MULTIPLE THOUGHTS

What has to be taken as a positive political sign for anti-Obama conservatives, a third incumbent Democrat Congressman has announced that he will not stand for re-election in November of 2010. These three "retiring" folks are Baird of Washington, Moore of Kansas and Tanner of Tennessee. The Republican Party has clearly embraced these openings with full intent to have the seats become occupied by a member of its Party. As we enter into 2010, fully expect that more Democrats will humbly announce, that for their personal best interests and the best interests of their home district, no reelection campaign will be made.

With the 2010 elections less than a year away, Democrats want to implement a financial debt act now so that it will be forgotten or at least minimized by time voters enter the polls this coming November. This legislation is the raising of the ceiling on the national debt. The current allowed total US debt is $12.1 Trillion and that figure has already been reached. To "balance the books", the Democrats will in next few days raise the national debt by another $1.8 Trillion. In real figures that will be a total short, money owed by all us Americans to others like Communist China and OPEC, in the total amount of $13,900,000,000,000.00.

Considering this huge Federal debt as well as other negative aspects of the American economy, Ken Rogoff, who is a noted Harvard economist and an IMF Department Director, has said that he does not easily see "the kind of robust recovery" in the immediate future of America that will "generate 10-11 million jobs". His thoughts have been that in matters concerning unemployment and housing, "it is going to get worst" particularly as Federal support programs "in time will have to fade".

Finally, a most recent article by Monica Crowley placed before her readers a very somber view of Obama's most recent Afghanistan decree. The article is titled Unserious Afghan Approach and in just those few words perfectly describes Obama's efforts in this war effort. Her emphasis was on how weak Obama had appeared. Key points included that Obama is "just not into it" referring to the military efforts in that region of the world. An apt comparison was also made to Jimmy Carter, another weak Democratic President, when Obama was assigned Carter's "hapless and halfhearted politics". In a obvious reference to the coming elections of 2010 and 2012, Ms Crowley stated that "weak Presidents are neither respected nor electorally rewarded".

November of this year will, with any luck, certainly confirm these feelings of Monica Crowley.