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To the family, our condolences.

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Ten Southern Baptist “missionaries” went to Haiti to try to give a new life to the newly orphaned children in that earthquake-ravaged country.

They claimed to have proper paperwork but that’s in dispute, since adoptions were stopped for people who did not already have approval for adoption before the earthquake hit.

The original plan was to build an orphanage in neighboring Dominican Republic and the parents could visit, but with the intention of eventually getting these children adopted by American families.

At least nine of the people are innocent. Whether the lady who headed up the mission knowingly disregarded legalities is still in question.

Right now these ten people of good will are in a Haitian jail and will be tried. Our country as a government, as a people and as organizations have been to Haiti and continue to be there to help those who need it the most.

Some of the children’s parents said they thought their children were going to the Dominican Republic to get away from all the destruction and turmoil in their own country and allowed them to go. Other children’s distant relatives brought the children to the workers, telling them both parents were dead and they could not care for them.

Even though the orphanage is not completed, the ten people tried to take the children to safety. I doubt anyone thinks they wanted to engage in child trafficking, although appearances don’t always tell a story.

Now they sit in jail awaiting trial and sentencing.

Our government should exert as much pressure as possible to free these Americans (at least the nine who were not in charge) as a goodwill gesture to the nation that has helped Haiti more than any other country on earth.

The intent to take them to the DR is certain, but it didn’t happen, and no harm was actually done. I’ve seen videos of these people (at least one a young teen) and they seem credible to me. They wanted what was best for the children.

It could very well be that the State Department is in negotiations to get these people out of Haiti. I hope so. Even the leader, who may or may not have deceived the others, has learned from this experience and I doubt she will try anything like this again.

Many will disagree with me because what they did was illegal, but in a country whose jails were destroyed and regular criminals are once again roaming the streets, it seems they can free up some jail space and deport these people under the condition they never return to Haiti.

I welcome your thoughts, even if they are not the same as mine.

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Are we done yet????? 21 inches and counting here in the Philly suburbs and we are lucky by comparison to other areas.

If you don’t live in the corridor just slammed with this snowstorm, be grateful. If you do, then please be careful as you clean up from and attempt to get around in this mess.

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Who says it’s not fun to be part of the “golden years” crowd?

I caught the few moments FNC put up of the following video and immediately hoped that I could find the entire performance so it could be shared.

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Was hoping to catch the swearing in of Massachusetts newest Senator on Fox News but they did not cut away from their regular programming.

The following video was available however at The Page:

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Performed by Zo, a guest appearance by Pat Boone, and directed by Roger Simon. How could you go wrong?

What a perfect subject for this rendition of “You Talk Too Much.”

HT: Jim Hoft for pointing me in the direction of this very entertaining video.

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As Barack Obama loves to tell us (and most Independents and right of center citizens are tired of hearing) he inherited a mess from President George W. Bush, who somehow managed to keep the Ship of State straight and the economy percolating for most of his eight years in office—despite a terror attack on New York, Pennsylvania and Washington DC.

As we all know from high school civics classes, the president proposes and the Congress disposes. This is not to say Bush didn’t waste taxpayer dollars while in office. The last two years of the Bush presidency were years controlled by a Democratic Congress. If Bush asked for additional war funding for our troops sent to Iraq and Afghanistan, he had to pay the price by allowing the pork-laden bills that were sent to him or he never would have gotten the funding needed for these two wars on the terrorists out to destroy our country and what it stands for.

Before that, the Republican Congresses spent a lot of pork and Bush signed that legislation, which is why the Democrats won the last two election cycles.

Obama claims he was not aware of the severity of the problems this nation faced until he took office. This despite the fact that Bush included Obama and McCain on any decisions he was making regarding the financial meltdown prior to the election, and consulted with Obama after he was elected.

Bush went so far as to say if Obama wanted Bush to be the one to pull the trigger on TARP monies he would do so and let everyone blame him instead of hamstringing the new president. Obama and McCain both voted for TARP when they were still campaigning and were still Senators.

Enter Obama at high noon on January 20, 2009, and he has been blaming Bush for everything that has gone wrong in this country ever since. Hardly a day goes by that he or one of his spokespeople doesn’t mention what a “mess” they “inherited” and weren’t prepared for it until they actually saw it.

He knew jobs were being lost by hundreds of thousands shortly after he took office, but instead of putting his priorities into finding ways for businesses to succeed and be able to keep or hire new people he decided to go for his pet social projects.

He took over two car companies, gave loans to large banks, passed a “stimulus” bill that was just a pork-laden bill that had no stimulating effect, pushed for universal health care for a year despite the rejection of the legislation as written, pushed for Cap and Trade to “reduce” carbon emissions, campaigned for two failed governorships and one failed senate seat, held secretive meetings in the White House with just the leadership of the Democratic Congress over health care, and generally never gave jobs a second thought.

He made it abundantly clear to Congressional Republicans that he “won” and their input wasn’t necessary for any programs he wanted to pass, so they could be bi-partisan and agree with him or he’d do it without them anyway. Republican input into the “bipartisanship” was not needed.

After a few illegal ballots and a court fight in Minnesota for a Senate seat, the Democrat (who was behind in the original count) was finally seated and good old Arlen Specter saw the writing on the wall and figured out he’d never get the Republican nomination for Senate from Pennsylvania so he jumped parties, giving Obama his 60 vote “filibuster-proof” Senate.

Now, everything would be clear sailing. No matter that the people back home raised Cain about the health care bill all of August, Nancy Pelosi was able to finagle her way into the right amount of votes to pass health care “reform” in the House, with two votes to spare.

Now it was up to Harry Reid to easily pass a bill through the Senate and go to conference with the House Democrats and get the bill to Obama’s desk in time for him to brag about its passage during the State of the Union address.

There was no logical reason for him to not have health care “reform” passed by the end of December, 2009. He had the numbers and with a bit of bribery by Harry Reid the necessary amount of senators required to break a filibuster was there and did his bidding.

Then came the Massachusetts Massacre in January and the Democrats lost their crucial sixtieth vote in the Senate, meaning health care would have to be worked over in private with Democratic leadership, Obama and Rahm Emmanuel to make it palatable to the Democrats in each of the two legislative Houses.

Suddenly, Obama got a brain storm and decided maybe he’d better at least give lip service to jobs and the creation of jobs.

Congress has passed a new debt ceiling increase of $1.9 trillion. This money will have to be borrowed and soon we won’t be able to make even the interest payments to China and other countries still giving us credit. Except for the fact our paper bills say “Legal Tender” the dollar is really worth nothing. Try to take a dollar bill to the bank and get a silver dollar for it. Or try to take a $5 bill to the bank and get gold for it. It is worth about 1.6 cents, the amount it takes to print the bill.

Instead of taking TARP money paid back by banks (if they were so desperate last year how can they pay the money back so soon?) and using it to retire the debt, the Administration wants to put it back into circulation and have another “stimulus” bill for jobs when the original TARP money was supposed to do that and still has about 2/3 of the funds still available.

The only entity hiring any significant amount of employees has been the federal government. No one is being treated equally in this country, as those making over $250,000 combined household income are to be taxed for everything you can imagine until they are at the poverty rate, waiting in line for their food stamps.

Work is not being rewarded, but earnings are being robbed. At least Robin Hood robbed from the rich to give to the poor, but Obama and his Congress are robbing from the middle and upper class to make everyone poor.

The one person who has had the most access to this president at this White House has been the president of the SEIU, the service employees union. That’s why the so-called Cadillac health plans had an exemption from taxes for several years built into the bills.

Until Obama and his band of Merry Men realize cutting taxes for all Americans and all businesses will actually increase jobs and bring in more revenue, since more people will be working and paying taxes, our unemployment rate will stay at least where it is now and probably climb higher. Housing prices will continue to drop like a rock (but your property taxes won’t) and new homes will not be built.

Presidents Kennedy and Reagan realized tax cuts would bring the economy around and raising taxes during a recession was a stupid idea. It worked both times. Real jobs were created and not some government “make work” jobs that were dead ends to nowhere.

Obama is singing a new tune in public now. Health care isn’t the big emergency it was (but he’s still trying to figure out how to get it passed by hook or by crook behind the scenes) and jobs are the number one priority of his Administration. That’s the outward appearance. Actions speak louder than words and, judging by his performance in his first year and his defiance after the Massachusetts Senatorial election, I wouldn’t bet the house on the fact he is actually hearing the people.

This is why we shouldn’t put community organizers in charge of the country. He’s never held a private sector job in his entire adult life and his political background is sketchy at best.

May God bless America in spite of her stupidity.

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A sensational performance by The African Children’s Choir.

Allow a few moments for the commentary to finish and sit back and enjoy (as the crowd did) this delightful group of youngsters entertain with their rendition of “Walking In The Light”:

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Want a good laugh?

Read the balance of this piece from the Richmond Times-Dispatch:

Stupid American people have strange mad love for Constitution. Crazy right-wing Tea-Party people always making big fat deal out of it. Want to know where it say Congress can make people buy insurance. Freaky house speaker think that Constitution business nonsense. “Are you serious?” she want to know. Crazy right-wing Tea-Party people dead serious. Say government that can make you buy insurance can make you do anything, anything at all. Some even ask what crazy right-wing president and Congress with that kind of power might do. Me not like to think about that!

Whole issue make brain hurt. Good thing man with nice voice in charge. Him have right ideas. Just need to try new angle, that all. Talk slower. Talk louder. Use small words. Treat American people like kid who got held back in elementary school. That bound to work eventually.

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When I read the following quote in this piece all I could think of was the children’s lullaby “Hush Little Baby”.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi acknowledged in her weekly news conference that plenty of work remained if the House was to agree to changes to the Senate bill.

“We will go through the gate. If the gate is closed, we will go over the fence. If the fence is too high, we will pole vault in. If that doesn’t work, we will parachute in,” Pelosi said. “But we are going to get health care reform passed for the American people.”

Hush, little Congress, don’t say a word. Nancy’s gonna buy you a health care bill. If that health care bill don’t pass, Nancy’s gonna find a health care gate. If that health care gate don’t open, Nancy’s gonna buy you a health care fence. If that health care fence is too high, Nancy’s gonna buy you a new pole vault. If that new pole vault don’t work, Nancy’s gonna get you a parachute.

Doesn’t rhyme, but that’s all I could think of when I read that quote.

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What a difference a day makes. HT: The Hill via Memorandum

Last evening Obama railed against the participation of special interest groups in American politics. Today, they were invited to “private briefings” hosted by the White House:

A day after bashing lobbyists, President Barack Obama’s administration has invited K Street insiders to join private briefings on a range of topics addressed in Wednesday’s State of the Union.

The Treasury Department on Thursday morning invited selected individuals to “a series of conference calls with senior Obama administration officials to discuss key aspects of the State of the Union address.”

How do certain lobbyists feel about being bashed one moment and embraced in another?

A handful of lobbyists told The Hill on Thursday morning that they received the invitations and were planning to call in.

Some lobbyists say they are extremely frustrated with the White House for criticizing them and then seeking their feedback. Others note that Democrats on Capitol Hill constantly urge them to make political donations.

One lobbyist said, “Bash lobbyists, then reach out to us. Bash lobbyists’ [while] I have received four Democratic invitations for fundraisers.”

Oh, and about that transparency we keep hearing about….well, dream on.

….As a reminder, these calls are not intended for press purposes.”

Uh-huh.

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Commentary on last evenings SOTU worth passing along:

Bill Kristol:

Yet Obama can’t bring himself to say that we prevailed in Iraq. He did say that “tonight, all of our men and women in uniform — in Iraq, Afghanistan, and around the world must know that they have our respect, our gratitude, and our full support.” But he won’t say that we are grateful for their victory in a war where defeat would have been disastrous.

No, he won’t utter the words victory as in that case he would have to give credit to the former administration. What are the chances of that happening?

Glenn Reynolds in response to a post regarding Obama’s disrespectful treatment of the United States Supreme Court Justices:

No, actually, you don’t, and Alito didn’t. And that will step on Obama’s press tonight and tomorrow, turning his demagoguery into a negative for him. That’s why Presidents usually act Presidential. Not so much because it’s dignified. But because it’s smart. That’s something that Obama, with his limited experience on the national stage, hasn’t figured out yet.

Will he ever figure out what is presidential? He gives the impression he doesn’t much care.

The Frank Luntz focus group had interesting things to say about the SOTU address. Also, some good advice.

Talk about hitting the nail on the head:

….But seriously, we have just witnessed an extraordinary exercise in presidential oratorical animation that may be without peer or precedent. Can it be said that any American president has ever tried to blame so much on other people, or has been willing to so rapidly abandon his own principles for the betterment of his standing with the people, to seize up the banner against himself in our nation’s time of need, that this nation should not stand against him? For this, the president deserves our unabashed, gaga-eyed astonishment.

Last, but not least, Roger Simon:

I found the speech itself numbing. I have long since lost interest in listening to Obama who seems such an inauthentic person. He’s rather like watching someone on an infomercial. You glance up to see if you missed anything – maybe a special offer – and then you go back to what you are doing, in my case flicking back and forth to NBA.com to check the Lakers-Pacers scores. The Democrats didn’t even seem enthusiastic to me.

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I watched the SOTU address last night. I’m sure much better writers than I have already posted stories about their take on the speech so I’ll give you the five cent tour.

Obama started bashing Bush by telling everyone of all the “mess” he walked into when he was sworn in last year after the previous 8 years, except he still refers to it as the “past 8 years”. (Hmmm, that would be one year under Obama and seven years under Bush, so he needs to get his TOTUS trained to properly print the years.)

He said he wants to give small businesses an exemption from capital gains taxes and a tax break. He said he wants to cut spending, but the Honorables laughed out loud when he stated that would start next year.

He scolded the SCOTUS by criticizing last week’s decision that corporations, unions and other groups can contribute to campaigns, saying it overruled law set over 100 years ago. This was too much for Justice Alito, who mouthed the words “Not true” while shaking his head no. (Ginsberg looked as though she were there in body only. She looks terrible.)

He told the Republicans if they had any good ideas on health care reform to tell him. I think they heard that before. He told the Honorables that any pork bills should be posted on a public web site accessible to the American people before the vote. I’ve heard that before too. Heck, if they can’t figure it out I’ll donate space from this blog for them to post their pork bills.

He said he wants earmarks to end, no lobbyists in any position in the government that would make decisions (he has 12 former lobbyists in his administration now) and he wants everything to be transparent.

I’ve heard it all before.

He still wants health care “reform” because “we have come so close to getting it”, but never says what he wants done other than what’s already on the table. Hellooooooo! Virginia, New Jersey, Massachusetts, anybody? His ears are big so maybe that explains why they are tin also.

He still wants a cap and trade bill, and everyone knows that bill is dead in the Senate.

He told the Republican senators that they must take a leadership position and stop acting as though they were in constant campaign mode. All this while he was repeating his campaign speeches.

I heard a lady from Philadelphia area say he is the greatest conservationist in the United States because he keeps recycling the same campaign speeches.

He wants clean energy such as nuclear, off-shore drilling etc. He didn’t say how he plans to get from point A to point B on this plan, but it sounded good to those who are still under his spell.

It took 70 minutes to deliver his campaign stump speech State of the Union Address, and there was no there, there, just as there has never been any there, there.

He wants students to be able to borrow from the government for their education and pay no more than 10% of their earnings for 20 years, reduced to 10 years if the person goes into public service. (I wish I had had that available for my kids.)

He ended in a defiant note, saying he’s not a quitter and he will fight to get these programs and to cut the budget even if he has to use his veto pen.

Oh, and he’s no longer a Washington insider because he criticized them along with the media and pundits.

There’s my nickel round-up of what Obama said last night.

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Not a lot of time this morning for commentary, although I don’t think there is much to add to the words of this SEIU Vice President:

Immigration reform for the sake of political power, not for the good of the country. That seems to be the message, don’t you think?

At least he’s honest enough to admit his motives.

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Carol E. Lee, in an article written for Politico pens:

Never a soldier himself, but suddenly their commander-in-chief, President Barack Obama wanted to learn the job from the ground up.

Including the salute.

Under the guidance of an expert, aides say Obama privately repeated his salute over and over again until he got it down. In a testament to how sensitive the White House is about the commander in chief practicing this basic military gesture, aides would not say who taught Obama how to salute. But every time he uses it, Obama is trying to convey an insider’s respect for the armed forces without saying a word.

This picture appeared along side the article:

Contrast the above with the words of one who has honorably served this country and has a clear understanding of not only the proper salute “technique” but the true meaning behind the gesture:

The salute represents something important, and doing it right is a sign you grasp that importance. It is indeed the “outward manifestation of what we expect” – but in this picture it’s exactly wrong, and saying it’s right doesn’t make it so. If you’re going to use this as the leading example of the tremendous effort and attention to detail the president puts to his task as Commander in Chief, you fail.

Somewhere there may exist a photo of Obama rendering a proper salute. This ain’t close. And that’s a pretty lame start to a story that goes on to detail the many other things Obama has worked so very, very hard on to support the troops. Of course, if you’re just trying to convince the 99% of the population who have no idea what a proper salute looks like that this is a “pretty good” example, then maybe it’s the perfect start that tells us everything we need to know: the rest, assuredly – the part that actually matters – is just this good.

And there’s this:

For the record, a salute is a mutual exchange – it’s initiated by a junior and returned by the senior. (The higher ranking you are, the more salutes you will render.) However, salutes are not required to be rendered or returned when the senior or subordinate are in civilian clothes.

Anyone can perfect the salute, few will ever get it.

Greyhawk nails it.

Further, any time one has to brag about how much time he/she has devoted to learning how to show respect for the troops they command..well let’s just say, some things are best kept to ones self.

As expressed in the following video by former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Pete Pace, when you understand, really understand what it means to command there is no need to confirm your hard work nor any room for self gratification: HT:Blackfive

Jim Jones has said some nice words tonight. I’m probably the only guy in the room who truly knows in his heart of hearts, I do not deserve those words.

People say to me today, how do you do it, the implication being there’s some burden here. This is not a burden. This is a privilege, to serve this country, to do it in their honor and their memory.

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Dick Morris says it time to call your Congress critters.

If his information is correct, then health care legislation is far from dead:

Highly informed sources on Capitol Hill have revealed to me details of the Democratic plan to sneak through Congress Obamacare, despite collapsing public approval for healthcare “reform” and disintegrating Congressional support in the wake of Republican Scott Brown’s victory in Massachusetts.

President Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate leader Harry Reid have all agreed to the basic framework of the plan.

Their plan is clever but can be stopped if opponents of radical healthcare reform act quickly and focus on a core group of 23 Democratic Congressman. If just a few of these 23 Democrats are “flipped” and decide to oppose the bill, the whole Obama-Pelosi-Reid stratagem falls apart.

Here’s what I learned top Democrats are planning to implement.

Senate Democrats will go to the House with a two-part deal.

First, the House will pass the Senate’s Obamacare bill that passed the Senate in December. The House leadership will vote on the Senate bill, and Pelosi will allow no amendments or modifications to the Senate bill.

How will Pelosi’s deal fly with rambunctious liberal members of her majority that don’t like the Senate bill, especially its failure to include a public option, put heavy fines on those who don’t get insurance and offering no income tax surcharge on the “rich”?

That’s where the second part of the Pelosi-deal comes in.

Behind closed doors Reid and Pelosi have agreed in principle that changes to the Senate bill will be made to satisfy liberal House members — but only after the Senate bill is passed and signed into law by Obama.

This deal will be secured by a pledge from Reid and the Senate’s Democratic caucus that they will make “fixes” to the Senate bill after it becomes law with Obama’s John Hancock.

Read it all, and I’m sure you will not be amazed or amused at the lengths our leaders will go to in order to save face.

HT:Slublog

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There may have been some hope held out after Scott Brown’s amazing win in Massachusetts, that the current administration would take a step back and look in the mirror as to why they lost a Senate seat which bled blue for so many years.

Not so.

Today Robert Gibbs affirmed that a win for Scott Brown was Massachusetts affirmation of Barack Obama and his policies:

Robert Gibbs on Scott Brown’s win: That may be what he campaigned on but that’s not what the voters in Massachusetts said in the Washington Post poll… They did a poll of voters who participated in why they voted. Right. More people voted express their support for Barack Obama than to oppose him.

It must be so self gratifying to live in a delusional bubble.

On the other hand…

We the people of the United States owe Scott Brown’s sup porters a huge debt of gratitude. They didn’t merely elect a senator. They ripped the façade off the Obama presidency.

Just as Dorothy and Toto exposed the ordinary man behind the curtain in “The Wizard of Oz,” the voters in Massachusetts revealed that, in this White House, there is no there there.

It’s all smoke and mirrors, bells and whistles, held together with glib talk, Chicago politics and an audacious sense of entitlement.

At the center is a young and talented celebrity whose worldview, we now know, is an incoherent jumble of poses and big-government instincts. His self-aggrandizing ambition exceeds his ability by so much that he is making a mess of everything he touches.

He never advances a practical idea. Every proposal overreaches and comes wrapped in ideology and a claim of moral superiority. He doesn’t listen to anybody who doesn’t agree with him.

The question is, which man, Mr. Goodwin or Mr. Gibbs, has more than a tin ear when it comes to listening to the electorate? It is unfortunate for the United States that it seems to be the former.

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Take out the Kleenex because it’s a very touching story.

He does have an amazing commercial voice. He lost out on the competition, but I believe he has a future in music if he chooses it.

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The young women participating in this years Miss America Pageant took time out of their pageant obligations to say thanks to our men and women in uniform (and help raise dollars for those in need upon returning home.)

I am not a pageant watcher myself, but the organization and participants deserve credit for setting aside time to help those who continue to keep our country both safe and free.

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on what would have been his 79th birthday.

Do you remember this hit?

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Today is the 37th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States. Since January 22, 1973, over 50,000,000 lives have ended by abortion.

Last year Robert P. George, J.D., D.Phil., McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University, founder of the American Principles Project and member of the Drafting Committee of the Manhattan Declaration made these remarks in his speech, Our Struggle for the Soul of Our Nation:

…In the name of a generalized “right to privacy” allegedly implicit in the Due Process Clause of the Constitution’s Fourteenth Amendment, seven justices created a license to kill the unborn…. Read the rest of this entry »

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My daughter, among her many talents, is an artist. She has begun to scan some of her work to participate in an art blog called Illustration Friday. The contributors are given one word every Friday and they post their work illustrating that word during the week. Last week’s word was Confined and this week it is Wilderness. Her blog is titled Music for a while… and is here.

After working with acrylics and oils, I think she has found her medium in watercolors.  She loves to do detail work and the delicacy of watercolors enhances her art.

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This is still breaking news, but Nancy Pelosi has said she lacks the 218 votes necessary to approve the Senate Health Care “Reform” bill as written so it could go directly to Obama.

What a difference one seat in the Senate makes.

The Democrats in Congress, Obama, and Health Care “Reform” purchased with bribes to certain senators has gone down to a crushing defeat unless the democrats are politically suicidal enough to try to ram this down our throats with reconciliation and a series of other bills to add back what they would have to take out for reconciliation.

Back to the drawing board and this time, allow the input of Republicans so we can have enforceable tort reform, no special deals with senators or corporations and no cutting of Medicare funds, to name a few.

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I have tried to be as good a winner as I was a loser last year when Obama was elected and sworn in. Sue has had to help me keep my enthusiasm down because she reminded me this is not the goal of this blog.

I want you to watch a piece with Sean Hannity and John McCain. Although I voted for John McCain it wasn’t because I thought he was a great candidate and would have made a great president, but because his running mate, Sarah Palin, had energized me and many others in the 2008 campaign.

So watch the beginning of this video and see the special effects and then listen to the interview.

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Michael Barone and Glenn Reynolds discuss the election of Scott Brown and the effect of the Tea Party movement on American politics.

Have a listen to one of the most concise, factual and level headed discussions on not only the stunner in Massachusetts, but the effects it may well have on elections going forward.

(If you do not have time for the entire fourteen minutes, skip ahead to the nine or ten minute mark as that is where a great deal of the meat of the interview takes place).

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The message has been sent loud and clear. New Jersey. Virginia. Massachusetts.

No more money foolishly spent. No more back room deals. No more bribes to Senators to gain votes for legislation the American people clearly do not want.

Congratulations to Senator Elect Scott Brown(R), Massachusetts .

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Follow the results of the Brown-Coakley race for the “People’s Seat” in Massachusetts here.

Thanks to AJ Strata for the tip.

Also, a live stream of the crowd at Brown Headquarters here.

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The Brown campaign has answered the allegations of cheating leveled against them by the Coakley campaign:

“Reports that the Coakley campaign is making reckless accusations regarding the integrity of today’s election is a reminder that they are a desperate campaign. In fact, news reports point out that today’s accusation was a pre-dated, in the bag political attack. Furthermore, Senator John Kerry accused Brown supporters of intimidation and bullying — a tactic taken directly from his own 2004 playbook…” — Daniel B. Winslow, Counsel for the Scott Brown for U.S. Senate Campaign

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Read the rest at The Washington Examiner

The Coakley complaint may be viewed here.

Update: Coakley complaint (already) thrown out by the Massachusetts Secretary of State.

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I am not one to count my chickens before they are hatched and determined to be healthy, but I have a lot of hope that Massachusetts residents will make a big change in our national politics and policies by voting for Scott Brown. I also hope the result is large enough in numbers that no one can challenge his victory, if he does win, which seems at this moment to be very possible.

Here’s an interesting video showing the enthusiasm in both campaigns in Massachusetts on Monday, one day after Obama put his neck on the line again, in what I hope will be his continuing string of losses.

The rest of the country is counting on you, Massachusetts. You started the original Tea Party and now we want you to start the next revolution against the anarchy that our national government has become.

I know I’ll be on the edge of my seat tonight until the election is called.

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