Dems, incumbents get wake-up call

John F. Harris, Jonathan Martin: POLITICO

RICHMOND, Va. — Eager to drain the 2009 elections of drama and import, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs claimed Tuesday night that President Barack Obama was “not watching returns.”

You can be sure that he is studying them closely now:
The off-year elections were, in two big races, an unmistakable rebuke of Democrats, reshuffling Obama’s political circumstances in ways likely to have severe near-term consequences for his policy agenda and larger governing strategy.

Editorial: “Predatory lending made easy”

By Dan Casey

Dan Casey is The Roanoke Times’ metro columnist.

dan.casey
@roanoke.com
981-4423

Sooner or later I will leave this job at The Roanoke Times.

And lately, I’ve been thinking about the future after a long and fun newspaper career. I will go into business for myself. It will be a consumer lending (ahem) store. I’ll call it “Casey’s Rip-off Loans.” The motto will be “The Loan Shark You Will Love.” And our advertising slogan will be, “We cheat you honestly, unlike those other chiselers.”

Who does Geithner think he is?!?

Oh, that’s right, he’s Socialist/Fascist President Obama’s right hand man and Treasury Secretary. What’s next, socialized medicine, nationalization of banks and business, government control of oil and energy, or maybe they’ll be done with business for a while and turn their attention to ways of isolating you as a threat if you are against abortion or a member of a conservative group.

Come to think of it, they’re already working on all of the above….

Want to know what’s wrong with Washington? EVERYTHING!

We voted for change because the sky was falling and people were sick of seeing the same face at the head of the table. Change came in the form of screaming political leaders from the Democratic Party who lamented about being left off the dinner list for far to long.

Democrats blamed Republicans. Republicans glanced at cameras with sheepish stares claiming how misguided change was if it came in the form of big government. The big government party represented by Andrew Jackson’s jackass promised that they weren’t interested in spending us out of trouble, but a trillion dollars later no one can believe them.

Now what? We spent a lot of energy and a lot of resources looking for change so now that the change has come in the form of a debt that my grandchildren will have to pay, who do I blame?

Obama and Dems headed for pending fiscal disaster

Hasn’t Obama and the Democrats on Capital Hill heard of the KISS philosophy?

Letter to the Editor: Payday Loan Became Vicious Hook

We, the people of this great commonwealth, owe ourselves freedom from exploitation by payday lenders. This must not be just a problem for lower-middle- class workers.

We each have different needs. So we each seek different solutions. The solution should not turn into a bigger problem, as payday loans have.

Editorial: The True Miracle of the Day: The Peaceful Transfer of Power

By Peter Roff
Conservative Commentator/Former Senior Political Writer for United Press International

Inauguration Day 2009 is as important as everyone says it is. There’s no escaping it. It is, as most of those covering it have already observed, an historic day, full of meaning for people all across the world. That a mere half-century after a time when blacks in parts of America were routinely prevented from voting we inaugurate an African-American president of the United States is a time of celebration for us all. It is a tangible symbol of how far the nation has come on race, one of the thorniest issues we as a nation have ever had to confront. We must not, however, lose sight of the fact that this is a subtext of the real story.

Editorial: Hey America, Take a Chill Pill

By Liz Peek
Financial Columnist

Whoa there America– take a deep breath. As impressed as we all are with the significance of this moment — we are about to inaugurate the first African American President of the United States — it is possible that our collective giddiness will lead to the worst kind of disappointment. President-elect Barack Obama is being breathlessly compared to FDR, JFK, Abraham Lincoln and George Washington. So far — he has won an election.

Today’s the Day…Tomorrow’s the question

Today America ushers in the 44th President of the United States. With that, a promise of a better America for all
Americans will be put to the test, not in the first 100 days, but in the first 100 hours.

Finally, tax increases we can get behind…sort of

Make no mistake about it, government should never take the position of pilfering funds from the people before they have eliminated the wasteful use of money they have already taken. It is a statement that the American people have become numb toward. They have little to no reaction when you say “cut wasteful spending;” just ask John McCain.

American society has become so numb to the statement that they elected a socialist as President; so numb that they put in the White House a man that told the San Francisco Chronicle “I don’t understand why people in America think they have a right to keep the money they earn….,” and so numb they ignored the most liberal voting record in the history of presidential politics and voted for an anointed candidate.

That said, Barack Obama made two statements this week that has some of us quite excited….