As the President and the Democrats hysterically wander about while trying to solve an exponentially increasing dirge of problems, which their actions have helped to create, we cannot help but point out what the true problem now appears to be.   What seems lacking in the endeavors of a "certain few" these days is the simple and yet admittedly brilliant application of common sense as it applies to America--but especially to government.  While many in Academia find the all-encompassing version of  intelligence that is common sense a bit typical, if not rhetorical, we would beg to differ.

In fact, the artful application of common sense seems to be a lost if not mystical talent these days.  The elite and all-knowing Academians--who had virtually every answer for the American People prior to the election--can now be found to be totally void of any true solutions when it comes to creatively curing even the simplest of problems.

Truthfully,  every action that the bumbling Liberal Democrats have undertaken seems to set off a reactionary response of unintended consequences in a true domino effect of ever-increasing collateral damage.  It's almost as if a "Black Hole" sits at the center of our governance absorbing all of the common sense in and around the area and then ejecting it into some theoretical plane that exists on an opposite and yet geographically equidistant destination--such as Australia perhaps.

Hello Dalai!

This "Black Hole" of common sense even applies to the giving of a simple gift.  For example,  the Dalai Lama typically wears a sleeveless robe as his traditional garb.  One would presuppose that this simple fact might give mental pause to the White House's departing gift of a set of cuff links for Heavens sake. Additionally, previous gifts by the Obama White house to others have included an iPod loaded with Broadway tunes for the British Queen--we can all certainly see her Highness be-bopping to American show tunes with ear pods blazing.  But lets not forget the "economical" boxset of 25 movie DVD's for British prime Minister Gordon Brown that--alas-- will not even function in a typical United Kingdom  DVD player (Skeet anyone)?

At any rate and in keeping with the President's keen sense of gift giving, here are a few more thoughtful ideas--characteristically devoid of common sense--for future White House VIP Visitors:

• Evangelist Billy Graham:  Best of Penthouse Magazine Collection (on DVD)
• Black Liberation Theologian Reverend Eugene Wright:  Southern Civil War Battle Flag Collection
• Visually-challenged Musician Stevie Wonder:  Monet's Brilliance as a Painter, Collected Works (on European-formatted DVD)
• Conservative Governor Sarah Palin:  Animated comedy, "The Family Guy," Boxed DVD Set (All Years)
• Liberal Senator Al Franken:  Lifetime Subscription to Rush 24/7 --to include the Limbaugh Letter
• Contritionist Golfer Tiger Woods:  How to Meet, Pickup, and Seduce Hot Women

How about Blue Ribbon Therapy?

In another "Ode to Common Sense," the Stimulus Bill--which was supposed to have cured high unemployment--has vacuumed up so much of the  private market equity that businesses and individuals now have difficult, if not impossible, access to necessary loans.  In addition, the Draconian regulatory over-correction of Government Banking Bureaucrats--to those businesses and even individuals who can actually afford such loans--has massively impacted the ability of each to qualify for them according to Loan Underwriters.

Meanwhile, the characteristic ambivalence in attitude towards business of  this "Union Loving" Government in general has soured any optimistic economic outlook and, therefore, jobs creation.  Further, the budgets that the President has both employed and proposed dramatically increase spending to the point of further (if not fatally) damaging America's financial foundations.

Rather than cutting the extreme spending  back down in these unprecedented times, the President, as a means to figure out what to do about "his spending,"  has launched a Blue Ribbon Commission in order to study the problem of "his spending."  We would recommend the less expensive alternative of therapy for Compulsive Spending Disorder but--hey!--that's just us.

The Pied Piper of Washington

The fact that Obama has, on many previous occasions, lambasted other Politicians' efforts at employing Study Commissions was not lost on us.  The comical and yet revealing truth is that the President has in his own words "many times" disavowed employing commissions to study various Government problems as "the oldest political trick in the book at passing the buck."

To wit, Academians study problems; Executives and Leaders act on them.  This, in essence, is the problematic issue of the Theoretical Academian Presidency that we seem to be all suffering through.  In retrospect, I have often toyed with the implausible possibility that maybe Dick Cheney or Karl Rove cleverly orchestrated Obama's rise and eventual election in order to clear all of the blasted Liberals out of Washington--which seems to be working quite well were that actually the case.   The Conservative's Secret Agent Man--Barack Obama--as the Pied Piper of Liberal politicians:  He will, unwittingly, lead them all back out of Washington's seats of power come November.

Regarding the Administration's massive spending problem, our idea would be for the President to fly over to New Jersey, carefully circumventing Manhattan this time, sit down with Conservative Governor Chris Christie and begin taking notes.  Christie, in a brilliant display of common sense, has immediately honed into the perplexing problem of spending too much with a rare if not brilliant solution:  Stop spending so much and start cutting.  Wow!  Now, why couldn't the Democrats think of that?  The New Jersey Conservative Governor has already found a number of problems built into the system that are tearing New Jersey apart from within, and he will most likely save New Jersey from bankruptcy.

The Blair Wish Project

Also in the offing this week, we have the Presidents Bi-Partisan Summit at the Blair House as it regards the dreaded Healthcare Bill.  The Democrats called for the Republican's ideas on healthcare, carefully considered each one and then promptly dismissed them all in what turned out to be a lurid spectacle of "Group Legislative Masturbation" in its ultimate outcome.

Surprisingly, however, the White House did actually post their 11 page wish-list version of healthcare online this time prior to the event.   The President's vague bill proposal essentially hobbled together one monster bill from the other two bills.  CBO refused to score the President's plan as a result.  The Republicans, meanwhile, had been neurotically trying to figure out whether they should even attend since a Reconciliation House Vote of 51 members is the admitted goal as a means to an end.

Characteristically, Obama dominated the event in true Grand Potentate fashion endearingly reminding us all, as he does daily, that he is the President.  The Democrats  received double the talk time of the Republicans who were graciously given slightly less time than the Prez.  In total the Republicans were granted 25% of the total time allowed to make their remarks.

Many Republicans viewed the summit as a possible ambush but planned to go regardless.   Once the event got under way the Republicans seemed to outflank the Democrats at every engagement in a brilliant display of logic and knowledge.  Eric Cantor had the President so befuddled, in a dazzling display of commonsensical intelligence, that Obama began mumbling about meat inspectors in a vague if not misguided attempt at drawing food inspection correlations with the Healthcare Bill's premise.  Ultimately it appears that the Republicans took the day on Healthcare, if that means anything at this point.

When Science becomes Fiction...

Also in the news this week, the President, and a prodigious host of Liberal Media Acolytes have come out in clueless defense of what is now officially "The Cult" of unnaturalism that is the "Anthropogenic Global Warming Belief System."  In our column of last week, we reported the facts around several recent revelations concerning the affirmation and confession of Professor Phil Jones that his Global Warming data was, indeed, fictional.

The UN Chief of the IPCC--among many others--has now resigned in dishonor at the findings of the Media as it pursues the  increasingly damning evidence of Global Warming science being nothing more than a fairy tale.

The members of the participating Governments and the Media who supported the fraudulent science have failed to shift their beliefs to a more pragmatic stance despite all of the revelations that have come out--therefore rendering their validity in greater peril.  In that vein, we have seen and heard a number of Global Warming Jihadist and Environmental Evangelists come out in ever greater attacks on man in deference to nature.  The  rabid environmentalists seem bent upon laying every single cold snap, hot snap, drought, cyclone and winter storm  squarely at the feet of human activity-- even after decrying individual weather events as not being actual "climate."

We have also recently found that the cited increase--by certain scientists--in sea levels over the next few decades has been recanted, no doubt, due to the measuring sticks geographic placement being toyed with much as the temperature data.  We also have the recent report of the oceans as being the active atmospheric carbon regulator--meaning that excess atmospheric carbon is absorbed via the ocean  rather than floating around to create ever more fictional global havoc.  But the Marxist arm of environmentalism seems intent upon blaming planet overcrowding and population density, in conjunction with modern industrial advances, as being the Chief Protagonist of Global Warming fiction as if at any moment we will become so over-bloated as a population that we might tumble off the planet.

Planet Not Actually  Overcrowded... and Here's Why

In fact, were you to take the total number of persons on the planet, which is 6.8 Billion, and plop them all down in the United States, not only would they enjoy expansive liberties for at least awhile, they would also have plenty of room.  The population density would actually work out to roughly 1,830 persons per square mile.  Once again--if every person on the planet lived in the United States the population would be proportionally manageable leaving all of the other continents barren of human life.

Now I would wager that this would come as a surprise to many who have been led to believe by the Media and Environmentalists that we are packed in like sardines on the planet.   So in comparative terms, we would have the same  approximate population density as Copenhagen, Denmark, which, ironically, was the sight of the United Nations Global Warming Conference.  For comparative scale, here are a few other population densities:

• New York City:  Density of 71,201 persons per square mile
• Paris France:  Density of 65,700 persons per square mile
• Washington, DC:  Density of 9,316 persons per square mile
• Los Angeles, CA:  Density of  8,174 persons per square mile
• Charlotte, NC:  Density of 2,838 persons per square mile
• Anchorage, Alaska:  Density of 165 persons per square mile
• Death Valley, California:  Density of .22 persons per square mile

Knowing that most of our Liberal Media and our Liberal Academia seem to proliferate in cities of scale, it is no wonder that they have no true nor realistic knowledge of the actual size of the planet.  Nor of how minuscule the population density of the world is as a whole.  When looking at the numbers from a holistic scale rather than from what you see from your 70 story apartment tower, the size and scope of human population is very small indeed.  Understanding the scope of population densities, however, does lead us into a somewhat better understanding of how great or how little of an impact we can and do actually have on the "entire" environment as a world populace.

New Questions

As Americans become evermore angry at the abysmal lack of leadership on the economy--while Politicians continue their toying around with healthcare--new questions seem to be forming in the collective minds of the American people.  We can see unemployment continuing to head upwards, companies still unable to meaningfully hire, while the Big Banks are posting stellar earnings reports and delivering huge employee bonuses once again.

The questions seem to be:  Is the meltdown of 2008 the reason for our continued economic failure?  Or is it the Liberals in charge of Washington and their damaging legislative prowess?  Would we still be in this mess if a Republican had been elected?  Is it Obama's ideology that has so terribly soured our consumer and business confidence?

These, I think, are questions that can only be answered by history.

Lack of Common Sense or Suffusion of Insanity ?

Common sense, as the old saying goes, states that doing the same thing over and over again while expecting different results is the definition of insanity.  Now the Government must change its focus to doing what is necessary to install confidence in business--and therefore in consumers, as well--rather than taking it away.  Companies are fearful of changes that produce unmeasurable results and simply cannot plan their way out of this quagmire as it stands.

Mr. President:  Tear down that budget!  The time to act is now.  The time to reverse the insane leveraging of the future of this nation is now.  The manufacturing of a healthcare problem,  Global Warming problem--essentially every single hallmark of your administration--is obviously nothing more than an obfuscation of the dire straits that this nation now finds itself in.

Our new system of socialization at the very top of industry and at the very bottom of the citizenry simply leaves the struggling middle class of this country with a bill that it cannot pay, and the consequences of this will be extreme.

This current configuration of targeted social safety net programs for the selected favored is simply not equitable and is unsustainable as a nation.  One need only look at the country of Greece to see its quick-acting results.

Barry Secrest