The Art of Negotiating

Thank you dad for teaching me such an important part of the political perspective long before it came into fashion.

The Art of Negotiating

A rather wealthy man and a beautiful woman were sitting on a couch during a party and the man asked the woman, "Would you go to bed with me for $100?"

The woman looked at him with scorn and replied, "No!"

The man asked her, "Would you go to bed with me for a million dollars?"

She looked at him for a moment and nodded her head that she would.

He looked at her again and asked, "Would you go to bed with me for a $100?"

She looked at him and yelled, "I already told you no that I wouldn't go to bed with you for a $100!"

He smiled and said, "Maam, we have already established what you are now all I am doing is negotiating the price."

I think this might be how some of the backroom healthcare issues with Landreau and Nelson might have been settled with Harry Reid.

Demagogues and Democrats-Same thing

"The demagogue is usually sly, a detractor of others, a professor of humility and disinterestedness, a great stickler for equality as respects all above him, a man who acts in corners, and avoids open and manly expositions of his course, calls blackguards gentlemen, and gentlemen folks, appeals to passions and prejudices rather than to reason, and is in all respects, a man of intrigue and deception, of sly cunning and management. "
"James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)

Sounds like the present congress and the Health Care bill. Democrats are voting for a bill that they haven't even read and hasn't been given to Republicans also. Harry Reid will go down as the godfather of saddling Americans with a trillion dollars of additional debt. Obama's toady.

Oh by the way, The Chinese will soon stop buying our debt (they already owned $2.3 TRILLION of our debt). The Democrats are just like their logo, stubborn jackasses.

"There You Go Again"

I loved that phrase when I first heard it issued in a presidential debate by Ronald Reagan against Jimmy Carter. Reagan crystallized the entire debate and eventually run for the presidency on that one statement, “There you go again”. It is a simple statement but it drew Carter out as a one minded, single issue president (which he was) and showed his thinking to be flawed.

Harry Reid reading from a prepared text yesterday on the floor of the Senate stated that the Republicans that were blocking the healthcare bill were like the supporters of slavery during the civil war. These are heavy word for such a lightweight politician.

First off, Abraham Lincoln was a Republican that put his entire presidency on the continuation of the union. It eventually cost him his life. There is no way that the Democratic Party can ever annex this great man as their own.

Secondly, the supporters of slavery prior to the civil war that were in congress were DEMOCRATS not REPUBLICANS. Southern democrats were staunch supporters of state’s rights and the ability and sovereignty of each state to decide the issue. Republicans on a large basis condemned it and sought legislative ways to unbind the south from such an enterprise, as we know, that failed and war ensued.

Harry Reid is a poor leader and a worse purveyor of the facts as was demonstrated yesterday in his speech. Revisionist history has always bothered me but to besmirch the honor of the Republicans today by lying about the Republicans in that era is a sad epitaph for such a small man.

Oh by the way, Harry Reid is trailing in his bid for reelection to his seat in his own state. This might be his last hurrah but at least he could leave with honor and not the pitiful bleating of a lost sheep which really caricaturizes him at this time.

There’s Something Wrong Here!

I know I have been silent over the past month(s) about political things but something struck me rather strange yesterday with Obama’s jobs program and the TARP funds.

As many of you know, the President has developed a jobs bill to stimulate the economy and that is a good thing BUT he is funding it with the unused TARP funds. The TARP funds were borrowed to bail out banks and now that they no longer need the funds and, in fact, are beginning a pay back to the government then the funds appear to be no longer necessary.

My problem with this is that the TARP funds are borrowed money that increased the debt level and if they are not going to be used for that particular thing then pay it back and reduce our debt but don’t run a shill game on the American public.

Stealing from Peter to pay Paul is a long hallowed way of doing business in Washington but this one stinks. Fund the jobs bill from its own capital base and don’t borrow from one fund to make your program go. The pea and shell game of this transparent administration shows them to be amateurs and hacks.

Sure we need jobs; there are 15 million people out of work and many are taking part time jobs to make ends meet so create jobs, if you will, but raising the national debt is an irresponsible way to do it. The only way to pay such a bill back is higher taxes for those who are working now and those who will get jobs from this bill.

America needs to wake up and smell the coffee on these rubes that are running the store.