I really hope this report is true. They say that crucial support for the Leiberman-Warner bill is falling apart. The passage of this bill would cripple our economy. If Leiberman-Warner manages to make it to the President’s desk he will veto the bill. With any luck they won’t have enough votes to over ride the veto.

I doubt there are many Americans out there hoping to pay $8 for a gallon of gasoline or a huge increase in the cost of electricity. According to the Heritage Foundation, if this bill passes cumulative gross domestic product (GDP) losses could reach $4.8 trillion by 2030. They also state the bill will cost nearly a million manufacturing jobs by 2022 and two million by 2027.

The presidential candidates are out there on the stump telling factory workers they are fighting to save their jobs, when in reality they’re fighting to take the jobs away.

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If you would like an easy way to send a care package to our troops serving overseas, visit Move America Forward. Their mission is to send the largest number of care packages to US Troops in history, and they make it easy.

Susan Sarandon has said that if John McCain is elected she will move to Italy or Canada. She also said she hated Margaret Thatcher. Why am I not surprised.

So long and good riddance, Susan! Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.

According to the American Solutions Blog they already have 100,000 signatures to their petition urging Congress to adopt a sensible energy policy, including lifting a moratorium on domestic drilling and oil production. They would like to have 200,000 signatures by next week.

This is one of those times when normal people like you and me have a say in the direction of our country. If enough of us act they will have no choice but to do something. Click here to sign the petition. Tell your friends and family members to sign it. If you have a blog go to the petition page and copy the code to post their widget on your website.

Enough of you spoke up about the amnesty bill and it worked. It’s time to speak up again and bring our elected representatives to their senses.

What’s more American than baseball? The other night while watching the Philadelphia Phillies drub the Colorodo Rockies the announcer mentioned Phillies closing pitcher Brad Lidge participates in the Strikeouts for Troops program.

According to their website,the program was founded by Barry Zito, pitcher for the SanFrancisco Giants. They have raised almost a million dollars since 2005 to help wounded veterans with everything from travel to child care to help with bills while they recover. Over forty professional baseball players contribute. You can, too!

Baseball players raising money for the troops. That’s about as American as you gan get!

By now I’m sure you’ve heard about former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan’s book. The Politico reports it’s a scathing memoir. It sounds like he’s basically calling President Bush an incompetent liar. With friends like McClellan who needs enemies.

I never liked McClellan as press secretary. He wasn’t good at his job. I was happy to see him leave and Tony Snow take over. (As a side note, I heard that Tony Snow had to cancel a speaking engagement due to illness and I hope he’s okay.)

If you were working for the President and you believed he was a liar, why would you take the job of press secretary? Why continue working for him at all? I certainly wouldn’t. It’s puzzling. What a hypocrite. As reported by ABC News McClellan had this to say about Richard Clarke’s tell-all book:

McCLELLAN: Well, why, all of a sudden, if he had all these grave concerns, did he not raise these sooner? This is one-and-a-half years after he left the administration. And now, all of a sudden, he’s raising these grave concerns that he claims he had. And I think you have to look at some of the facts. One, he is bringing this up in the heat of a presidential campaign. He has written a book and he certainly wants to go out there and promote that book. Certainly let’s look at the politics of it. His best buddy is Rand Beers, who is the principal foreign policy advisor to Senator Kerry’s campaign. The Kerry campaign went out and immediately put these comments up on their website that Mr. Clarke made. …

Q: Scott, the whole point of his book is he says that he did raise these concerns and he was not listened to by his superiors.

McCLELLAN: Yes, and that’s just flat-out wrong. …When someone uses such charged rhetoric that is just not matched by the facts, it’s important that we set the record straight. And that’s what we’re doing. If you look back at his past comments and his past actions, they contradict his current rhetoric. I talked to you all a little bit about that earlier today. Go back and look at exactly what he has said in the past and compare that with what he is saying today.

Here we have an unreliable, hypocritical man, who was bad at his job. Why should we believe him?

Barack Obama gave the commencement speech at Wesleyan University. He was calling on the graduates to serve their country and to help those less fortunate than themselves.

Not because you have an obligation to those who are less fortunate, although I believe you do have that obligation. Not because you have a debt to all those who helped you get to where you are today, although I do believe you have that debt to pay.

It’s because you have an obligation to yourself. Because our individual salvation depends on collective salvation. Because thinking only about yourself, fulfilling your immediate wants and needs, betrays a poverty of ambition. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential and discover the role that you’ll play in writing the next great chapter in the American story.

He did not speak of strengthening our military or winning in Iraq but he did comment on foreign policy.

As President, I intend to grow the Foreign Service, double the Peace Corps over the next few years, and engage young people of other nations in similar programs, so that we work side by side to take on the common challenges that confront all of humanity.

He must think he is running for President of the World. About education here at home:

I will pay our educators what they deserve, and give them more support, but I will also ask more of them to be mentors to other teachers, and serve in high-need schools and high-need subject areas like math and science. We will need you.

Since when does the President pay teachers? Taxpayers pay teachers. He doesn’t call on any of these young people to serve their country by serving in the military.

At a time of war, we need you to work for peace. At a time of inequality, we need you to work for opportunity.

He even found a way to explain away all of the failed liberal policies and programs, and to convince these young people to go on welfare.

And so, understand that, should you take the path of service, should you choose to take up one of these causes as your own, know that you’ll experience the occasional frustrations and the occasional failures. Even your successes will be marked by imperfections and unintended consequences. I guarantee you, there will be times when friends or family urge you to pursue more sensible endeavors with more tangible rewards. And there will be times where you will be tempted to take their advice.

In a nutshell, he believes we should not work for our own living, but for the lives of others. Individuals are nothing, it’s the “collective” that’s important. Don’t support yourself, the government will support you. Don’t join the military, in Obama’s utopia we won’t need one. There are lots of unintended consequences of liberal, socialist policies, but don’t worry about that.

Anyone who says Obama is not a socialist is a liar.

“Are We Safer” is an article posted on the Power Line Blog over the weekend. They chronicled terrorist acts against America and American interests going back to 1988. It pretty much debunks Obama’s claims that President Bush’s policies have made us less safe.

If water boarding a few terrosists for a minute will keep us from getting blown up then I’m a big fan.

The website American Solutions has a petition that you can sign on line urging Congress to authorize exploration for oil here at home, thereby lessening our dependence on unstable countries.

Go ahead and sign the petition, then ask all of your friends to do so.

Barack Obama and the Democrats keep telling us that if John McCain is elected it will be nothing more than the third term of President George W. Bush.

They fail to mention whose footsteps Obama wants to follow. On the American Thinker is an article by Paul Miller stating that if Obama is elected it will be Jimmy Carter’s Second Term. Mr. Miller has done his homework. Obama’s campaign hired many former aides and advisors to Jimmy Carter.

He also compares speeches by Obama to those given by Jimmy Carter, they are eerily similar. He rightly points out:

When you take an honest look at the advisors Obama has selected, his desire to meet with leaders who promote genocide and rule their nations with an iron-fist, the comparison to Carter is undeniable. When you add the fact that both men are media favorites, place much blame on the way Americans live and support increased government regulation and big government programs instead of the free-market ideas to solve America’s ills, the fear that people have that an Obama Presidency would by Carter’s second term, is not just a concern, but a harsh reality.

Four years with Obama as President and the Democrats controlling Congress would be a disaster for the United States of America.

Earlier today Hillary Clinton brought up the assassination of Bobby Kennedy as a reason for her to stay in the race. Is this some sort of Bin-Laden like code to her followers? Creepy.

Full story: Hillary Raises Assassination Issue

I frequently read the blog of SA Andrews who has a link to The Brussels Journal on his site. The Brussels Journal is a European conservative website. I like to know what our fellow conservatives on the other side of the pond are thinking so I clicked over to check it out.

I came across A Working Model About Social Security.

Thirty years ago, a young Jose Pinera, who had earned a Ph.D. at Harvard, was Chile’s labor minister. He saw the coming disaster in the government old-age pension system.

Inspired by an idea from the late Nobel Prize winning economist, Milton Friedman, he developed a solution that empowers workers and gives them real financial security. Pinera-type social security systems have now been adopted by more than 30 countries and cover several hundred million people — for a very simple reason — it works.

The system sounds a lot like what President Bush proposed and the Democrats in Congress killed. Later those same Democrats stood up and shamelessly cheered when he accused them of doing nothing to save Social Security.

Conservatism is making a comeback in Europe - for another very simple reason - it works. It’s too bad the political leaders here at home have forgotten that.

Washington Insider Dan Maffei moved home from DC to run for Congress. He lost, but that didn’t stop him so he’s trying again. The DNC has given him lots of money and lots of talking points. In fact, I wonder if any of his “thoughts” are his at all.

His op-ed piece in today’s opinion section of the Syracuse Post Standard is titled “Part of ‘thinking big’ is working for US energy independence“. Something tells me he didn’t put a whole lot of thought into this.

Maffei opines “If we need any further reminder of how far American power and prestige have fallen over the last eight years, we got it when the Saudis told President Bush they weren’t going to lift a finger to help us.” Why should they “help us”? Are we helpless? We have our own oil, we just need to get it out of the ground and refine it.

He tells us he is “running for Congress because we need change.” Where have we heard that before? Hmmm….change….who said that?

His plan will take “the power away from Big Oil by taxing their huge windfall profits “. Maffei concedes that “not everything we try will work”. Really? Like using the taxpayer’s money to subsidize biofuels and driving up food prices?

If I were Mr. Maffei I would be very angry with the Democratic party and all of their candidates (and some Republicans, too) for stealing his ideas.

Finally, he promises that if he is “elected to Congress, (he) will never support measures that do not benefit hard-working men and women.” If that’s the case, he will need to completely abandon his party’s platform and his environmental agenda.

I nearly fell out of my chair a moment ago when I came across this article on my local newspaper’s website.

It looks like Rep. Jim Walsh, R-NY, has changed his mind about drilling in ANWR! Wonders never cease. I have been increasing displeased with my congressman, who has announced his retirement. I forgave his goofy vote last year against the Iraq war because I understood that it was a symbolic vote and meaningless. But his position on drilling for domestic oil, to me was unforgiveable.

Since he’s retiring he no longer needs to pander for votes and can do the right thing. It’s too bad he didn’t have a change of heart when his vote may have made a difference, but hey, maybe the Republican leadership is finally taking the blinders off.