The supplemental Iraq War finance bill clearly illustrates that the Democratic "leadership" is continuing the established 6 year Republican trend: undermining the US Constitution, while giving our tax monies to their special interest groups.

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Many Democrats think that Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi offers hope for ..:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />America. Wake Up! The first thing she did after Democrats won control of the House was to throw a $1,000/person dinner with hundreds of lobbyists present!

To gain enough support to pass this bill, Speaker Pelosi probably needed to include several Democratic earmarks in exchange for votes. The Democratic "leadership" also overstepped their Constitutional authority by including in this bill mandates that dictate how the President should run the military in a war that was condoned with bipartisan support!

I am a registered Democrat and to my knowledge this Republican administration has made every wrong decision possible. However, the Democrats are also not representing me or America. My point is that the Democratic and Republican "leaderships" are similar in that they do not serve America's best interests or even Americans of any political ideology; these traditional politicians only serve their special interest group masters and that point needs to be illuminated and blind party loyalty questioned, if not outright abandoned by all Americans.

If elected as President, I guarantee specific performance to the American people. The first guarantee is to end special interest group influence on our government. If as President I fail to perform up to achieving my guarantees, I will resign at any time the American people would desire my removal from the office.

Ex Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson, who is an actor on Law & Order is thinking about running for President in the 08 election. This makes the AP news, BUT they also include his positions "on the issues:"

- Pro-life

- Anti-gay marriage

- Anti-gun control

- Pro-Iraq troop surge

- Pardon Lewis "Scooter" Libby from jail

(full article)

These are the issues that are important for people to know about a president?! These issues are the areas that people want leadership for America?? I guess that is what I am doing wrong - I thought people wanted direction for things like fiscal responsibility in government, barring special interest group control, stabilizing social security and medicare, upholding our constitution, energy independence, improving our economy, and the like as issues a President should bring detailed visions for America's improvement.

The media and Democrats are in heaven over the 8 US attorneys fired for not tampering with elections by indicting Democratic candidates prior to the 2006 midterm election. Add into this that the Republican members of Congress that pressured these US attorneys, also Republican Bush appointees, potentially could be legal due to an aide of Senator Arlen Specter slipping language into the Patriot Act that gave more presidential power.

Many aspects of this reaffirm the values and ethics of Republicans in Congress and the administration. However, the media is so far completely missing the most disturbing aspect of this whole issue:

All members of Congress signed the Patriot Act into law without reading it! This is their one job and none of them are doing it!

My previous statement about Social Security was too conservative. The impact of the prescription drug program is far more severe than I originally estimated. According to the Congressional Budget Office it will increase the burden to Social Security by 12%, My estimates factored this in as noise.

In examining Medicare alone, the expense for this program will consume all of the US revenue by 2014. Toss in all of Social Security and Medicare and this expense will consume all of our nation's revenue by 2012.

Another report on the Colorado River shows that its shrinking water level will begin impacting the 25 million people over seven states that depend on this water source by 2011. The report stated that this problem has gone so long without being addressed that technology and conservation are no longer able to fix it and trade-offs will now need to occur - lives, livestock, farming, golfing, lawns, non-native plants. This region is a major economic area of the US and this type of disruption will hurt the economy at the very least.

2008 will be the focal point for our nation to address these problems and other critical issues that continue to mount or change forever the face of America. Perhaps the bluntness of my words and candidacy is not appealing, but are the more pleasant visions of the other candidates more appealing because visions and dreams is their offering as usual, that is politics as usual. 

This is the first podcast with the new mic a Sennheiser MD46 and it was great! The voice almost sounds like me. It was such a good quality I did not have to edit every other word in the podcast - a dream.

The podcast is about campaign reform. In addition to the podcast further information can be found at my website about campaign reformas well as the role of special interest groups.

It's just a local weekly newspaper, but I am surprised that I was able to get any media attention at all this early.

I have two paragraphs written up about my effort from the Good Times Weekly. This is a good first step. I just need people to show their support by signing up at my website.

I have placed the story at digg, so if you want to digg it - feel free.

Patrick

armchairpresident.com

American policy for America's interests, not special interests

Our Country was founded on ideals and principles, one of which is that we can not rely on their always being good men governing our country. So, the founding fathers designed our checks and balances system to be a country that was based on good laws. Unfortunately the founding fathers also designed our government to be run by inexperienced politicians; the role of congress was very part-time and not supposed to interfere with the senators and representatives real full-time jobs and careers.

Today, the landscape is so different that the Founding Fathers could never have imagined what our government would evolve into and I believe that they would not be looking at it with pride. A recent article in The New Republic describes the character of todays politicians. The article seems to portray our great and virtuous politicians go into this place of depravity and temptation where the interns are described as looking almost like hookers. That could be true and this appears to be a which came first, the chicken or the egg type of situation. That is, were our politicians, virtuous boy scouts that were corrupted by evil lobbyists and hooker-esque interns? Or perhaps, does a career in politics attract people that have, shall we call it - dubious character, to begin with? Or does success and building a career in politics actually select for people with dubious character? For full disclosure, I dont think our career politicians were virtuous boy scouts prior to politics, thats my bias.

Career politicians have changed the dynamic of our government so far from what the guiding principles were, that the system has become overwhelmed and dominated by special interest groups running career politicians, who in turn run America. It comes back to the career politician and campaigning. Campaigning has turned into expensive media campaigns, most of which are attack ads and smear and fear tactics. This expense makes the election process dependent upon special interest group support, which essentially translates into policy that benefits that special interest group, usually at the expense of Americas interests.

The bottom line is that campaign reform is needed to remove special interest groups from campaigns and thus having politicians that can act for Americas interests. Americas interests should be first and foremost for every policy. As a byproduct, policies will benefit special interests. This little nuance is the defining difference between good policy and most of todays policies that are primarily to help a specific special interest group.

However, with the current status of our government, we need to rely upon a good president to push campaign reform to make the election process special interest group money free. One solution is that campaigns could be funded directly by the government. Each candidate would be allotted the same, low amount of resources to strategically manage for their election and that is all. My preference is to supply a low amount of resources because if a candidate cannot effectively manage resources in their campaign then that should work against them in the election. I do not want politicians managing the resources of our country if they can not show a track record of effective resource management. There are several solutions for successful campaign reform and this nationalized funding is just one possibility because we end up paying for all campaigns with tax dollars right now. They are just hidden in legislation or really, not so hidden in legislation. So, it seems that this type of transition may be the easiest for reform to embrace.

***UPDATE***

A non-scientific poll conducted by the new Republic suggested that Hillary would lose against a Republican by a margin of 4:1. So, this to a small degree adds quatitative numbers to the opinion that Hillary is acting in her own self interest and not in the interests of the Democratic party nor America.

***END UPDATE***

Hilary Clinton announced that she was either getting the full party backing or she would go it alone and already has staff in place in several states to do so.

This is bad characteristics of a presidential candidate. This is the reason Bill didn't get as much done when he was president. Bill could handle a republican congress. He couldn't handle the selfish-ass wife. This is why America hated hilary as the first lady. She should wakeup, she got the Senate seat out of pity for going through Bill's philanderings.

This is bad news for the major democratic hopefuls, but good news for my campaign and the Republicans must already be looking at campaigning for 2012 because with this I bet they think whoever they nominate will win a completely divided democratic party.

However, this division also has a benefit in making it easier for my campaign to succeed in the democratic party. I just need your support - so register at my website. 

Write to Bush. Voice you opinion while you can. Send him luv or send him a Dear Shrub letter. He probably won't read it, but somone might and that will be the only tax dollar that will work for you in the last I don't know how many years.

Plus you can take a look at our government actually does something then there are big butts because then they take an opposite stance as the one they just took.

Finally our ideals in justice are being superseded by our government - not a surprise. I am starting a list of our government breaking our own policies, rules, and laws - naughty america.

 Send me a message and I will add your item to the list if it fits the criteria.