Political Equinox

Ten moments too many according to some Americans.

Grown tired of the phrases “failed Bush economic policies” and “the last 8 years of this administration” have I, or at least my inner Yoda rebukes the continual repetition of these soon to be cliche phrases.

Even as we, America, rush to force our President of the past decade out of office, we must pause and take a moment to reflect and examine Mr. Bush’s administration. We must look deeply and analytically to discover the true gift has Bush’s presidency has offered our country and President-elect Obama. The current situation, the state of our country, most notably our economy is not the fault of George Bush, it is not the fault of the Democrats, the Republicans, the Libertarians, the bankers, or …

This is the first in a series of posts I will make on the Obama cabinet in the next few days.

State

Hillary Clinton – Senator Clinton appears to have a lock on the job if she’d like it; however, I’m not convinced she will accept the position. The Secretary of State position would give her enormous experience points in foreign policy, but I think the Senate is still the place for her if she is even thinking about running in 2016. But the other question is will the offer still stand after the Obama team finishing digging up dirt on Bill Clinton’s dealings – he’s quite a lot of baggage.
Senator John Kerry – The runner up for the job and possible …

Shot entirely on an amateur Canon HV 20 camera, Benjamin Reece’s latest project involved interviewing 50 random people in New Orleans. He asked each person the same question, “By the end of today, what would you wish to happen?” Reece filmed the responses from each participant, the answers range from marriage to undoing the work of the Bush Administration.

A creative idea by Mr. Reece, we applaud him for his creative project. We also hope that the residents of New Orleans can have a few of these wishes come true – they deserve it.

What’s your answer?

I’m doing something I haven’t done in a long time – respectfully, yet diametrically disagreeing with Neil.

In order to understand the failure, we should first look at where this plan originated – the Bush Administration. This was a brokered bill; nonetheless, the original framework for the bailout was crafted by the Administration, lead by Treasury Secretary Paulson. Like virtually anything that could had had a chance of passing the Untied States Congress, the final iteration of the bill was a compromise through and through. In order to get behind the bill, Dems got executive pay limits added for companies selling their mortgages to the government as well as the ability to have controlling shares of some companies, and the Administration …