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STOP BASHING President Obama's Accomplishments

And an impressive list of accomplishments he has:

First President to apply for college aid as a foreign student, then deny he was a foreigner.
First President to have a social security number from a state he has never lived in.
First President to preside over a cut to the credit-rating of the United States
First President to violate the War Powers Act.
First President to be held in contempt of court for illegally obstructing oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.
First President to defy a Federal Judge's court order to cease implementing the Health Care Reform Law.
First President to require all Americans to purchase a product from a third party.
First President to spend a trillion dollars on 'shovel-ready' jobs when there was no such thing as 'shovel-ready' jobs.
First President to abrogate bankruptcy law to turn over control of companies to his union supporters.
First President to by-pass Congress and implement the Dream Act through executive fiat.
First President to order a secret amnesty program that stopped the deportation of illegal immigrants across the U..S., including those with criminal convictions.
First President to demand a company hand-over $20 billion to one of his political appointees.
First President to terminate America's ability to put a man in space.
First President to have a law signed by an auto-pen without being present.
First President to arbitrarily declare an existing law unconstitutional and refuse to enforce it.
First President to threaten insurance companies if they publicly spoke-out on the reasons for their rate increases.
First President to tell a major manufacturing company in which state it is allowed to locate a factory.
First President to file lawsuits against the states he swore an oath to protect (AZ, WI, OH, IN)..
First President to withdraw an existing coal permit that had been properly issued years ago.
First President to fire an inspector general of Ameri-Corps for catching one of his friends in a corruption case.
First President to appoint 45 czars to replace elected officials in his office.
First President to golf 73 separate times in his first two and a half years in office, 90 to date.
First President to hide his medical, educational and travel records.
First President to win a Nobel Peace Prize for doing NOTHING to earn it.
First President to go on multiple global 'apology tours'.
First President to go on 17 lavish vacations, including date nights and Wednesday evening White House parties for his friends paid for by the taxpayer.
First President to have 22 personal servants (taxpayer funded) for his wife.
First President to keep a dog trainer on retainer for $102,000 a year at taxpayer expense.
First President to repeat the Holy Quran tells us the early morning call of the Azan (Islamic call to worship) is the most beautiful sound on earth.
First President to take a 17-day vacation.

How is this hope and change working out for you?

THERE'S AN ELECTION COMING UP... I HOPE YOU REMEMBER THIS LIST WHEN YOU VOTE!

Rick Perry wants to change the Constitution

(The following was taken and reworded a bit from an article by Chris Moody at "The Ticket")
The commentaries are ALL MINE! 


The Texas governor and Republican presidential candidate, Rick Perry has 7 different ways he'd like to change our constitution and laid out these proposed changes in his book, Fed Up! Our Fight to Save America from Washington.  Here they are with this author's commentary in red following each one.


1. Abolish lifetime tenure for federal judges by amending Article III, Section I of the Constitution.
"The Judges, both of the supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during good Behavior, and shall, at stated Times, receive for their Services a Compensation which shall not be diminished during their Continuance in Office."
Perry  believes the judges on the bench over the past 100 years have acted beyond their constitutional bounds. He reasons that judges are "unaccountable" to the people, and their lifetime tenure gives them free license to do whatever they want.
In his book Fed Up! he writes:  "'We should take steps to restrict the unlimited power of the courts to rule over us with no accountability". "One such reform would be to institute term limits on what are now lifetime appointments for federal judges, particularly those on the [U.S.] Supreme Court or the circuit courts, which have so much power. One proposal, for example, would have judges roll off every two years based on seniority."
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This patriot totally agrees with Gov. Perry and would support such an amendment!


2. Congress should have the power to override Supreme Court decisions with a two-thirds vote.
Gov. Perry has strong views about what he sees as overreach from the judicial branch (The title of Chapter Six is "Nine Unelected Judges Tell Us How to Live.") and also would like to further suppress the courts powers through a Congressional veto override. This "would be another way to take the Court down a notch", Perry says.
"[A]llow Congress to override the Supreme Court with a two-thirds vote in both the House and Senate, which risks increased politicization of judicial decisions, but also has the benefit of letting the people stop the Court from unilaterally deciding policy," he writes.
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I agree with a veto override, but not by the U.S. Congress as this would politicize the judges position. The veto should come from the people themselves, at the voting booth. Put a special referendum onto a voting ballot and let the people of each state speak their wishes! 


3. Scrap the federal income tax by repealing the Sixteenth Amendment.

The Sixteenth Amendment gives Congress the "power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration." It should be abolished immediately, Perry says.

Calling the Sixteenth Amendment "the great milestone on the road to serfdom," Perry's writes that it provides a virtually blank check to the federal government to use for projects with little or no consultation from the states.

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A great big hearty AMEN BROTHER to that from this patriot!


4. End the direct election of senators by repealing the Seventeenth Amendment.
Overturning this amendment would restore the original language of the Constitution, which gave state legislators the power to appoint the members of the Senate.
"The American people mistakenly empowered the federal government during a fit of populist rage in the early twentieth century by giving it an unlimited source of income (the Sixteenth Amendment) and by changing the way senators are elected (the Seventeenth Amendment)," he writes.
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This patriot disagrees with giving back to the state legislators the power to appoint the members of the Senate. It is difinitely in the right hands now, WE THE PEOPLE! The problem here is the electoral college! THAT is what is archaic and needs to go. Right now, WE THE PEOPLE, really don't have much of voice (and is why I'm stubborn to give anything we DO have away and back to the government) as those few people from each state who comprise the electoral college can vote any way they'd like and can override the popular vote (anybody remember the Bush/Gore in Florida results?). Get rid of the electoral college, make it a "winner takes all" majority vote by the people and there you'll have the power where it rightfully belongs, WE THE PEOPLE!


5-7 in next posting! Stay tuned. :-)

Yankee Pride is Back!

I will be adding past posts soon! Stay tuned!