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Harry Reid is running for his political life in Nevada.  How bad is it?  His son, who is running (way, way behind) for governor, not only refuses to use his last name but also recently remarked that Obamacare would be bad for Nevada. 

The man his son is losing to is a Latino Republican.  Harry Reid was recently heard to remark that he doesn't understand how "Hispanics can be Republican."  To this monumentally stupid comment can be added another. 
 
In a recent interview, Harry Reid responded "Ted Kennedy" and "Robert Byrd" to the question, "Can you think of a greatest living American?"
 
Aside from the fact that both of them are dead, unlamentably in my opinion, his answer is appalling.
 
Ted Kennedy killed Mary Jo Kopechne.  He drove her into a body of water, walked away, and left her to die.  She was in his way, and he got rid of her.

Robert Byrd was a member of the Ku Klux Klan, a racist organization that killed black people for sport.
 
Under what circumstances can either of these men be considered great?
 
 
 
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The Alternate Universe . . .

 
Nancy Pelosi inhabits appears to be a much better place than the one the rest of us live in. 
 
Once again this week, the wild-eyed speaker took to the microphones to say that food stamps and unemployment, according to economists from "across the spectrum," are the number one job creators in the country.  No programs in America provides more "bang for the buck" than food stamps and unemployment.
 
You can't make this stuff up.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Grandstanding Gloryhound

 
Clinton appointee George Caram Steeh, a federal judge in Michigan, has secured his placed in history . . . which was his sole aim.  His is the first court to say that, yes, forcing Americans to buy health insurance is constitutional.  The tired old argument is that congress can do this because of its constitutional power to regulate interstate commerce.  Steeh said this power covers not just "economic activity" but "economic decisions" as well.

Think about your every day activities and how many of them are "economic decisions."  According to this unelected, unaccountable nobody from nowhere, congress has the power to regulate those "economic decisions."  Where does this power end?


What if congress decreed that you had to purchase a new refrigerator one year, a new washer and dryer the next, a new dishwasher the next, and on and on it goes.  What if congress decreed that you had to completely replace your wardrobe every 3 years and buy a new car every 5 years. 

What if, one day, congress decrees that America's declining birth rate is hurting "economic activity," therefore, all families will have 2 children?  How about 3?  
 
If Mr. Steeh had really been interested in the Constitution, he would have read Article I, Section 7 which states that ALL bills for raising revenue SHALL originate in the House of Representatives.  He would then have noted that this bill arose in the senate (Max Baucus claims to have written, but not read, it), passed first in the senate, and then passed in the house, exactly backwards from the Constitution.
 
But, never stand in the way of someone trying to see his name in print.
 
There is no question that all of these cases will end up in the Supreme Court.  But, don't expect good news from that quarter.  The United States Supreme Court is, after all, the court that said the state can take your property away from you if it has a better use for it than you do. 

Still think America is the land of the free?
 
 
 
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Problem Solved

 
The small business employer sat at his desk looking out the window and brooding.  Things were getting bad.  Health insurance was going up.  Workers' compensation insurance was going up.  Unemployment insurance was going up.  The only thing that wasn't going up was his income.
 
Added to all this was the uncertainty created by a congress that would not bring up the subject of extending the Bush tax cuts.  If congress only extended those tax cuts for people earning under $250,000, then he was looking at increased taxes in 2011 as well.
 
While looking out his window, he noticed something in the parking lot.  He grabbed a pen and paper, went out to the parking lot, and jotted down the license numbers of some cars.
 
He then called a meeting of all his employees.  When they had assembled, he read off the license numbers and asked the owners to step forward.   When they had all done so, he said they were fired.
 
These people were understandably upset and asked why.  He told them the grim economic news and that he had no choice but to let them go.  By why them, they asked. 
 
He told these people that he had seen the Obama stickers on their cars.  Since they supported this man and voted for this man, they must support his policies, including extended unemployment benefits, Obamacare, and no extension of the Bush tax cuts for people earning over $250,000, like him.
 
It's only fair, he said, that they should accept the consequences of the policies of the man they voted for.  It wouldn't be fair, he said, to make the employees who didn't support Obama and didn't vote for him bear the brunt of policies they don't support.
 
 
 
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Don't We Have the Right?

 
As everyone knows, Arizona is currently being sued by the Obama/Holder justice department because, when you eliminate all the fancy language and get right down to it, Arizona thinks the federal government is doing a lousy job of protecting it and wants to protect itself.  Despite the fact that the Obama administration has actually ceded parts of this country to hostile foreign forces, it has decided that Arizona should just learn to live with it. 
 
Even though - constitutionally speaking - the case should be in the Supreme Court, Arizona lost Round 1 in the District Court in Arizona and is now headed for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco, which has jurisdiction in the western states.
 
As everyone knows, the Ninth Circuit is the most reviled, rebuked, reversed court in the country, regularly getting slapped down by the U.S. Supreme Court, sometimes more than once in the same case.
 
Right now, 11 countries in Central and South America are seeking permission to file briefs against Arizona, presumably to lambaste the state for daring to try to protect itself from the predators swarming over the border.
 
What right do these countries have to interfere in the American justice system?  What right do they have to say anything about a state making laws to protect and defend itself and its people?
 
Neither Obama/Holder nor the Ninth should allow these countries to participate.  However, Obama/Holder have not shown much interest in putting America and Americans first, as their suit against Arizona so amply demonstrates.  And, I'm sure that the overpaid/overweening/underwhelming justices at the Ninth are just itching to allow these countries to participate, since it is a leftist dream to allow our courts to start applying foreign law.  With actual foreign participants, this case is as good as any to get things moving in that direction.
 
I would so love to be wrong.
 
 
 
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Why Is It . . .

 
that we know more about Christine O'Donnell's past than we know about Obama's? 
 
that we know more about Tiger Wood's girlfriends than we know about Obama?
 
that John McCain had to prove his citizenship but Obama did not?
 
that George W. Bush was called a moron, even though he got better grades than both Gore and Kerry?
 
that Obama is called "the smartest guy in the room" when we have absolutely no idea what grades he got in college and law school?
 
that there are 50 choices for Miss America but only 2 for president?
 
 
 
 
 
 
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So, Which Is It?

 
"Landscape Getting Worse for Democrats "
 
"Democrats Hopeful As Key Races Trend Their Direction "
 
"Ominous New Gallup Findings for Democrats"
 
 
 
 
 
 
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What A Joke

 
Today was the first day of the Supreme Court's term and Obama's latest appointment, Elena Kagan, has already had to recuse herself from nearly half of the Court's cases because of a conflict of interest, which could lead to a 4-4 ruling in cases, thereby preventing a majority from deciding an issue.
 
Doesn't anybody at the upper levels of our government ever think beyond "sounds good, let's do it"?
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Can't Make This Stuff Up

 
Congress has recessed until after the election.  Congress did not pass a budget.  Congress did not vote to extend the Bush tax cuts.
 
What Congress did do was something about the volume of TV commercials.
 
Obama goes on and on (and on and on) about how we cannot return the "keys to the car" to the party who "drove the car into the ditch".
 
Yea, we're so much better off with the people who are disturbed at the decibel level of TV commercials.
 
 
 
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What An Odd Thing to Say

 
At a recent backyard BBQ (silly little events designed to get people to like him again), Obama said, "I'm a Christian by choice".  As opposed to what?  He came off as insinuating that being a "Christian by choice" was better than becoming one some other way, even though the only way to become a Christian is to choose to become a Christian. 
 
You can't be born one.  You can't be elected one.  You can't be forced to be one.  Going to church on Sunday doesn't make you one, neither does being baptized or christened.  And, of course, it goes without saying that calling yourself one doesn't make you one.
 
A Christian would know that.
 
 
 
 
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What A Whiny Baby

 
In an interview with Rolling Stone, Obama not only bashed Fox News, i.e., "You had folks like (William Randolph) Hearst who used their newspapers very intentionally to promote their viewpoints.  I think Fox is part of that tradition - it is part of the tradition that has a very clear, undeniable point of view", he went on to say, "a point of view that I disagree with.  It's a point of view that I think is ultimately destructive for the long-term growth of a country that has a vibrant middle class and is competitive in the world".
 
Say again?
 
Nearly every major newspaper in the country, led by The New York Times, whose owners use it "very intentionally to promote their viewpoints",  leans left, as do ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, CNBC, and MSNBC, whose owners use them "to promote their viewpoints".  If it hadn't been for the left-leaning - by its own admission - media, it's questionable whether or not Obama would even be in the White House.
 
But this comment is more than just the usual Fox-bashing.  Obama says that Fox News is "destructive" to the country.  That's not even rational. 
 
 
 
 
 
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Dateline: San Francisco

 
Saying:
 
"Californians are left with a deeply unsatisfying choice for the U.S. Senate this year." AND
 
"The incumbent, Democrat Barbara Boxer, has failed to distinguish herself during her 18 years in office.  There is no reason to believe that another six-year term would bring anything but more of the same uninspired representation." AND
 
"Boxer, first elected in 1992, would not rate on anyone's list of most influential senators.  Her most famous moments on Capitol Hill have not been ones of legislative accomplishment, but of delivering partisan shots." AND
 
"Boxer's campaign, playing to resentment over Fiorina's wealth, is not only an example of the personalized pettiness that has infected too much of modern politics, it is also a clear sign of desperation."
 
the San Francisco Chronicle has refused to endorse Barbara Boxer in her bid for a fourth term in the Senate.
 
Is that a pig that just flew by my window?
 
 
 
 
 
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How Obama Won the Election . . .

 
By:  John F. Kerry (D-MA)
 
"We have an electorate that doesn't always pay that much attention to what's going on so people are influenced by a simple slogan rather than the facts or the truth or what's happening."
 
Couldn't have said it better myself.
 
 
 
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Losers

 
Charlie Crist in Florida who abandoned his principles to run as an Independent, proving that his only interest is in winning.
 
Lisa Murkowski who lost the GOP primary in Alaska and now says she's running as a write-in candidate because people should have a "choice".  They had a choice, it just wasn't her, proving that her only interest is in winning.
 
Mike Castle who lost the GOP primary in Delaware, refuses to play nice with the winner, and who may also run as a write-in candidate, proving that his only interest is in winning.
 
All of the people bashing Christine O'Donnell who did win the GOP primary in Delaware.
 
All of the states who refused to send absentee ballots to our men and women overseas . . . those standing in harm's way so we don't have to . . . by the deadline to do so.
 
The Obama/Holder DOJ for doing nothing to make these states comply with the law . . . because they know that the military votes Republican more than democrat and they don't want those Republican votes counted in this election.
 
Congressional democrats who refuse to bring up a vote for the extension of the Bush tax cuts, all in the hopes of later blaming Republicans for the coming tax increases.
 
There is a winner though.  Christopher Kennedy, son of Robert F. Kennedy, voted against giving American terrorist and long-time Obama friend William Ayres professor emeritus status at the University of Illinois, Chicago.  Mr. Kennedy said that he could not confer the title "to a man whose body of work includes a book dedicated in part to the man who murdered my father".
 
The man who feels that he "didn't do enough" in terms of bombings in America probably doesn't understand Mr. Kennedy's actions.
 
 
 
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Accurate Description of Politicians

 
 
Stink bugs have been swarming the Washington, D.C., area.
 
 
 
 
 
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