GOP HAS A RIGHT TO ATTACK OBAMA I notice an increasing number of complaints that Republicans are always attacking President Barack Obama‘s policies of reckless spending.

Just because a party is elected into power does not mean all dissent ceases; the last time I checked, we were not a one-party country.

And if memory serves me correctly, Democrats were non-stop Bush-bashing for the past eight years--even on policies that actually worked, e.g., the surge in Iraq.

So my recommendation to Democrats: Quit whining. Criticism is part of our two-party system. And remember, what goes around, comes around

There are problems with compact flourescent light bulbs that were not expected. The problem is that for no good reason some will have a much shorter duration of life. They are designed to use one-fourh the power and last ten times longer then the standard bulbs. Some experts that study the issue blame the government for the quality problems,saying an intensive regulation to lower the the price essentialy backfired by encourging manufacturers to use cheap components. There is also a problem of disposal due to the mercury content of the bulbs.

Wind, solar, biomass and other so­called green sources of energy oper­ate on the fringes of our energy economy precisely because they are more expensive and less reliable. And this comes despite decades of generous subsidies.
The U. S. Energy Information Administration calculates that tax­payers subsidize solar and wind energy at more than $ 23 per megawatt-hour of electricity pro­duced. Yet they are still too costly to be competitive: Combined, they produce less than 1 percent of the nation’s power.
Compare the green subsidies to the energy sources reviled by envi­ronmentalists, such as natural gas (25 cents per megawatt-hour in subsidies), coal (44 cents), hydro­electricity (67 cents) and nuclear power ($1.59).

A story about Chicken Little .Once upon a time, Chicken Little went around the country telling us the sky was falling , and unless he got a stimulus bill on his desk ASAP we were all doomed.

Nancy, Harry and all the rest of the congressional Keystone Kops hurriedly put together a bill that was so good and so important that no one was allowed to see it. So, without anyone even reading it, it was voted upon. Those who voted for it were hailed as heroes and were honored. Those who voted against were rebuked and reviled, as they were bad people and did not love their fellow man.

The bill was passed and Chicken Little signed it into law. The country was saved and all was good in the land,.

Later, AIG paid it’s executives bonuses as allowed in the recently passed bill and the sky began to crumble. Barney Frank pounded his fist and stomped his feet and demanded names of those evil executives and wanted their money returned. Chris Dodd went on TV every day and gave a different reason each day as to why this happened and Chicken Little flew to California to prepare for his close-up with Jay Lenno.

What moral can you learn from this very grim tale? One, “act in haste and repent in leisure”. Two “fools and money are son parted.” Three, ‘you can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.” And you can probably think of a few more.

The Obama administration is at least distracted by important things. The Washington political class has spent the past week going into made-for-TV hysterics over $165 million in A.I.G. bonuses. We’re in the middle of a multitrillion-dollar crisis, and our political masters — always willing to throw themselves into any issue that is understandable on cable television — have decided to risk destroying the entire bank-rescue plan because of bonuses that account for 0.001 percent of the annual G.D.P. I report,U decide.