State Department

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Millions of barrels of oil have leaked into our Gulf waters for over seventy days, wrecking havoc on natural habitats and the coastal ecosystem, especially the beautiful living creatures who call it home. For all his bravo and big talk, POTUS #44 is showing himself to be even less effective than POTUS #43, in meeting the challenges of a national disaster. Despite Katrina, GW will always have his iconic image at Ground Zero engraved in our collective memories. Obama, on the other hand, has nothing in his entire history to make us believe he feels our pain.

God help us. (What terrible trick of fortune took us from bad to worse?)

Under Obama’s control, our Federal Government is too bloated; it is stuck in the mire of bureaucracy. Oil skimmers that were sent to the Gulf were sidelined, because they didn’t meet EPA standards, or union hiring rules, or the Jones Act. It seems the government is looking for any excuse not to do its job.

The State Department was quick to make a definitive comment, deriding Israel during the Turkish Terrorist Flotilla incident. Yet, to save the Gulf, it can’t get its act together to work with foreign governments that have volunteered to help us. The Dems rammed TARP, Obamacare, and their collective pay raise through Congress, but they can’t seem to come up with a strategy to “plug the damn hole.”

Celebrate International Women’s Day at the Department of State

In honor of the Secretary’s 2010 International Women of Courage

You are cordially invited to attend an Open Forum with the honorees

Hosted by:

Ambassador-at-Large Melanne Verveer
Office of Global Women’s Issues

March 8, 2010

Session I: 10:00-11:30AM

Featuring honorees from: Afghanistan, the Dominican Republic, Iran, Republic of Korea, and Zimbabwe

Session II: 2:00-3:30 PM

Featuring honorees from: Afghanistan, Cyprus, Kenya, Sri Lanka, and Syria

Location: Loy Henderson Room
Department of State
23rd Street Entrance

Here is something fun for those of you with a Twitter account. The US Department of State has announced a Twitter contest where you tweet what democracy means to you in 140 characters or less. The winner with the most retweets gets a Flip Video HD Camcorder!

More info on the Department of State's website.

The contest begins today and ends January 21st. Good luck!