Posted by
Steve on Saturday, November 22, 2008 9:08:53 AM
In looking at the people being named to the new administration you get the feeling that they either are deliberately picking the worst candidates possible or that they have no idea what they are doing. In either case, the thought is very disturbing. If they are deliberately picking the worst candidates, then we are in big trouble. We need the best and brightest in Washington to make sure we are safe. If they are picking the candidates because they have no idea what they are doing, we are in big trouble because that means the new administration is clueless. In either case, I do not have high hopes for this new administration based on who they are selecting.
For example, picking Mrs. Clinton for anything is asking for trouble. She wants to be President. She will undermine this President every chance she gets, though in a way that will be hard to detect. Her diplomacy will be entirely based on what is best for the Clinton’s as first priority. If it happens to benefit anyone else, then we are better off.
The choice for Attorney General was a particularly galling choice. He was intimately involved with the Clinton pardons. Those pardons were so graft ridden as to be embarrassing. Anyone involved with them should be behind bars, not rewarded with high government jobs and that includes the person making the pardons. The choice for Attorney General also is heavily involved in trying to get around the second amendment to the Constitution. Any Attorney General that does not believe in the Constitution and all its various parts should not even be nominated, let alone approved.
Janet Napolitano was picked to run Homeland Security. That shows the incompetency that is being allowed in this administration. Napolitano at best has been a poor Governor. She has run up huge deficits by ignoring the state Constitution. Her attempts to balance the budget completely ignored the way budgets are supposed to be balanced. Her method was to push the deficit into future years. That really solved the problem. It just made the problem worse. Napolitano has no idea what to do at the border. The Director of Homeland Security is primarily involved with securing our borders. Since she has no clue as what needs to be done, we can expect terrorists to pour across the border for the next four years. We can also expect more prosecutions of Border Control Agents because she believes the illegal immigrants have more integrity than the Border Control Agents. None of this speaks highly of our almost former Governor.
If this is the type of individual that Barack Obama picks for his administration, the country is in for four years of problems. Nothing will be solved. Current problems will be intensified and prolonged. Judge selections will be incompetent and stay on the bench way too long.
Congress is not going to be much better and probably worse than the administration. Ted Kennedy is already dusting off plans to socialize medicine. If he pulls that off, the country might never recover from this dark period in its history. We can only hope that Norm Coleman holds on in Minnesota and/or Saxby Chambliss wins in the runoff in Georgia. We need at least one and probably both of them to win to really hold off the Democrats in their worst moments. With all the fraud going on in Minnesota, it will be a miracle or some Democrat that cannot stomach any more fraud, to stop the theft of that seat. The Georgia seat is a safer bet, but Obama is spending a lot of money to steal that one too. Even with a 6-1 deficit in spending and about 10-1 deficit in paid workers, Saxby Chambliss is holding on to a narrow lead while the voting has started. He needs every Republican leaning voter to go to the polls to pull this one out of the fire.
The only hope of holding off the worst of the next four years hopes on two Senate races still undecided. If one or both become Republicans, we can stave off a total remake of America. If both fall to Democrats, then we will not recognize America in even two years. All that we in states outside of Minnesota and Georgia can do is wait, watch and hope for the best. I, for one, am praying that the best occurs.