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Because this president has been so clear about not stepping on the toes of congress and requiring them to do what they were voted into office to do, it has become apparent that so many have decided that he should not honor that pledge.   They are all asking the president to make laws instead of doing what they were hired to do.   This wish may soon be their undoing. In this debt ceiling debate, Republican Tea party members are always saying that this president has never presented a bill.   Unless I missed my guess, the Legislative Branch is the ones who make laws, while the Executive Branch is supposed to enact them but then with the way some people rewrite history, I could be wrong.   Either way the Tea Party may have just handed President Obama a moment in history that no other President will ever be able to match. By not doing everything that they could to be the ones to save this nation by voting to extend the debt ceiling and debt reduction, they have allowed ...

It has become the norm for representatives of the people who get elected by promising to work for the few forget that they also must represent the many as well.   When you are elected to office, you carry with you more than those who elected you, you have now become the face of this nation and your actions or inactions reflect upon this nation.   The question which should be asked and answered by those chosen is what kind of face will others see? John Boehner may be judged on how he can not act like the adult because he has to check with Rush Limbaugh before putting a plan on the floor but Eric Cantor will also be judged on his lack of leadership skills when it comes to him whipping the votes to pass anything.   It’s an established maxim that if you cater to the minority instead of the majority, you will always be changing planes in mid-air.   These guys are now doing it without a parachute, or so it appears. If the Republican Party wishes to save itself from the T...

According to an article written by Carrie Budoff Brown of Politico titled “Phone tag and wrong numbers: The collapse of the debt talks ”, the talks fell apart for many different reasons yet I still find it hard to believe that given the dire circumstances this nation is in, any leader, regardless of party, would not do everything within their power to lead and not follow. Ms. Brown’s article says that “President Barack Obama tried to get House Speaker John Boehner on the phone late Thursday, but never heard back. The silence continued into Friday, and White House aides began to wonder. It never took this long for the president to get his phone calls returned, particularly from Boehner. After all, the two chatted regularly, forging a working relationship over the many weeks of debt-ceiling negotiations — two men who were each trying to lead their parties someplace they didn’t really want to go.   Obama finally heard from Boehner’s office at 3:30 p.m. Friday: Expect a call in two h...

It’s time that we all begin to take responsibility for our actions or in the case of the progressive left, inaction.   We are the reason that this is happening because when it was time for us to step up to the plate and keep these freshmen Republicans out of office, we choose to sit back and watch this world implode.   We wanted to send Washington a message to not take us for granted but what we ended up doing was dooming America to this dive off a cliff. Hide behind your reasoning all you want but in your heart of hearts, you know that we did not step up and protect this nation from enemies foreign and domestic as we should.   We did not put our own selfish wants and needs behind the need of the nation as a whole.   We complain about the Tea Party taking us to the cliff’s edge but truth be told, they only had the power to do this because we gave it to them.   Unlike the voters of Wisconsin is calling back representatives who lied and mislead them, they are abl...

Forgive me for being so conspiratorial but when I first heard of how depilating Michelle Bachman’s migraine headaches could be, I could feel her pain because I too suffer from them but when I heard that they would sometimes take her out of play for a number of days, something else occurred to me. It became ever so clear that maybe this has been the opportunity that the Bachman Camp has been looking for to get themselves out of the race for President.   She may have started this journey to obtain “Sarah Palin” status or to elevate her personal status and things were going pretty well until the questions about her stance and her husband clinic became the questions may wanted to ask.   Maybe she finally figured out that she was going to have to take this debt ceiling thing serious and the information that she had been given that it really didn’t matter was wrong. Either way, it would not surprise me that soon the Bachman Camp will soon begin packing up their tents and ending th...

The has been much conversation about what happened in the debt talks between President Barack Obama and the Republican’s number two man, Eric Cantor.   Everybody has their own interpretations about what that exchange meant and like everyone else, I have mine.   Mine say that the Republican Party may have received a blessing in disguise and President’s Obama frustration may just be their salvation.   Mine says that this events signals the end of Tea Party rule and the re-emergence of the real Party of Lincoln Here is my evidence and much of it comes from an article by Olivier Knox for AFP titled “ Global warnings raise stakes in US debt standoff” .   It all started when “The US hit the ceiling on May 16 and has used spending and accounting adjustments, as well as higher-than-expected tax receipts, to continue operating without impact on government obligations.”   That was when “The president began pressing for a comprehensive deal to last through his 2012 reelec...

There’s a new sun on the horizon and its rising fast.   Those who have remained quiet will no longer be retrained and those who have felt ignored will now be heard. I was one who had ideas and thoughts about the direction of this country but even with the ability of the blogosphere still felt as if I was not getting heard.   I wanted to do my part in helping to find solutions to the countries’ problems but never could see any incorporation of those ideas make it to those who would ultimately be in charge of making the final decision.   That was then, this is now. Welcome to ACOMM PAC or American Citizens of Modest Means.   Documentation has already been submitted to the Federal Election Commission (FEC) and you can join at www.americancitizensofmodestmeans.blogspot.com .   This PAC is designed to hold all elected officials feet to the fire and demand that if you promise, you will be forced to deliver.   Do not look for the leadership of this PAC to be spe...