Don't worry guys, they're remodeling.

Softened up on Expansion

Kudos to The Scranton, PA Times.

Obama Calls for Civilian Force as Large as the Military

We all know we saw this one coming.

This is one of the many examples of how this administration has been ridiculously expanding the size of the government. At Wednesday's townhall meeting, Obama mentioned how the military is "overburned" by our current wars and how a civilian force is needed.This is nothing new. Obama himself mentioned this when we was campaigning two years ago:

"We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded," Obama said in July 2, 2008.

According to President Obama, this civilian force could also be used as another tool for our blessed nation-building efforts from abroad. The administration has been talking about efforts to drastically increase the bugdet of the State Department as well. Oh, and this civilian force will be funded on roughly the same scale as the military.

Instead of doing the wise thing -- limiting government, and stopping all forms of nation-building and interventionism -- this administration is doing the exact opposite. But with the health care bill , TARP and the finance reform bill passed, the PATRIOT act renewed, etc., should we really expect any sensible limitations from our wise overlords?

Singer Sophie B. Hawkins: Obama throwing country 'under the bus,' choking on spill response

The slow awakening of Obama supporters continues to enlighten. After the jump there are some great quotes.

H/t The Hill:

Singer Sophie B. Hawkins told The Hill on Thursday that "America's being thrown under the bus" by President Barack Obama as he presses forward with his agenda and comes under criticism for his response to the Gulf oil spill.

Hawkins, who scored Top 10 Billboard hits in the 1990s with "Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover" and "As I Lay Me Down," is donating all proceeds from her new single, "The Land, the Sea and the Sky," to the Waterkeeper Alliance, which has launched coordinated efforts to combat the effects of the spill.

She was also critical of the White House earlier this month in a Huffington Post editorial, writing, "BP executives are pointing fingers while the government continues hand-wringing. ... The irony that Obama rushes in the lawyers while the well is still spewing is not lost on most Americans."