Well, it looks like Scott Brown has won the MA election to fill the seat vacated by the death of The Swimmer. So here are my predictions:

1. There will be an immediate call for a recount, citing widespread fraud. (It has to be fraud, doesn’t it? After all the Dimmiycrats didn’t win…)
2. There will be a host of reasons that the winning candidate can’t be seated immediately.  (Until after the vote on Obamacare….)                                                                                          
   
3. There will be a call for a change of rules, so that the loss of a seat will not put the party in the majority at a disadvantage – i.e.  lets get rid of that pesky filibuster…

I will have to see if I am a Psychic … or just Psychotic. Oh well, I’ve been called worse.

Well, the leaders (gack, cough, cough) of our country are poised to screw us over pass more legislation that will send us to the poor house lead us into a new era of politically correct, peace and prosperity.

The “Health Care Reform Bill” (and boy, will it ever reform us) has even more little goodies that they hope the common serfs will never see until it’s to late.

“After spending almost $80 million during the last election cycle, unions are on the brink of reaping a significant return on their investment. Despite representing only about 7.6% of private sector employees, unions are poised to gain significant privileges, authority and financial windfalls from health care reform. Coming at the expense of tax-paying patients and businesses, these specific benefits would do little or nothing to improve our health care system.”  The Houston Chronicle reports that pro-union legislators have quietly slipped many provisions into the bill that will directly benefit unions, and guess who gets to pay for it?? BINGO – WE DO!!

Check this out:

• $10 billion in taxpayer-funded bailout money, innocuously referred to as a “reinsurance program.”
• Unions would have guaranteed seats on various Federal Panels, which would take the lead in recommending health care policy.
• Exemptions for union-negotiated health care plans from taxes on “Cadillac” health plans.
• Senate proposals include language that could force home health workers into unions.
• Exclude non-union employers from eligibility to work on program-funded contracts.
• Lucrative state training partnerships that contain little or no opportunities for non-union employee organizations.

With all of the special interest groups that have their heads up BO’s ass, it must be getting crowded up there.

“The more one considers the matter, the clearer it becomes that redistribution is in effect far less a redistribution of free income from the richer to the poorer, as we imagined, than a redistribution of power from the individual to the State.” Bertrand de Jouvenel

President Present-Elect BO plans to use his executive powers to signal change, plans to use his executive powers to signal change , plans to use his executive powers to signal change, plans to use his executive powers to signal change…. Four pages of Google results later, every headline of every media outlet I found is parroting the exact same thing. Or the variant…BO could use his executive powers to at least signal that Washington is changing, is changing, is changing, is……

Not one of them had much of substance to say.  Of note, no one knows if BO will appear in the  Senate for votes during the post election session this month.  BO’s presence would be extraordinary, given his position as present-elect, (actually it would have been extraordinary if he had appeared most of time he was supposed to be there, before the election). I expect if he does actually show up, it will be to vote “Present”.

Can you say “Polly wants a cracker?” Sorry Polly, your cracker has been redistributed to more deserving parrots.

PS I find it ironic that the google ads that appear just to the left of most of the articles read:

“Find low prices on Executive Power and save.”

“Give the Gift that Keeps on Giving. Shop executive power at Exava.”

“Find Bargain Prices On Executive Power.”

From what I can see we ain’t gettin no bargain.