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Leaving the Capitol on “Marine Two”, flying over their home for the last 8 years enroute to Andrews Air Force base, and then with a small entourage of friends and family, George W. Bush and his First Lady, Laura, return to their beloved Texas.
Greeted in Midland, TX by friends and politicians, including Texas Governor (and possible Republican Presidential candidate) Rick Perry, the former President said that he was “glad to be home”. In his remarks, Bush thanked many people, but choked up a bit when he thanked his father and mother.
Bush reflected on his White House a bit, and then talked about his plans for retirement. “I am lucky to be the only former President to share my retirement with BOTH of my parents, and a plan to make the best of every moment”. Bush also said that he will write a book about his last eight years, to explain the backdrop of some of his decisions, to be able to write the history of his White House.
He said that he will have no problem looking at himself in the mirror, knowing that he has returned to Texas with the same values that he left with eight years ago.
Tomorrow, he will begin his new life, starting with making coffee for the First Lady.
Our universities should be areas where our students can learn both sides of the issues, and learn how to formulate their own perspectives and ideology. They should not be places where professors shut off the free flow of discussions, and only allow discussion of their views.
In that light, Florida State University (FSU) recently hosted the controversial friend of Barack Obama, terrorist Bill Ayers, for a speaking engagement. The fact that this man is allowed to speak at all to the students anywhere is a travesty in and of itself, but, that is the judicial system working to protect our rights, so his freedom of speech can be tolerated. Less tolerable is the use of tax dollars to pay for his visit. Taxpayers in any state should resent using tax dollars to pay someone who takes no remorse in his bombings.
But the greatest travesty was the fact that the administrators at FSU placed a ban on any PROTESTS during Mr. Ayers visits. The irony that this man who marched and protested America’s Vietnam involvement and America’s establishment would not be subjected to protests himself.
When First Lady Laura Bush addressed the graduating class at Vanderbilt University in 2006, those sitting in the audience, including Texas Gov. Rick Perry (whose son was one of the graduates), knew she was about to arrive because you could hear the protesters that were just beyond the entrance gates of the University. Just a week or so later, as Secretary of State Condeleeza Rice addressed the graduates at Boston College, a group of students stood up and turned their backs on her as she spoke. Keep in mind that both of these schools are private institutions, thus are on prvate property where protests could be controlled or banned, while FSU is a public institution, and limitations on freedom of speech should not be as easy to control.
But Bill Ayers is not to be subjected to any protesters!! What happened to freedom of speech?
http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2009/jan/fla-univ-pays-terrorist-thousands-bans-protestors
GM, Ford and Chrysler have taken their public lashings, returned to Detroit, sharpened the pencils, and are now HYBRID-driving themselves back to Washington DC, the tin cups in tow, for a piece of the bailout pie. Co-President Elect Barack H. Obama addressed the Governor’s Meeting in Pennsylvania this morning, first with cameras present, then behind closed doors so he could “listen” to the needs of the Governors. In 43 states, there is a budget shortfall, and the Governor’s appear poised to ask the Co-President Elect for $170 billion dollar bailout as well.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry
To their credit, and ultimately as a key focus in their possible bid for the Republican Presidential nomination in 2012, Gov. Rick Perry of Texas and Mark Sanford of South Carolina co-authored an OpEd piece in today’s Wall Street Journal in which they state that this bailout mentality IS NOT the American way. The two Governors wrote:
“As governors and citizens, we’ve grown increasingly concerned over the past weeks as Washington has thrown bailout after bailout at the national economy with little to show for it.
In the process, the federal government is not only burying future generations under mountains of debt. It is also taking our country in a very dangerous direction — toward a “bailout mentality” where we look to government rather than ourselves for solutions. We’re asking other governors from both sides of the political aisle to join with us in opposing further federal bailout intervention…
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In a free-market system, competition and one’s own personal stake motivate people to do their best. In this process, the winners create wealth, jobs and new investment, while others go back to the drawing board better prepared to try again.To an unprecedented degree, government is currently picking winners and losers in the private marketplace, and throwing good money after bad. A prudent investor takes money from low-yield investments and puts them in those that yield better returns. Recent government intervention is doing the opposite — taking capital generated from productive activities and throwing it at enterprises that in many cases need to reorganize their business model.
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In Texas and South Carolina, we’ve focused on improving “soil conditions” for businesses by cutting taxes, reforming our legal system and our workers’ compensation system. We’d humbly suggest that Congress take a page from those playbooks by focusing on targeted tax relief paid for by cutting spending, not by borrowing.In the rush to do “something” to help, federal leaders would be wise to take a line from the Hippocratic Oath, and pledge to do no (more) harm to our country’s finances. We can weather this storm if we commit to fiscal prudence and hold true to the values of individual freedom and responsibility that made our nation great.”
Wall Street Journal, Dec. 2, 2008
So. Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford
Even as the Governor’s convened their meeting, California’s Governator Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a finincial state of emergency, an action that forces the legislature to address the state’s financial situation within the next 45 days. (On a humorous side note, do we think the Co-President Elect and the Governator discussed Obama’s fitness needs, in light of Arnold’s campaign comments about Obama’s policies needing some “meat”?)
Governator greets the “meatless” Co-President Elect
Co-President Elect Obama and his YesMan Biden have not been sworn in yet, and Co-President Hillary Clinton has not been confirmed by the Senate yet, and already the posturing for 2012 can be seen. It will be important to watch the key players, particularly the Republicans like Gov. Tim Pawlenty, Gov. Rick Perry, Gov. Mark Sanford, Gov. Sarah Palin, Rep. Paul Ryan, and Gov. Bobby Jindal during the next two years, and what effect that they will have on the midterm elections in 2010.
