When did I last see my little Willie?

Will Hague is taking a beating in the press; and much of it is self-induced. His efforts to deflect aspersions made the situation worse, especially after bringing his wife into the fray. His clumsy public statements cause me to wonder how he came to be such a close advisor to Margaret Thatcher. Much of what I read about him is less than complimentary and this has to give him a handicap when dealing with foreign affairs. Nor did it help that his young advisor ran away. I believe your assessment of Hague's character, but the manner in which the ordeal is being handled has many of the earmarks of a guilty conscience. Just for the record, I could give a toss if he is gay, but it is important that he be a man of substance and good judgement or his opponents will have him for lunch.

Situation America is going from bad to worse. O's ratings are falling by the day and it now looks as if the opposition will win a House majority and come close to winning over the Senate as well in the upcoming mid-term elections. The Republicans have managed to exact sufficient party and pundit discipline to focus their attacks on O's management, or mismanagement, of the economy. In the process, they have seriously eroded public confidence in the dollar, the Fed, major banks and our twin housing regulation authorities, Fannie May and Freddie Mack. The strategy has been well executed; perhaps too well because the Republicans will have a difficult time regaining public confidence in the economy once they get back into power.

O has also been tagged as seriously pro labor, partly because the unions have contributed gazillions of dollars to his campaign and the campaign of his fellow Democrats. Accusations are that the newly proposed roads, rails and runways infrastructure development legislation is contaminated with promises of union jobs. After Reagan's successful effort to break the air traffic controllers strike, the image of unions in general has declined, strikes did not happen and the larger unions such as teachers and government workers unions were relatively quiet. It was nearly a situation in which we felt we could get along without the unions, until O came riding in on a flotilla of union dollars. To many, he made a pact with the devil and to his enemies, this pact is another string in their bow of contention about his mismanagement of the economy.

Then there is the high strung evangelical preacher who wants to burn the Koran in protest against the Muslims. This has certainly got up the nose of Muslim groups who are undoubtedly prompted and propagandized by militant Mullahs seeking their own power structure and path to paradise. The government, in the form of Hillary Clinton for one and General Petraeus for another, has openly criticized the misguided missionary who seems totally oblivious to anybody's feelings other than his own. He is behaving like a martyr and is backing up his intended deed with references to the need for our saintly Christian religion to combat and defeat the evil of Islam. Jesus Christ!

Deepwater Horizon is off the radar, at least until the results of testing the blowout preventer are completed. As soon as it surfaced, the BOP was formally 'arrested' and placed under the care of one agency or another, I don't recall which. I have no idea when the BOP tests will be completed, but I can only imagine how difficult it must be to ensure that the tool is properly handled and that it is kept away from unauthorized persons. Every effort will surely be made not to contaminate the evidence. Who knows, BP may be fully exonerated