Friday Ramblings with Robert

Nice Hatchet Job CL

The handful of people who still open up The Clarion Ledger in the morning were greeted by a terribly partisan editorial about being bipartisan.  Imagine that considering the source.  The editorial accuses Phil Bryant of playing partisan politics throughout the redistricting debate and vilifies him for having closed-door meetings with people in his own party.  They completely forget or intentionally omit the stunts that Billy McCoy has pulled throughout the process and instead lay all the problems at the feet of Bryant and encourage him to sit down and discuss the issue with McCoy.  Are you kidding me?  How does that even make sense?  McCoy is the man who loaded his redistricting committee with 90% Democrats and has refused to budge, yet you accuse Bryant of the partisan power plays.  Bryant has played the partisan card because frankly that is the only thing he can do to counter the exact same thing McCoy has done.  Also, please spare me the garbage about taxpayers paying for an extra election next year.  We will be voting in 2012 with or without legislative races on the ballot for Congressional and Presidential races with primaries and general elections.  The Clarion Ledger tried their best, as usual, to make Republicans look like the guilty party in this issue and failed miserably in my opinion to champion bipartisanship with their partisan attack.

Say What Mr. President?

Who needs to produce their own oil when we can just buy it from someone else?  That seems to be the thinking of our President who said as much on his trip to Brazil this week.  I am completely dumbfounded, not really I suppose, how our president could utter such nonsense and look like an idiot at the same time.  He has been nothing but against offshore drilling and drilling in Alaska, but is now apparently o.k. with the drilling process as long as Brazil is the one doing it.  Did the teleprompter get caught in customs?  If he is so in favor of drilling for oil then it would make sense to do it here in his own country.  He could come out smelling like a rose by creating jobs and helping to lower the price of gas, but instead he chooses to continue to allow America to be dependent on foreign countries for oil.  It almost seems un-American knowing that you could do the exact same thing and help the people in your own country.

The Fire We Play With

Nothing ever hits home until it happens in your own backyard.  This week two illegal aliens went into a Pearl pawn shop heavily armed with over a hundred rounds of ammo with unknown intentions.  They could have easily killed the people working inside and we would be left to wonder how 2 people, who should not even be in this country, could do that and many questions would linger. The shop manager fought back and killed one and critically injured the other, but it makes you realize how close we could have been to innocent lives being lost at the hands of illegal aliens.  This is by no means a condemnation of illegal aliens as a whole being a violent lawless bunch because that is simply not true, but rather as a thought-provoking lesson of the fire we play with by not addressing the issue of illegal immigration.  It almost happened in our backyard last week and it should serve as a lesson.

Happy Birthday Obamacare!

Whats a birthday party without a cake to celebrate?