The Way I See It!

People actually wonder if she is ready to serve as our Vice President. Take a look at the video linked below. Which is followed by the actual constitutional duties of the VP pulled straight from the US Senate web-page. In case you don't feel like reading, let me assure the President of the Senate has no hand in creating legislation other than to break a tie vote. Political influence is not the same thing. http://www.cnn.com/video/?JSONLINK=/video/politics/2008/10/22/sot.palin.vp.role.kusa Vice-Presidential Duties The framers also devoted scant attention to the vice president's duties, providing only that he "shall be President of the Senate, but shall have no Vote, unless they be evenly divided" (Article I, section 3). In practice, the number of times vice presidents have exercised this right has varied greatly. John Adams holds the record at 29 votes, followed closely by John C. Calhoun with 28. Since the 1870s, however, no vice president has cast as many as 10 tie-b

I am going to shock many of you....I simply don't think Palin did anything wrong in this instance. If you view it in the same context as the executive branch of the federal government, we understand and even expect to cover these types of expenses for the entire presidential family. This is not news, this is fodder. Which ever media mental giant that unearthed this tidbit owes their boss a few dollars. AP INVESTIGATION: Alaska funded Palin kids' travel By BRETT J. BLACKLEDGE, ADAM GOLDMAN and MATT APUZZO, Associated Press Writers Brett J. Blackledge, Adam Goldman And Matt Apuzzo, Associated Press Writers – 39 mins ago ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Gov. Sarah Palin charged the state for her children to travel with her, including to events where they were not invited, and later amended expense reports to specify that they were on official business. The charges included costs for hotel and commercial flights for three daughters to join Palin to watch their father in a snowmobile race, and a

I am going to give you two examples and you tell me which example belongs to whom. Plan one imposes a tax on profits of oil companies and then takes that tax and re-distributes that wealth to the people. The other plan removes tax breaks given to wealthy/billion dollar companies, thus allowing the people that work for those companies (who are making considerably less income) to pay less in tax and also receive additional tax credits to help off set the wage disparage in our nation. Who belongs to which plan. Here is a hint, one is much closer to socialism than the other. Also social services to low income families and people ie. Medicaid, Medicare, Food Assistance, Temporary Cash Assistance is not the same as socialism. Also paying into a large "pool" to acquire medical insurance is not socialism it is called Blue Cross Blue Shield, Etna, MVP, Cigna...oh wait that is private socialism for profit....so it has to be better than taking away the profit aspect to allow lowering co

Please, everyone try to understand there are in fact people out there that ARE smarter than you. Just because you have the right to vote does not make you either well informed or intelligent. For those of you to stupid to understand the re-distribution of taxes be it through changes to current tax breaks or cuts is not the same as socialistic re-distributions of wealth, please allow me to help you. You can not count money you might have earned absent whatever the tax costs incurred as "income/wealth". There are no loop holes for the middle and low income groups. Obama's tax plan will simply close many unfair loop holes for large corporations and the wealthy, while giving tax cuts/breaks to those who EARN less. You can not take what was never given, the withdrawal of tax breaks for the wealthy is not the same as TAKING money from the rich and giving it to the poor. For if it were not for those tax breaks that money would already belong to every citizen in the nation. Not

For those of you who still think war is the only patriotic display in government or citizenry here is something for you to ponder. On Sunday, former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff under George H.W. Bush (Desert Storm) and former secretary of state under George W. Bush, retired General Colin Powell made the following statement on NBC's "Meet the Press." "I think he is a transformational figure, he is a new generation coming onto the world stage, onto the American stage, and for that reason I'll be voting for Sen. Barack Obama," Powell said he was concerned about what he characterized as a recent negative turn of Republican candidate Sen. John McCain's campaign, such as the campaign's attempts to tie Obama to former 1960s radical Bill Ayers. "I think that's inappropriate. I understand what politics is about -- I know how you can go after one another, and that's good. But I think this goes too far, and I think it has made the McCain

More proof John McCain is not looking out for you. Read on. AP IMPACT: Mortgage firm arranged stealth campaign By PETE YOST, Associated Press Writer Pete Yost, Associated Press Writer – 2 hrs 2 mins ago WASHINGTON – Freddie Mac secretly paid a Republican consulting firm $2 million to kill legislation that would have regulated and trimmed the mortgage finance giant and its sister company, Fannie Mae, three years before the government took control to prevent their collapse. In the cross hairs of the campaign carried out by DCI of Washington were Republican senators and a regulatory overhaul bill sponsored by Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb. DCI's chief executive is Doug Goodyear, whom John McCain's campaign later hired to manage the GOP convention in September. Freddie Mac's payments to DCI began shortly after the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee sent Hagel's bill to the then GOP-run Senate on July 28, 2005. All GOP members of the committee supported it; all D