WHAT MOST PEOPLE WON'T SEE -- Just A Minute Radio for Monday 01-18-10

            Here we are at the beginning of another *exciting* week in the history of our Republic.

 

            Despite the best efforts of the Democrats to turn the Senate into a rubber-stamp legislative body for their Party, certain circumstances keep getting in their way.  This time it’s the obstinate unpredictability of the “freedom from being intimidated” that characterizes  the American voter.

 

            Replacing Edward (Teddy) Kennedy in the Senate was supposed to be a shoo-in for the Democrats. After all they’d not sent anything except Democrats to the Senate since oh … about 1992…  Now all of a sudden, a conservative sounding State Senator named Scott Brown threatens to upset the Bay State’s Winesap cart… (Winesap is a hearty old-time New England favorite apple – not as popular as it used to be – but one that keeps well through the winter… You probably wouldn’t know that if you didn’t run a small apple orchard like my Auburn Alum graduate in Ag Engineering… did.)

 

            How does growing apples figure in holding on to the Republic?

 

            Well, MA (as the P.O. likes to abbreviate it) has a history of thwarting the British at Bunker Hill… alerting the Concord Minute-Men to the arrival of the Red Coats – and finally of shaking off the short-leash which the King of the U.K. kept “The Colonies” on, hampering their ability to engage in commerce or most anything else without royalty’s permission. Well.. we won’t go there today. (J)

 

            So when the Democrats decided to pass a government mandated health bill come whatever and high water… it rankled the old style American blood that still flows in the veins of American blue-bloods… who formed their own militias to be able to stand up when the ‘across the pond’ militias decided to tell them, down to the scruples, how to run their country.

 

            OK… so that’s a mangled bit of American history… but it has veins of *truth* buried in there.  You’re familiar with enough of it to sort it out.  Sometimes our Courts – and particularly our Congress tends to lose its way – not even mentioning the Executive Branch.  Then, as Ben Franklin, George Washington, James Madison and a host of others decided – along with John Handcock, who wrote his name large enough so the King could read it without his specs – crafted a Declaration of Independence… and a Constitution with its attendant Bill of Rights for American Citizens that has stood the test of time over a two hundred plus year history.  We’re thankful – and we’re still workin’ on it… so…

DON’T TREAD ON ME still flies in New Hampshire… and don’t forget it!

 

            Well… enough ‘harmonizing’ for this day… Let’s see what news develops by Wednesday when we visit again with the crowd at the BAIT SHOP AND SUSHI BAR not too far from the Caroliner Line…

 

            We’ll be lookin’ fer you too…

 

            Cordially, Jack  plus Billy-Bob an Frens.

 

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WHAT MOST PEOPLE WON’T SEE

Just A Minute – All eyes are on the special Massachusetts’ election tomorrow – except it’s not an election, it’s a Boston street brawl, between Big Labor and everybody else.  If Mr. Brown does go to Washington in place of the hand-picked union candidate – it’ll kick the 60 vote dictate imposed by the AFL-CIO on their bought party -- the Democrats -- in the ashcan.

The polls I’ve seen are so close they’re statistically insignificant.  The recent gubernatorial victories in New Jersey and Virginia have sent the Democrats and labor bosses on 24 hour total red alert.  Union Bosses have mobilized a juggernaught to turn out their vote that’s not been seen since the days of Hitler’s Blitzkrieg. 

But if Republican State Senator Scott Brown can win this, he’ll instantly become Harry Reid’s nemesis, and win the Tea-Bagger’s Medal of Honor.  The hair-thin poll totals so far have sent serious chills among Democrats that could cause vote-switching.  Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank predicts if Brown wins, it’ll kill the Health Bill.

Our best course is to pray.

<> I’m Jack Buttram

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