If you get government out of regulating business, business won’t have to lobby government. Big business wants rules to handicap competition. Then it wants to make sure that government doesn’t make rules that handicap _them_. Get government out of business regulation.

So, Bear Stearns’ failure was the result of government regulation? You’ll have to explain that one to me.

If, however, we accept your notion and suggest that government should “get out” of business regulation, does that extend to “no bailouts?” No Fed-brokered buyout of Bear Stearns? No loan guarantees for Chrysler (way back when) or airlines? No bankruptcy judges allowing Chapter 11 firms to toss their pension plans?

U.S. Rep. Geoff Davis, a Hebron Republican, compared Obama and his message for change similar to a “snake oil salesman.”

He said in his remarks at the GOP dinner that he also recently participated in a “highly classified, national security simulation” with Obama.

“I’m going to tell you something: That boy’s finger does not need to be on the button,” Davis said. “He could not make a decision in that simulation that related to a nuclear threat to this country.”

#1: Why on EARTH is Davis talking, in public, about a “highly classified national security simulation?” If it’s truly classified, one would strongly suspect that the participant list is classified as well.

#2: One would think that Davis should know better than to refer to any adult as a “boy,” much less a black man. He’s already sent Obama an apology, saying that his was–you just know what’s coming, don’t you?–a “poor choice of words.”

#3: This wasn’t a “old guy” thing; Davis is all of 49. (Obama is 45.)

#4: You know that McCain is probably going to be asked about this.

http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/the_way_we_live/article3714235.ece

(I’m not exactly sure why it is under the Women section of Life & Style)

“Barack Obama quietly slipped into the Miami headquarters of a major law firm scarred by the scandals of Jack Abramoff … [A]rriving a little after 10 a.m. on Oct. 1, Obama spent the next three hours schmoozing, speaking in a video conference to branch offices and raising money at Greenberg Traurig, a billion-dollar firm with one of the biggest lobby shops here.”

The only conclusion you can draw is that Obama is part of the problem in Washington. He’s peddling his influence to the highest bidder. And, like the Clintons, he’s willing to do anything to get financial contributions from anyone, and to pander to whatever group he’s in front of. But, then again, we’re suppose to be too stupid to know that because we’re too enthralled with the Bible and firearms.