Republicans are bummed out that the Democratic party is in control.  If they want to, the Democrats can push through any piece of legislation they desire without anything more than vocal protests.  President Obama has made it clear during his first week in office that it was going to be his way or the highway, when he told Republican leaders that ‘he won’.

Everyone is too big to fail.  Treasury Secretary Nominees are too important to disqualify simply because they can’t master Turbo-Tax, nor are they willing to pay their taxes.  We give corporations money, then immediately tell them how they can spend it.

So maybe it is a good thing that Republicans can actually affect nothing, because when it collapses hopefully people will see that it is a failure of government to accomplish something our government was never intended to accomplish in the first place.  Maybe then we can try to get out of the way of a truly free market and let it take care of itself.

The sooner government gets out of the business of nurse maid the sooner we can start to recover.

But that’s just My Arrogant Opinion.

Michael Scherer of Swampland quotes House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as saying “…Democrats believe in the free market, which can and does create jobs, wealth, and capital, but left to its own devices it has created chaos. …” Pardon me Madam Speaker, but isn’t that a contradiction in terms? How can the Democrats believe in something that, according to you, creates chaos when left to its own devices? A free market is just that, free. It is when you try to control it that it creates chaos.

Try keeping your nose out of things you do not understand, and maybe they will work the way they are supposed to. You have no idea what a free market will do, because you never have left it alone to be free. When you take the risk out of the market, it is certainly not free. Markets involve risk.

We will take our lumps, thanks to Clinton’s policies designed to force banks to lend to people who were unqualified in order for the Democrats to get credit for putting everyone in a house, whether or not they could afford it. Hopefully, enough of the citizenry has seen what the liberal left can accomplish, and will boot the rascals out!

But, that is just My Arrogant Opinion.

I was leery of John McCain from the beginning. I was actually looking forward to voting for Duncan Hunter, but he dropped out of the race before I had a chance. I thought about becoming a Fred Head, but alas, he didn’t make it either. I ended up voting for Mitt, just a few days before he dropped as well. Right now, with my track record of every candidate I have gotten behind falling out of the race, I am thinking of supporting whoever becomes the Democratic Nominee. I am curious whether or not my support is actually detrimental to a candidate.

My blood runs cold at the thought of any of our present choices becoming the President. Both Hillary and Obama have openly stated that they want to turn our country into a Socialist Paradise starting with Nationalized Health Care and then moving on to stripping the profits (and incentives to produce) from our oil companies. Obviously the schools they attended didn’t have economics as a part of the curriculum.

What choices does that leave us with? Ron Paul? I am all about getting rid of the IRS and getting back to a smaller government which actually looks at the Constitution to see what it is supposed to do, but I think his chances are about as slim as a snowball in Global Warming. He also scares me with his ideas about the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. It is just too much, too quick, our country is not ready for that amount of change in one big step.

Where does that leave us? John McCain, War Hero. The only thing I like about McCain is his stand on the war. But you have to wonder about him. War is a dirty business, and there are things done there that you really don’t want discussed in the parlor over tea. I can understand his personal position on torture and Gitmo, but I think that it is wrong to tell our enemies what we will or will not do, what lines we are willing to cross, and those we won’t, but if our Nation’s security is at risk, we should have the freedom to cross those lines if needed.

What about the price of gasoline? All three of the main candidates have proposed their solution for the high price of gas at the pump. The problem is, they are just pandering to the voters. They don’t have a solution. At most, they have a plan for very short term relief for a problem that has far reaching implications. We need to get out of the way and let our country do what our country does best, and that is, find a solution.

Stop this talk about confiscating profits. Stop trying to regulate every aspect of our lives. Give us the freedom to think and experiment. We will never find a solution to any problem when the government has us so tied up and regulated with petty rules that every time we try to do something we trip over the red tape.

Open up our oil fields to exploration. We have technology to drill without destroying the countryside now, let’s use it! John McCain said on the Glenn Beck Radio Program last week that he would as soon drill for oil in the Grand Canyon as to drill ANWR. I agree with Glenn’s commentary on his statement that he was all for it as well, if there was oil in the canyon. Of course, that is a gross example, but we have oil reserves in this country, we have huge coal reserves, we have some of the best scientific minds in the world here and the best facilities. LET US USE OUR OWN RESOURCES!

But, that is just My Arrogant Opinion.

It may just be me, but it seems like this is the first election cycle where the candidate is telling the media what the public is tired of hearing about. Barry and Michelle Obama keep trying to tell the media that the public is tired of hearing about Jeremiah Wright, and is ready to move on to something of substance.

Wouldn’t that be like me telling the Judge that the Jury was tired of hearing about my character when I was on trial for poor judgment? I’m sorry there Senator, but I don’t believe that is your call to make. In a free market, when the public gets tired of hearing about it and gets through discussing it, the media will stop covering it and asking you about it because at that point, supply starts to exceed demand. (I just threw in the mini economics lesson for free)

Senator, your character is most definitely in question. Your judgment seems to be flawed. Before you are elected to the highest and most powerful office in the world, we would like to know what your major malfunctions are! Looking good on camera, and being able to read a teleprompter do not make you qualified to lead this country. You don’t even have the right stuff to hire the people with the right stuff, or you wouldn’t be in the midst of all this questioning in the first place.

But, that is just My Arrogant Opinion.

April 22, 2008 Earthday. Everyone needs to call their legislators and tell them that it is time to SCREW THE CARIBOU and DRILL THE ANWAR! If we are so Earth conscious, and nature is what we are trying to get back to, I wish someone could explain to me what other animal in history has spent so much effort in trying to starve itself out of existence. Maybe that is what killed the dinosaurs, they realized that dino flatulence was a greenhouse gas and since they didn’t have opposable thumbs decided to just starve themselves into extinction rather than continue producing gases that polluted the pristine Earth they inhabited.

If we don’t wake up soon, that is what we are going to do in the name of global warming. We are turning all our corn into a very inefficient fuel, causing shortages of corn, wheat, rice, and soybeans. You can already feel these higher prices at the store. Countries in other parts of the world are having food riots because of shortages, how long will it be before the same thing happens here? How did one man touting junk science manage to become so influential? Al Gore will not face questions about this thing called Global Warming from scientists with opposing positions. If he was sure of the facts that would be the very thing to do in order to win more converts to his position, but it is an indefensible position that he has taken. There is quality research that contradicts this man made global warming theory, but the main stream media will not cover it. It doesn’t make headlines to tell people that everything is okay, and that there isn’t anything to worry about. It only makes the news when there is disaster looming.

Well, there is disaster looming! We will, for the first time ever become an importer of grain this year. America, the bread-basket of the world will have to import wheat. It isn’t that we don’t have the land or technology to produce it. Our government is paying subsidies to get corn for ethanol manufacture. We have vast oil reserves off our coasts, but we won’t allow ourselves to tap them. Of course that doesn’t stop anyone else from moving in and drilling, that way we can pay to import OUR OWN OIL!

I remember the Time article from the 1970′s warning us of a coming ice age and the dangers of Global Cooling. Luckily we woke up in time before some power hungry ex-vice President got on the bandwagon and found that he could finally get people to listen to him when he was talking about a fantasy. Waking up gave us about 30 years, but do our children have a future?

Call your legislators and tell them to stop the ethanol subsidies and start drilling where we know there are reserves, so that our children will at least have food to eat as the planet fries. 202-224-3121 Call them today, after all, it is EARTHDAY.

A mortgage crisis, people losing their homes, mortgage banks going under. Something must be done! Yeah, the people who received home loans they couldn’t afford need to lose their house. The mortgage banker who bought those loans knew they were buying shaky assets when they bought them, they need to take the loss as well.

We live in a free country, free to succeed, free to fail. That is what makes the country and the economy grow. We have to take responsibility for our own actions and stop crying for the government to bail us out when we make a mistake. Where is the personal responsibility? Where is the moral fortitude? When did it become my responsibility to make your house note?

When the government steps in to bail out these bad loans, we are simply reinforcing this idea that no one needs to take responsibility for their actions. Don’t worry about it, the government will bail you out, after all, they have money printing machines, they can just print some more. Funny how the government can see the free market work when it comes to the money supply, but doesn’t seem to believe it works in the marketplace in general. We carefully control the money supply to prevent a surplus because that will lead to inflation, but we can’t leave the market alone to balance itself.

Sure, that means that some will fail. The problem is that in this country we have fostered an environment where little Johnny can’t fail because we are no longer keeping score. When it is impossible to fail, it becomes impossible to win as well and that is when we all fail.

ANWAR – Nineteen million acres of controversy. According to a news bulletin released by the Department of the Interior in March of 2003, the potential for oil production from ANWAR exceeds the daily oil production for ANY onshore reserve thus far discovered in the United States.

Further, the bulletin states that with current technology, we can still protect the ecology, create jobs and reduce our dependence on foreign oil supplies. Estimates from the Department of the Interior suggest production of 1.4 million barrels of oil daily, or approximately the amount we imported daily from Saudi Arabia in January of 2008.

One of our least visited public land sites, the ANWAR sits at the very top of Alaska where it connects to Canada. It is estimated that out of 19,000,000 acres of the reserve, no more than 2,000 would be needed to retrieve the oil reserves contained there. Why do we not have people there drilling as we speak? Eco-terrorism.

Groups like the Sierra Club, and the World Wildlife Foundation have made it politically incorrect to use our own resources. Throwing money and lobbyists against any attempt to develop our resources.

I believe it is time for us to take a stand, take back our country and kick these lobbyists out of Washington. If we will allow it, the free market will find a way to provide the things we need at the lowest possible price.