Martha Coakley lost the Senate election in Massachusetts last week, but according to liberals it wasn’t her positions that were responsible. After all, she’s a liberal, so her positions are automatically correct, right? Therefore, the problem has to be…

So, essentially, we have a lot of voters who are dumber than rocks. That is the problem with democracies I guess. Lots of poorly informed, ignorant and, in some cases, downright stupid, people marching off to the polls and voting contrary to their interests.

Of course! Those stupid, stupid voters. You know, the people who magically become educated and well-informed when they vote for liberal policies, but suddenly become brain-dead when they vote against them. After all, liberals are so much more enlightened and intelligent than everyone else. If only the American public would allow them to make all of the decisions for them. Then, they would be much better off!

The arrogance of the liberal mind never fails to astound me. It is the one weakness they have which practically guarantees eventual failure at the ballot box.

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And so it begins.

Does Tuesday’s Republican victory in the deepest blue state in the country foreshadow what is in store for the Democrat Party in the fall elections? I would love to state unequivocally “YES”, however at best it only remains a distinct possibility. It all depends on how committed the Tea Party folks are come election time.

If the Tea Party can get people motivated enough to show up at the polls in November, something akin to the 1994 shift in Congressional power will happen again and Barack Obama’s quasi-socialist political agenda will come to an end. People like Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, if not removed from their positions in Congress altogether, will be so marginalized as to render them immaterial. Finally, it will become a very real possibility that Obama will serve only one term of office, and be relegated to the dustbin of history right next to Jimmy Carter.

For now, I intend to savor the flavor of this victory of common sense over liberal entitlement. I know that the story from the Democrats is that Coakley lost the election because she was a bad candidate and ran a bad campaign. In truth, Coakley ran the type of campaign that liberals in that part of the country have run for decades. Campaigns in which Democrats took the voting public for granted, turned a deaf ear to what the voters were saying, and counted on Union support to win the election. It didn’t work this time. Hell, even The One© himself flew into the middle of the fray and failed to raise even an eyebrow.

That’s gonna leave a mark.

Republicans, if they are smart and learn from what has happened, will immediately start planning their fall campaigns around the simple, common sense themes of Brown’s campaign. Killing Health Care Reform as currently proposed, tax cuts for business and individuals, spending cuts throughout the government, smaller more efficient government and pro-small business economic policies would be a great place to start. Cutting taxes for small businesses will lead to job growth, and killing the tax burden which ObamaCare will force on small business owners and individuals will free up money for investment. These are simple, common sense measures which will not bloat the budget deficit or the national debt, while putting the private sector back in control of job growth.

Democrats, I’m going to take a minute here to say something as sincerely as I can. What you take from the results of this election will help determine the trajectory of your Party over the next 10 – 20 years. If you take the time to really listen to what the Democrats and Independents in Massachusetts are telling you about why they voted for Brown, you may have a chance to turn the tide which is heading your way. If you turn a deaf ear to them, you do so at your own peril.

So, as I go to sleep tonight, I do so knowing that short of the Democrat Party committing political suicide and trying to pass ObamaCare in the middle of the night using some sort of procedural trickery, that ObamaCare is dead and I now have a chance to receive all the medical care I’ll need in the years to come.

Democrats: You have been warned.

I wish you all a very Merry Christmas. Stay safe and enjoy the time with your family and friends.

Here are the results from the last CD Poll:

With all that is going on in the world, should Obama have traveled to Denmark to promote Chicago’s bid for the 2016 Olympics?

Please register your opinion in the new CD Poll in the sidebar: Should Health Care Reform be passed, as currenty proposed?

The Democrats in Congress are currently trying to jam an unpopular version of health care reform down the throats of the American people. The reasons that this version is so unpopular are numerous and include its increased costs, rationed care, and its expansion of the government’s power over our lives. At one time or another, there were at least 5 different versions of this proposed legislation floating around the Congress looking for approval. The proposal which came out of the House was just under 2,000 pages long; the Senate proposal is currentl around 2,100 pages long. Also, it seems that almost nobody in either House of Congress has read either bill.

Yet, they want to have something passed by the end of the year, if not sooner. Why? Some on the left have suggested that it has to be passed because it is “historic” and may not survive to be passed later. Seeing as this is Obama’s big issue, Democrats also want it passed so that Obama doesn’t look weak. Obama has said that if it isn’t passed, the country will go bankrupt:

The president laid out a dire scenario of what will happen if his health care reform effort fails.

“If we don’t pass it, here’s the guarantee….your premiums will go up, your employers are going to load up more costs on you,” he said. “Potentially they’re going to drop your coverage, because they just can’t afford an increase of 25 percent, 30 percent in terms of the costs of providing health care to employees each and every year.“

The president said that the costs of Medicare and Medicaid are on an “unsustainable” trajectory and if there is no action taken to bring them down, “the federal government will go bankrupt.”

Now Obama is worried about the country going bankrupt — after spending trillions of dollars we don’t have on government spending which will not create jobs or grow the economy. After tripling the national debt and spending tax revenue which won’t be collected for decades to come.

The problem with the Democrats’ proposals is that they do not incorporate common-sense approaches to reducing costs and increasing coverage. Instead, they use government-mandated purchase provisions to force people, whether they want it or not, to buy coverage, while driving private-sector insurance providers out of business by forcing them to compete with a government-subsidized government plan.

Before doing anything as drastic as has been proposed, the Congress should do three things to reform health care:

1. Eradicate government regulations which prevent private insurance companies from selling on a national basis.
2. Institute tort-reform to reduce the skyrocketing cost of litigation.
3. Increase efforts to find and eliminate Medicare fraud.

Allowing insurance companies to operate nationally will quickly bring down the cost of insurance to consumers by increasing choice in the marketplace. Lowering the cost of insurance premiums is the key to increasing coverage of the uninsured. Tort-reform will also reduce the cost of insurance premiums by placing limits on the cash settlements and attorney’s fees that can be won in litigation. Finally, eliminating fraud is just a good idea all around. These three ideas could eliminate billions of dollars in costs without costing the taxpayer anywhere near what is currently proposed.

Once these three steps are taken, then we can look at other, more drastic options as are currently being proposed by the Democrats in Congress.

Dear Singer/Vocalist/”Artiste”:

The Christmas Season is once again upon us, and soon you will be put into situations where you will want to join with others and sing the songs of the season. This may mean that you will sing a solo piece at church, or if you are fortunate enough to make a living making music, you may be entertaining large crowds. Everyone, myself included, loves the traditional carols which have flourished for decades, and hearing them always brings a little happiness and cheer.

However, some of you out there are ruining the joy that Christmas music brings. You are literally strangling all of the joy and happiness out of the music before our very ears. How? With the warble.

First made famous by Whitney Houston when she sang the National Anthem at the Super Bowl awhile back, warbling is when the singer holds a note for much longer than was intended, and then tries to sound like a jazz saxaphone player by singing free-form melody over the background music. The problem is, 99 times out of a hundred, this sounds like someone stomping on a cat’s tail. Its just that irritating.

Now, don’t get your little feelings hurt. I know you are just trying to “make the song your own.” What you need to remember is this: The audience doesn’t want you to make the song your own. They don’t want to listen to you warble on and on. They just want to hear the damn song the way it was written.

You see, the reason why the audience wants you to stick to the music is because of what the music represents. It isn’t about you, or your multi-octave voice, or your musical identity. This music is about time spent with family on Christmases past, about your family’s holiday traditions and memories. Yes, we love the music, but mostly we love the memories the music evokes in us.

Your warbling drives a stake right through the center of those memories and kills them dead. It drives us insane. Really, it does (just ask my wife).

So, this year leave the warbling to the birds and just sing the song like it was written. It will be appreciated more than you know.

Thanks.

Several recent events have convinced me that our current President is not only woefully unqualified for the position, but also that he is probably too dense to know it. Let me explain:

Decision on sending more troops to Afghanistan: Obama’s hand-picked General, who the President sent to Afghanistan to evaluate the situation and return a strategy for winning the conflict, made his recommendation over 11 weeks ago. Yet, our President, who has exactly ZERO MILITARY EXPERIENCE, chooses to ignore the recommendation and instead lounge around the White House trying “to get it right.” He also chooses to play golf and attend several Democratic fund raisers. Meanwhile, American Military personnel are dying in Afghanistan while the President tries “to get it right.” It looks more and more like Obama is the reincarnation of Lyndon Johnson.

Decision on having Khalid Sheikh Mohammed tried in criminal court in New York City: Of all of his bad decisions, this may very well be the most bone-headed. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM) is a terrorist, captured on the battlefield, and kept in custody in a facility not located on American soil. As the admitted mastermind of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on America, he has committed war crimes against America, the same as the Nazis did during World War II. Therefore, he should be dealt with in the same manner as the Nazis were — given a trial by Military Tribunal on foreign soil. Bringing this terrorist to New York for trial will only create a circus atmosphere as all of the media reporters try to get a story, as all of the lawyers try to get a client and then parade in front of the cameras each and every day, and as the terrorists themselves proceed to put America on trial. Also, I have not even mentioned the fact that bringing these terrorists to the US will give them many rights and protections under the law to which they are not entitled. I guess Obama feels that watching out for the terrorists’ well-being will win him some more friends abroad.

Decision to bow before yet another foreign leader: There is, perhaps, nothing else that this President does which displays his hatred of this country as much. All he does on the foreign trips is bow before everyone and apologize for anything and everything American has done over the previous two hundred-plus years. Apparently, he isn’t enough of a leader to realize that all this does is make both him and America look weak to our enemies. But that’s OK to him, as long as the Europeans invite him to more parties and Scandinavians keep awarding him prizes.

The entire Health Care Reform Debacle: On something like this, which Obama and his cronies talked about for over two years while campaigning, a leader would have gone to Congress (a friendly Congress) with a plan outlining what he wanted and how he wanted it to work. Then, the Congress could have started from that and worked its way forward. Instead, Obama simply said, “I want health care reform” and left it to others to come up with the legislation. This had the effect of making it look like he and the Congress were not on the same page, as there were several times when Obama would promise some rally attendee that a specific provision was in the bill, when in fact it was not in any of the 5 bills being passed around. This is the best example which shows that Obama is not a leader; he’s just a talker. He tells everyone what he thinks they want to hear, but never bothers to lead the people working for him.

Thus, America has been saddled with nothing more than a big-mouthed talker as its 44th President. We can only hope that he doesn’t talk us into bankruptcy and socialism

The next time your local school board whines about not having enough money to properly educate their students, remember this:

Big Hollywood has already posted a couple disturbing videos of young school children singing/speaking praises to President Obama, but when eleven more dropped in our email box it came as quite a shock. What seemed like an aberration now appears to be a troubling pattern.

Maybe “epidemic” is a better word.

Each one of the videos below is creepier than the last because the further down you go, the younger the children — brace yourself for kindergartners –  except for the last and most disturbing video, which you have to see to believe.

Young captive minds, easily influenced, eager for direction, enlisted into a cult of personality focused on an individual who, other than being the first black president, has yet to accomplish anything of significance.

You know, the only other films or videos of children singing false praises to their leader I can remember ever seeing were from countries like the Soviet Union and North Korea. Why are these liberal, sycophantic “teachers” being allowed to force-feed this garbage to the youth of this country?

This is what happens when you allow the unions to get too big or too strong for any industry; liberal political indoctrination of anyone they can communicate with or influence.

One can oly hope that this empty suit is a one-termer and all of this non-sense will end when he is gone. Then, just maybe, the “teachers” can get back to instructing the students with relevant and important information, such as mathematics, science, history, and the English language.

On October 28th of last year, for better or worse, my life was completely transformed. Due to a massive infection, my left foot and ankle were amputated. Things I had taken for granted my entire life, like getting up in the morning and walking to the bathroom, were now goals to be achieved after weeks of trial and error. At that time, I felt completely overwhelmed and completely betrayed by my own body.

Now, after the passage of an entire year of healing, exercising, rehabing, and working I can look back and take measure of what has happened, what has been learned, and what remains to be done. The amputation site itself is fully healed, and from all appearances the surgeon did a beautiful job. One of the first things a nurse will say when they look at the amputation site is how good it looks. Wearing and walking on the prosthetic has been a real challenge, mostly due to my lack of balance. I have no feeling in the prosthetic, and due to neuropathy I have no feeling in my right foot either. This makes standing a lot more work than I remember, but I am getting the hang of it. The broken femur in the right leg is still healing, and the right leg is still pretty weak. I do what I can to make it stronger, but I have to be careful not to re-fracture the bone.

I have learned a lot about humility, and the lessons were probably the most important part of my recovery. My ego has shrunken several sizes and I cannot help but feel that I am a better man for it. I have also learned about patience and hard work, and the rewards to be earned through their exercise. It is do to them that I am able to be independent with my prosthetic and rejoin the daily struggle. Finally, I was once again reminded that I have a wonderful wife and family, who have given their undivided support to me whenever I needed it.