Is it not amazing to watch a recent Nobel Peace Prize winner jubilate over the killing of a world renown terrorist? We do not have to repeat what happened on May 1, everybody knows it. Master terrorist Osama Bin Laden was assassinated in a midnight raid in Pakistan by a special SEAL team. We agree with the many who have congratulated the President for making the decision to proceed with the attack, the world is a better place after Bin Laden’s demise, no doubt about it.

What strikes us as odd here at Common Sense University is the extended victory lap the President is taking with his high profile speeches, visits to Ground Zero in New York and to the Special Forces units at Fort Campbell contrasted with his rhetoric. He decided not to show any photos of the dead Bin Laden and he ordered the body to be given a traditional Muslim burial on an aircraft carrier and the disposition of the body.

The President stated that it was not proper to show the “trophy” as he called it nor “to spike the football“. These terms are easily understood by Americans. But how does one accept that considering the fact that Obama did nothing else but spike the football for nearly a week? The answer is very simple: He is campaigning for re-election! By the end of that week, domestic news about the unemployment rate as of the end of April and the job creation were bad for him, so he did what he does best: He ignored that!

What is the most disgusting element in all this is as always, the complying liberal media who could not tell us often enough how brave President Obama had been in ordering the strike on this “slum-villa” in Abbottabad, Pakistan. It was so extremely courageous because things could have gone wrong with the mission by the SEAL team. He took such a huge risk giving the ok for this event, it was just awesome.

It is sad that America has to listen to or read this nonsense. If risk analysis were made on anything that goes on in the country, we wonder how many sports events would be cancelled (after all, the home team could lose), how many people would simply not go to work on rainy or windy days because they might get into an accident or be hit by a falling tree? This is so silly, it makes no sense at all. If a person has this sort of decision-making philosophy, he or she should not be in a position to having to make such decisions.

In the meantime, we really do not know at this time how this operation to kill Osama Bin Laden was executed in terms of time line. When the news broke on the evening of May 1 that something big had happened and that the President would address the nation about it, the news were multitudinous in that it was first reported that Bin Laden had been killed a week earlier and that the wait until the official announcement was due to extensive DNA verification testing. Then the number of people killed varied, then the matter of Bin Laden having had a weapon in his hand when confronted by the Special Forces team members and so on. There have been so many statements since May 1, we wonder if we ever get a real report on what went down and if so, if we can believe it. For now, we consider this best to be summarized as: Obama killed Osama and we (the people) got 72 versions of how it happened. We do not know if Bin Laden got his 72 virgins after his life was ended, we are satisfied with him being dead.

Even after a month having passed, we still have a very bitter taste in our mouths over the Federal budget for the current fiscal year. But that’s what disappointments usually do, they leave bitter after-tastes. The main reason for this condition is the total despair over what to make of the current Congress. It could be easily summed up as “Business as usual” after having witnessed and just analyzed the drama of the budget battle that took place in Washington D.C.

Let’s recall: After the Democrats who had been in total control of Congress for the past several years had not even tried to pass a budget for the 2010/2011 fiscal year, the Republicans had campaigned last year on the promise to voters to cutting at least one hundred billion dollars out of the budget if they were to be elected as a majority. The voters bought their campaign promises, trusted them and voted the Republicans into a majority in the House of Representatives while they increased the number of Republicans in the Senate, balancing that chamber to a closer 53 Democrats versus 47 Republican. In essence, a smaller majority for the Democrats.

As soon as the new Congress was sworn in this past January, the Republican House leaders announced that they could not cut one hundred billion dollars out of the projected 3.7 trillion dollar budget since several months had already past. The one hundred billion number was therefore prorated downward to just 61 billion dollars based on the remaining number of weeks until the end of September.

As was to be expected, the Democrats from the President on down started to voice their strong opposition to this move by their political counterparts. They claimed that these cuts were“draconian” in its totality and would bring great harm to Americans and the liberal media happily played along and flooded the people with stories of hardships for many individuals and families who would be deeply effected by budget cuts. The proposed cuts of $61 billion represented only 1.65 percent, but for the Democrats this was Armageddon and they maligned the Republicans for even trying to do such a dastard deed.

Now let’s put this in perspective. If we assume that a family has to cut back on their financial outlays due to hardship caused by a reduction of income, the father talks to his teenage son and says: “Son, things are a little bit tough right now and I am cutting your allowance down from $100 a month to $98.35, I hope you understand!” Does anybody believe that the son would be calling this a draconian cut and that he could not get by with that reduced amount of money? Of course not. The teenager would understand and that would be the end of it. This demonstrates the total irresponsible and shameful mindset and behavior of Democrats.

Now then, in the real world, when the final budget deal was finally reached in early April, the cuts only amounted to $38 billion or roughly one percent of the total. That is a laughable small amount and yet the Republicans hailed it as a historic event and they celebrate their great achievement. It was a disgusting display of arrogance and betrayal of their campaign promises.

It is truly disappointing to witness the way these people behave and act and it is equally difficult to feel any sense of pride over the way this “budget battle” was fought and ended. There are five hundred thirty five member in Congress, if they were all asked to stand very close together and they were covered with a giant tarp; attacking this gathering with a baseball bat, one would never hit the wrong person. In other words, the American Congress is not an institution the American people can be or should be proud of.