The People Have Spoken. Mr. Obama are You Listening?

With Republican Scott Brown's win in heavily left leaning Democratic Massachusetts last night, the people have started to take back our government. The only question that remains is will Mr. Obama, Mr. Schumer, Ms. Pelosi and Mr. Reid listen? So far, they haven't shown any indication that they care what the people want. So far, in the first year of Obama, all they care about is the Democratic Party agenda even though the vast majority of citizens are against it.

You know the people are angry when a Democrat cannot win a "Kennedy" seat in Massachusetts the land of the Kennedys. Mr. Scott Brown has shown what he said over and over again is true, that the open Senate seat in Massachusetts is indeed "The People's Seat".

Going from here we will see if the arrogance of the "we won" party will continue to push towards their goal of national health insurance that everyone will be forced to buy or face a stiff penalty. Some in the Democratic party, the party that has controlled Congress for years, seem to have gotten the message, but not the Democratic Party leadership. They have their ideological blinders on and want to force us all into Obamacare, which many people believe is unconstitutional.

It's time to speak out, shout out and tell your representatives, Schumer and Gillebrand, here in NY, that you want them to be more like Scott Brown or you'll vote them out. We need representatives that work FOR us. It is the government OF THE PEOPLE. They work for us. Tell them what you think. We need to put pressure on the Democrats to do what we want, not what their party has been trying to do for years. They don't get it that if the people wanted national health insurance, we would have had it long ago. National health insurance DOES NOT WORK. It hasn't worked anywhere in the world. It won't work here.

Do we need to reform the system? Yes, but not how the Democrats are trying to force us to do it. We need to allow competition across state borders. The Democrats have not even addressed that. Another thing they haven't addressed is malpractice reform. Most doctors will tell you that they have to spend an enormous amount of money on malpractice insurance because of the out of this world awards people get at as a result of winning a suit. That's called tort reform and we need that and so do the doctors. It will drive down healthcare costs immediately.

This is a good day to be an American citizen. It shows one person can make a difference. It's worth the fight. It's a good lesson to point out to your children.

It is said that the Democrats will try some slick maneuvers to ram Obamacare through to force it on all of us even though the message from Massachusetts was loud and clear that no one wants it. This election was a clear mandate AGAINST Obama and his and the Democrats' agenda. Time will tell if Pelosi, Reid, Schumer, Gillibrand and the rest of the Democrats will do what the voters who sent them there want and that's to represent the citizens and what they want. If not, then we'll just have to vote them out and put people in there like Scott Brown who will do the will of the people who they serve.

Apology Accepted Mr. McGwire, but Don't Bother Packing for Cooperstown

At first when Mark McGwire told the world what we already suspected that he had taken steroids, I thought, "Well, it's about time!" But then I thought about it and now that apology rings hollow when you look back at a very recent event, the voting for the Hall of Fame. McGwire was named on just 23% of the ballots.

To me McGwire's apology is just a veiled attempt to garner sympathy for future votes.

As a parent who doles out consequences on a regular basis, I have to tell Mr. McGwire that his apology doesn't relieve him of the consequences for his actions. Accept the apology, sure. However, he shouldn't be packing for Cooperstown.

As a lifelong baseball fan I say he's not welcomed in that hallowed hall. If they can ban Shoeless Joe Jackson on charges that really cannot be proved and they can keep Pete Rose, who admitted he bet on baseball games, out of the Hall of Fame, then Mark McGwire should experience the same ban. If this man is ever voted into the HOF, I will never, ever go there again.

It's time baseball got tough on these cheaters, confessed or not, and expunged them from all the records and make sure they never enter the Hall of Fame as inductees. The one thing baseball always protected was its integrity and with the inclusion of such cheaters, that integrity is at the very least in question.

I love the game of baseball. It has always been and will always be my favorite game, but I will be hard pressed to embrace the game I love if cheaters such as Mark McGwire are welcomed into the very institution that celebrates individuals who accomplished great things ON THEIR OWN.

What do you think?

Leave a comment.

How Can the Conservatives Take Our Country Back?

The Obama administration is imploding under its own weight with the health care disaster they call reform, ACORN, Tim Geitner's indiscretions, being soft and incompetent on terror, Janet Nepalitano saying the system worked when someone actually was able to board a plane with explosives in his Fruit of the Looms, slow to react when we are attacked, not caring about Americans safety by bringing the 9/11 trials to a civilian court in New York City, not caring about what the majority of citizens want when it goes against what the Democratic party wants, the Louisiana Purchase where they gave Louisiana $300 million to sway a vote on health care, bribing Ben Nelson of Nebraska with a sweetheart deal for his state to get him to vote Yes to this health insurance legislation that will bankrupt the country and I can go on and on but I don't want to continue to write the longest sentence I have ever written.

You get the idea.

All that being said, how can the Conservatives take advantage of the situation as the liberal Democrats did last year? What do they have to do to win back the hearts and minds of America?

Number 1 is they have to embrace the fiscal conservatism of Reagan. Continue to say "No" to mortgaging our future and the futures of our children and grandchildren and give attractive, real fiscally-sound alternatives and keep hammering it home. Do not let up.

Number 2 is they need to keep telling the country how unsafe we have become since this administration has come to power. There are plenty of examples. They need to keep that in the media.

Number 3 is they need to continually tell us how the alleged health care reform the Pelosi/Reid led congress is trying to ram down our throats will make us more unhealthy, hurt the quality of care, limit the care we get, and take the control out of our hands and put it in the government's hands.

Number 3 is they need to continually belittle what the Democrats are doing, just as the Saul Alinsky-inspired Democrats are doing to them. Keep telling America how silly the Dems complaints are. Keep laughing at the absurd solutions they propose. Keep saying how out of date and out of touch the Dems/Libs are with regular Americans. Marginalize them every chance they get.

They need to defeat Coakley in Massachusetts on January 19th in the special election to fill Kennedy's seat.

They need to defeat Gillibrand in New York for her Senate seat.

They need to stop fighting in public.

They need to be smarter at winning over younger voters.

They need to rally the base to get out and vote.

They need to listen to the Teabag Party. They are regular Americans that are fed up with how the government is so dysfunctional and out of touch with what we want.

I am sure we can come up with more, but you get the picture.

We need to support those who can deliver this, so we do not lose this country, which we will if the liberal Democrats, Obama, Reid, Pelosi, Schumer and their cohorts are allowed to continue to run amok in this country.

Get out and vote. Get involved. Support those who will listen to you and care about what you want.

God bless you.

May God have mercy on America.