Democrat priorities of the week

I've been too busy to blog this week. But the Democrats have been busy, too. So let's catch up, shall we?

President Obama made time to visit a mosque in Istanbul but refused an invitation from France's President Nicolas Sarkozy to visit 9,387 American soldiers buried at Normandy, countering that he didn't want to offend Germany by doing so. Offending Americans, however, seems just dandy to The Lightworker.

Respect; you're doing it wrong.
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President Obama violated his oath to "...preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States" when he surrendered American sovereignty to a European consortium, giving them "regulation and oversight to all systemically important financial institutions, instruments, and markets [including] systemically important hedge funds."

If the FSB, in its international wisdom, considers an institution or company "systemically important," it may regulate and over see it. This provision extends and internationalizes the proposals of the Obama administration to regulate all firms, in whatever sector of the economy that it deems to be "too big to fail."

The FSB is also charged with "implementing . . . tough new principles on pay and compensation and to support sustainable compensation schemes and the corporate social responsibility of all firms."

That means that the FSB will regulate how much executives are to be paid and will enforce its idea of corporate social responsibility at "all firms."

The head of the Financial Stability Forum, the precursor to the new FSB, is Mario Draghi, Italy's central bank president. In a speech on Feb. 21, 2009, he gave us clues to his thinking. He noted that "the progress we have made in revising the global regulatory framework . . . would have been unthinkable just months ago."

Duty; you're doing it wrong.
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President Obama votes "present" by refusing to make any public statements about the Somali pirates who have taken an American sailor hostage.

Since taking office in January, the president has proved willing in many cases to field off-the-cuff questions from reporters at the close of events at the White House, even on matters differing from his focus that day.

But not in this case.

When reporters asked the president directly about the incident on Thursday, he demurred. Instead, he stayed on his message of the day, saying: "Guys, we're talking about housing right now."

Leadership; you're doing it wrong.
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton followed Dear Leader's punch-drunk example when she giggled repeatedly when asked about the hostage situation.



Gravitas; you're doing it wrong.
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Meanwhile, the U.S. Congressional Black Caucus follows Obama's stellar examples by visiting Cuba and fawning over Castro.

Fidel Castro, the longtime Communist leader of Cuba, met with visiting members of the U.S. Congressional Black Caucus on Tuesday, a day after his brother, Raul, who succeeded him as president, did the same, according to a U.S. official in Havana.

U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee, at left with Reps. Marcia Fudge and Mel Watt, was among those who met with Castro.

The meeting with Fidel Castro, 82, comes amid speculation that the United States is considering a shift in relations with the Communist nation that sits just 90 miles from the Florida Keys.

Upon returning to the United States, members of the caucus said it's time to consider an end to the trade embargo and other diplomatic restrictions placed on Cuba for the past five decades.

"Yes, we have history. We have good history and not-so-good history," said Rep. Laura Richardson, D-California. "But the point is, it's history, and we need to move forward."

Three members of the caucus were visiting the Latin American School of Medicine, where students from nations including the United States study, when they were invited to meet with the senior leader.

"Former President Fidel Castro is very engaging, very energetic," said caucus Chairwoman Barbara Lee, also a Democrat from California. "Our conclusion is, given the new direction in our foreign policy, that it's time to look at a new direction in our policy toward Cuba.

Makes sense, right? We're ushering in a new era of big-government socialism, we're ceding control of America to European socialists; might as well go ahead and get in bed with a brutal communist dictator, eh?

Principles; you're doing it wrong.
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Meanwhile, President Obama demonstrates that although he believes auto CEOs shouldn't be allowed to fly their own private jets to Washington, it's just fine for him to have a chef flown 860 miles just to make him some pizza. Nice that he's so serious about "going green", eh?

Chris Sommers, 33, jetted into Washington from St Louis, Missouri, on Thursday with a suitcase of dough, cheese and pans to to prepare food for the Obamas and their staff.

He had apparently been handpicked after the President had tasted his pizzas on the campaign trail last autumn.

Hypocrisy; you're doing it right.