I am fed up with the lies.

Obama's gains

It seems most days there are letters blasting President Obama and how he has ruined our country. Well, I am fed up with the lies. How has an unemployment rate that is cut in half “ruining America”? How are millions of people on health care for the first time “ruining America”? How about the millions of jobs saved here and around the world by bailing out the auto companies? 

Perhaps “made in America” means nothing to the Obama-bashers. President Obama has made every decision with the best interest of the citizens of this country. Unfortunately, he has been stonewalled by a political party whose agenda is not the country's recovery, but the “recovery” of the White House. Astonishingly, we are a working-class community, yet those who believe Obama has ruined America identify and endorse those whose allegiance is to big, private corporations, their CEOs who are billionaires, and those who are destroying our planet.

Pissed off Republicans Will Not Win The White House

It seems to me that the Pissed Off Republicans are running the GOP Show now. They use to be called the far right wing of the party, then the Tea Party, but now I just call them The Pissed off Republicans. Same group of people just a new name.

If they think picking candidates like Trump or Cruz are going to get them enough votes to win the white House, they're just kidding themselves. Most Americans like leaders with class like Reagan Obama, Carter and Eisenhower to name a few. Not name calling, say what ever kind of guys, like Donald Trump and Ted Cruz. Heck I'm not a a Rubio fan, but at least he wouldn't be an embarrassment for America in the eyes of the world.

Charles Grassley and Mitch McConnell Do A Disservice To Americans

Swelled Head Mitch McConnell

Tossup needed

I read with both dismay and disgust that both Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Judiciary Committee leader Charles Grassley have both decided that they will not hold hearings on any Supreme Court nominee put forth by President Obama.

Whether you love or hate the president, it is not only his right, but his constitutional duty to name a successor to Justice Scalia. Their refusals carry about as much merit as Sen. Charles Schumer’s did when he proposed the same thing at the end of President Bush’s term. To refuse a hearing — based not on a lack of judicial qualifications, legal experience or Bar Association recommendation, but only on who makes the recommendation — only further politicizes an institution which is already far too political. There are bad rulings on both sides, conservative and liberal alike, and we would be far better off if we had no idea of the politics of a nominee. Before Scalia’s death, we had three conservative votes that would not waver, and also three liberal votes that were also completely predictable, with Kennedy and occasionally Roberts as toss-ups. We need more toss-ups.

And I wonder how happy Sens. McConnell and Grassley will be if they have to hold hearings for the nominee of newly elected President Bernie Sanders! Just do your jobs, and leave the politics out of it.

By: Michael Buchanan

Who Should Pick Justice Scalias Replacement.

We've seen and heard a lot from the right and left on who should get to choose Justice Antonin Scalias replacement.
Justice Scalia once said, "I would not like to be replaced by a successor who went on to undo everything I have done over the last 25 years."

I'm not a Justice Scalia fan but I do believe that President Obama is a fair and balanced President. He has almost a year left in his term and should nominate the next Supreme Court Justice.

The nominee should be vented yes but should have a proven track record on being fair and level headed. No one picked for this high court should be able to  rule on personal feelings. Questions on abortion and religion should not be a requirement of the picking process. Most Judges have a track record like any job and should be looked at how well they performed on there job up to this point.