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.

 

Many Democrats think that Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi offers hope for 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 that by polling of the American people, a majority 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

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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.