Robert Reich: The Enthusiasm Gap.

Want to see why the Democrats will probably lose Congress in the mid term elections?  Read this!

Eric E. Schmidt is the CEO of Google.  He has been in the news lately because of his resistance to censorship by the Chinese Government.  He recently made these remarks at the Davos Conference, and they have a message that everyone should be interested in.  Click the link below and read what he has to say.

Eric E. Schmidt: Davos Confidential.

Read what Robert Borsage has to say about the Republican leadership and the big banks.  Click an the link below to read the full article.   The Tea Baggers are organized and make a big splash in the media every day.  People like us, who by far are the majority in this country sit by,  don’t make a stir and the media ignores us.

Republican leaders — led by the perpetually tanned John Boehner, House Republican leader, and his whip Eric Cantor — are looking to sell themeselves to big bankers angry about financial reform.

Cantor says: a lot of bankers who supported Obama are feeling “buyers' remorse.” His answer? Buy us.

The Wall Street Journal reports that Boehner pitched Jamie Dimon, head of JP Morgan Chase for Republicans, arguing that Republicans are there for him, standing up to block any financial reforms, opposed to taxes on big banks, opposed to cracking down on speculation, opposed to protecting consumers. And, Rs have proven that they will stay bought.

Have the tea baggers heard about this? Seems like an odd alliance — folks justifiably outraged at the bank bailout with conservatives who are openly solicting bank money in exchange from blocking any and all reforms.

via Republican Leaders To Banks: Buy Us | OurFuture.org.

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Are you dissapointed?   Read the following from the Huffington Post.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/drew-westen/leadership-obama-style-an_b_398813.html

Why didn’t we get the leadership we expected and really needed after the eight year Bush debacle?

I would like to hear some real comments from some serious readers of my blog.  The only comments that I seem to get these days are spam that wants me to direct you to web sites that promote porn, fake meds or who want to install viruses, and they are a nuisance delete so they won’t be posted.  I really would like to hear from  my readers who have something interesting to say..

Follow the link below.  You can read the speech that President Obama should give when he makes up his mind

about what we should do in Afghanistan.  Neither he nor any of his speechwriters wrote this,

and the odds are that he won’t say anything like this, but we can hope.

http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175141/this_administration_ended_rather_than_extended_two_wars_

Want to know why we are having such a time getting a decent health care bill passed?  Check the link below and see what goes

on in your House of Representatives

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewafPV2brQA

I’ve been remiss -  I really haven’t given too much attention to my blog, although I apparently have quite a few readers.  The problem is that the ones who do read it and post comments send in mostly spam – a lot of it comes from Eastern Europe.  Naturally I delete this stuff so it won’t be posted, so if the spammers are reading this they may was well cease and desist, as their junk will not be posted.What I will try to do from now on is to post something on the blog as often as I can something that I think will interest my readers and hopefully I will get some interesting and intelligent comments posted that my readers would be interesting in seeing.  I will also now put a signature on all of my outgoing e-mails directing the recipients to my blog and hopefully will increase the readership. It would be nice if those who do read the blog as a result of this will forward the address of my blog to their friends so I can increase my readership.

So here goes:

In this week’s current edition of The Nation Magazine ( www.thenation.com)  there is an interesting article about ACORN, the group involved in communiy organizing.  As you probably have read, a couple of right wing advocates went around to their offices trying to entrap some of their people by creating outrageous situations and secretly filming them and later posting the films on youtube. Congress reacted, and cut off some of the federal funding they were using to register voter, working for the 2010 Census \.

Contrast this with the government’s handling of Blackwater, the private mercenary force used in Iraq and Afgahnistan to perform work that should be done by the military.  A recent federal audit suggest that Blackwater may owe the government $55 million dollars for failing to meet the terms of just one of their federal contracts. Five of their employees face murder charges for their role in the murder of several Iraqi citizens. Yet Blackwater’s $217 million dollar contract was just extended by the Obama administration.  Also, consider the fact that Halliburton, Dick Cheney’s company, which received $80 million in contract bonuses to provide electric wiring in Iraq. Sixteen soldiers and 2 civilians have been electrocuted because of this faulty wiring. Pfizer, the pharmaceutical giant was just fined 2.3 billion dollars in a fraud settlement, and yet had more than 73 million dollars in federal contracts in 2007 alone.