The point has been raised that I needed to be more frequent in my posts. I will attempt to post at least once a week when I have relevant commentary. That being said, most of my attitude towards American Politics this week has been antipathy. However, there are some interesting things happening.

Congressional Republicans are developing a spine again. Instead of hoping that Democrat Lite will win them elections, maybe they will indeed fall back to their laurels of being the party of fiscal restraint. They recognize that this “Stimulus Bill” in its current form is not actually that at all. This is a bill of long awaited Democratic Pork Projects. Now that there is a Democratic President to go with a Democratic Congress, they figure that it is time to realize their dreams come true in one bill. They can pass the bill without any Republican support. They don’t actually need it. However, they want a few Republicans to cross the aisle on this. They need to say that there was a bipartisan vote in favor of the bill. I think that this bill is incredibly unpopular with the American public, as is evident by 11 House Democrats voting against it also. It is smart for the Republicans to oppose this bill for reasons other than instituting Socialism in the US. When the outcry against this massive purveyor of debt comes around near election time, they will be the people who voted against it.

I will not outline the bill in this medium, but here is the bill as it was submitted in the House.

The new President had a whirlwind first week dolling out five Executive Orders. If this pace is kept up, we may be seeing the birth of a tyrant. These particular orders are all meant to reel American foreign policy from the Cowboy Diplomacy of the previous Administration.

I guess we just need everybody to like us again. What are we in middle school? Our “place in the world” is pretty damn secure without thinking of what people in London, Paris, Rome, and Mecca think about us. Let’s have a comparison. If I’m in a room with 250 other people. I don’t care what any of them think of me. There is only one person in the entire world of 6-7 billion that I do care what their opinion of me is. I just want my wife to like me at the moment. The rest of you, it’s nice if you do but it doesn’t define me. Now just think about this, the most influential country is supposed to worry what the Cook Islanders think about them. If I were in government, I would not be worrying about how people in the UN building felt about us. I would be cutting corporate tax rates so that it would actually be advantageous for manufacturing to occur within our borders. We are slipping as a superpower, but it isn’t because of Cowboy Diplomacy. It’s because we are a nation of consumers rather than producers. That is when empires fall.