Mike,

BTW, before I cut your cojones off, let me say that I hope your assignment is going well and wish I could be there.

The market is up partly because there is some artificial trading going on. Money is being dumped into the market that wouldn't be there normally and I don't pretend to understand why but that's what's happening.

I think most of us anti-progressives did give Obama a chance and he's spit in our face. He is the imperial President; new czars all over the place that usurp the tradional powers of Congress. And then, hey, date night in Manhatten at taxpayer expense. Funny, I don't recall Bush doing that. But I guess Nero fiddles....

Obama is the biggest ideologue we've had as President since FDR. He will do what he wants to do and it'll all be cloaked with BS...and then the sheeople will wake up and realize they are paying 2-3K more to the Feds than they used to. Too late then.

>>I agree with you. I would love to see us energy independent and tell OPEC to eat their oil for breakfast. But sadly, we've a ways to go yet.
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>>Off shore drilling would certainly help. It would also help to create some of those jobs that Obama said that he was going to save or create with his spendulus package.
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>Give the guy a chance, Marcia. The stock market is up three months in a row under his tenure and his approval levels remain at historic highs. I know you do not agree with him philosophically. All I'm saying is keep an open mind.