You can always count on Senator John Kerry to tell it like it isn’t, and he was true to form when he commented on the attitude of the members of the Joint Deficit Reduction Committee: “I don’t want to discuss what we discussed.” The panel met for nearly 6½ hours in the Capitol, and when its members departed for the day they refused to answer basic, innocuous questions about what were discussing and would not offer any information regarding when the date of their next meeting.

12 lawmakers are working behind closed doors to devise ways for cutting $1.2 trillion from the nation’s deficit, but they’re saying essentially nothing of their proceedings, quickly and quietly leaving via side doors and dodging questions with unprecedented directness.  They’re enacting a disappointing show of secrecy after hearing the president say often during his frequent news conferences that it was time to make government clearly visible to the public view. As usual, his words have proved to be nothing more than smooth sounding rhetoric suitable for sound bites during his near perpetual campaign trek.

There are only 57 days remaining until the committee is required to make a recommendation to Congress. After that presentation, they’ll have one month before they have to vote on their overall plan. During the interim, it appears the American people will once again be intentionally locked out of the process. But according to an aide, “The truth is that while every vote this committee takes will be public and every hearing will be open and televised, progress around a bipartisan plan is going to also take closed-door sessions in which members can be frank in their negotiations.” Hmm, no contradiction here.

In the meantime we’ll do what we usually do as voters/taxpayers, wait until we’re told what, when, where and how to things are going to be done, and then watch as most or none of it ever comes to fruition.

You may have noticed, as usual, that the longer Obama talked this morning the farther the stock market continued to drop. This isn’t an atypical occurrence, its become the norm. In effect, when he speaks those who are invested in the stock market have generally figured out that his remarks will mean essentially nothing or are cleverly worded phrases that sound wonderful at the moment, but upon retrospection are empty, meaningless gibber jabber. In the speech this morning he he made sure to keep the worst of the oncoming tax hammers from slamming us until he’s out of office (even if that happens to be a 2nd term).

Nothing he said is going to reverse the current nightmare economy situation, and will probably make it even worse. From Wall Street to Main Street business owners are securing what, if any, cash reserves they have on hand until the Administration can get its act together and come up with a new, logical plan for encouraging business growth and hiring. Until then it’s only gonna get worse, until about 2014 when, if left unchanged, may collapse entirely. The bottom line here is that continued spending simply can’t be sustained. At some point the taxpayers are going to say enough is enough and simply stop paying taxes. Then what? What would/could the government do if the majority of taxpayers simply decided not to send in their tax payment check next April 15th? We’re talking about millions of people who said, “No, not this year. I have to live within my means and so is the government.”

Wouldn’t that make April 16, 2012 an interesting day….

It now appears that the drunk Obama family, ‘Uncle Omar’ Obama,  is a benefactor of the president’s new Executive Amnesty for Illegal Aliens program,” communications director John Kennedy stated in a press release last week. This confirms that Congressman King’s suspicions were on target; the Obama administration seemingly used the new rules to grant amnesty to the president’s uncle.

On Friday King issued an official statement regarding Obama’s uncle, Omar Onyango Obama, confirming that he was released from the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. “Uncle Omar” was held in custody subject to a 1992 deportation order, which was discovered following his arrest on suspicion of driving under the influence, driving to endanger, and failing to use a turn signal, according to the press release.

King stated, “President Obama’s uncle, ‘Uncle Omar,’ has been picked up for drunken driving with almost twice the blood-alcohol level that is allowable by law in Massachusetts. “It’ll be the third time that he’s been interdicted with regard to being an illegal immigrant. He’s twice before been adjudicated for deportation, this time Immigration and Customs Enforcement just released him, after they had him in custody, as if he’s not going to be a danger to our society. The special privileges for the president’s family who are illegal immigrants, this is the second one.” King continued in the statement, “His ‘Aunt Zeituni’ was also picked up as an illegal immigrant and finally granted an asylum by ICE, by the Department of Homeland Security. We need to have Congressional hearings into favorite treatment of the White House. This executive amnesty that the president has ordered, that they’re not going to enforce immigration law, and who pops up first? Drunken ‘Uncle Omar.’ I want to subpoena drunken ‘Uncle Omar’ to come into the House Judiciary Committee along with his attorney, who’s the same attorney that President Obama’s ‘Aunt Zeituni’ had that got her asylum.”

King concluded by saying, “We must enforce our immigration laws, and we must enforce those immigration laws equally across all society. Justice has got to be blind, it can’t play favorites, and I want to have hearings in the House Judiciary Committee over drunken ‘Uncle Omar.’ ”

The “Uncle Omar” controversy marks the second time a relative of Obama’s has appeared to benefit from preferential treatment, according to the press release. In 2010, Zeituni Onyango, the president’s aunt, had a deportation order quietly overturned. She let the cat out of the bag by making comments to the press citing that the United States “owed her” the right to be here, she didn’t need to go through any process, it was “her right” to be in the country and she was not going to leave. So far her presidential connection has paid off comfortably. Hmm, makes you wonder what kind of dirt she must have on him.

But it’s good to know that presidential relatives aren’t getting any special treatment….