Speak Out 2/15/13

Leaf pickup

I love driving around the city and looking at all the piles of leaves. Another great idea by the city of Cape. Taxpayer money wasted.

Partisan politics

Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham has said he'll hold up the nominations to head the Department of Defense and the CIA until he gets to the bottom of Benghazi. Where has the illustrious senator been during the time period when we were, and still are, trying to get to the bottom of what happened on Sept. 11, 2001? Oh yeah, I forgot. We didn't play partisan politics with that one.

Blunt, Nugent

Congratulations to one-time Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt. In being an NRA Board member, he now joins the distinguished company of Ted Nugent.

Perspective?

Despite intelligence agency warnings, four Americans were killed in Libya during President Obama's watch. Similarly, more than 3,000 people were killed on 9/11 when President Bush was the commander in chief. Hundreds of millions of loans were given to Solyndra under Obama, and hundreds of billions to Halliburton under Bush. There's no doubt President Obama's team has made mistakes and potentially engaged in cronyism, but do Republicans have no sense of perspective?

SOTU address

Historically speaking, President Obama's most recent State of the Union Address was equaled in being the greatest of all time only by his previous four.