100 days, The GOP and Arlen Specter

Finally, President Obama's first 100 days are over. We don't have to hear about it any more. Thank goodness!!!

Anyway, on to other news, as we all know Arlen Specter became a Democrat so he could win re-election in 2010. It is sad to see but I think it spells a bigger problem for the Republican party. Olympia Snow wrote an op ed piece in the New York Times that I thought is really good. The best part was her quote of Regan and call for a return to the traditional Republican Party. We cannot be so exclusive. We need to be more accepting of others or we will lose it all.

Olympia Snow said:
"There is no plausible scenario under which Republicans can grow into a majority while shrinking our ideological confines and continuing to retract into a regional party. Ideological purity is not the ticket back to the promised land of governing majorities — indeed, it was when we began to emphasize social issues to the detriment of some of our basic tenets as a party that we encountered an electoral backlash.

It is for this reason that we should heed the words of President Ronald Reagan, who urged, “We should emphasize the things that unite us and make these the only ‘litmus test’ of what constitutes a Republican: our belief in restraining government spending, pro-growth policies, tax reduction, sound national defense, and maximum individual liberty.” He continued, “As to the other issues that draw on the deep springs of morality and emotion, let us decide that we can disagree among ourselves as Republicans and tolerate the disagreement.”

I couldn’t agree more. We can’t continue to fold our philosophical tent into an umbrella under which only a select few are worthy to stand. Rather, we should view an expansion of diversity within the party as a triumph that will broaden our appeal. That is the political road map we must follow to victory."

Anyway, here is the article if you want to read it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/29/opinion/29snowe.html?_r=1&ref=opinion

The 100th day is coming

So today was a pretty crappy day at work, but what got me through the day, besides the thought of dancing with the stars tonight, was knowing that President Obama's first 100 days are almost over. I am so tired of hearing about it. I know it is a mark that the press likes to use to compare presidents to each other but enough is enough. I guess it has to do with the fact that the news each day has a graphic showing their coverage of the first 100 days. Well it also has to do with the fact that I don't like the current administration.

Easter as a kid

So I was talking to my friend Carren about my past Easter's and I remember that I had video of our 1st Easter after my brother Scott was born. So below is that video. I also added a special video of me with Scott, a few month later. I say yea, yea yea over and over again. It is mind numbingly boring but very indicative of me as a kid. Thought you all might want to see it.

BTW, this video came from my dad's 3mm reel of film so the sound and picture is not good. So I want to apologize in advance for it.

Enjoy, I know I did.

Happy Easter Sunday

I hope everyone out there has a Happy Easter. Below is one of my favorite pictures from chruch for Easter. I hope you enjoy the day and have lots of eggs, ham, peeps, and etc.

Why don't people know my name

Okay, so growing up my mom could never remember our names so she would always yell all the children's name and eventually she would get to the right kids name. Mark, Scott, Craig why did you do it? The order of names would change and so would the thing we did wrong but my mom would always call us all by the wrong name. The worse for me is when she called me by my little brothers name Scott. I thought that had ended now that we were adults and in different cities. But now it is not just my family. My neighbor called me Scott the other day. I just about died. She has done it before but I finally decided to write about it. What are the odds she would forget my name and call me by my brothers name. Our names must be naturally linked. Anyway, I found it interesting.

Cherry Blossom's in Washington DC