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This song is sung to the tune of "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes"

He, said conservatives should, be removed for good
I of course agreed, followed in his lead
the country should be free.

Now, the bank has a repo squad, out there in the yard,
I just smile and say, as another program dies,
Obama told us lies.

He said we must get real, have to make a deal,
let rich tax cuts grow, seniors can take the blow,
the “job creators” have seeds to sow.

Now, “tea partiers” had their way, they have won the day
I just smile and say, as another program dies,
Obama told us lies.

Over the years, there was Amerlia Earhardt, Judge Crater, and Jimmy Hoffa, all characters of reputation and note whose disappearance was historic. Then this week, there was another historic and famous(or infamous) character missing from sight, the vanishing of Donald Trump, a mystery of some note.

I do not know the extent of the acumen or brilliance of the Obama administration and re-election committee(do you remember the old acronym CREP?), but it was one of histories biggest accidents, and a successful accident at that, or a combination of the cunning of Barack Obama, David Axelrod, and David Ploff when last week, Obama released his birth certificate to throw frigid water on Trump's biggest and most widely covered talking point, the birther issue, and then the second part of the old one-two, was the White House Correspondents Dinner where he took "The Don" apart with a smile on his face and all the time knowing what would or could happen tomorrow.

From listening to the news over the weekend, it is clear that our president issued two lethal orders on Friday, "take out Osama Bin Laden and Donald Trump".

I just looked at the website for Tea Party Nation and they were going crazy over the deal worked out this morning to keep the government operating.
The last blog post however was one responding to a program of Michael Smersconish questioning whether or not the Tea Party was fading into oblivion and was written by Judson Phillips the Head of Tea Party Nation and he was lamenting the drop in participation from their zenith just after the health care fight ended.

There were many replies that sort of took Phillips to task for getting so tied up in social issues and not sticking to fiscal sanity and shrinking the size of government which I was impressed with to the point that I decided to add my two cents worth and spent about five minutes with a comment. After finishing, I could not find a button to click to add my comments and tried to move and come back but lost the comments.

What happened in Wisconsin with collective bargaining shows the true nature of what is going on all over the country. The question is where do we go from here?

It's not just the budget bill needs a quorum -- the big issue is that *any* bill with fiscal implications is supposed to have a quorum in the Wisconsin state Senate. So there are two choices here:
1. Collective bargaining has fiscal implications, and so the bill will be blocked in the courts and ruled unconstitutional.

This kind of corporate takeover may or may not be going on in North Carolina but we need to be on our guard, really on our guard.
We all know of many of the intended abuses of our liberties going on in Wisconsin but this is not all of the story.
The state of Michigan fell to a Republican governor in the last election and they have put forward what they call a budget bill to get a troubled state back on the road to fiscal prosperity. Deep in the bill there is a part that gives the governor authority over the small towns of Michigan.
In this bill, if the governor's office thinks a town is in financial trouble, he can declare it in an emergency situation and this gives the governor the authority to cancel all city contracts with vendors and insert new providers of goods and services for what had been under city contract.

I now understand why governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin has so much trouble balancing a budget. The cost of cleaning up the capitol building was discussed by the head of the Department of Administration that handles building maintenance for the state. The head said that the cost of evaluating the damage done by the up to 5,000 people who occupied the building was between $60,000 and $500,000. Now this was just to evaluate the damage that turned out to be caused mostly by putting tape on the marble walls. The actual cost of restoration was estimated to be up to $7,500,000(that's right $7.5 million).

After the amounts were announced and the resulting "get reals" were spoken, the cost has been reduced to $347,000.

The head of the team of eight people who work for the state of Wisconsin and have responsibility for maintaining the building was somewhat in disagreement as he felt that the work could be accomplished within the regular performance of their duties.

On the verge of being screwed again, the NC public is facing a new health insurance exchange law that, according to the News & Observer, is being "orchestrated by Blue Cross/Blue Shield." The new law requires that the health insurance exchange board be made up of a permanent seat for BC/BS and also two other insurance company representatives, someone from the business community, someone from the state medical society, and someone from the hospital association.

No consumer groups or advocates will be included.

The law is getting fast service in the legislature who are again, swapping campaign dollars for dead people.

Unfortunately for our liberties, James O'Keefe and Lila Rose made a successful assault with their hidden camera by setting up ACORN and ultimately destroyed an organization that provided housing services for the at risk poor. The same thing was tried against a Planned Parenthood office where an employee of that same organization was taped making foolish statements that had little to do with the operations and goals of PP. It is however, being used as a reason to slash any federal funding.

Now, we find the third step, an assault on labor unions, to further turn this country into a two tier civilization of the have's and have not's. No middle ground, no middle class.

I read a post by Rachael Maddow this morning regarding CNN airing the Bachmann answer to the SOTU speech. I can't help but disagree with her and wonder why MSNBC didn't also air it.
We don't need to aid and abet in giving baloon heads like Bachmann cover, put them out there for all the truly patriotic citizens of this country to evaluate her and her ilk.