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            Good Monday Again –

 

            Lots of ill winds out there over the weekend.  Searchlite, NV was heavily populated Saturday, though scorned by its most famous Senate Majority Leader. Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) who occasionally forgets whether he’s voting Aye or Nay, did remember to show up at the local shootin’ match range in his home state of Nevada while between eight and nine thousand Tea – Baggers – strolled around the former mining town and listened to the ex-Alaska Governor give a speech on why she – and apparently a LOT of others, think it’s time for the Senator from Searchlite ought to retire to the ranch.

 

            However… it made good TV… and Fox News made the most of it although it’s probably hard to gage just how well the gerrymandered trip back east will do as it makes its way toward Washington DC.  The organizers plan something like 42 stops along the way. Nobody predicts with verifiable certainty how well the movement will succeed (or fail depending on your loose affiliation with the body politic) but it looks healthy and vigorous enough to provide some interesting vignettes on the way to DC.

 

            The MSM made the most of the “threats” coming out of Saturday’s rally… although the police didn’t have much trouble from all I could gather.  Undoubtedly there will be more ruckus on the road back – rumor has it the Reid-Pelosi circus parade might even have planted a few raucous voices along the way to see if they can stir up dirt appearing to be attributable to the Taxed Enough Already (TEA-Partyites) – but surely such a highly principled Chicago Politician like Rahm Emmanual, WH Chief of Staff, would stoop to doing dirty work like that – especially since he’s been instructed to clean up his vocabulary.  Trouble is Vice President Biden keeps leading Rahm astray being a bad example.

 

            Anyway… aside from the snowstorms out in the Rockies… shutting down Denver Airport for a short while… things look to be going along swimmingly for the Obama WH.  The President, afraid there would be such a massive crowd to meet him in Afghanistan, was forced to make a clandestine trip out that way.  He still hasn’t made a trip, clandestine or otherwise to Israel – and we know of none on the schedule – besides which the Prez is a bit behind in his use of AF One – the trips which he dearly loves due to their prestige factor. He had to cancel a couple of trips out to Indonesia and the South Pacific because his girls’ school schedules wouldn’t fit neatly into the limited time he had available after cancelling out twice and ruffling a lot of diplomatic feathers when he was jamming the health care bill down the throats of the ‘loyal’ opposition.

 

            Oh… sorry… now I’ve lead you off the path of learning what’s going on in Washington these days.  I’ve gotten a bit behind myself… and when I catch up I’ll be sure to send along the information… Meanwhile we shall have to rely on Maestro Robert Gibbs of the Obama WH pressroom to keep us well-briefed and fully informed on what the President is doing or even intending to do – maybe.

 

            Cordially,

 

            Jack

 

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TAKE A DEEP BREATH, SIDDOWN, COUNT TO TEN

            Just a Minute: -- The Internet and front pages are full of cautions about runaway anger.  Speculation on Tea-Party insouciance.

            If that’s a concern give me a reading on this quotation from the Associated Press:
“The President said, in response to threats of violence –‘ “We welcome that fight.”

            Is that remark a ‘throwaway’ line – or an invitation for a street gang calling itself the “Barack O’bombers” to go ahead and exercise their free speech rights in a crowded theater?  I

            Testing that phrase on randomly selected disinterested parties,-- I did not get a response suggesting the President should be nominated for another Nobel Prize.  His response – described as ‘roaring’ in some headlines -- did not seem to dampen enthusiasm by those who disagree with his health care reform package called “Obama-Care” by some and irresponsible by others.

            Instead It seems his immediate recipe for damping down dissention voiced during his campaign stop in Iowa to a group of American voter-citizens falls more into the category of spraying gasoline on an already ignited blaze.

             Am I mistaken? Is that response what one would call ‘ Presidential?   

            <>I’m Jack Buttram. (END)

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