Why is one tragedy worse than another?

The attack at Fort Hood yesterday is a tragedy. I am not trying to
downplay that or take away from the family and friends of those killed
and wounded.
Congress had a moment of silence for all the soldiers killed at Fort
Hood yesterday. Which is all well and good, but why they don't have
moments of silence for the soldiers killed in combat? Or the ones killed
in training accidents? We had a Coast Guard plane and Marine helicopter
collide off the coast of California last week. Did those nine missing
people get a moment of silence? What about the soldiers killed in
Afghanistan or Iraq? When do they get a Congressional moment of silence?

It Is All About Him

President Obama campaigned for the incumbent Democrat New Jersey
Governor in Camden, NJ.

"You need to work hard on Tuesday. I need you to go back into your
neighborhood. I'm going to need you to knock on doors. ... I'm going to
need you to do the same thing you did last year," he said.

So, somehow, in another person's election....it is still all about HIM.
Hello, Mr. Narcissist.

But I notice that Chairman O has not put much effort into the Virginia
Governor's race. I guess Creigh Deeds and Virginia just don't matter as
much to the One.

Scozzafava Backs Former Democrat Opponent

Faux Republican Dede Scozzafava has endorsed her former Democratic opponent in New York's 23rd district's Congressional race. She dropped out after her liberal stances on conservative issues started being reported in national media outlets.

When national conservative icons like Rush Limbaugh , Sarah Palin and Fred Thompson (not to mention ALL the conservative talk show hosts) came out backing her Conservative
Party opponent, Dan Hoffman, any hope she had of winning was lost.

Now in a snit, she has backed her Democrat opponent, Bill Owens. It looks like she has showed her true colors. Scozzafava is not a conservative Republican. With her support of Card Check and other hard left agenda items, I find it hard to believe she is a Republican. Certainly many Republicans don't conserider her to reflect the values we hold. Gengrich and the National Republican Party leadership made a mistake backing her and it is showing. How can the national party be so out of touch with the values the people OF the party hold?

Now we have White House Senior Adviser Valerie Jarrett suggested that Hoffman's surging popularity as a sign that the Republican Party is squeezing out moderates. "It's rather telling when the Republican Party forces out a moderate Republican and it says, I think, a great deal about where the Republican Party is right now," she said. "I think it's becoming more and more extreme and more and more marginalized."

Another Senior Adviser David Axelrod said that "It sends a clear message to moderates within that party that there's no room at the inn for them."

Chris Van Hollen, D-Md, the DCCC Chairman has said in a statement that the developments in New York should send a "chilling message" to other moderate Republicans.

What "chilling message" is this? That the Republican Party has people in positions of leadership that are not Conservative?

Time to Be Fair....

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said, "There's two political
parties, two major political parties in this country. One party doesn't
accept contributions from registered federal lobbyists. That same party
doesn't accept contributions from political action committees."

Let's be fair then and talk about the way the Obama campaign allowed for
online contributions BELOW a certain dollar amount to no be tracked and
reported. I wonder how many of his millions were little 1-5 dollar
transactions done over and over and over from foreign countries?

Term Limits.

Why do we term limit the President, but not Congress?
If Congress wanted to limit the power of the Executive Branch because of
FDR's 4 terms in office, then why would we not want to apply the same
logic to the Legislative Branch? Seems like limiting power would be an
easy way to limit corruption and the ability some Congressmen have to
ignore their constituents.

Bye Bye Eastern European Missile Defence

Obama pulling the plug on the Eastern European missile defence plans is
a knife in the back of our European allies. Obama has betrayed the trust
these countries have placed in us. We have made promises to these allies
that he has now broken. What good is our word as a nation?
If this President will bow to the pressure from Russia and back down,
then how can the rest of our allies think that we will have the
fortitude to back them after this?
Obama is a foreign policy fool.

Today's Commentary.

It is ironic that the most fiscally irresponsible president in American
history is lecturing Wall Street about financial responsibility.

AP Top 25

I don't think Mississippi deserves to be in the spot it is in. A team
with only one game played, regardless of the fact that it was a win,
should be ranked ahead of any 2 win team. By all means put them ahead of
any one loss team, but come on. Teams that have played two games should
be ranked higher.

AP Top 25

RK TEAM RECORD

1 Florida (56) 2-0 1

2 Texas (1) 2-0

3 USC (1) 2-0

4 Alabama (2) 2-0

5 Mississippi 1-0

5 Penn State 2-0

7 Brigham Young 2-0

8 California 2-0

9 LSU 2-0 951

10 Boise State 2-0

11 Ohio State 1-1

12 Oklahoma 1-1

13 Virginia Tech 1-1

14 Georgia Tech 2-0

15 TCU 1-0

16 Oklahoma State 1-1

17 Cincinnati 2-0

18 Utah 2-0

19 Nebraska 2-0

20 Miami (FL) 1-0

21 Houston 2-0

22 Kansas 2-0

23 Georgia 1-1

24 North Carolina 2-0

25 Michigan 2-0