Rest easy folks, this is all a rhetorical shell game charade that is meant to go nowhere. I bet the word has already gone out to the bankers “don’t worry, we have to make you look like villains for a while to cover up for our screw ups but keep the campaign contributions coming in and we will take good care of you”.

When are we Americans going to realize that when politicians target an industry or a segment of society all they are doing is trolling for cash? Call me cynical if you want.

Since “follow the money” is the first rule of politics, that $8.5 million might be important especially in the light of the millions more to come and all of it from taxpayers’ pockets. How much of that will ultimately end back up as campaign contributions to Democrat PAC’s from the ACLU and its members? Foolish question?

The ACLU and fellow travelers get to push their socialist agenda, Democrat politicians get campaign contributions they don’t have to stump for and all of it on the taxpayers’ dime. Who says you can’t have your cake and eat it too!

Oh, one more silly little question, “who gets to pay for the added security for the trial and, just in case the worst happens, who gets to pay for the damage from another Islamic terrorist attack connected with the trial”?  Oh silly me, I should have known! It’s the taxpayers again!

In 2004  CDR Financial Programs of Beverley Hills, CA got hired by the New Mexico Finance Authority to work on the $1.6 billion bond issue used to fund highway projects and the Rail Runner commuter train. This was all part of  GRIP or Governor’s Reinvestment Partnership, a Bond Program to pay for road improvements and the Railrunner Commuter Train. CDR’s owner, David Rubin, then went on to make two contributions to political organizations close to Gov. Bill Richardson totaling $85,000. One of the organizations being looked at by the feds is Si Se Puede!, a PAC formed in 2004 to pay the bills for Richardson and his staff to attend the Democratic National Convention in Boston. Richardson was convention chairman. The PAC raised $191,000 which $130,000 came from financial companies involved in the GRIP bonds.

Looks like the gov will be back and the Lt. Governor, Diane Denish, who had already begun gathering together a transition team will be back at her old office for the next 2 years. This is too bad because she is a decent person and would have made a good governor.

(By the way, if you don’t understand what Chesterton said there is nothing I can do for you)

I came across this quote from the English writer, essayist and playwright in a column by Nick Cohen in the online version of the Guardian, a British newspaper. At once I realized he had hit the bulls-eye in his analysis of the Left’s visceral reaction to McCain’s picking of Sarah Palin to be his running mate. The spewing out of hate and venom was stunning. The lie that her downs syndrome baby was not hers but her daughter’s was totally breathtaking in its audacity. The Obama campaign wisely condemned it right out of the box. They understand political boomerangs. Can they control their operatives? Probably not.

I won’t go into all the loathsome, malicious, malevolent and sexist stuff that has the stink of fear all over it that has been excreted out of the rotten hate filled bowels of the Left concerning her. It is all over the Internet and readily available to anyone who wishes to access it.

Was I was surprised? Not at all. This what we have come to expect from political campaigns these days but I must say it is not new. All one has to do is look at  American politics of the early 1800′s to get a real good  idea of what political opponents are capable of. It is nearly always self-defeating. Is it going to continue? Of course, because like unthinking brutes the haters “know not what they do”. In the case of Palin they unwittingly have taken a smart, funny, capable and hardworking woman who was a relative unknown and made a folk hero out of her.

Sarah Palin is an American woman. She is not an elitist that looks down on “the masses”. She is one of us and we know her and like her. As for me I say to her, “You go girl! We love you!”