Charles Krauthammer is right.  It indeed is going to be a President Perry or a President Bachmann or a President Romney or a reelected Obama in January 2013.  Most of the television political gurus, including Krauthammer, think it is going to be either Rick Perry or Michele Bachmann fighting it out in "Round One" for the social conservative/Tea Party vote and the right to face Mitt Romney in "Round Two."   Wrong!

Unfortunately, Krauthammer from his East coast perch  --  like many of the East Coast establishment media elite  --  disparages the state of Texas (which represents fly-over country,) as he did in his analysis about Governor Perry in Bret Baier's Fox News show tonight.  Krauthammer conveniently forgets about Perry's tremendous economic record as governor.  He used the liberal media talking points about the American people supposedly not wanting another Texan so soon after the liberals' hated president, George W. Bush.

Krauthammer elaborated further on Rick Perry's supposed weak points such as the fact that he is an 100% Texan  --  indeed, Perry is a 6th generation Texan  --  whereas the hated George W. Bush was at least part Texan and part East-coast.  Bush's father was president and grew up in Connecticut and his grandfather was a United States Senator representing Connecticut.

The concerted attack on the Tea Party during the past couple of weeks  --  by not only the Democrat leaders, but by their like-minded friends in the news media  --  is astounding.  Prior to the debt ceiling legislation being signed into law by Barack Obama last week, the coordinated attack campaign against the Tea Party included using the talking points from the political hacks at the Democrats' national headquarters.  The main talking point was that the Tea Party activists were terrorists.  They whined that the Tea Party was also holding the country hostage, and on and on. 
 
Even the vice president of the United States was quoted by several sources saying that he agreed with a Democrat member of Congress who called the Tea Party terrorists.  In the same Democrat caucus meeting, according to "Politico" on August 1, 2011, Joe Biden said that the debt ceiling deal  --  finally agreed to by the Republican congressional leadership  --  would take away the Tea Party's "weapon of mass destruction," the threat of default on U.S. debt obligation.

Just hours after the stock market closed on Wall Street this evening, the credit rating agency, Standard and Poor's, downgraded the credit rating for the United States of America from a top rating of AAA to AA+.  Thus, Barack Obama goes down as the first American president in history to have a debt downgrade during his administration.  Even the thoroughly-failed one-term president, Jimmy Carter, did not have a credit rating agency down-grade during his disastrous four years.

Obama should receive a double F- for crashing America's economy.  He inherited a bad economy from his Republican predecessor, but he made the economy much worse with his trillions of dollars of additional spending; adding some $4 trillion to the national debt and many more trillions to be spent in the near future.  Obama's two major programs, the trillion-dollar stimulus law and the multi-trillion ObamaCare law have been complete disasters.  Both were opposed by the majority of the American people. 

The Chairman of the Democrat Party, Debbie Wasserman Schulcz, recently admitted that her party  --  and that includes Barack Obama  --  now owns the economy.  If the economy shoots up during Election Year 2012, her party will gain.  If the economy remains the same, Obama will be swept from office along with Democrat-majority control of the Senate.
 
Today, the only Republican members on the six-man debt ceiling commission headed by the vice president  --  House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and Senate Republican Whip Jon Kyl  --  quit the talks.  They both maintain that as long as tax increases, proposed by the Democrats, are on the table, the talks will go nowhere.  The Speaker of the House of Representatives, John Boehner, agrees with them.  The American people agree with them.  Indeed, some 65% of Americans, if not more, do not want to see the debt ceiling raised at all.
 
The debt ceiling  --  $14.294 trillion, which was raised just last year  --  was reached in late May, but the Treasury Department has been using "extraordinary measures" to avoid default by the United States of America.  However, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner says that August 2nd is the projected "drop dead" date, at which time the debt ceiling must be raised by Congress.  Yet the president has been fiddling while Rome has been burning, so to speak.
 

Thomas Jefferson, more than any other president, was concerned that the third branch of government, the judiciary  --  which was supposed to be the weakest  --  would become tyrannical and despotic.  Of course, that is exactly what has happened in America.  Jefferson had an extensive correspondence in his later years with his former political enemy, John Adams, and Adams' wife Abigail to a lesser degree.
 
In a letter to Mrs. Adams while he was president, Jefferson said on November 1804:  "But the opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional, and what not, not only for themselves in their own sphere of action, but for the legislature and executive also, in their spheres, would make the judiciary a despotic branch."
 
One such federal judge, appointed by Bill Clinton, wreaked havoc in Texas this past weekend.  Judge Fred Beiry  --  like many left-wing judges appointed by recent Democrat presidents  --  was determined to stop high school valedictorian Angela Hildenbrand from praying during the graduation ceremonies last Saturday night in a suburb of San Antonio.  Thankfully, Judge Beiry's decision was overturned by a 3-judge panel in the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals just in time for the young heroine to say her graduation prayer.
 

This writer is a former enlisted man before entering West Point and eventually served as an Army captain in the Vietnam War.   Most veterans are thoroughly disgusted with the way Barack Obama has politicized the United States military with his imposition of left-wing social experiments upon the military service.

John Howland, a 1964 U.S. Naval Academy graduate, who manages a web site on naval issues called USNA-At-Large, was quoted in yesterday's "The Washington Times" commenting about the social experimentations being imposed by the president on the U.S. military:  "It's pretty dire.  We're back to H.M.S. Pinafore."  This is a reference to the comic opera about English shipboard life.  Mr. Howland continued, "The leadership of the military is pretty much politically correct kind of stuff. You like to think that we’re approaching hitting bottom, but these people are not through with us yet.”
 
Annapolis graduate Howland also commented about Ray Mabus, Obama's Secretary of the Navy, who is capitulating to Obama's social experiments leading to the steady deterioration of America's great Navy, "Mabus is an unequivocal disaster.  He’s done nothing but the straight social engineering play book. Women on submarines is a looming disaster that is sure to come. He’s done the ship naming things.”
 

With the blanket news coverage of Osama bin Laden's killing and the Royal wedding two days before that, little attention was paid to the astounding news which occurred in Canada on Monday.  As "The Wall Street Journal" wrote today, "The federal parliamentary election on Monday dramatically reshaped Canada's political landscape."  The results portend a threat to the Democrats holding on to the White House and the United States Senate next year.
 
In the WSJ's accompanying "pre-election" and "post-election" charts showing the make-up of the Canadian House of Commons, the Conservative Party, under Prime Minister Stephen Harper's leadership, increased its seats from 143 to 167 giving it a clear majority in parliament.  Canada's Liberal Party went from controlling 77 seats before the election to now controlling 34 seats.  The left-leaning New Democratic Party went from 36 seats to 102 seats.  Finally, the radical Bloc Quebecois Party lost an astounding 43 seats and is now down to only 4 seats in parliament.
 
The bottom line is that the conservatives in the Canadian parliament gained a comfortable majority in the House of Commons after promising even more fiscal responsibility.  And that has to be a bad omen for the Democrats and for Barack Obama heading into next year's presidential election.  
 

Regarding the great U.S. Navy Seals' killing of Osama Bin Laden yesterday in Pakistan, emails are bouncing around the Internet this morning and the sentiments are like this:  "Thinking people are asking why the authorities think it was wise to bury Osama's body at sea?" and "There will always be those who question whether or not it was his body" and this most important statement of all:  "I don't think we have any reason to trust that leaders of nations are not above conspiracy and deception for political reasons."

A father of a 9/11 victim reacting to the death of Osama Bin Laden on Fox News said this morning, "I wanted to see the body of Osama Bin Laden" and he said "I want to have closure."  This anguished father did not know why they buried Osama at sea and he had other such questions.

Many Americans were enthusiastic about real estate magnate and television talk show host Donald Trump's recent blunt talk regarding the United States being on the short end of the stick in relationships with other nations such as China; about Barack Obama's dismal energy policy; about Trump's conversion to the pro-life position, his support for traditional marriage between one man and one woman, and other strong stands.

Trump continues a meteoric rise in the polls because of his blunt talk, most especially about the circumstances of Barack Obama's birth.  The latest CNN polls puts Trump even higher than he was polling last week and he is now tied for first place in the Republican primary battle with former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee.  In addition, Trump is far ahead of the former governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney, in the polls.

Now it appears that Donald Trump is just using the Republican Party to further his megalomaniacal ambitions, and he will pull a Lisa Murkowski  --  the infamous "Republican" Senator from Alaska who ran as an Independent when the Republican primary voters denied her the right to run as the Republican nominee last year  --  and run as an Independent if the Republican primary voters deny him the Republican nomination for president, which always was highly probable.