Never Loan a Democrat Anything

The irony is just so ripe in this story. First off, being a liberal herself she should have known better than to loan another liberal anything. The number one rule in their book is possession is 9/10ths of the law. How else can you explain why most Democrat lawmakers die in office? Once they get that seat they own it, and ain't no way they are going to give it back. They certainly aren't voted out.

Angela Moore ran for Georgia secretary of state last year. She said the DeKalb Democratic Party won't return the more than $10,000 worth of furniture she says she loaned the organization.

"If you loaned me something, it is my responsibility to give it back," Moore told Channel 2's Tom Jones. Moore said the DeKalb Democratic Party doesn't seem to understand that concept.

Good luck getting the stuff back or any sort of reimbursement. Oh, and remember to vote Democrat. They're real good with other people's stuff. Or something.

About Those Heartless Republicans

First this story needs one caveat. You can probably count the number of Republicans in Clayton County on one hand, so I am not so sure how much success their fund raising efforts will yield, but still it is a good news story.

After he suffered a stroke 10 years ago, the 44-year-old Harris was diagnosed with an enlarged heart and congestive heart failure. He's been through 2 pacemakers and now has to use a partial artificial heart. He needs a transplant to survive.

Marxen convinced the entire Clayton County Republican Party to take on his Democratic friend as a fundraising project. "They said, 'well, that doesn't matter anyway, you know, he needs help and we need to do that,'" he added.

"We've been friends for so long, if the situation was reversed, I'd do the same for him, too," Harris said.

Why Do Dems Hate School Choice So Much?

“Our experiment with the tax credit has gone as far as it needs to go,” said State Rep. Mary Margaret Oliver, D-Decatur. Oliver said the tax credit does not help the long-term stability of public schools. “I don’t believe that this continued push for taxpayer money to go to private institutions helps public education.”

No where in that little quote do you see any concern for the quality of the education being given to the kids, rather it is all about propping up what is yet being exposed as another failed government program, in this case public schools.

There is a little bit of a firestorm going on in Georgia right now because for about 5 years companies and individuals have been able to claim a tax deduction for contributing voluntarily to scholarship funds that are given to private schools. These funds are then used by the private schools to attract students and more importantly help parents finance the cost of the education. Parents who would otherwise be denied this opportunity.

Of course Dems hate it and want it stopped. Who are these barbarians that keep insisting on having choices? The real fight though is about taxpayer dollars. See if you can find the flaw in this former government worker's logic?

Fred Dissen of Flowery Branch, a retired government clerk, said he has serious concerns, as a taxpayer, about the program’s fairness.

“If I take that as a tax deduction then my fellow citizen has to make up the amount of tax that I didn’t pay,” Dissen said.

“I think that is unfair. That is just subsidizing a private school.”

When you see the buzz word "fairness" your BS detector should start ringing. Let me explain it to you Mr Dissen. Less students in public schools doesn't mean less students overall and it should allow for further cut backs in the number of facilities required to be maintained by taxpayer dollars since public schools should be able to consolidate schools and also reduce staffing. If you are worried about teachers jobs I would think a good teacher could work just as well at a private school as they can at a government school and like I already said there is no fewer students so the demand for teachers should not be affected. Unless of course you don't think public school teachers couldn't measure up to the standards expected of them from parents who have kids in private schools. So fewer facilities, and fewer teachers would actually mean a decreased burden on the taxpayer so there is no shortfall to make up.

You will never hear the Democrats argue the merits of the education children will receive whenever the topic of school choice comes up. Instead they will tug at the heart strings with cataclysmic stories of homeless teachers standing in bread lines, which once again only leads one to the conclusion that that only happens if the probably union member teacher, who apparently has no other marketable skills, was not able to get a job teaching at a private institution.

As far as that state representative comments about taxpayer money going to private institutions doesn't help public education, I would just say taxpayer dollars going to public schools certainly doesn't help public education either. It has already been proven over and over again that the amount of money thrown at schools does not guarantee a better education. For the state of Georgia, the city of Atlanta spends more, almost double as a matter of fact, per pupil, and yet continually ranks down at the bottom even while their neighbors in the adjoining metro areas spend less and constantly receive national recognition for their schools and students. If you could take the Atlanta school district test scores and graduation rates out of the reporting statistics the state would probably move up about 10 positions on those list of best education lists. I am sure she will remind you it is all about the kids though. It always is

Democrats can not stand the idea of choices. Whether it is in the food you eat, activities you engage in, the type of car you drive or the health insurance you choose to have or not have, to them there is only one choice and that is to have the government dictate it to you. Sort of frees you up from all that personal responsibility thing and makes life so much easier and stress free when you can at once blame government for your failings in life and at the same time allow them to make all of your decisions for you. Well actually, you don't have to make decisions anymore.

And that folks is called liberal utopia.

Rep. Danny Davis (D-IL) Already Forgets His Republican 'State of the Union' Seatmate

Sounds like some real bipartisan bonding took place last night at Obama's "Date of the Union" address.



Via Breitbart. Cross-posted.

Yeah, But What Happens When The Prom Is Over?

In the pantheon of silly stunts this has to rank up near the top. I am talking about the plan to have our congress critters mingle the seating during the State of the Union address. To me it is yet another example of how Democrats can propose some sort of feel good story and then get their way all based on appearance instead of substance.

“It’s a little like prom,” joked one Democrat, who asked not to be identified. “You just hope they don’t turn you down.”

As of this weekend, nearly 60 lawmakers had pledged to sit with a member of the opposite party, according to Udall’s office. In a letter sent to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), the lawmakers said that the bipartisan seating arrangement would remind members of their common commitment to serve the American people.

Why do I think this is silly? A couple of reasons come to mind. The first is this is an attempt to protray graphically that the drubbing the Democrats got in the last election wasn't nearly as bad as it was. By having members mixed together the scope of the victory is diffused. Americans won't be able to see a large majority on one side of the aisle. I would think that after years of being told that they had tried to stop every Democrat effort while being the minority party the Republicans would be eager to show that they were indeed now the majority, at least in one house of congress.

Second, what does being chummy with a Democrat get you? They won't respect you in the morning, and in fact will probably use you as an example of being a jackbooted thug on a morning talk show the very next day.

There may be a good purpose for this however for Republicans. Simply note the pairings, and make a mental note of who may not be worthy of support in the next election. Sort of a case of the RINO's self identifying themselves. There are of course the usual suspects such Collins and Snowe of Maine, who probably didn't asked to the prom in high school, who will jump at the chance, but what other lonely wall flowers are going to want to be with the kewl kids?

The only ones I can give a pass on this stunt are the leaders of House and Senate who might sit with their counterparts. It should make for some good theater, if like in the past they engage in their stand up, sit down, rah, rah, rah antics like they have done in the past.

Lastly, it will allow Prezbo to scold them, like he did the Supreme Court justices, while diluting the image of contempt.

The Democrats are desperate to put as good a face on the results of the last election as possible and a big part of that is all about appearance, and God knows they are good about staging events to draw attention. Have you ever stopped to wonder why so many liberals tend to be in the entertainment business?

Anti War Representative Denies Army Reserve A Training Base

First a bone to pick with the newspapers in Connecticut, come on guys put the party affiliation along with the name. I know you take it for granted everybody knows that only Dems get elected in your neck of the woods, but on the off chance somebody from out of state does stop by do us a favor.

Okay with that being said, the Army reserve want to build a training center on a piece of property near the town of Danbury. Now this isn't the sort of training center you normally think of when you think Army. It wasn't going to be used for shooting weapons or messing with things that go boom, but rather it was going to be a learning center with a motor pool.

Well Mr "I support the troops but not the mission" Murphy wasn't going to have any of that. He contacted the Army and leaned on them to reconsider acquiring this piece of land and building a reserve center there. Now the article says the matter of center has been cause for concern in the city of Danbury, which probably means some left wing idjit wrote a strongly worded letter to the editor.

Murphy, who serves the Fifth Congressional District, said the military agreed to the concession after a "lengthy" meeting he had with Army officials last week in Washington.

"I made it clear to them that they had to look at other options," Murphy said Wednesday. "This is a significant concession on their part. It's pretty unprecedented for the military to step back from a proposal they could have easily moved forward with."

He added, however, that he had "strong words" with the military and they "recognized it would be difficult to move forward without the congressman or mayor on board. But ultimately the Army can do this with or without my or the city's support."

Rep. Chris Murphy (CT-05)
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And that boys and girls is how decisions related to national security are made. I hope the Army moves the whole damn thing out of state and locates it somewhere more appreciative and friendly.

PrezBo Coming To Atlanta

The head bottle washer and basher of rich folks is coming to Atlanta for a fundraiser on August 2. You too can meet the Spender in Chief and get your photo taken.

If you have the money that is. Hey you never really believed he was about the little people did you? All that talk about slapping down the greedy rich folks and making things 'fair'? C'mon you really bought that line from the snake oil salesman.

Monday, August 2, 2010
11:30 AM

At The Hyatt Regency
265 Peachtree Street
Atlanta, Georgia

Co-Chair Reception - $30,400
Photo Line Reception - $10,000
Luncheon Guest - $1,000

Yup $1,000 will get you some minuscule meal and the chance to be in the same building as "The One" himself. Not that you will probably get to see him or anything. That is what we call the cheap seats.

If you are interested and have the money to waste, which in a city suffering from 10.3% unemployment and a state who now ranks behind only California in number of jobs lost, that sort of money ain't just laying around.



Wasn't Alan Grayson just a couple of days ago giving a speech on the floor of the House about those greedy Republicans?

And These Guys Are In Charge

This is probably the worst economic news to come out in a long time, but it is not surprising to any rational person.

Yet on every question the left did much worse. On the monopoly question, the portion of progressive/very liberals answering incorrectly (31%) was more than twice that of conservatives (13%) and more than four times that of libertarians (7%). On the question about living standards, the portion of progressive/very liberals answering incorrectly (61%) was more than four times that of conservatives (13%) and almost three times that of libertarians (21%).

The survey also asked about party affiliation. Those responding Democratic averaged 4.59 incorrect answers. Republicans averaged 1.61 incorrect, and Libertarians 1.26 incorrect.

That is the results of a recent Zogby poll on economic policies. What it found is that liberals, that's Democrats for those in doubt, know absolutely diddly squat about economics.

They know good buzz words and catch phrases and catchy slogans that can fit on a bumper sticker, but basically couldn't tell a monopoly from market share. These are the people dictating our current economic policy in this country. Just when you think things couldn't get much worse. They have laid the groundwork for crippling our economy for years after they are evicted from office. A lot of the legislation they will leave behind is going to be more devastating then an IED in an outside market. And will have the same effect.

With the pending collapse of the health insurance industry in this country, which will add millions more to the unemployed roles, to the unsustainable debt that is continuing to be racked by the government in their continued efforts to keep Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac afloat along with their becoming the sole provider of student loans, you couldn't get a Las Vegas bookie to give you odds on how long before the economy completely collapses.

If you see a light at the end of the tunnel be assured that just like a Roadrunner cartoon, it is only a freight train headed your way.

Democrat Infighting May Make Them Lose Even More Seats Then Predicted

The Democrats are quickly becoming what they accuse the Republicans of. Ever since the election of the Nancy Pelosi-led Democrat Congress in 2006 and the subsequent election of Barack Obama we have been assailed with stories of how the Republican party is in disarray and filled with infighting, while they ignored stories like how the most liberal elements in the Democrats worked to unseat Joseph Lieberman and promoted the most socialist and liberal among their ranks. The Democrat party is also making it abundantly clear that they are not about listening to the average American and instead insist on pandering to about three demographics. Unions, minorities (gay, black, Hispanic), and teachers. A gay, black, illegal alien teacher is their dream candidate.

Well. it is going on in Georgia also. A conservative Democrat incumbent--an oxymoron in itself--is under fire for voting against ObamaCare. Notice how the reporter once again works from the assumption that since a large portion of the district is African-American, that the more liberal Democrat that the Democrat establishment endorse should be able to win this seat.

Still, Center and other party officials in the southern Georgia district say core Democrats, particularly blacks who make up nearly 40 percent of the district's voters, have grown increasingly unhappy with Barrow's conservative tilt.

So how does it feel to be taken for granted? It seems the Dems are all against independent thinkers and just take it for granted that their political plantation dwellers in the black community will remain loyal to their new slave masters in the Democrat party and do what the masters decree. After all the leaders of the Democrat party believe the African-Americans owe them their vote, and they do pass a lot of legislation and do a lot of pandering to the community to buy their votes.

What really has the Democrat political machine upset with Representative Barrow however is his voting against the Democrat Socialist agenda.

However, Barrow's opponent in the July 20 primary, who says the incumbent has betrayed the party by voting too often against its agenda, says she'll be attending the Augusta event Tuesday with campaign materials in-hand.

All of this is prompted by an upcoming visit to this district by Jim Clyburn (Looney Toons-S.C.) who of course is coming to not only support the more liberal candidate but make an obvious pandering visit to the African-American community in the hopes of getting them out to vote in the upcoming primary and to do what the entrenched powers that be in the Beltway political noise machine want.

Barrow will probably win since this district is pretty much Democrat and the Republicans can't seem to mount a credible challenge for this seat, but the fact that Barrow is drawing the heat of the Progressive wing of the Democrat party is about all you can hope for sometimes. The Democrats, however, are approaching this upcoming election cycle apparently with the philosophy that since they are going to lose seats--a lot of seats--they need to make sure that the ones they do hold on to are filled with the most radical leftists they can find. In races which are deemed safe for the Dems they are promoting the most liberal candidate they can find. And by liberal, I mean socialist, communist, anti-capitalism candidate they can.

I will wait patiently for the stories about how infighting in the Democrat party threatens to cause them to lose seats along with the denials that it is their policies that the Americans are upset about. The Democrats, of course, feel it is simply a matter of doing a bad sales job.

More like a snow job.

All Republicans should be running ads showing the Democrats giving a standing ovation to the president of the failed drug state to our south just to remind the people of who the Democrats admire and respect, and Mr. Barrow, even though you are called a conservative Democrat by our left-wing news reporters, you are still a member of the party that engaged in that despicable act.

If they manage to get some of these Grayson clones elected I look forward to nightly newscasts filled with the insane rantings of the soon-to-be minority party. Oh, they are going to lose seats, but they can't lose the crazy.

Throw The Bums Out

I bet this bit of news from West Virginia won't get near the amount of coverage of that the tossing of Bob Bennett from Utah will get, but the DEMOCRAT voters have tossed longtime representative Alan Mollohan out of office.

Representative Alan Mollohan, a 14-term Democrat, has become the first House member of the 2010 campaign to lose a re-election bid after a West Virginia state senator defeated him.

Unofficial returns from Tuesday's election showed state Senator Mike Oliverio leading Mollohan 56 percent to 44 percent in the primary vote to become the Democratic Party's candidate for mid-term elections in November.

Can't blame the Tea Party for this one. What sort of excuses will the Dems give for this one?

There is a real palpable sense of turning on the incumbents this election year, and it crosses party lines. There is an opening for the Republicans for this seat now, even though the media assures us this is remote, but I am sure some of the "experts" in the hierarchy of Democrat politics are starting to feel the heat. This is shaping up to be one of the most wide open election cycles that I can recall in a long time, even more volatile then the often referenced '94 election that brought Newt Gingrich and the Contract for America to Washington.

If This Doesn't Convince You To Vote Republican

Nothing will.

All you college age guys with liberal girlfriends pay heed. This is what they will look like in 20 years.

Strangely about the same time most Americans decide to renounce their liberal ideology.

Just a coincidence, I'm sure.

Blanche Lincoln Recipient of Obama Curse

The Obama endorsement curse is quickly overtaking the Sports Illustrated front page as the most dreaded sign of failure, which is bad news for Blanche Lincoln (D-AR). Robert Gibbs came out yesterday and said The One is standing behind her, just like they are standing behind all incumbent Democrats.

Guess this means she will vote for the Pelsoi-Reid-Obama healthcare plan now. I mean defeat is guaranteed so why not go out in a blaze of glory and really screw the constituents who you ignored all these years. Guess she might have the last laugh at our expense, realizing that she will be exempt any of the provisions in any healthcare legislation that is passed. Congress always manages to exempt themselves from the rules all of us little people have to struggle under.

President Obama is sticking with Sen. Blanche Lincoln in the May 18 Democratic primary in Arkansas.

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs confirmed today that Obama will keep with his trend of supporting the sitting senator in party primaries, as he's done with Sen. Arlen Specter over Rep. Joe Sestak in Pennsylvania and in supporting Sen. Michael Bennet in Colorado.

"We support Senator Lincoln as an incumbent senator," Gibbs told reporters today during his daily briefing.

I guess the other good news is they are also supporting Specter. I will be glad to see him go.

LIAR!

Senate Republicans, he said, have employed the filibuster more over the past year than in all of the 1950s and 1960s combined. The GOP's strategy has been "twenty years of obstruction packed into one," he said.

The fact is there has not been one single filibuster in 2009 by the Republicans or anybody else for that matter, rather there has been the threat of a filibuster.

Big difference. In reality what the Democrats are whining about is a Senate rule imposed in 1975 which stated that to cut off debate on an issue you needed 60 votes for what is called cloture.

The history here is well known to everyone interested in politics but worth summarizing. For most of the first 190 years of the country's operation, U.S. Senators would, in unusual circumstances, try to delay a vote on measures they opposed by "filibustering" -- talking without limit or using other stalling techniques. For most of those years, the Senate could cut off the filibuster and force a vote by imposing "cloture," which took a two-thirds majority of those voting (at most 67 of 100 Senators). In 1975, the Senate adopted a rules change to allow cloture with 60 votes, and those are the rules that still prevail.

The Republicans have made the Dems invoke the cloture clause numerous times, but that is far different then a filibuster, and I would think the former City of Chicago Constitutional Law Professor would know that.

For somebody who wants to work with the Republicans he really has gone on a scorched earth strategy this week. What remains to be seen is how much of his attacking the Republicans sticks with the average American, and how much of it winds up being anger at the guy who won the game and still wants to whine about how the other team played. Americans used to hate whiners and we would shun them. Maybe in our kinder and gentler 21st century world citizens will feel the need to give him some sort cosmic group hug to make the boo-boo go away like his mommy used to do.

The cloture rules now used were introduced and pushed by Sen Robert Byrd. In 2003 then Sen. Frist proposed amending the rule so that a measure could continue to be reintroduced and each subsequent vote the number votes needed to invoke cloture would be reduced, never to fall below the 51 vote threshold however. Of course the Dems proving once again that they were smarter then everybody else, just like they did in Massachusetts in regards to electing senators in special elections, and being the party of no at the time defeated the measure.

Under the procedure proposed by Senator Frist, as with current practice, the first cloture petition filed on a nomination would need the votes of 60 Senators for cloture to be invoked. If 60 Senators did not vote for cloture, a second petition could then be submitted. When the Senate voted on that petition, just 57 Senators would be required to invoke cloture. On the third petition, the required vote would fall to 54 Senators, and on a fourth petition the votes of 51 Senators would invoke cloture. The cloture threshold would never drop below a majority vote of the full Senate.

Leading the charge against the Frist amendment were Sen. Chris Dodd and the late Ted Kennedy.

In 1975, when Robert Byrd got the current rule adopted, Gerald Ford was president, the Democrats controlled both houses of congress, (291 seats in the House and 61 seats in the Senate) just like today, and just like today many of those same people are still in congress.

So Barry, there is your history lesson for today, and for the rest of the news folks, how about a little research before you just willy nilly regurgitate the White House talking points.

BTW, there is a reason he didn't compare it to the 70's and 80's.

Depends On Your Definition of Open

What the hell is up with Charlie Rangel? He looks like he has been raiding Max Baucus' liquor cabinet.

Here the Democrat leadership tries to respond to the letter they received from CSPAN asking them to open up the process in regards to the health care legislation, like Barry O promised on the campaign trail.

The "most open and transparent congress evah" tries to explain how holding closed door sessions, inserting million, even billion dollar earmarks into the healthcare bill, and just hiding from the public in general was actually some sort of Orwellian example of openness.

For the Democrats this is known as business as usual under the new normal. Here is Rep Tom Price (R-GA) showing the hypocrisy during the cram down stimulus legislation debate, when once again Republicans were left standing out in the hall while the Dems made their deals in private and then hoisted an $800 billion dollar, earmark laden bill on the American taxpayers.

File this under "Fail".

Was Your Democrat Senator Too Stupid To Get a Bribe?

If your Democrat senator didn't get some sort of sweetheart deal from Harry Reid in exchange for a yes vote on the healthcare bill I think you owe them a phone call to find out why. Of course, if they didn't get some sort of bribe are they really the sort of person you want to send back to Washington? I mean after all if they can't get exemption for their state from having to fund Medicaid like Ben Nelson (D-NE) did, or $300 million like Mary Landrieu (D-LA) did, or even avowed Socialist Bernie Sanders (S-VT), who got a break on the Medicaid funding, are they really smart enough to hold the job they have?

Sure, I can understand why a freshman senator like Al Franken (Comedian-MN) couldn't get something. I mean after all he hasn't paid his dues yet and besides, he has one of the biggest symbols of our broken medical system, the Mayo Clinic, in his state. No sense rewarding him since they are a part of the problem.

C'mon, Democrats, I know you can unite behind this cause. If your Senator doesn't have enough clout or isn't smart enough to figure out how to wrangle some sort of bennie out of Harry Reid (Mormon-NV) maybe it's time to replace them. Hell, even Blue Dog Dems in the House can get Nancy Pelosi (Aging Hippie-CA) to throw them a bone every once in awhile for their vote, so I would think a Senator should be able to figure out how to get it done.

Oh, as far as the Senate is concerned, you see American people aren't really concerned that you are bankrupting this country and saddling our great-grandkids with a mountain of debt; what really impresses us is what it takes to buy your vote. Of course, the vote of the average American comes much cheaper. A building with your name on it to remind the good folks back home what a heck of a job you are doing is normally sufficient.

Yes sir, I sit in absolute awe of the truly unique ways you come up with to get that little million dollar earmark worked into a defense bill that goes for building a nice bike path in your district. We didn't need that money for defense and besides, those silly little terrorists will be so worn out from riding their bikes on that new path all day that they won't be able to carry out some sort of attack.

Yup, when I grow up I want to learn just how it is I can go up to somebody and get them to take millions or billions of dollars from a bunch of unsuspecting fools and give it to me and all I have to do in exchange is nod my head and agree.

One last question. Why is Bernie Madoff in jail instead of the Senate?

And Nancy, Merry Christmas!

Is This Astroturfed Too Nancy?

Nancy Pelosi refers to these people as her base.


I would love to see some polling data on her Highness San Fran Nan. Her base is mad at her, the right has never liked her and now with her fellow Kool-Aid drinkers making comparsions to Stalin and SS guards who is she going to decry?

She can't blame this on some sort of unhinged Tea Party activists or astro turfed protest since these come from a Democrat fundraiser.

Atlanta Mayoral Race Building Steam

The race to be the next mayor of Atlanta is heating up. The latest move appears to be pitting the gay and lesbian community against the African-American community.

First, let me explain the players. There are no Republicans, and the mayoral race is supposedly non-partisan, meaning that they do not declare party affiliation, but both candidates are Democrats. I think it is illegal to be Republican in Atlanta proper.

On one side is Mary Norwood, the white woman, whom drew a lot of fire during the primary for being, well, white.

On the other side is Kasim Reed, an African-American man.

The gay and lesbian community are not real happy with Mr. Reed's stand on the whole gay marriage issue and are bucking the endorsements he is getting from several prominent Democrats and the Democrat party itself. Atlanta has a large gay/lesbian community. They fight for space next to the wannabe aspiring rap performers.

Kasim Reed’s anti-marriage equality position is not only an insult to the thousands of tax-paying gay and lesbian Atlantans, his position represents a step backwards for a city which is currently led by Shirley Franklin, who favors marriage equality. Like many of you, we are disappointed in this year’s race, and not just for Senator Reed’s position, the party’s intervention, and the lock step support from party faithful.

The Democratic Party of Georgia asks gays and lesbians to compromise on marriage equality in voting for Reed this year, while doing nothing elsewhere to improve the discriminatory treatment we feel from state government. No member of the Democratic caucus has introduced legislation to repeal the 2004 anti-marriage equality amendment; nor to create a parallel structure of civil unions, nor domestic partnerships, nor any other advance.

Is it any wonder gays and lesbians are – for the first time in memory – ignoring the party’s candidate endorsement to support the pro marriage equality, Mary Norwood?

During the primary the Reed camp managed to successfully paint Norwood as a Republican. Nothing could be further from the truth, but the label has stuck and too many people around here are clueless as to the truth.

I know this is all about local events, but having a front row seat I am enjoying the class warfare being waged by the Democrats, pitting various factions of their base against each other. The commercials are priceless, and most of them try to tiptoe around the pink elephant in the room, which is race. They have done everything but come right out and accuse the other side of being racists, but sitting on the outside and watching the news I think at this point even Helen Keller could figure out what this all about.

Earlier this week a local news station captured video of some Kasim Reed supporters removing Mary Norwood signs from people's lawns and elsewhere and taking them to one of Reed's campaign offices and getting paid for them.

I really enjoy watching Dems eat their own.

Anyway, with one more week to go it could get more interesting and it appears this election will revolve around which side gets out their voters more then it will be about any issue.

And, of course, if you are a gay/lesbian African-American, you are really in a bind.

Make 2010 Their Last Year In Office

We all knew that last nights vote outcome was pre-ordained. The American people held on to some sort of slim hope that maybe, just maybe the healthcare bill could be stopped last night, and all it would have taken was one vote from a Democrat to kill it so that they could scrap the massive tome currently circulating Capitol Hill and go back to the drawing board, but alas the Democrats proved once again they are more afraid of their leadership then they are their constituents.

It is time to make our elected officials more afraid of the people who gave them their job then the bullies they follow. The following is a list of Democrat senators up for reelection next year. Americans are going to have to target these races. Venting your outrage at all things political just muddies the water. Get focused on those who are actually up for election.

I watched part of the debate yesterday in between watching football games and while the Republicans could cite facts and figures the Democrats spent their time demonizing insurance companies, questioning the sanity and patriotism of the average American who opposed their government takeover plan, and tried to tug at the heart strings with stories of people who they feel were wronged by the system. The problem is none of their proposals will address those inequities and in fact will make things worse.

I am not advocating being cold and heartless in this healthcare reform issue, quite the opposite. I want to see something done to address the problems, but overhauling the whole system is not the answer.

So here is your list of Democrat Senators up for reelection in 2010. Keep it. Clip it. Challenge them. Vote them out of office. Make them once again responsive to we the people.

Roland Burris - IL
Ted Kauffman - DE
Blanche Lincoln - AR
Barbara Boxer - CA
Michael Bennet - CO
Christopher Dodd _ CT
Daniel Inouye - HI
Evan Bayh - IN
Barbara Mikulski - MD
Harry Reid - NV
Kirsten Gillibrand - NY
Chuck Schumer - NY
Byron Dorgan - ND
Ron Wyden - OR
Arlen Specter - PA
Patrick Leahy - VT
Patty Murray - WA
Russ Feingold - WI

Democrat Party In Total Disarray

For all of the talk about how the Republicans are somehow wandering around the desert doomed to 40 years of exile, it sure seems like it is the Democrats who can't get their act together. That big tent they brag about is turning out to be the center ring of a three-ring circus.

The e-mail warned that any Democratic House member who joins Republicans to filibuster the health care reform measure will "face an enormous backlash from the grassroots."

The group also highlights a letter from Democracy for America, the nation's largest progressive political action founded by former Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean, which urges Senate Democrats to strip committee chairmanship from "any Democrat who filibusters health care."

So they have gone from smearing Army generals to threatening their own Frankenstein creation.

ACORN has been exposed for what it is, a front organization to bilk millions of taxpayer dollars from the government to line the pockets of their executives while throwing any sort of respect for law and order out the window.

SEIU is recognized as the muscle of the Democrat party, called upon whenever it is required that Obama's message be presented in a more in your face manner.

So we already know Nancy is trying to hide Democrat congress critters from their constituents, and now with the lackeys in the MoveOn gang to back her up we will see soon who the Dems fear more. Whip snapping Nancy with her MoveOn attack dogs or the constituents back home which hold the power to send them packing and off of the government payrolls.

Dems Hiding Behind Defense Appropriations

I stand with the Republican house leadership on this issue, and wish folks would take the time to contact their congressional representatives or at least the ones mentioned in this piece to let them know you support them.

The reason is simple. For as long as I can remember members of congress have always tagged distasteful legislation onto and in the defense appropriations bill, although most of the time it comes in the shape of some pet pork barrel project rather then some sort feel good touchy feely legislation like this case.

House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) and House GOP Conference Chairman Mike Pence (R-Ind.) are voting against the House/Senate fiscal year 2010 defense authorization bill — because it contains hate crimes provisions designed to protect gays and lesbians.

GOP Whip Eric Cantor is also a no, saying that the legislation constitutes classifying a new group of "thought crimes."

The Democrats also probably feel some sort cynical irony in putting hate crimes legislation for gays and lesbians in to the appropriations bill for the military which has a Don't Ask- Don't Tell policy that they have railed against ever since Bill Clinton instituted it.

As a general rule I am against so called hate crimes legislation no matter what shape it takes, since it gets into the realm of what a person was thinking and requires very little other the debating skills of the lawyer in order to convince a jury of such a thing. A crime against a person is enough of a hate crime without trying to find any other motivation.

If the Democrats think this is such a wonderful piece of legislation it should be able to stand on it's own. I am tired of the defense budget being used as some sort of club to blackmail legislators into voting for it even though it contains all sorts of non defense related items. Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats in congress are trying to play a game of chicken, knowing that if the Republicans vote against this they can use it in next years campaign commercials. Republicans need to have the nerve to take a stand and then be ready to defend the vote when the next election cycle starts. The bottom line is the Dems can pass this without the Republicans anyway, but I am looking for those who can put principles ahead of political expediency.

Let Boehner, Pence, and Cantor know that sometimes you have to stand up for what is right even when it isn't easy, and that is the lesson we need to be teaching everyone. The one word of warning I would give them however is don't be hypocrites when it comes to doing this and try to put something in the next defense appropriations bill that you want.