad heart.
Okay so I go into the local VA with Chest Pain shortness of breath and a general feeling of a house sitting on my chest (all this hypothetical to show Senator McCain's plan) and the Doctor in the emergency room admits me and pages the on call Cardiologist on duty, he walks into my room and I realize that he is younger than any Doctor that I have ever met, he says I need immediate open heart surgery and I can tell by the sound in his voice that he is really wanting to reach for the rib spreaders for the first time, he has that I always wanted to work on a transmission look on his face and he is telling the nurse to go get the consent forms right now. What now, I just found that the only option for my surgery, is the Doctor not old enough to shave, (in fact, he uses the cream on the face and call the cat mode) and I certainly do not have the warm fuzzy feeling in the pit of my stomach. I ask for the senior Cardiologist and he smiles and says I'm him. Now what am I going to do?
Well if Senator John McCain had his way and the far left wingers would go on vacation as a group long enough to get some governing done, I could politely ask the nurse( in a whisper) who brings the consent forms for me to sign...please get me a private sector Voucher....pretty please QUICK!!! Yes that's right that is all the good Senator is trying to do is give the Va users who by the by are guys like me who volunteered to stand a post for the safety of their country, a chance to use the best of the best of the best Sir!
Why do the liberal left wing nuts have a problem with this? Damned if I know, but it's probably the same reason they claim that the Republicans are trying to campaign on the successes of the Democrats Health Care Plan. To be clear there are some good things that the Democrats got done on health care, and mostly they were bipartisan victories achieved through the give and take push pull that is the norm on the hill. Republicans mostly are setup to attempt a repeal of the health care bill, and at the very least a total overhaul of what was done under President Obama's Administration.
Here is one of the funny things though, in all of my use of VA services, I have not run into a situation where such a voucher would even had come into consideration to me. The folks at the VA are young, maybe a lot of the Doctors are on their first gig, but they care, they are well educated and they are competent. Do I support the voucher amendment that the good Senator from Arizona is trying to get introduced on the floor for a discussion? You Betcha! Will it ever see a vote? Nope, not as long as the current administration is in office as they would rather increase federal spending enough to go out and recruit the best of the best of the best Sir, to come to work at the VA, hell they would probably put them on the government payroll directly with Nancy Pelosi signing their paychecks. I hope my humor over this issue is clear, I wanted to make sure that all of the readers of my blog understand that even though I make light of the situation, the left is now creating stories to scare the likely voters into confusion so that they can ride in on the proverbial white horse and fix it all just in time for the midterms. As I always say decision's are made by those who show up, weather you agree with me or not, weather your a Left Wing Nut or a Right Wing Nut or a Centrist Reagan Democrat co-operating with the republicans about to be back in power ( I can hope and dream) you have to engage, show up, make a difference VOTE, call or write your Senator, work on a campaign of a local good guy seeking a local office. You must we must all do more to engage in the political process. Our founding fathers wanted us to be involved, we have a moral responsibility to the memories of those fine wise men who declared us to be our own free Country, who threw off our oppressors and rolled up their shirt sleeves and drafted the most important document in the world (I am flattered but it's not this blog) The United States Of America's Constitution.
Remember that all that is needed for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing. I thank you for reading and lastly, I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation, UNDER GOD, Indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Midterms a sure fire look at the 2012 Presidential Election
40 days out from the midterms and I read the news and watch the news and listen to the news and one thing becomes clear, the Democrats and Republicans, are using the midterms as an acid test for how to go forward in 2012. As I sat watching the worst example of far left television talk shows Ms. Rachel Maddow, I threw up a little in my mouth. When in America did our news channels become so biased? Why do we support them? I generally like the news reporting of MSNBC but when the political shows come on I change channels, why? Ummm Keith Olberman for example he has flipped and flopped on so many issues, on so many occasions he has proven to be any ones dog that will hunt. While still an obvious far left winger supporting the deadly policies of Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Boxer, and of course Diane Finestien. I would Mention President Barrack Obama but he is simply the marionette with the strings being pulled by his far left "handlers" The shame of the 2008 election is not just that Senator John McCain didn't win, but that if he had to loose Hillary Clinton couldn't have won. You see at least with Hillary, you know she would have run to the center for cover and would have been a more centrist Democrat, but alas we got what we deserved because we didn't turn out and actually vote. In the greatest country in the world, why is it that we have not had consistent 70-80% turn out to vote? Why is it that among registered voters we are lucky to get a 40% turnout.
The far left is attempting to say that republicans are trying to take away funding for the VA. (Veterans Administration Hospital/Health care System), or to get rid of the VA or to privatize the VA, knock it off its not true you know it and I know it. I am a Gulf War Veteran from 1990 and I receive the best care imaginable, President Lincoln wanted it that way for the US Veterans. Republicans want nothing more than to continue the VA, but to improve the care. It is a fact that many Doctors in specialized care area's are fresh out of college with the ink still wet on their credentials. The Voucher system would allow a veteran such as myself with a very tricky spinal cord injury the ability to go to the best hospitals in the Country hand them a voucher and get the best specialist in the Country to fix me. DO NOT LET the far left to fool you do some research.
AMERICA PLEASE READ...we can control our elections simply by showing up, I have said it before and I will say it all the way up to the 2012 Presidential Elections and beyond, Political Choices are made by those who show up. I am a Conservative Christian Republican, I believe in a balanced budget and a strong as hell military, but more than anything, I am an American. I vote. We all need to take part in the voting process to make an effect. If we don't vote we need to not complain, I would like to introduce a bill that says if you do not vote then you loose your drivers license, but free will, and freedom of speech are parts of what make this Country great.
As I saw a small group of Republican Senators trying desperately to bring back Newt Gingrich's contract for America, I was mesmerized, we are so far beyond a contract with America, that contract was broken during the Clinton Administration by both parties I might add. The reason I was so mesmerized was that neither party gets it, Americans no longer want to have the same old dung heap thrown at them, they want fresh new idea's. Polls show Americans want the pledge of allegiance to include "One Nation Under God", polls show we are in fact a Christian Country by an 80% margin ( this of course makes me wonder if 80% of Americans actually know what the term Christian Means) Polls show we want our money to continue to read In GOD We Trust, yes we have diversity we have Muslims, and Hindu's and Buddhist's but if you listen to the far left you would think that Christians are the minority.
The United States Office of the President deserves a tremendous level of respect, so much so that I am unable to comprehend how much in terms of putting it into words. I pledge here and now to Always respect the Office, not necessarily the man. However I will always refer to the person occupying the office as Mr. or Ms. President. I have never liked, and have cringed when I hear someone say Mr. Obama or Mr. Bush, weather or not you like these men and hopefully one day Women or their politics, they are in the Oval Office representing the people of America around the world, they give up a tremendous part of their life to Govern. I do not believe that there has ever been a President that has run for office in the hopes of making the country or its people worse off intentionally. To that end President Obama's personal religion should not be a matter of nor a measure of his performance lets all agree to let that one go. Personally I don't think President Obama would want to run again in 2012 but maybe he is a gluten for punishment.
Rand Paul, Rand Paul, Rand Paul, I want a Republican to win this fall, while I personally like Jack Conway he is a nice enough man, I am a republican. I sat today and read the quote for the October issue of GQ, your attempt to liken chaos in America to the 1933 Election of Hitler (of course you said 1923 but okay), then I just started to rub my eyes and shake my head, and attempt to figure out what the hell you actually said. Dr. Paul please get some one who can prepare statements for you, learn to speak intelligently when asked questions, let me give you some sage advise given to me by the first guy to teach me how to be a salesman, use the anachronism K I S S keep it simple stupid. If you loose this election (and it appears lately that this is in fact your goal so far) Senator Jack Conway will become the next Senator to retire in his 90's from this seat. Dr. Paul you got in this race for whatever reason, that is your personal business, but you have a responsibility to your supporters to take your own campaign more seriously. I know the work I have done in the past for the Republican Party in Jefferson County Kentucky and for specific Candidates in races, I want to help my party win this seat but you just keep making it harder and harder for me to pull the lever in your favor. Please Dr. Paul take a look at the folks around you, advising you, and do less talking and more listening, I guarantee that none of them cringed any less than I did when reading the quote for GQ magazine for the October Issue.
Lastly, I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation UNDER GOD indivisibly with liberty and justice for all.
Thank you for reading and good night.
Kevin
The far left is attempting to say that republicans are trying to take away funding for the VA. (Veterans Administration Hospital/Health care System), or to get rid of the VA or to privatize the VA, knock it off its not true you know it and I know it. I am a Gulf War Veteran from 1990 and I receive the best care imaginable, President Lincoln wanted it that way for the US Veterans. Republicans want nothing more than to continue the VA, but to improve the care. It is a fact that many Doctors in specialized care area's are fresh out of college with the ink still wet on their credentials. The Voucher system would allow a veteran such as myself with a very tricky spinal cord injury the ability to go to the best hospitals in the Country hand them a voucher and get the best specialist in the Country to fix me. DO NOT LET the far left to fool you do some research.
AMERICA PLEASE READ...we can control our elections simply by showing up, I have said it before and I will say it all the way up to the 2012 Presidential Elections and beyond, Political Choices are made by those who show up. I am a Conservative Christian Republican, I believe in a balanced budget and a strong as hell military, but more than anything, I am an American. I vote. We all need to take part in the voting process to make an effect. If we don't vote we need to not complain, I would like to introduce a bill that says if you do not vote then you loose your drivers license, but free will, and freedom of speech are parts of what make this Country great.
As I saw a small group of Republican Senators trying desperately to bring back Newt Gingrich's contract for America, I was mesmerized, we are so far beyond a contract with America, that contract was broken during the Clinton Administration by both parties I might add. The reason I was so mesmerized was that neither party gets it, Americans no longer want to have the same old dung heap thrown at them, they want fresh new idea's. Polls show Americans want the pledge of allegiance to include "One Nation Under God", polls show we are in fact a Christian Country by an 80% margin ( this of course makes me wonder if 80% of Americans actually know what the term Christian Means) Polls show we want our money to continue to read In GOD We Trust, yes we have diversity we have Muslims, and Hindu's and Buddhist's but if you listen to the far left you would think that Christians are the minority.
The United States Office of the President deserves a tremendous level of respect, so much so that I am unable to comprehend how much in terms of putting it into words. I pledge here and now to Always respect the Office, not necessarily the man. However I will always refer to the person occupying the office as Mr. or Ms. President. I have never liked, and have cringed when I hear someone say Mr. Obama or Mr. Bush, weather or not you like these men and hopefully one day Women or their politics, they are in the Oval Office representing the people of America around the world, they give up a tremendous part of their life to Govern. I do not believe that there has ever been a President that has run for office in the hopes of making the country or its people worse off intentionally. To that end President Obama's personal religion should not be a matter of nor a measure of his performance lets all agree to let that one go. Personally I don't think President Obama would want to run again in 2012 but maybe he is a gluten for punishment.
Rand Paul, Rand Paul, Rand Paul, I want a Republican to win this fall, while I personally like Jack Conway he is a nice enough man, I am a republican. I sat today and read the quote for the October issue of GQ, your attempt to liken chaos in America to the 1933 Election of Hitler (of course you said 1923 but okay), then I just started to rub my eyes and shake my head, and attempt to figure out what the hell you actually said. Dr. Paul please get some one who can prepare statements for you, learn to speak intelligently when asked questions, let me give you some sage advise given to me by the first guy to teach me how to be a salesman, use the anachronism K I S S keep it simple stupid. If you loose this election (and it appears lately that this is in fact your goal so far) Senator Jack Conway will become the next Senator to retire in his 90's from this seat. Dr. Paul you got in this race for whatever reason, that is your personal business, but you have a responsibility to your supporters to take your own campaign more seriously. I know the work I have done in the past for the Republican Party in Jefferson County Kentucky and for specific Candidates in races, I want to help my party win this seat but you just keep making it harder and harder for me to pull the lever in your favor. Please Dr. Paul take a look at the folks around you, advising you, and do less talking and more listening, I guarantee that none of them cringed any less than I did when reading the quote for GQ magazine for the October Issue.
Lastly, I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation UNDER GOD indivisibly with liberty and justice for all.
Thank you for reading and good night.
Kevin
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
My First Blog
As a 44 year old Moderate Conservative Republican American man, I am as fed up with the state of American Politics as the next guy, who's to blame? Who cares! Who is going to fix it.......those that show up. We hear it all the time, my vote doesn't count, what difference does it make? All it takes for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing. The latest one I love is the attempt from the left to paint the new Tea Party Movement as a bunch of crazies, and while I don't agree with a lot of the Tea Party folks, I give them credit, for being average American citizens fed up with the direction of the Republican party, feeling as though the party has strayed from its base. All except Rand Paul, he very well may be a nut. As a Disabled American his comments on the 1990 Americans With Disabilities Act and his desire to see it repealed is crazy. Rand spend 30 days in a wheelchair without cheating, and then tell me you want the act repealed, that you would rather see the businesses themselves decide whether or not to be handicap accessible, Rand you wouldn't find a dry cleaner, dentist, or doughnut shop that was accessible to you, then lets see you flip flop.As I am a Kentuckian future blogs will be devoted to the Rand Paul/Jack Conway race.
I used to hear my grandfather tell me that there was two things I never wanted to see made sausage and laws, well folks the way things are going in Washington DC these days I might just want to see all the sausage in the world made. Things have strayed so far from the way the founding fathers planned. A US President addressing the Turkish Parliament by saying America is no longer a Christian Country? Really? America according to all polls is still an 80% Christian nation, while I myself am a Christian, that simply means I have decided to live my life according to the word of Christ, it makes me no better or no worse a politician. You see, Politicians, are the problem. Our founding fathers envisioned the citizen politician. Farmers and Carpenters and the average citizen running for a term or two then returning home to the farm to carry on having done there civic duty. What do we have today? Politicians that begin raising money for their re-election campaigns the day they are sworn in. Attempting to retire from the seat they hold. Senator Byrd 90 plus years old........hello?
Folks there is a lot wrong in our country we are slowly and steadily coming out of a terrible recession that some would say was more like a depression, but at what cost? Over a Trillion Dollars spent to stimulate the economy, but was the money given to small business, or given out to family run companies that were having difficulty.... nope. We bailed out wall street ( I guess I retired too early), we bailed out insurance companies and mortgage companies, we did nothing to help the little guy who was hurting the worst.
Today an eight month old baby carries $47,840.00 in debt. I have asked myself over and over what can I do to make a difference I am disabled and spend a lot of time unable to get around, so going door to door is out, running for office would be awesome but alas today's media only allows the rich to run. No way a guy in a wheelchair would get elected in this Country again anyway not since FDR, and I would be willing to bet that if FDR had to run in today's media someone would run a swift boat ad saying a cripple couldn't do the job.
No what's going to fix this country is simply the acts of good men who are no longer willing to sit on the fence and wait for the silver tongued Harvard, Yale and Princeton elitists controlled by the far left or far right to fix things. We need a return to Gentlemen in Office. If only Ronald Wilson Reagan were alive and in his 50's today. Well I can dream cant I? I will be here for the rest of my years blogging away honestly trying to be as fair as I can but giving my readers the up front knowledge that I am a Moderate Conservative Republican Fiscally Conservative almost to a fault, but with the belief that a balanced budget and a strong as hell military will always allow us to be the generous giving country we have been, without being challenged.
Lastly I must say that the current administration has done literally none of the things it said it would while campaigning regarding the Iran situation. While Mr. Achmadinijad continues to hurl his threats to push Israel into the sea and defies the IAEA, the United Nations, and the will of the world in its pursuit of Nuclear Weapons, the current administration decided health care, and telegraphing the moves of our military to the enemy were more important than an axis of evil charter member with thousands of centrifuges spinning up Weapons Grade Uranium. Mr. President talking isn't going to get the Iranian madmen to stop, supporting the reformists within Iran may help. Removal of the current regime through undermining there authority and helping the opposition party should be our goal. Or you could just send Nancy Pelosi over there to swing her purse at the bad men.........more to come, I promise. Lastly,
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands one nation UNDER GOD indivisible with liberty and justice for all.
Kevin Jankoski
I used to hear my grandfather tell me that there was two things I never wanted to see made sausage and laws, well folks the way things are going in Washington DC these days I might just want to see all the sausage in the world made. Things have strayed so far from the way the founding fathers planned. A US President addressing the Turkish Parliament by saying America is no longer a Christian Country? Really? America according to all polls is still an 80% Christian nation, while I myself am a Christian, that simply means I have decided to live my life according to the word of Christ, it makes me no better or no worse a politician. You see, Politicians, are the problem. Our founding fathers envisioned the citizen politician. Farmers and Carpenters and the average citizen running for a term or two then returning home to the farm to carry on having done there civic duty. What do we have today? Politicians that begin raising money for their re-election campaigns the day they are sworn in. Attempting to retire from the seat they hold. Senator Byrd 90 plus years old........hello?
Folks there is a lot wrong in our country we are slowly and steadily coming out of a terrible recession that some would say was more like a depression, but at what cost? Over a Trillion Dollars spent to stimulate the economy, but was the money given to small business, or given out to family run companies that were having difficulty.... nope. We bailed out wall street ( I guess I retired too early), we bailed out insurance companies and mortgage companies, we did nothing to help the little guy who was hurting the worst.
Today an eight month old baby carries $47,840.00 in debt. I have asked myself over and over what can I do to make a difference I am disabled and spend a lot of time unable to get around, so going door to door is out, running for office would be awesome but alas today's media only allows the rich to run. No way a guy in a wheelchair would get elected in this Country again anyway not since FDR, and I would be willing to bet that if FDR had to run in today's media someone would run a swift boat ad saying a cripple couldn't do the job.
No what's going to fix this country is simply the acts of good men who are no longer willing to sit on the fence and wait for the silver tongued Harvard, Yale and Princeton elitists controlled by the far left or far right to fix things. We need a return to Gentlemen in Office. If only Ronald Wilson Reagan were alive and in his 50's today. Well I can dream cant I? I will be here for the rest of my years blogging away honestly trying to be as fair as I can but giving my readers the up front knowledge that I am a Moderate Conservative Republican Fiscally Conservative almost to a fault, but with the belief that a balanced budget and a strong as hell military will always allow us to be the generous giving country we have been, without being challenged.
Lastly I must say that the current administration has done literally none of the things it said it would while campaigning regarding the Iran situation. While Mr. Achmadinijad continues to hurl his threats to push Israel into the sea and defies the IAEA, the United Nations, and the will of the world in its pursuit of Nuclear Weapons, the current administration decided health care, and telegraphing the moves of our military to the enemy were more important than an axis of evil charter member with thousands of centrifuges spinning up Weapons Grade Uranium. Mr. President talking isn't going to get the Iranian madmen to stop, supporting the reformists within Iran may help. Removal of the current regime through undermining there authority and helping the opposition party should be our goal. Or you could just send Nancy Pelosi over there to swing her purse at the bad men.........more to come, I promise. Lastly,
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands one nation UNDER GOD indivisible with liberty and justice for all.
Kevin Jankoski
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