Ron Paul Questions the Fed

Good News: H1N1 Vaccination Program is Coming!

I subscribed to the White House email list back in January when President Obama presented his Change.gov website to field "tough" questions from the public.  Today, whitehouse.gov has released an important email concerning the H1N1 Swine Flu sent by John O. Brennon, Homeland Security advisor.  Here it is:

As the President's advisor on Homeland Security, I am passing along the following message from Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Janet Napolitano, Secretary of Homeland Security, and Arne Duncan, Secretary of Education, who are leading the efforts to prepare our Nation for the coming flu season.

Fellow Americans,

This spring we were confronted with an outbreak of a troubling flu virus called 2009-H1N1. As the fall flu season approaches, it is critical that we reinvigorate our preparedness efforts across the country in order to mitigate the effects of this virus on our communities.

Obama Feeling the Heat for His Radical Policies

The honeymoon is over for President Barack Obama as his poll numbers continue to fall and more Americans become dissatisfied with his job performance.

Politico reports:

In a potentially alarming trend for the White House, independent voters are deserting President Barack Obama nationally and especially in key swing states, recent polls suggest.

Obama’s job approval rating hit a — still healthy — low of 56 percent in the Gallup Poll on Wednesday. And pollsters are debating whether Obama’s expansive and expensive policy proposals or the ground-level realities of a still-faltering economy are driving the falling numbers.

This is actually a good sign for the country, but it might not be the opening the Republicans will need. They need to shape up their image as much as Obama and the Democrats need to.

It is clear that over the past 10 years the American people have become feed up with the two-party system because they realize that both will abuse the power given them once in office.   So what comes next? It's hard to say, but these numbers against Obama are a good start.

House Dems: CIA Withheld Secrets

From the New York Times: Seven House Democrats on the Intelligence Committee wrote that the CIA had misled them over the past 8 years.

The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Representative Silvestre Reyes, Democrat of Texas, referred to Mr. Panetta’s disclosure in a letter to the committee’s ranking Republican, Representative Peter Hoekstra of Michigan, Congressional Quarterly reported on Wednesday. Mr. Reyes wrote that the committee “has been misled, has not been provided full and complete notifications, and (in at least one occasion) was affirmatively lied to.”

I'll give credit where credit is due; it's a good thing that the House Democrats are voicing opposition to government secrecy. After all, it's better than what Obama is doing:

In a related development, President Obama threatened to veto the pending Intelligence Authorization Bill if it included a provision that would allow information about covert actions to be given to the entire House and Senate Intelligence Committees

Wow. Makes you wonder what happened to all that talk of change, huh?

But if the members of Congress in this article really wanted change, they'd advocate for the transparency of not only the CIA, but the Fed too. None of the three Democrats mentioned in the article, Representatives Holt, Reyes, and Pelosi, are co-sponsors of H.R. 1207, Ron Paul's Federal Reserve Transparency Act.