Has Missouri Sparked a Brushfire?

Missouri 
sets tone
By Cheri Jacobus - 08/05/10 06:16 PM ET

Tuesday’s primaries brought a few surprises. But the voter mandate in Missouri stands out as the One Really Big Thing that might define this fall’s elections.

Seventy-one percent of Missouri voters supported a ballot measure preventing the federal government from forcing anyone to buy health insurance, as dictated by the healthcare law signed by President Obama in March. Missourians aren’t going to stand for the federal government forcing them to purchase health insurance or penalize them if they don’t. In fact, as a result of ObamaCare, Americans seem poised to vote lawmakers out of office who voted for the bill. Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) claims she now gets the message, but lucky for her, she is not up for reelection until 2012. Many of her Democratic colleagues are not as fortunate and find themselves in the crosshairs of voter anger over Obama’s healthcare reform folly.

When Bill Clinton was elected president in 1992, he and then-first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton barreled forward with an ambitious healthcare reform agenda that was stunning in the level of control the federal government would have over each and every American. Equally stunning was the public’s rebuke of “HillaryCare” as opposition levels climbed. Like bulls in a china shop, the Clintons kept pushing, and pressured congressional Democrats as well. Public sentiment won.

Republicans took the House in the ’94 midterm elections for the first time in 40 years, due in no small part to the Clintons’ attempt to force government-run healthcare on the nation.

In 2010, it’s deja vu all over again.
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Democrats: The Audacity of Greed

Revolution in the air
By Brent Budowsky - 08/09/10 06:34 PM ET

Time is short. The stakes are enormous. The nation is angry. The jobs are dying. The mood is depressed. Democrats must get off their knees and fight. They should cancel the week of recess before Labor Day, go to the floor of Congress and fight for American jobs, rally the party base, and go to the country with a campaign worthy of the Democratic Party.

I am fed up with the lack of fight, lack of spirit, lack of energy and lack of cojones of a party that must renew its right to call itself the party of the people, and renew its fight to stand up for the hardworking, law-abiding, good-hearted patriotic men and women who have been shut out of the corridors of power for far too long.

I stand with the vast majority of Americans, who believe that Washington has become a fossilized town that is sickeningly out of touch with an America that hungers for leaders who lead, a Congress that acts and a president who stops telling voters they need teachable moments from him and starts listening to what voters, including many of his friends, are telling him.

The president has gone rogue. And Democrats. And Republicans. And everyone in this capital with eyes that don’t see and ears that don’t hear what an unhappy nation is telling them. Voters pray for action, but all they hear is self-praise from those who don’t listen, and all they see is vanity and self-indulgence from those who don’t care.
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Larry the Cable Guy Offers Solutions

Everyone concentrates
on the problems we're having in Our Country  lately:  Illegal
immigration, hurricane recovery,  alligators attacking people in
Florida . .    

Not  me -- I
concentrate on solutions for the problems --  it's a win-win
situation. 



* Dig  a moat the
length of the Mexican border.  

* Send the dirt to New Orleans to raise the level of
the levees. 

* Put  the Florida alligators in the moat along the Mexican
border. 



Any other problems you would like for me to solve today? 


Think about
this: 

1.  Cows 

2.  The Constitution 

3.  The Ten Commandments   



COWS  

Is it just me, or does
anyone else find it amazing that during the mad cow epidemic our
government could track a single cow, born in Canada almost three years
ago, right to the stall where she slept in the state of Washington? And,
they tracked her calves to their stalls. But they are unable to locate 11
million illegal aliens wandering  around our country. Maybe we
should give each of them a  cow.   



THE  CONSTITUTION 

They  keep talking
about drafting a Constitution for  Iraq ...why don't we just give
them ours? It was  written by a lot of really smart guys, it has
worked for over 200 years, and we're not using it anymore.
  



THE  10 COMMANDMENTS 

The  real reason
that we can't have the Ten Commandments posted in a courthouse is this --
you cannot post 'Thou Shalt Not Steal' 'Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery'
and 'Thou Shall Not Lie' in a building full of lawyers, judges and
politicians, it creates a hostile work environment.