The Week in Review

• It appears the media is ready to put the arrest of Prof. Gates on the back burner, hopefully people will not stop speaking about the effect race has on our country. All sides need to be heard, I only hope that the conversations we have does not devolve into bitterness and anger. Can we disagree with out being disagreeable?
• Not if you are in congress. The US Congress is at such a low point that a congressman is introducing a bill to require the President to apologize to Officer Crowley. The fact is congress cannot force the President to do much of anything and this bill will go nowhere. It will be interesting to see if it gets any co-sponsors.
• The health care debate is engulfed in special interest muck and mire. As with the race conversation all sides need to heard in this debate. The agents of non-change at this point are screaming louder and attempting to drown out the other side. POTUS has been criticized by the right for over exposure but with all the money the medical lobbies are throwing at this debate he needs to show his leadership. This nation cannot afford to miss this opportunity to bring real change. This debate began with Teddy Roosevelt was brought to the forefront by Harry Truman and no real serious change has happened. The right wants to know what the rush is? I don't think a conversation that has been almost 100 years in the making is rushing things.
• The negative right wing commentators are calling President Obama a failure at the 6 month period of his administration. "The economy has not rebounded", "Iraq is still unstable", "Afghanistan is not a democracy", "Where are the jobs" I could go on but you get my point. What is their hurry? Why are they rushing things? I kid. But it did not take GWB and the 6 years the GOP lead congress and the conservative courts six months to bring this country to it's knees, did it?
• Who knew that GWB was the thoughtful and rational one in his administration? Dick Cheney and the torture advocates at the justice department wanted to use the US Army to arrest people they suspected of being terrorists? Why not you ask? Read the constitution. The President is not allowed to use the US military for domestic law enforcement. In fact if the National Guard is called up by the President for domestic use they must lay down their arms. After Katrina it was left up to the Governor to call up the guard so they could be used as a police force. No President has called for such use since the civil war. Imagine the image of the US Army coming to a home and taking people away.
• At the beginning of the week there were news stories leaked by the Cheney forces that made Bush look like the weak member of the administration and Cheney the true leader. By the end of the week stories are coming out making Cheney look like Dr. Strangelove and Bush the sensible leader. I love when other families fight. Will we be chanting Jerry! Jerry! Jerry! by the end of the week while Liz Cheney hangs off the stripper pole in the middle of the stage.
• Birthers