Since President Bush commuted the sentence of Scooter Libby yesterday, the press has been full of people who either think it was a good thing or a bad thing. Of course, the Democrats have their panties in a wad about it, but that was to be expected. Others seem surprised that President Bush didn't give Libby a full pardon. This is exactly what I expected to happen as should anyone who really thought about it. Read on for why...

Bud Cramer finally responded to the email I sent to him nearly a month ago regarding the surrender in Iraq vote. Below is the message I got back from him. It's a typical canned response that hypes up his support for the troops making Mr. Cramer seem like a die-hard blue-dog Democrat. He never mentions the "timetable" (i.e. surrender) part of the bill. He only references it as a way to "enable [the] process" of forcing the Iraqi goverment to "begin to accept greater resonsibility for ensuring stability in the region."

Read on for the response.

I sent the following letter to Rep. Robert "Bud" Cramer today. He's theoretically my representative in Congress.

Mr. Cramer,

I hear the House is again set to send the President a troop funding bill with a timetable for withdrawal. I urge you to vote AGAINST such a bill. You previously voted for a timetable and voted against the "troop surge".

I'm getting sick of the Democrats and the barking moonbat you have chosen as Speaker continually trying to undercut the President in fighting the war in Iraq. It is vitally important that we win in Iraq and that's not going to happen with Pelosi and her ilk playing politics and encouraging our enemies.

I'll post any response I get

Update: I finally got a response. It's in another story located here.

Well, it seems the Hildabeast let her little Socialist demon out of it's cage this weekend during a speech. Here is what she said: (YouTube video of speech segment)

"The Democrats know what needs to be done. Again, we're working trying to try push this agenda forward. The other day the oil companies reported the highest profits in the history of the world. I want to take those profits and I want to put them into a strategic energy fund that will begin to fund alternative, smart energy; alternatives and technology that will begin to actually move us toward the direction of independence." [Emphasis added]

The two phrases in bold indicate her core beliefs. She wants to take those profits. She wants to put them somewhere. Excuse me, Ms. Rodham, but it's not your freaking money!

Whatever one might think of ExxonMobil, you have to belive the money is better off staying with ExxonMobil and its shareholders (including many peoples' mutual funds in their 401k accounts) than being stolen by the government to be squandered. But actually that's beside the point. The real point is that the money belongs to ExxonMobil. If they want to heap the money up and set it on fire, that's their business. It's not the government's money.

God help us if this woman is ever elected president.

I wrote an email to my U.S. Congressional Representative, Robert (Bud) Cramer, requesting that he support the "privatization" of Social Security as proposed by President Bush. I asked that he ignore the pressure of his Socialist Democrat buddies. When I sent the email I made two predictions.

1. The response would be a "canned" form letter.
2. His answer would be sufficiently wishy-washy that you couldn't say exactly what his position on the matter is.

I was correct on both accounts! If I were only that good in predicting the stock market... Read on for the original email I sent along with his response.