"Head Shaking Day"

It's a head shaking day. The GOP is already whining because President Obama made a recess appointment, naming Richard Cordray to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau – along with a couple of other appointments.

But, this is the one they're pissed about. Santorum even wants to take Obama to court over it!

It isn't that they have anything against Cordray. They simply don't want this agency to exist!

Good grief! George W. Bush made 171 recess appointments, Bill Clinton made 139; Ronald Reagan made an average of 39 recess appointments each year of his term.

What the hell is their problem? I'm beginning to think they're either all on drugs – or should be!

SO - God has told Pat Robertson who the next president will be. Good to know.

Of course, the biggest news is the situation we're hearing the least about. As I predicted, in spite of his promises, Obama failed to veto the Defense Bill that would allow the indefinite detention, without charge or trial, of Americans.

This was the the National Defense Authorization Act. It supports the military, so it had to be signed. This is how they sneak things into law. They try to bury them in necessary legislation.

I truly believe a lot of our problems could be solved with a “one bill – one law” provision. No bargaining! No earmarks! But, I digress ...

Obama's excuse for not exercising his veto power? He got Congress to change the bill from stating the military can do the detaining to only the President can do it. He also added a signing statement specifying that the Obama administration would not detain Americans without trial.

Is he out of his mind? Or, does he seriously believe he'll always be the president?

As it turned out, our precious president was never concerned about U.S. Citizens losing more rights. He was only concerned with who has the right to exercise the detainment power!

Obama never objected to our loss of freedom only to his loss of freedom to continue to investigate and fight terrorism as they have been. He wanted to “avoid undue harm to our current operations.”

Of course, I hear folks saying, “Oh, it's only for suspected terrorists. The rest of us don't have to worry about it.” Really? Are they kidding me?

Honey, we’re all suspected terrorists. That's being proven every time someone's phone is tapped without a warrant – every time the government reads our email. And, certainly, every time someone tries to board a commercial airplane or go to a major league football game.

The thing is, our government can call anything they want to “terrorism.” If you don't believe me, check out the link below.

L.A. Times

Activities we take for granted – including criticizing our government - can get us detained and locked away as a “suspected terrorist” - without a shred of evidence that we are involved in actual terrorism!

Anything that could be construed as appearing to be against our government is considered as terrorism. Taking too much cash out of the bank – storing food – storing medical supplies – having a gun and storing ammunition – participating in “Occupy ...” or even picking your nose on the corner of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue – all can get you “suspected of terrorism.”

Just sayin' ...