Just Thinking..

**Why do Republicans actually think Chris Christie could run for President? Did you see the photos of him today alongside President Obama? The man is beyond obese and is a walking heart attack. But Bush aides claim he is reconsidering his refusal to run because the GOP thinks their line-up is pretty weak.

**the only two rational Republican candidates right now--Romney and Huntsman--literally believe that Noah's Ark was built in North Carolina and that the Garden Of Eden was in Missouri. Rick Perry is backed my favorite member of the New Apostolic Reformation, the great prophetess Cindy Jacobs, who believes there is no difference between the public or private becaue God sees all.

** vice-residential hopeful Marco Rubio has a big AMEX problem--he charged $100K to his GOP credit card--but that story leads to what women was he taking and where. Romney is interested in Rubio as attracting the Hispanic vote in 2012.

** the Balanced Budget Amendment is the craziest of recent crazy ideas. One of our Virginia representatives urged his fellow Republicans to talk it up during the August recess. It would mean we couldn't have fought the Civil War,ended the Great Depression,fought WWII or even any of the current wars.

**President Obama has cut taxes 29 times. When is he going to get off this kick.

**my father-in-law is right --Obama is like a trial lawyer who is avoiding going to trial.

**could someone in our media do a little story about all the federal subsidies some of our Republicans receive? For example, the Queen of the Teaparty, Michelle Bachmann received farm subsidies, Medicare payments for her husband's practice and other goodies. It seems to me that if you are arguing against government then it's fair game to show how much you benefit. For her, it's over $400K per year, not counting her congressional salary and medical insurance.

**Candy Crowley of CNN got it wrong about no one being re-elected with unemployment so high. FDR was re-elected with 17% unemployment.

**Mike Lofgren in his "Reflections of a GOP Operative Who Left the Cult" www.truth-out.org sums up much of my thought of why I no longer am a Republican. Lofren served for 25 years as senior staff on both the House and Senate Budget Committees.

**the MSM is neglecting attention to Rick Perry's private meeting with over 200 leaders of the Religious Right and his promises to outlaw same-sex marriage everywhere, reinstate DADT and out law abortion. I wonder whether he committed to rescind the direct election of Senators, which was one of his ideas in FED UP.

**Rick Perry told the ministers there was nothing scandalous in his private life. Really!

**we would have to create 380,000 jobs per month for three years to get back where we were. It's not going to happen.

**Dick Cheney said that Hillary Clinton would have been easier for the Republicans to work with. I doubt it--the 1,000page opposition research paper by the RNC would then be used against her. As it is, the document serves as the source of all the FOX News nuttiness about Obama using the techniques of Saul Alinsky. The RNC went into great detail on Alinsky because Hillary wrote her dissertation about him and thought this was the key to running against her. The problem was that the black guy won.

**how Dick Cheney's study of terrorism before 9/11 came out. He was assigned this the summer before the planes crashed into the twin towers.

**whether Sister Sarah is going to run. Little Billy Kristol loved her blast at Obama about "crony capitalism".

**when the neo-Nazis rallied in Wisconsin yesterday I thought the teabaggers had called in their reinforcements.

**it was strange that the New Apostiolic Reformation erased all their members and branches from their website. They claim they are just a loosely-knit group of Christians. Ross Douhut thinks they are irrelevant and says there are all sorts of evangelicals and fundamentalists out there. But some people have been studying them for a decade and they become deadly relevant if Rick Perry wins the Republican nomination.

**Obama reminds me of a squirrel. Despite all the hype FEMA is running out of money, he has salted away $19 billion to deal with Hurricane Irene.

**If Congress doesn't act, the Postal Service will close by November. How will the constitutional conservatives deal with that--since the Postal Service is in the Constitution?

**what's the betting line on a government shut-down this fall?

**it's not Obama's blackness that irks conservatives. It's that he is mixed race and they see the future of America whenever they see him. A majority of children under the age of 4 are now minorities and increasingly there are of mixed races and ethnic groups. That bugs people like Pat Buchanan who complained this week that too many white people were dying in war and that there should be an affirmative action plan for white males in government. Today, 81% of the federal government workforce is white.

**Tom Friedman has a new book out on how to revitalize America. What's interesting is that his best ideas are actually being implemented by President Obama and he seems oblivious.

**I don't think I can put myself through looking at another Republican debate again. Why don't they call me when they get a new idea?

**there are 1,185 oil/gas rigs working in the United States right now, the largest number since Baker-Hughes began keeping account in 1985.

**I haven't formed opinion about the Keystone XL Pipeline.

** I don't approve of Obama delaying the air pollution standards because I don't think that will stop the attack on the EPA.

**The Democrats just woke up to the fact of the voter-suppression laws in the states. Conservatives no longer hide the fact that they actually believe only people with property should vote. This is the crowd that wanted to spread democracy throughout the Middle East.

**James Toobin may have exaggerrated in his New Yorker piece Clarence Thomas's "growing importance" on the Supreme Court.

**I get annoyed when I read "Cardero Gets His 30th Save" in a headline but have to excavate the New York Times baseball pieces to find out whether Mariano Rivero gets a save.

**We should commemorate 9/11 by ending the 10 years we have been governed by a state of national emergency. It is the longest period of our country's history where civil liberties have been suspended.