I hope you read my last post  (Email the White House and ask for a Pardon ) in which I wrote it would be a good idea if everyone would email or call the White House in light of the  Border Patrol agents -- Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean. I did email President Bush and that email is below.

Dear President Bush:

 I hope this email finds you doing great.

First off I want thank you for  being our President and keeping another 911 attack from happening.

You have been in my prayers.

I do ask you do one more thing before leaving the White House please please pardon Border Patrol agents -- Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean.

Who were put in prison base on the words of a drug dealer. These two men like any law man were just doing their jobs. As a backer of yours please do the right thing here.

Thanks again for being our President and I hope in the next few days you will take this action.

Billy

 Q. What lessons do you think Republicans should learn from the last two disastrous -- for them -- election cycles?

A. There are at least three lessons that immediately jump out at me. The first is that the party must consistently do what it says. You can't be the party of fiscal discipline and tolerate the kind of spending that our party has accepted in the last several years, especially in Washington. Our actions have to match our rhetoric. If the Democrats had proposed many of the spending initiatives and projects that Republicans ended up approving, we would have been the first to criticize them. It isn't just earmarks. Look at some of the discretionary spending increases in Washington.

(The above is part of interview Cal Thomas did with the Gov. of Lousiana who is pictured below. Read more  below.)

 

We went to Washington to change Washington, but we became a captive of Washington. We were supposed to be the party of outsiders. We became what we were elected to change.

Q. How do you think President-elect Obama is doing so far?

A. The president deserves our support as Americans. In church, we pray for our president, whether we voted for him or not. I think we should look for opportunities to work across party lines with him. I also think as Americans we also have an obligation to stand on principle when we disagree. We should genuinely want him to succeed.

 

(We need not only more Republicans  like Gov. Jindal we need more Americans like him. Who will put nation ahead of party. Read the whole interview Cal Thomas did here .)
 

 Is anyone besides me and some  on the right getting concern about the reports of what Obama will do in the White House and who he is going to bring with him.

To find out some of my concerns watch a video I just posted on You Tube  Obama Concerns.

 President-elect Barack Obama is preparing to issue an executive order his first week in office — and perhaps his first day — to close the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, according to two presidential transition team advisers. It's unlikely the detention facility at the Navy base in Cuba will be closed anytime soon. In an interview last weekend, Obama said it would be "a challenge" to close it even within the first 100 days of his administration.

But the order, which one adviser said could be issued as early as Jan. 20, would start the process of deciding what to do with the estimated 250 al-Qaida and Taliban suspects and potential witnesses who are being held there. Most have not been charged with a crime.

 

(Can you image one of  Qaida and Taliban suspects being given a trial in an American court room.  It is too bad Obama and others on the left don't care as much about the lack of human rights given by the Cuba government We could have a repeat of the first trial of OJ with some ACLU soul  defending one of these killers. It would be crazy if Obama does close this prison. God help us if he does. Read more on this issue right here.) 

 

 The incoming Obama administration is prepared to abandon George Bush's ­doctrine of isolating Hamas by establishing a channel to the Islamist organisation, sources close to the transition team say. ( PAPER: OBAMA CAMP READY TO OPEN UP DIALOGUE WITH HAMAS... DEVELOPING...)

The move to open contacts with Hamas, which could be initiated through the US intelligence services, would represent a definitive break with the Bush ­presidency's ostracising of the group. The state department has designated Hamas a terrorist organisation, and in 2006 ­Congress passed a law banning US financial aid to the group.

 

(This is something which should concern all of us. Why should we sit down with people who want to see our nation destroyed along with the Jewish state brought down. They want to kill every person who is not a radical follower of Islam. It is looking more and more like Obama doesn't care about keeping America safe and fighting evil. Shame on him if he does this.Also if he keeps doing things like this and  if we have another 911 attack Obama and those who work for him will be punished by the voters. )

President-elect Barack Obama's

selection of an old White White House hand to head the CIA shows a preference for a strong manager over intelligence expert. ( Watch )
Obama's decision to name Leon Panetta to lead the US intelligence agency surprised the spy community and signaled the Democrat's intention for a clean break from Bush administration policies.
(What is Obama thinking. We are in a time of war and he wants to name a man who has little if any experience far as Intelligence goes. This looks like a political move instead of putting the nation first.Read more of the above story  Obama's CIA chief pick short on experience.)

 

A defiant Gov. Rod Blagojevich on Tuesday appointed a former state attorney general to Barack Obama's former Senate seat, a suprise move that put his opponents in the uncomfortable position of trying to block a veteran political trailblazer from becoming the Senate's only black member. Blagojevich's appointment of Roland Burris injected race into the drama surrounding the embattled governor, who sought to make the issue more about the man he selected rather than the seat he's accused of trying to sell. ( 'Don't let allegations against me taint appointment'...    )

"Please don't allow the allegations against me to taint a good an honest man," the governor said, turning to the smiling 71-year-old standing by his side.

Burris said he discussed the appointment with Blagojevich Sunday night. "I was asked if he would appoint me, would I accept, and the answer is yes," Burris said.

 

Burris said he has no connection to the charges against Blagojevich, who was arrested earlier this month on charges that he tried to sell Obama's Senate seat to the highest bidder.

(So far I have heard on TV how Roland Burris has nothing to do with the problems that Gov. Rod is facing. However wouldn't it have said something to the voters if  Burris  had said I don't think it is right to accept this offer with all the charges against you Gov. Rod. Also now no matter what Burris  wants his name will be tide to the Gov. of Ill. )

 A crumbling economy, more than 2 million constituents who have lost their jobs this year, and congressional demands of CEOs to work for free did not convince lawmakers to freeze their own pay. (  Congress Gives Itself Raise...   )

Instead, they will get a $4,700 pay increase, amounting to an additional $2.5 million that taxpayers will spend on congressional salaries, and watchdog groups are not happy about it.

 

“As lawmakers make a big show of forcing auto executives to accept just $1 a year in salary, they are quietly raiding the vault for their own personal gain,” said Daniel O’Connell, chairman of The Senior Citizens League (TSCL), a non-partisan group. “This money would be much better spent helping the millions of seniors who are living below the poverty line and struggling to keep their heat on this winter.”

However, at 2.8 percent, the automatic raise that lawmakers receive is only half as large as the 2009 cost of living adjustment of Social Security recipients.

Rep. Harry Mitchell, a first-term Democrat from Arizona, sponsored legislation earlier this year that would have prevented the automatic pay adjustments from kicking in for members next year. But the bill, which attracted 34 cosponsors, failed to make it out of committee.

 

(This is a political outrage. It is also very upsetting that a bill  which would have  stopped  things like this from happening doesn't even make it out of committee.)

In an unprecedented move, the Illinois attorney general filed a motion with the state's highest court Friday asking justices to strip scandal-plagued Gov. Rod Blagojevich of his powers.  (  Illinois AG asks high court to declare gov. unfit  )

 Lisa Madigan took the action as pressure on the governor intensified to step down and lawmakers considered impeachment.

"I recognize that this is an extraordinary request, but these are extraordinary circumstances," Madigan said at a news conference.

(As I posted in a posting yesterday this man should be removed from office and have the full force of the law brought down on him. Of course this could all be passed if  Gov. Blagojevich will do the right thing and step down. It is all in Gov. Blagojevich's hands.)