THE BLAME STOPS HERE

The Minnesota State Supreme Court decision to seat Al Franken into that state's U.S. Senate slot all but guarantees total and complete centralization of the nation's governing power into the hand of those who have been on a spending spree bound to be a burden on the backs of Americans for generations to come. Their only opposition, the decimated Republican Party, has now been totally trumped.

What this means in the days and weeks to come is that the Congress no longer has to listen to its critics. The energy CAP and Trade bill is now certain to pass in the Senate, meaning that manufacturing companies will be thereby "incentivized" to move their operations to Mexico or South America where they don't have to face the monstrous regulation and cost of doing business that this bill poses. There go even more jobs out of the country.

The cost to Americans for their energy, now rapidly going up again, is likely to soar, further grinding the economy to a halt. Americans are not going to be able spend anything on anything except for food, gas, clothing and heat.

Adding to this ominous outlook is the reality that the new Administration does not understand the whys of the fact that no loans are being made and credit is not moving. They have no one to blame but themselves. It is Hussein's administration that has virtually made written, legally binding contracts changeable at will by the government; they can change mortgage rates, repayment terms, and collection policies at will. That, of course, means that banks and mortgage companies can no longer assure their stockholders of an operating profit if they lend money out. The net result is... No one wants to lend money. That's quite a paradox. The government has put tons of our money into the hands of a banking industry that doesn't want to lend it out. On the other hand, who wants to borrow it, given the dire financial and employment situation this country is in?

Now comes Hussein's Health-Care Reform that is another tax ball-and-chain waiting to happen. If passed, stockholders in insurance companies, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, and all of their associated sub-industries are going to be taken to the cleaners. The Canadians who can afford to come to the United States to get better health care than they can get at home... will stay home. And, the Administration is already making noise about fat people, people who smoke, people who drink, people who don't exercise... You just know that more liberties and freedoms of choice are going to be erased. In the meantime, estimates of a $1.6 trillion cost admittedly will not cover everybody, (perhaps as low as 10% of the uninsured Americans). At the same time, benefits being extended to the elderly under the current Medicare system are going to be greatly reduced, and taxed at that. The costs of training new people in the new system have also not been included in the cost estimates.

In the meantime, back at the ranch, there's the unsolved mystery of the $134.5 billion in U.S. Bonds that surfaced in Italy. Everyone who has attempted to get to the bottom of that story has been thwarted. Treasury refuses to confirm or deny anything and everything to do with the story, which means there must be substance to it. The two Japanese men who were detained while carrying the bonds to Switzerland have reportedly been released.

Now that your trust in our government has been restored, my fellow Americans, we've just seen the tip of the well-known iceberg.

Remember those Black Panthers who obstructed voting in Philadelphia November? Well, after being arrested, charged, tried and convicted... all charges against them were dropped and they were released by Attorney General Eric Holder. ACORN, under investigation in several states for its contribution to "election irregularities," was named by officials in the Hussein Administration to be in charge of the 2010 Census, a job routinely assigned to the Department of Commerce. The Administration tried to mitigate the news by claiming that ACORN will only be handling a few, minute details of the census in "remote" areas of the country. The facts are that attempts have been made to cut off federal funds being directed to ACORN and those attempts have been summarily checkmated by a group of Congressional Democrats. Both Congressman Barney Frank and Senator Christopher Dodd have refused to allow their committees to investigate ACORN's activities and Eric Holder is refusing to allow the Justice Department take a look at the accusations. In the meantime, ACORN is changing its name to "COI," short for Community Organizations International, because they are afraid the bad ACORN publicity might present problems when they conduct the "census," which, by the way, will be used to redraw Congressional political boundaries.

With a Congress and Administration now keeping us from getting to the bottom of these wrongs against our country, what are we going to do? And, yes I know he doesn't like to be called Hussein. It's "disrespectful." On the other hand, he has no respect for the wishes and fears of the overwhelming majority of the nation right now, either.

Sadly, we have no one to blame for this mess but ourselves.And, I most certainly don't like the alternatives.