Despite calls from concerned Delawareans, Congressman Mike Castle went ahead and voted for House Bill 3997 Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008.  Instead of choosing the path out of this crisis, that poses the least risk to consumers, by eliminating key elements of the government’s excessive attacks on the market, Congressman Castle chose once again to vote with his liberal friends Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank and others in the House of Representatives.  Fortunately, the measure did not pass as other less liberal Democrats and Conservative Republicans voted down a measure that would have further eroded the already struggling capitalist market.  Congressman Castle has once again proven that he is not voting for what Delawareans want, but what is expedient for him in his political circles.  Congressman Castle doesn’t have a handle on the realities of the situation, and he refuses to listen to his own constituents.  In fact, one of the proposals that was in fact proposed by myself, was to eliminate the capital gains tax for a period of 12-36 months, cut the corporate and wage taxes to 15% for the same period, repeal the mark to market accounting procedures and the Sarbanes-Oxley bill that have led to this disaster.  Had Congressman Castle actually studied the plan laid before him, he may have also noticed that this would also address the bailouts of Fannie, Freddie and AIG.  First, AIG must be returned to the market, allowed to either fail or be purchased and the only negotiable area there is if we can back the assets with government insurance.  Also, Fannie and Freddie MUST be dissolved and their assets must be auctioned in the market.  Oversight must be present, yet the government must restrain their restrictions on the market to cases of corporate excess or injustice.  Golden parachutes must be cut deeply for executives of failing institutions and severance packages must be reasonable for other employees who will lose their jobs if the company fails.  Again, Mike Castle has shown his lack of leadership and conservative values.  It’s time for the right kind of change in Washington.  Remember that when you vote on November 4th.  Given his opponent this year, a bigger liberal than he, perhaps write in votes are the way to go.

Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson wants $700 billion to bail out Wall Street.  Congress wants to add in money to bail out the housing market and they also want shares in the companies they provide TAXPAYER dollars to.  Does anyone else find this unacceptable?  Anyone who knows me knows that about 90% of the time, I am in complete agreement with conservative radio hosts like Hannity and Glenn Beck.  This time I have to beg to differ with Glenn.  Yesterday, Glenn suggested that this intervention was in fact necessary.  I don’t see it that way.  What I see is a government that has grown increasingly powerful and greedy.  Remember, Hank Paulson and Ben Bernanke are Wall Street insiders.  Golden parachutes to executives of failed corporations and no penalties for those who have brought this crisis on the American people are only two of the parts of this bill that concern me.  It is absolutely essential that we as Americans speak up and speak out and scream from one side of this country to another that we will not allow this government, or any other to drive us further into socialism.  Hank’s bank draft won’t stop at $700 billion.  Most analysts predict that the call will go out for trillions of dollars in aid to Wall Street.  You must call your Congressman, your Senator and tell your friends to do the same.  The time is now to act to retake our country.  Republicans and Democrats alike are actually supporting this unprecedented level of a power play.  Reminiscent of the USSR in the 1980’s, American faces a series of threats.  While we fight terror in numerous locations, primarily in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Russians are arming Venezuela, supporting Iran and North Korea in the UN and working quietly with the Chinese to create a new financial and energy world order.  Meanwhile, many of our financial institutions and other major corporations are owned wholly or in part by outside nations.  America faces a grave challenge in the form of energy supplies.  America is also in the midst of a highly contested election that could shift the balance of power forever and ultimately determine the fate of democracy worldwide.  In listening to the Senate Banking Committee hearing on this, I am encouraged to hear very few if any of our Senators jumping at the chance to hand out money to Bernanke and Paulson.  While our mission as citizens is not yet accomplished, it’s clear that we have begun to act and must continue to do so.  I’m calling my Senators and Congressman.  I urge you to do the same.  Tell them to block this bill and ensure that Hank and Ben don’t steal trillions from the people of our great nation.

This is for Whoopi.  When you had John McCain on, he mentioned strict constitutionalists judges.  You quipped, "Should I be worried about being a slave?"  He never really answered it the way it should have been answered.  Here is what you need to understand.  Whoopi, no where in the constitution is slavery shown as ok.  In fact, the term "...life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.." was meant to be life, liberty and property.  However, the founders instinctively knew that slave owners, some of which were writers of the document, would use property to justify slavery.  It was for that reason, that the founders removed the word property and replaced it with "the pursuit of happiness".  Constitutionalists judges are simply judges who follow the separation of power from the constitution.  The judicial branch was never intended to make law (i.e. Roe v. Wade).  That law SHOULD have been legislated and voted on by the entire population through their elected representatives in congress.  THAT is what John McCain and millions of Americans want to see.  9 people in robes should not be writing American law.  It should be up to the will of the people.  I do hope you will address this publicly as your comment was a disservice to your audience. 

On Sunday, Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson and James Lockehart, director of the newly formed Federal Housing Finance Agency, announced that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, will operate in conservatorship.  Lockehart said, “I have determined that the companies cannot continue to operate safely and soundly and fulfill their critical public missions without significant action to address our concerns”.  Freddie and Fannie combined own $5.4 trillion in mortgage debt.  The government has taken on responsibility for these loans and has taken control by deposing the CEO’s of the government sponsored companies.  To many this may seem like a good thing, solvency in the market and security in the corporations appears to be on the horizon.  In fact, we must look at what the government has done.  Our government is already in debt, in fact, it has been in debt, even during surplus years since we abandoned the Constitution in the 1940’s.  Before the great social programs of that time, our constitution limited the power of government to living within its means and spending responsibly.  Our government is not, in and of itself a private company who makes money, nor is it a worker who earns money for providing a service or product.  Our government relies on the money provided by taxpayers and other fees paid to the government.  The United States government is a shell that was originally intended to do three things, provide a legislature, a commander in chief and a Supreme Court.

            The legislature was created in order to “lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defense and general Welfare of the United States; To borrow money on the credit of the United States; To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes; To establish a uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States; To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures; To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States; To establish Post Offices and Post Roads; To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries; To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court; To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offenses against the Law of Nations; To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water; To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years; To provide and maintain a Navy; To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces; To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions; To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress; To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erecting of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings; And To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof. “.  We have run afoul of this original intention via our many amendments to the Constitution.  In fact, our current government has come dangerously close to violating the Constitution.  “No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time.”  While the government does follow this, they do so in an obscene manner and do not feel obligated to spend responsibly.  They post convoluted reports about their spending habits and have mired tax dollars in so many failing programs as to cause the reports to be unreadable by the average American.  This was NOT the intention of the founding fathers.  Our legislature was supposed to be transparent but thanks to the progressive movement, what we have is a corrupt government going on spending sprees with our tax dollars.

            The second duty of the American government is to provide a commander in chief.  “The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have Power to Grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offenses against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.  He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments.  The President shall have Power to fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Senate, by granting Commissions which shall expire at the End of their next Session.“  Amendments have allowed the President much more freedom than was intended and we have seen that through the use of Presidential power to commit troops to war.  Also, it is likely that, given a neutral or partisan affiliated congress, the President can be assured of seeing a high percentage of their policies instituted during their term in office.  This is quite scary given the socialist changes promised by Obama today.  If Obama is greeted in the White House by a two thirds majority Democrat Congress, we will see a drastically different America than what we see today, one that will resemble a land more like the USSR in the early 1980’s.

            The final duty of the American government is to provide a Supreme Court.  “The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish. The Judges, both of the supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during good Behavior, and shall, at stated Times, receive for their Services a Compensation which shall not be diminished during their Continuance in Office.”  The Supreme Court was intended to balance the government by adding a system which could be used to affect punishment for violating U.S. law.  It was also established to rule on issues based on the ideas created in the Constitution.  You’ll notice that the Constitution does not specifically state that the Supreme Court will establish the constitutionality of any law or issue.  The reason for that is because later on, in Article IV, the founders wrote in that anything not mentioned specifically in the Constitution shall fall to the individual states to decide upon, otherwise known as States Rights Issues.  When the Supreme Court was asked to rule on the constitutionality of laws, part of the founders ideals for the Judicial Powers was eroded.  The Constitution is clear in its intention to allow the states to decide for themselves how to establish social policy.  Only through progressive reforms such as The New Deal and The Great Society, have we seen the types of powers that the founders sought to ensure did not occur.  Judges have been called upon not only to preside of cases of law, but to interpret the Constitution.  This was never intended by the founders.  Even more egregious is the idea that Supreme Court judges ought to legislate from the bench.  It is abundantly clear that the founders only intended laws, such as Roe v. Wade to be legislated by Congress and not by the Supreme Court.  More to the point, it’s clear from the language that social policies such as abortion ought to be reserved to the individual states to make the decision.  Granting the Supreme Court power to rule on Constitutional issues is a further erosion of the initial intent of the founding fathers.  That said, if any such power is to be bestowed upon the Supreme Court, the power should go only so far as to interpret the original intent of the constitution and not to create laws.
            All of this exposes the erosion of the Constitution.  This also shows the distortion and hijacking of America by progressive socialists.  Fannie and Freddie are only the beginning.  Just ahead is the bailout of the big 3 automakers and beyond that the oil companies and perhaps a bank or two.  With a 9 trillion dollar national debt, and promises to spend trillions more, the question becomes, who pays for this?  The shell government does not earn its own cash, the American taxpayers pay for it.  Keep that in mind the next time you see a 55 billion dollar government bailout.  That’s your 55 billion dollars.

NBC Chief Whitehouse Correspondent David Gregory on MSNBC’s Race for the White House made veiled threats against the McCain campaign in relation to the McCain campaigns response to the relentless and unfair media bias and attacks. Gregory asked if McCain was prepared to possibly lose the White House and if rank and file Republicans had spoken to McCain about his campaigns war with the media. This is only one in a long line of attacks and criticisms aimed at the McCain campaign as the liberal news media attempts to assert its dominance. You see, the liberal media, defined as the following TV stations, CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, CNN Headline (with the exception of Glenn Beck), ABC, CBS, NBC and PBS. These stations are dominated by liberal personalities who cannot help but interject their own bias against anyone who does not follow liberal political lines. The liberal media also refers to most print media as many liberal personalities are writers, editors or owners of print media outlets. These outlets seek out the fringe of liberal politics and lend credence to their radical views. We also heard David Gregory further press the idea that simply because Sarah Palin has 5 children, she may have trouble being VP. These are the same people who promote working women having families. They also ignore Todd Palin’s role as a father and his ability to raise the children while Gov. Palin is working as VP. They promote sexism against Sarah Palin even as they abhor it when used against Hillary Clinton. The liberal news outlets have been in the tank for Barack Obama since he announced and they’ve only continued to increase their bias as the McCain campaign picks up steam. The worst is far from over, in fact it’s yet to come. The left out facts about “Troopergate” (isn’t it funny how since Nixon everything ends in ‘gate?) are only the beginning. You won’t hear from the liberal news media that the Alaska State Trooper in question not only threatened Gov. Palins parents, but also was using a stun gun on his daughter. You also won’t hear that she is the current GOVERNOR OF ALASKA, and not simply the mayor of small town Wasilla, AK. Oh, and since I’m watching and rambling today, who the heck is Rachael Maddow? Air America? Isn’t that the failed radio group of liberal idiots that no one listened to? I also see that MSNBC has established an office in Wasilla to try and dig up dirt on Sarah Palin to keep her busy defending herself in the media. They brought up a sports complex that she played a part in building in the town as if this complex was a bad thing. Last I checked, those are the types of things that we build to make communities better. The funny part is, that the American people can see through all of this crap in the liberal media. They can see through it and make their own opinions, and it’s showing. The race is close and McCain gains more permanent ground every day. With Palin in his corner, McCain is poised to overtake Obama and win this election by a landslide. Biden is a nonentity, Obama is a fraud, McCain is a hero and Palin is a strong Conservative.

I am the parent of a child attending Albert H. Jones Elementary School in the Christina School District.  I recently attended a PTA meeting for the school with my fiance and we were pleasantly surprised and very impressed by the schools new administrator Meredith Murray.  Ms. Murray spoke today, I'd met her briefly once before during registration, but during her introduction to the PTA parents, she told us that she thought of the children at Albert Jones as her own and wants the best for them.  She pledged administrator and teacher involvement and hard work to go along with the efforts put forth by the parents.  Ms. Murray is a big thinker, who challenged the schools PTA to raise more money this year in order to help fund field trips for the students of the school.  Ms. Murray has showed a willingness to step out of the box and go above and beyond the call of duty as an administrator.  She also wants the parents to be more involved in the education of their children and create a learning environment that is more like a community learning center.  This will allow children to not only be instructed by the teachers, but also to learn from the parents.  It will involve the parents as true partners in the learning enviornment and is a great plan.  It puts the ball in the court of both educators and parents.  Ms. Murray is a shining example of the good within our public school system.  I have consistently spoken up in favor of Charter and Private Schools because of their ability to involve the parents and communities in order to create a constant learning enviornment.  Ms. Murray has brought that same type of communal learning to the Chrstina School District.  Ms. Murray never once spoke of relying on the school district or the state government to fund our childrens education.  She's asked us as parents to put the onus on ourselves.  Ms. Murray is an exciting breath of fresh air in our public school system and she appears to want to take the school to new levels beyond what the government provides.  She is an example of administrators who seek not simply to meet state or national standards, but blast through the ceiling and set new standards for all schools.  My fiance and I have pledged to help Ms. Murray in her push to make Albert H. Jones a great school and other PTA parents have done the same.  We look forward to working with the PTA and the educators and administrators to provide our children with the best possible education.  I am very happy with what I have seen so far and I hope that we as parents can all make a difference.