Bits and Pieces

I caught this in this morning's New York Times editorial.  "It is reported that he (Obama) seeks out dissenting views doggedly."   Shouldn't the NYT know if the president doggedly seeks dissenting viewpoints?  Don't they have their own reporters?  I'm pretty sure the NYT has access to the White House.

The White House wants to go after the banks with heavy taxes, levies, fines, whatever.  Won't the banks just pass those added costs on to the consumer?  What the American people don't understand, and what has never been fully explained to them, is that if the banks were in such deep trouble that they needed hundreds of billions of our money to bail them out, then why is it that within months of us doing so, those same banks were recording record profits and doling out billions in bonuses?  It just doesn't add up.

Poll results from the Scott Brown victory continue to show that national security/terrorism played a much bigger role in the election then many had thought.  This is another case of Barack Obama being on the wrong side of an issue with regards to the American public.  If Obama and his attorney general, Eric Holder, don't reverse course on their plans for a trial in New York City for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, this issue alone may be the Democrats undoing in November.

President Obama insists that "the same anger that swept Scott Brown into office swept me into office."  Sorry Mr. President, it's not the same anger.  Another swing and a miss.  Let's tally his average so far.  Chicago Olympics, New Jersey, Virginia, Massachusetts....0 for 4.  We either need a designated hitter or a new batter.  I prefer the latter.  How about you?

Kudos to President Obama for his presidential memorandum or directive aimed at stopping tax delinquents from receiving government contracts.  Apparently the Government Accounting Office has identified tens of thousands of companies that continue to get paid to do work for the U. S. government, but owe the IRS $5 billion in back taxes.  In his remarks he said, "You pay the taxes you owe because it's a fundamental responsibility of citizenship.  And yet, somehow, it's become standard practice in Washington to give contracts to companies that don't pay their taxes."  You mean like the contract you gave Timothy Geithner to run your Treasury Department?