President Obama has turned down Arizona Governor Jan Brewers request for a meeting regarding the Arizona Immigration policy, and says he has no plans to meet with her in the future.

Brilliant.

Rather than try and work with the Governor and the rest of the State representatives on policy that the majority of Americans agree with, he’s going to continue blasting the bill, and bringing foreign leaders in to follow suit.

All the while neither he nor Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano have read the bill (by her own admission).

Talk about poor leadership skills.

Politics Arizona Immigration Bill, leadership, Napolitano, Obama

The Obama Administration is now saying that it will push BP off cleanup duty and take over if they determine that BP isn’t taking all the appropriate actions.

Great. Call in the experts.

The administration also accuses BP of “missing deadline after deadline”.

If that isn’t the kettle talking…

BP will try a top kill on Tuesday, and if that doesn’t go well I suspect they’ll try a junk shot. I don’t have much faith in junk shots.

Energy, Oil & Gas, Politics BP, deepwater drilling, oil and gas

In an interview by Fareed Zakaria, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner revealed (or more, admitted?) that he’d never held a “real job”.  Essentially, since grad school he’s spent his entire professional life in some sort of “policy job”.

Initially, this made me really mad, until I realized that a good portion of those making “policy” haven’t held a real job either.  So Geithner is no odd duck.

Realizing that I’ve got better things to do than be enraged about the people that make up our corrupt government, I moved on to determining what criteria candidates need to get my vote in the future.

A real job is now one of those criteria.

From now on, you need experience in a “real job” to get my vote.  That means a real, no kiddin’ 8 to 5 gig making a no-kiddin’ paycheck.  And you need some tenure too.  None of this, “I worked as an intern as a financial analyst while in school” stuff.

If you want a government job determining how my hard earned tax dollars get spent, you need to have some concept of how my tax dollars are earned.

Business, Finance, Politics job qualifications, Tim Geithner