Ted Kennedy

The very lack of information on Elena Kagan’s opinions regarding constitutional issues, which are key to this country’s survival as a free Republic, is the reason that Kagan should be dissected before Senate Republicans, carefully and in great depth.

Statements like “It’s fine if the law bans books because government won’t really enforce it” are stunning, with implications in several different directions. For one, it certainly indicates someone who has little or no respect for the Constitution, or by extension the people of this great country. It highlights the fundamental distrust of the individual right of free speech, on not only the part of the DeMarxist government, but is indicative of the inner Elena Kagan… the Obama clone who will be a rubber stamp for her Marxist boss.

There’s no longer any doubt in this country about who and what Barack Hussein Obama is and what he is trying to accomplish before he can be stopped. Elena Kagan wasn’t picked because she is a great jurist… or a jurist at all. She was picked by Obama because she is a political ideologue in the image of her boss, and can be reliably expected to follow Obama’s suicidal intentions for this country to a ‘T’.

The very fact that so much effort has gone into obscuring Kagan’s paper trail, including direct interference from the White House, is a glaring flare-lit tip-off to Republican Senators. Make no mistake… Elena Kagan favors a total ban on personal ownership of firearms. Philosophically, Kagan stands firmly with the dissenting Justices on the Supreme Court in Monday’s extension of the 2008 District of Columbia ruling in favor of an individual’s right to own and keep a firearm for self defense.

Those Justices would gladly support a total ban on firearms, such as has turned the United Kingdom into a bloody battleground, where citizens are regularly prosecuted and imprisoned for defending their own lives and property!! That’s the Elena Kagan that Republican Senators should be looking at, very carefully.

I assure you that we will be observing our Conservative Republican Senators throughout this process as well. A brilliant Jurist, Robert Bork, was destroyed by Ted Kennedy in an avalanche of lies and invective during his confirmation hearings, for no more reason than his opposition to Roe vs. Wade which is, and was, patently unconstitutional to start with… allowed by a gutless, timid Republican Senate. Sound familiar? The gutless part, that is.

Elena Kagan should be turned away. Not in revenge for the treatment of Robert Bork but because she is an out and out statist, and if not a Marxist, very closely politically and philosophically aligned with the DeMarxists. Republican Senators have the responsibility to see that only Constitutional originalists are selected for the Supreme Court. Senators, that is your responsibility to the people of this country… that is your responsibility to the Constitution. There is a huge Constitutional Patriotic coalition out here and we are watching you as intently as we are watching the Kagan hearings.

Semper Vigilans, Semper Fidelis

© Skip MacLure 2010

We’ve all heard about the alcoholic or the addict being in denial of the symptoms of their affliction while apparent to everyone else. The game changer that rocketed through the hills and dales and the suburbs, towns and cities of Massachusetts has the left throughout the country posting inanity after absurdity, explaining to themselves what has just occurred to their magnificent Marxist machine.

Repudiated in the very heart of their SANCTUM SANCTORUM, the Senate seat of the late Ted Kennedy, the DeMarxists and their lame-stream media auxiliary are filling the ether with the usual half truth, spun and carefully blended with just (they think) the correct balance of misdirection and lies. This is an old DeMarxist formula tried, proven and successful many times. Problem is, they can’t find any takers out here any more. Our truth meter pegs every time Obama, Reid, Pelosi, or smarmy creeps like Al Franken, open their mouths.

Obama spouts to Georgie-boy Stephanopoulos that Democrats had “lost their way” and he “feels he lost a direct connection to the American people in his first year in office because he focused too much on policy making”. WHAT?! This is a prime example of the absolute disillusionment that pervades the thinking of the ideologically-driven leftist. Obama also said that had we been able to pass health care faster, implying that had they been successful at ramming it down out throats, we would have been SO grateful to our communist masters and to His Magnificence Obama we would sing his praises in union-organized rally after rally.

Other DeMarxist luminaries from coast to coast have tried various and sundry exponents of this same theme. It’s amazing to watch. They are really so far divorced from the American citizen’s and patriot’s thinking and motivation that what they and their agenda suffered over VIRGINIA, NEW JERSEY and MASSACHUSETTS just hasn’t registered.

Certainly, the shock of Senator-elect Brown’s stunning upset victory has sent waves of fear and well deserved apprehension through the ranks of both the House and Senate. The American voter, those that the ‘elite’ had thought safely marginalized and balkanized behind layers of race and political correctness, turned out to be far more well informed and unified than they could have possibly believed.

We have reacted quickly to stop what we saw as the blatant illegality, absolute moral turpitude and patent unconstitutionality of the acts of the leftist Marxists that have infiltrated and pervade our government today. They haven’t seen us coming. They chose to ignore the rising clamor of our voices as we wrote, called and marched. They still aren’t getting the message, blinded as they are by their own arrogance. Massachusetts is only the beginning…

Semper Vigilans, Semper Fidelis

© Skip MacLure 2010

By the end of the 2010s, we could be calling him President Scott Brown. 

The newly elected US Senator from Massachusetts ran an error-free campaign, strongly emphasizing economic and security issues and always taking the high road. His opponent, scandal-scarred Attorney General Martha Coakley, ran a vehemently negative campaign filled with disgusting lies—and she paid the price for it. 

Assuming that Brown is re-elected in 2012 (the winner of the January 19th election will complete the remaining three years of the late Ted Kennedy’s term), and also assuming that the Republican challenger to President Obama (whoever he or she may be) comes up short that year, Brown would have to be considered an odds-on favorite to become the GOP’s standard-bearer in 2016. Will he have liabilities? Of course—but his positives will outweigh those negatives by a factor of a thousand. 

Brown is a center-right figure for what conservatives often assert is a center-right nation. As a candidate for the US Senate, he tapped into the same spirit of optimism Ronald Reagan embodied on his way to winning Massachusetts in the 1980 Presidential election. He also tapped into the voters’ desire for competent leadership. 

Remember when doomed 1988 Presidential hopeful Michael Dukakis declared that his campaign was about competence, not ideology? In reality, that’s what most voters in this country are looking for. While Reagan and Barack Obama are on opposite ends of the ideological spectrum, they both achieved blowout Electoral College victories because they convinced voters that despite their policy positions, they would place effective leadership above ideological crusades.  

Brown traversed ideological barriers because of his promise to do the same. He was a true uniter on the campaign trail, attracting even committed progressives with his message of stewardship and honesty. He could do the same if he attempts to win the White House. 

Can he make it to the Oval Office? Why can’t he? The two biggest liabilities he will face involve his status as a “Northeastern Republican” and his moderately pro-choice stance on the abortion question. He should be able to overcome these obstacles. 

With regard to the “Northeastern Republican” image, it should be remembered that Brown is to the right of the last Republican to win a US Senate seat in Massachusetts, the profoundly progressive Edward Brooke. Brown may not march in lockstep with the broader Republican Party, but he certainly shares the party’s main vision with regard to economic reinvigoration and aggressive antiterrorism efforts. No one will ever confuse him with Dede Scozzafava. 

Conservative primary voters who reject Brown in 2016 because he’s from the Bay State would make a crucial mistake. Brown can explain conservative principles with vigor in his voice and hope in his heart. Few Republicans can do the same. Brown is a throwback to the days of optimistic conservatism—the only brand of conservatism that is proven to win national elections by significant margins. 

As for the abortion question, by the mid-2010s the GOP will have decided whether to accept moderately pro-choice Presidential candidates such as Brown, or to pressure them to shift their status on this issue, as George H. W. Bush did in 1980 after being selected as Reagan’s running mate. With aging Focus on the Family founder James Dobson shifting roles and few obvious successors to inherit his position as the most influential figure among social conservatives, it’s possible that the GOP could decide to effectively tell values voters that they have nowhere else to go, and that they can either get behind a moderately pro-choice Republican candidate such as Brown, or stay home on Election Day and allow a Democrat obedient to NARAL Pro-Choice America to succeed Obama and nominate federal judges who will effectively make Roe v. Wade impossible to reverse. If social conservatives choose the former path, Brown will at least give a fair and open hearing to their concerns.  

As the 2016 GOP nominee, Brown could unify the party, settling the grudges and grievances that have beset Republicans for far too long.  He could appeal to the David Limbaughs and David Frums of the party, reestablishing the conservative-centrist coalition Reagan first brought together. Brown could well become the first Republican since Reagan to win “blue” regions of the country—and make hardcore Democrats blue in the process.

If Brown makes it to the White House, we could bear witness to the true resurgence of conservatism that George W. Bush’s 2000 election promised, but was unable to deliver. If I were a devoted Democrat, this thought would surely make me quiver.  

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It’s a referendum on Obama and his Maoist thug administration. It’s a referendum on Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and the Marxi-Maoists in our US Congress who would dare to steal our precious birthright of freedom from us. It’s a referendum on the blatant dishonesty and OUTRIGHT FRAUD that is being perpetrated by those who are supposed to serve the interests of the people and the country.

Americans, far from being the backward rubes the liberals/progressives/communists have been taking us for while they hide behind one ginned up issue after another, really get it. We know what they’ve been doing. Despite being lulled to sleep by generations of lies laminated one on top of another, a vast Conservative revival is burgeoning throughout this blessed land from coast to coast and border to border.

We also recognize our own shortcomings and mistakes of the past and are determined not to allow ourselves to be lulled into complacency, or allow our Conservative values to be diluted by false messages of ‘moderation’ and those who claim ‘expertise’ who would lead us astray from the proven principles of Conservative action. We have recent experience with a Republican party which WAS led astray from the principled exercise of Conservative governance. The end result is the nightmare we are living in the White House and in the halls of Congress today. The nightmare which has brought the country to the very brink of disaster and the looming shadows of TYRANNY.

Scott Brown Votes In Wrentham, Massachusetts.

Now we have the harbinger of the future which is going to form the substance of DeMarxist nightmares for a long time to come. An upstart, no name, no political pedigree Conservative State Senator is on the brink of waxing the floor with the anointed DeMarxist choice for the late (and unlamented) Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat, Martha Coakley. There is some karmic justice here should she lose, which it appears likely she may. This is NOT A NICE PERSON. She has gone out of her way to destroy the lives of some innocent people for blatant political gain. But that’s a story for another time.

Scott Brown put the contest in perfect context when confronted by ‘the inevitability’ of the DeMarxist’s continuing control over the Kennedy seat. He replied, “It’s not a Democrat seat, it’s not Ted Kennedy’s seat, it’s the PEOPLE’S seat”. It’s a message that has resonated not only through the state but through the entire country.

PLEASE, if you live in Massachusetts BE SURE TO VOTE, call every one you know to vote and have them call everyone they know. It may be crappy weather out there, but living under a tyranny as posed by the DeMaoists would be a lot crappier. God bless you all and GOOD LUCK SCOTT.

Semper Vigilans, Semper Fidelis

© Skip MacLure 2010

All The King’s Horses And All The King’s Men… May Not Be Enough. January 17, 2010 by Skip MacLure

The Anointed One’s panic button must certainly have been pushed to stir him from the urgency of crafting more illegal deals in his ILLEGAL attempted takeover of 16% of our total economy, taking ownership of our bodies and way of life as well.

It remains to be seen how close they really are to agreement. It also remains to be seen how many of their House votes will hold in the final analysis, given the amount of pressure being placed on Democrat and ‘moderate’ Republican RINOs by an enraged and daily-growing number of voters in their districts, and a constant barrage of negative feedback from Conservatives and Independents around the country.

The note of desperation could not be kept from reports coming from DeMarxist house organs such as The Boston Globe, The Washington Post and The New York Times, as they changed tracks and began to trumpet the list of DeMaoist heavies called upon to come forth and do battle with the upstart, but highly effective and well-liked, Scott Brown in the Massachusetts US Senate special election to determine who will hold the late Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat.

All of the administration’s sleaze mongers (those that could be spared from digging into Sarah Palin’s family) are desperately trying to find a way to destroy Scott Brown before the ballots can be counted. In the event of a Brown victory they will most surely attempt to steal the election, a la Barney Frank’s theft of his opponent’s victory through corrupt state election officials, operatives and liberal justices beholden to the left. It would behoove the Republicans to CAREFULLY monitor each and every polling place in the absolute certainty of the Maobamists pulling in the ACORN/SEIU and other Union thugocrats, to be prepared to stand up to them and for ONCE not get stepped all over. Conservative and Independent Tea Party Patriots would be perfect for this type of duty, as many of them have already been confronted by, and NOT intimidated by, the rent-a-mob goon squads.

Michelle, a disillusioned SEIU member.

It tickled the hell out of me to see a sign-wielding SEIU ‘protester’ in Massachusetts, who it turns out was an unemployed SEIU member, telling a television reporter that he was only there to collect the $50.00 being paid out by the union for the event. He further stated that he didn’t vote for Obama. This was a guy that was well aware what his union was doing. Don’t forget that SEIU and Andy Stern dropped a cool $680,000 on anti-Brown negative television ads. Hey, Andy! Ask for a refund. It didn’t work.

As we go into the final days of the campaign the DeMarxists are pulling out all the stops to try and salvage Martha Coakley. SHE CAN BE BEATEN!! Scott has been running consistently ahead in the polls in this liberal stronghold. No wonder the Enlightened One’s handlers are willing to throw away whatever capital he has left. THEY ARE DESPERATE. Go online and give Scott whatever support you can – you don’t have to live in Massachusetts to actively help. Contact his campaign at www.brownforussenate.com

While the nation is rightly focused on this surprising thrust into the rotten heart of the liberal beast, don’t forget for a moment that we have major battles being fought on other fronts. The DeMarxists have THIRTY SEVEN DISTRICTS that are in serious trouble from really aroused and ANGRY constituents who are definitely at risk of losing their jobs, and not nearly all of them are going to be willing to trust to the blandishments of cushy jobs being offered by Maobama, should they fall on their swords for him in vain. What? Not trust OBAMA? For shame.

Continue your efforts to call, fax, email, snail mail and visit your representatives’ offices. Make it so hot for them they’ll be afraid to show up. Don’t pay attention to the lies and invented stories of the LAME STREAM FRINGE MEDIA. It should be apparent to all and sundry by now that they have lied themselves into inconsequence.

Semper Vigilans, Semper Fidelis

© Skip MacLure 2010

It’s symptomatic of what’s occurring all over the nation but this is one for the books. It’s happening in the very heart of that bastion of Eastern US runaway liberalism, Massachusetts. Scott Brown (R), State Senator and a candidate in the Jan.19 special election for the US Senate seat of the late Ted Kennedy, (the Liberal Lion), being held by interim appointee Paul Kirk Jr., has the country buzzing.

Scott Brown

What has Independents and Conservatives statewide energized and liberal Demarxists on the left running scared, is that Brown has come from far behind to pull to a one point lead as of Friday. His opponent, Martha Coakley, current Massachusetts State Attorney General, had been leading 50 percent to 41 percent. But Brown’s message has resonated with Independents, Conservatives and not a few Democrats.

Coakley has been at best a weak Attorney General and although Brown has gone out of his way not to attack her, the people of Massachusetts remember her as the woman who released a sexual predator to roam the streets of their state for two years. Add to that a very unpopular Democrat Governor and the sad state of the economy and jobs, or the lack of in Massachusetts, and there are the makings of a monumental turnaround.

Martha Coakley

If Brown defeats Coakley, making him the FORTY FIRST VOTE needed by the Republicans in the Senate to sustain a filibuster, look to the DeMarxist goon squad to do every single thing they can to delay Brown’s swearing in until after the Senate vote on health care. A lesson in sleazy tactics it would behoove the Republicans to learn well.

There are NINE DAYS left to the Massachusetts special elections. Scott can use all the help he can get, whether by way of contributions or phone work or whatever, and you don’t have to live in Massachusetts to help. Talk it up to your friends, get them to help too… this is OUR country…this is OUR effort. email: info@brownforussenate.com HELP HIM TO HELP US!

This is happening all over the country, folks! DeMarxists, who even a few short months ago were safe in their sinecured little pork-lined fiefdoms, are rattled and sweating profusely as they check polling data which can no longer be spun to reflect anything but impending disaster. They are seeing the price of the MASSIVE sellout of the AMERICAN CITIZEN to the MARXI-SOCIALISTS of the Barry Hussein Presidency and the Pelosi-Reid cabal. Perfidy has its price and the AMERICAN PEOPLE are preparing to administer justice as we fight to protect our families, our homes, our freedoms and our way of life. Our CONSTITUTION, our DECLARATION, our REPUBLIC and our BELIEF IN THE ONE GOD!!

Semper Vigilans, Semper Fidelis

© Skip MacLure 2010

One of the first important tests of the Republican party in 2010 will involve a suburban Irish "Generation Jones" attorney from the Northeast.

No, it's not me. Although I have a lot of similarities to the Republican candidate to replace Ted Kennedy in the U.S. Senate, State Senator Scott Brown (one difference is I do not have a child with any entertainment talent)

No, Brown is more of the sort of candidate we need to be running--a self-starter who rose up the ranks from the vast suburban middle class.

The Massachusetts Republicans almost made the same mistake many Republicans are making for 2010---running a certified pre-owned candidate.   However, former Bush 43 Chief  of Staff Andrew Card declined to run for the open seat.

So, let's answer two quick questions. Is Brown a guy worth backing and does he have a plausible hope of winning?

I think yes.

Before Senator Kennedy's untimely demise the Boston Globe was touting Brown as a rising star in the Republican ranks.  The Globe pointed out that Brown won re-election against a well-funded Democratic opponent by 18 points in a district where Barack Obama won by 20 points. Why? Perhaps because Brown was perceived as a problem-solver and a straight shooter.

Brown is focusing his campaign as being a fiscal conservative and a Washington outsider.  Ironically, this sort of persona worked well for candidates for Massachusetts Governor for over a decade, starting with the admittedly more liberal William Weld.  But until Deval Patrick won in 2006, Massachusetts Republicans had a long streak of winning non-presidential elections.  (Patrick is now painfully unpopular)

This makes one question whether Massachusetts reputation as a one -party bastion is somewhat inflated by increased presidential year election turnout.

In 2006 Deval Patrick received about 1.2 million votes. But the Democratic gubernatorial candidates in the contested 1990, 1998 and 2002 elections received between 900,000 to 1,100,000 votes; the Republican candidates ranged from a low of 985,000 to Weld's 1,175,000 and received a remarkably constant % of the total vote cast---from 50.8% to 49.8%

On the other hand, Republican presidential candidates in 2004 and 2008 got...hmmm...about 1.1 million votes in Massachusetts.

So it seems the Republican vote might be a bit "stickier"  in MA then the Democratic vote,  which baloons in high turnout contests, and this makes a difference when the special election is scheduled for January 19, 2010, when weather conditions in New England are likely to be adverse.

If we are going to sneak over the finish line in the Bay State, this might be the best chance to do it.

One thing which will be critical is whether the Democratic primary on December 8 turns out to be a bloodbath. The present contenders are Attorney General Martha Coakley, Congressman Mike Capuano and Congressman Stephen Lynch

All three contenders are from Boston or its urbanized close-in suburbs. Coakley leads in early polls, but lacks the seven figure warchest of the incumbent congressmen. No woman has won a major office in Massachusetts history, Coakley would be the first.  Of the House members, Capuano has a reputation as a a wonkish but doctrinaire liberal; Lynch is a blue-collar pro-union pro-life candidate who may appeal to swing voters but could struggle in a feminist dominated statewide primary.

So, the chance for blood on the floor is there. But the geography is also important.  Brown is from the area Republicans have traditionally amassed statewide margins--the I-495 belt on the fringe of the Boston media market.

In the 2002 election almost 80% of the the total vote in the Commonwealth was cast in the Boston media market and Romney won by more than his statewide plurality here; Democrat Shannon O' Brien actually carried the areas in the Providence, Springfield and Albany TV markets.  And the critical area was not the close-in urbanized area. O'Brien won the city and the close-in's by a 209,000 to 134,000 margin. But in the rest of Middlesex and Norfolk counties, and in Essex and Plymouth counties...Romney amassed a 576, 000 to 414,000 margin.  In the reaches beyond I-495 (metro Worcester and Cape Cod) Romney won  by 202,000 to 144,000.

Now, obviously neither Bush or McCain attained these sorts of margins in the fringe of the Boston media market.  They also weren't perceived as attentive to the local zeitgeist.  A Scott Brown might well succed as being seen as a "local guy" not one of those nasty Red State Republicans.    

So , while Boston is not a "cheap" TV market, Massachusetts may not be that a expensive state to "play" in, since more than 85% of the voters are covered by just two in-state markets; (Springfield is a rather cheap market; costs about 1/7 of Boston per point) .    A MA campaign today is cheaper than a VA or NC campaign in this day and age; where one needs to buy either multiple markets or "waste" a lot of coverage. 

And we are taking about a short campaign; especially post-primary.

I don;t need to mention that the impact of a Brown victory in the perceived heartland of liberal Democrats would have a rather disheartening effort on national Democrats.

We'd do well to keep our eyes on this race. I'd rather seen us spend money here than propping up someone in a 60% GOP district with poor manners.

A few weeks ago, Chris Dodd was eager to take over the official chairmanship of the Senate Health, Education Labor and Pensions Committee as a tribute to his good friend Ted Kennedy, so as to continue Ted's life work of bringing socialized medicine to the United States.

Tonight, Dodd decided to stay with the sinking ship he's already been piloting, the Senate Banking Committee 

This is quite a surprise, since the conventional wisdom just days ago was the Dodd would benefit politically from quitting the Committee responsible for the 2008 Financial Meltdown and going to the committee that is writing the Ted Kennedy Memorial Health Care bill. (not that anyone can figure out exactly what it says, anyway)

So what happened?

Maybe Dodd decided that being blamed for only one sinking ship was enough, and once Obamacare sank it would be wise to be out of the line of sight when folks went looking for scapegoats.

What also happened is one of Dodd's Republican opponents, Sam Caligiuri,  has been hammering Dodd for trying to run two committees at once, and failing at both jobs. 

I  am calling on Senator Dodd to decline the position of the HELP Committee Chairman, if it is offered to him. He should be finishing the job he has barely started of fixing the financial sector problems that got us into this economic disaster in the first place, and not spending his time promoting ill advised health care legislation.

Guess Mr. Dodd couldn;t conjure up a coherent response to Senator Caligiuri's challenge. 

Of course, there's been no progress on reforming the financial regulatory system all year, because Dodd was out pretending to be Teddy Kennedy. Now Dodd returns to a reform effort in tatters. , as nothing has been done in months to advance the complex issue.

Hey, it's not like we didn;t have a financial meltdown recently or anything that would warrant making this a priority.

Well, let's give Dodd credit.  He's staying on the same sinking ship he's already captained. After all, Captain Smith is treated more kindly by history than Bruce Ismay.   

The passing of Teddy Kennedy has given Chris Dodd a dicey dilemma to deal with.

For months Dodd has been the de facto head of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, sheparding a partisan public option health care bill through the committee in Kennedy's absence.

All the while, Dodd was still supposedly chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, which now, as the bailout era has reached a pause, reverted to the same lassitude it displayed in 2007 and 2008 as the financial system proceeded to meltdown.

Nevermind that financial market reform was supposedly a high point of President Obama's agenda, and that Secretary Geithner recently took to reaming out other bureaucrats for their lack of support of the administration's effort.  The bill has yet to even be scheduled for committee mark-up.

Now, Dodd can do what Washington politicians suggest would be a good career move--abandon the albatross of his failed chairmanship of the Banking Committee and take over for Teddy on the Health Committee--with the avowed goal of passing Obamacare as a trillion dollar tribute to the late Senator.

Amazingly, the clueless Dodd thinks the entire protest movement over socialized medicine will fade away in the good vibes generated by the Teddy funeral.

Yep, this guy really is so haughty he thinks we will meekly agree to whatever the power brokers on Capitol Hill think is really, really good for us.

Some Connecticut Republicans have other ideas. Like Senate candidate Sam Caligiuri      

Sure the lefties are upset but someone has to call out Chris Dodd on this!

Caligiuri is outraged that Dodd would leave the Banking Committee without cleaning up the monumental mess that the chairman has made of the financial economy.

Republican U.S. Senate Candidate Sam Caligiuri today started an online petition calling on Senate Majority Leader Reid to force Senator Dodd to do his job at the Banking Committee rather than leaving it to take over the chairmanship of the Health Committee left vacant by the death of Senator Kennedy. Caligiuri issued the following statement:“At the end of my tenure on this committee," Senator Dodd said in early 2007 of his role at Banking, "I want it to be said that the safety and soundness of our financial institutions was not weakened on my watch.” (See the full article here) As of today, it must be said that Chris Dodd failed and the safety and soundness of our financial institutions has been badly weakened over the past two-and-a-half years since Senator Dodd’s comment. Now, at a time when our economy and our financial institutions need oversight and attention to ensure our country is on the road to financial recovery, Chris Dodd has conveniently taken on a new and massive undertaking with the current health care debate – yet he still is grossly negligent in the job he is supposed to do – protecting our financial institutions. It is time for him to actually complete the task assigned to him at the Banking Committee, not to try and pass it along to another senator and sweep his failings under the rug. 

If you think Chris Dodd should clean up the mess he already made, before making a new mess out of the nation's health care system, you can sign this petition here.

We'll how eager Harry Reid is to anger Connecticut voters even further by letting Dodd pull a switch akin to that of Bob Torricelli. 

Chris Dodd thinks he can move on to something more pleasant and leave the nation's damaged economy to someone else to fix. He abandoned the Banking Committee before to run for President. Now he wants to abandon it again so he can pretend to be Teddy Kennedy and improve his fading chances for re-election.

Connecticut voters are a little smarter than that, Chris.  You may try and quit us; but we're ready to fire you.  

The latest Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report recently reported their findings on the cost of the Senator Ted Kennedy’s health care bill that would cover 16 million of the 46-47 million uninsured.  Before going into the nitty-gritty of the report, the uninsured count includes illegal immigrants, those who are eligible for federal programs but have not signed up, and those who have the ability to pay for insurance but choose not to do so.

Back to the costs: The CBO has estimated that $1.3 trillion would be required over 10 years to cover just 16 million of the uninsured. This does not include the public option, the deal that President Barack Obama wants. The reality is that the public option would ultimately lead to a government-run, single-payer health care plan for America.

Based on these numbers, the cost to cover one of the uninsured is $8,125 per person per year. If the estimated population of the United States was put at 307 million, the end cost per year of ObamaCare would be just over $2.49 trillion per year.

Considering that there are over $77 trillion coming in liabilities in Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, interest on the debt, and the debt itself, adding this will ultimately break the bank and kill any hope of economic freedom for Americans who will be enslaved by the government to cover the debt either by confiscation taxes on all Americans or by massive hyperinflation.

Congratulations, America. You’ve been had (for electing these weasels in Washington) and now you, your children, and your children's children are going to pay the consequences.