The Obama Agenda and the 2010 Elections

Politco: Reports on the move by the White House after the win on health care reform to move its Agenda in Congress, the article states the following, ".. is getting mixed early reactions on Capitol Hill ". At its most brutal folks the Democrats are scared that Obama will hand over Congress to the Republicans, the health care reform bill is still not popular, in fact the argument that the people, the great unwashed would like the Bill once it was passed is shown to be, lets use a kind word, rubbish. The idiots in the Democratic Party that voted for health care reform bought a Chicago sting, they threw their careers down the toilet while Obama has AF1. The Liberal leadership in Congress with the exception of Senator Reid are in safe Districts and States thus they can push the Liberal Agenda, while they send their men/women over the top of the trench in to the glare of the anger of the voters. This is the best advice that blue dog Democrats are going to get, tell the Obama White House that they owe the moderate and conservatives members in Congress and thus they should back off any tough votes in till the lame duck session of Congress after November.

The USA and France on Iran

The Obama Administration has started to remove the offer of the hand of friendship from Iran to a more historical position, that is seeing Iran as an enemy. At a Joint Press Conference with the President of France, Obama stated the following on Iran, " We discussed our shared determination to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. On this the United States and France are united, are inseparable. With our P5-plus-1 partners, we offer Iran good faith proposals to resolve this matter through diplomacy. But Iran thus far has rejected those offers. Today, the international community is more united than ever on the need for Iran to uphold its obligations. And that’s why we’re pursuing strong sanctions through the U.N. Security Council. ". The problem is that Russia and China have strong trade and economic links with Iran, thus they want softer sanctions, the US and the UN does not have all the time in the world, time is not their friend when it comes to Iran. President Sarkozy of France stated the following on Iran, " Now, on Iran, I am very satisfied with what President Obama has said. The time has come to take decisions. Iran cannot continue its mad race. Now, we don’t want to punish Iran, which deserves better than what it has by way of leadership today, and therefore fully support in order to get stronger, tougher sanctions at the Security Council and take the necessary decisions is what you have. I have said to President Obama that with Angela Merkel and Gordon Brown we will make all necessary efforts to ensure that Europe as a whole engages in the sanction regime. ". It comes to the day that the French President sounds tougher than a American President, that what you get if you elect a liberal POTUS. When President Obama was asked by the Press if there was a cut off point for Iran he stated the following, " On Iran, we came in with a very clear approach and a very clear strategy, and it was an open book to the world. We said we would engage Iran and give them an opportunity to take the right path, a path that would lead to prosperity and opportunity for their people and a peaceful region, and one in which they would allow themselves to become a full-fledged member of the community of nations. The alternative path was further isolation and further consequences...We mobilized the international community around this approach, including partners like Russia that in the past might have been more hesitant to take a firmer stance on Iran’s nuclear program. What we said, though, was that there was going to be a time limit to it and that if we had not seen progress by the end of the year, it was time for us to move forward on that sanctions track....My hope is that we are going to get this done this spring. So I’m not interested in waiting months for a sanctions regime to be in place; I’m interested in seeing that regime in place in weeks. And we are working diligently with our international partners, emphasizing to them that,.... this is not simply an issue of trying to isolate Iran; it has enormous implications for the safety and the security of the entire region. We don’t want to see a nuclear arms race in the Middle East...A conflict in the Middle East as a consequence of Iran’s actions could have a huge destabilizing effect in terms of the world economy at a time when it’s just coming out of a very deep recession...The long-term consequences of a nuclear-armed Iran are unacceptable. And so (France ), myself and others agree that we have engaged; the door remains open if the Iranians choose to walk through it. But they understand very clearly what the terms of a diplomatic solution would be. And in the interim we are going to move forcefully on a U.N. sanctions regime...Now, do we have unanimity in the international community? Not yet. And that's something that we have to work on. We think that we are in a much stronger position to get robust sanctions now than we were a year ago prior to us initiating our strategy....But it’s still difficult, partly because, let’s be honest, Iran is a oil producer and there are a lot of countries around the world that, regardless of Iran’s offenses, are thinking that their commercial interests are more important to them than these long-term geopolitical interests. And so we have to continue to apply pressure not just on Iran but we have to make sure that we are communicating very clearly that this is very important to the United States.....We think that we can get sanctions within weeks. ". Thus a rebuke to Russia and China, but if Obama has agreed to softer sanctions it does seem to be spin on the part of the Obama Administration. One has to just see the tepid reaction of the White House to the street protests in Iran after the stolen election, Obama is seems is quite willing to throw the good people of Iran down the toilet and allow the Totalitarian Tehran Regime to stay in power as long as they allow Obama to look good to the left. The treatment of Israel by the Obama Administration shows that Obama would rather look good to the liberal left wing that support an close ally. The anti Israeli policy has deep support in the power centers of Europe.

Oil and the Liberal Left

BBC News: Reports that the Obama Administration is to allow for oil and gas drilling on the Atlantic Coast and the Gulf of Mexico. This is a good move by POTUS, but lets see the details, it could be a ploy to get Republican support for his Green Agenda, but the overall cost could be the reduction of American jobs. After health care reform don't trust Obama, sorry to say, there is to much of the Chicago Pol in Obama, lets see the small print of the Obama plan for drilling. As the Gipper stated, Trust by Verify.

Iran SANCTIONS within WEEKS - Obama

Fox News: Reports on the statement by President Obama that he expects sanctions against Iran within weeks. The question that has to be asked what kind of sanctions will be passed by the UN, if Russia and China agree to new sanctions it can be postulated that these sanctions will not be as tough as expected due to the economic and trade links between Russia, China and Iran. Thus we come back to the same question that has been around for the year since Obama took office, does he have the backbone to attack Iran if Iran keeps telling the international community to get lost. A recent report suggests that Obama Administration has agreed to softer sanctions to get Russia and China on board, but the US does not have all the time in the world. The Tehran Regime has been playing for time, they are closer to the bomb, the more time and one day at 3am Obama will get a call to say that Iran has tested its first nuclear bomb over Israel.