I wanted to post this as my facebook status but it was too long...

In an effort to not rain on the obama happy parades by commenting on others' facebook status, let me just provide my top five reasons why Obama has NOT made the world a better place and solved all of our problems with this one: 1. States cannot afford the medicaid expansion 2. The only reason this is so "fiscally sound" is via huge medicare cuts and more taxes. 3. what's with finding more money by requiring all students loans to be from the federal government?? not bad in itself necessarily but what does it have to do with healthcare??? 4. Forcing people to buy health insurance just feels constitutionally shady--it's not quite the same as forcing people to buy car insurance because that at least can be painted as a cost of using public roads. 5. You couldn't even convince ONE crazy republican to vote for it?? really??? All this seems to add up to is higher premiums that those of us who have health insurance cannot afford. Why would you want to force hardworking, educated Americans into Medicaid? I suppose one step closer to the single payer government run healthcare you all want right?? Awesome. Please explain to me why I'm wrong. I'm crossing my fingers that tomorrow I will wake up and this bill really will have made it rain cupcakes and put diamonds on everyone's mailbox. Harrison and I have turned off Fox News and will be watching Sesame Street if you need us.

Obama rant..from Cory

I'm taking a media law class on Thursday nights and sometimes I think the class is just an excuse for my professor (and pretty much everyone else in the class but me) to bash Joe Arpaio, Andrew Thomas, (the sheriff and county attorney in maricopa county) the Bush administration, and anything Republican. My professor is a super nice guy and I have learned a bit about media law...but it can get old. Anyway, a week ago my professor published an opinion piece in the AZ republic about how Obama is ushering in a new era of openness, comparing him to James Madison--PLEASE give me a break--I just laugh at the ridiculousness of it all.

So, here's the article

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/viewpoints/articles/2009/03/14/20090314bodney0315.html

and here's what Cory had to say:
Again the problem of the actions not living up to the words. And in a monumental way. It is incomprehensible the differences that exist in Obama's grandiose and unequivocal words and the way in which he, and those of his party who take the lead from him, governs. Promises of open discussion and dialogue ending in quiet passages of unprecedented and hyper-partisan legislation in the middle of the night without a single person in the country knowing the legislation in its entirety. Shattered promises of ethics reform at the very moments he is appointing tax-evaders and cheats into cabinet positions. Claims of putting science at the forfront of our decission making when basic and proven principles of economics (the sience of the economy) are casually being dismissed as "old ideas." Oh, he may say things that Madison believed, but he does not belive the things that Madison said. What is a man but the sum of his actions. What is character but ones actions matching ones words. If these are true, then Obama is nothing more than a liar and an opressor.

Well said honey--I would just like to add that anyone with even a bit of constitutional history knowledge knows that Madison wasn't even in favor of the first amendment or the bill of rights at first because he believed that the right to free speech was inherent in the constitution itslef in that every right not given to the government is reserved for the states, and the people. Unrealted..but I'm just sayin...

and for those of you who can't stand my political posts and just want more baby pics...I'm trying to take more pics with my REAL camera and not just my phone. While that adds up to better pictures of little harrison k..it also means that it's going to take a while longer for me to post them since they don't just automatically upload when I plug the i phone into the mac--sorry!! but don't worry cute pics of harrison at his first baseball game and other escapades (as well as pics of the car I just bought :)) are coming!!