John Stossel talks about Obama’s plan and Caroline Kennedy
Some interesting articles by John Stossel:
Arrogant Conceit: Obama Thinks He can Reform the Economy
Barack Obama wants to use the recession to remake the U.S. economy.
“Painful crisis also provides us with an opportunity to transform our economy to improve the lives of ordinary people,” Obama said.
His designated chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, is more direct: “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste”.
So, they will “transform our economy.” Obama’s nearly trillion-dollar plan will not merely repair bridges, fill potholes and fix up schools; it will also impose a utopian vision based on the belief that an economy is a thing to be planned from above. But this is an arrogant conceit. No one can possibly know enough to redesign something as complex as “an economy,” which really is people engaging in exchanges to achieve their goals. Planning it means planning them. Read the full story.
Is Caroline Kennedy Qualified?
If you Google “Caroline Kennedy Qualified,” you’ll come up with several hundred thousand Web sites. Site after site asks, “Is Caroline Kennedy Qualified?” — to hold Hillary Clinton’s Senate seat, that is.
New York Republican Rep. Peter King, who wants that seat for himself, says there is “no evidence she’s qualified.”
New York Democratic Rep. Gary Ackerman agrees: “She has name recognition, but so does J Lo”.
Zillions of people may rant that Caroline Kennedy lacks what it takes to be a senator, but I think she’s qualified.
After all, what does a senator do?
In theory, senators represent the people of the state that sent them to Washington. It’s not at all clear what that means. It has something to do with serving the interests of those people rather than the senator’s own interests. But it’s long been debated whether a representative should do what constituents want or what the representative thinks they should want. Either way, we have a problem. New York has 19 million people. We don’t have the same interests, and we rarely want the same things. People are diverse. Read the full story.
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January 11th, 2009 at 3:42 pm
The nation owes more than thanks to three unlikely modern day patriots: professional poker player, musician, and retired attorney, Leo Donofrio; life long Democrat and former Pennsylvania assistant attorney general, Phil Berg; and Soviet emigree and attorney, Dr. Orly Taitz (she’s also a dentist).
While Mr. Donofrio painstakingly established the airtight case that BHO could not be an Article II “natural born citizen” (at BHO’s birth, dad was British/Kenyan, not American, citizen) Leo’s Stay of the 12/15/08 electoral college vote was denied by SCOTUS as procedurally unripe.
Nevertheless, since no congressman and senator objected on 1/8/09 to Congress’ count and certification of the electoral vote which would have turned resolution of Obama’s eligibility issue over to Congress — rendering moot the Berg and Taitz (Lightfoot) cases — Berg finally does achieve standing on the issue of actual harm, to be addressed at the Friday 1/9/09 SCOTUS Conference on Writ of Certiorari. Obama’s failure to submit evidence of his constitutional qualification for the 1/9/09 conference will mean he cannot thereafter challenge Berg’s request to enjoin the 1/8/09 Congressional electoral count and certification, albeit retroactive, scheduled for SCOTUS conference Friday 1/16/09. Moreover, Chief Justice Roberts has scheduled a full Court conference on the Lightfoot case Friday 1/23/09 in the event there needs to be a Constitutionally mandated action, the Inauguration itself, to enjoin retroactively.
Now that BHO is in checkmate and cannot be POTUS, he can be a patriot as well. He need not subject the nation to the expense and trauma of requiring SCOTUS to overrule his ‘Presidency’. BHO can and should voluntarily step down with Biden becoming Acting POTUS under the 20th Amendment, and under the agreement all potential claims by the Government for itself and on behalf of others against BHO are released.