Favorite War Films - Do You Have A Favorite?

I love War movies! Every Memorial Day weekend we spend some time watching these classic films and recounts of Honor and Duty and Sacrifice!

My list of favorites has about at least 50 that are my all time favorites, or maybe 100 are my all time favorites.

Every Memorial Day Turner Classic Movies Shows War Movies the whole Memorial Holiday Weekend!

Last night we watched, Stalag 17, the Great Escape, Bridge Over the River Qwai, and Sargeant York, and several others!

Are you a War Movie aficionado?


What is your favorite? Do You have a Top Ten, Top 100 List?

I admit to love watching the Good Guys Win! I even like the Pollyanna "B" movies of the 1940s and Fifties. I will not bore you with my whole list, as it is really long!

No matter the history period, or whether it is about the Army, the Navy or the Air Force,
The American Revolution, or Civil War, or World War I, or World War II, or other campaigns and wars, or from another time period in World History I love em!
If you want to attach a copy of an original marquee poster of your favorite war film, here is a link!

http://www.allposters.com/gallery.asp?startat=2Fgetthumb.asp&CID=16E4A13BCA844F2E8695CF679C25158C&txtSearch=War+Movies&imageField2.x=39&imageField2.y=24

Here are two sites with lists and reviews of war movies, and I have to admit in my list of my favorites, us, the good guys always win!

http://www.worldwar-2.net/world-war-2-on-film/world-war-2-on-film-index.htm

http://www.worldwar-2.net/world-war-2-on-film/world-war-2-on-film-index.htm

I look forward to your favorites!

Memorial Day Remembrance

"Time will not dim the glory of their deeds"
General of the Armies, John J Pershing

It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain --that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Abraham Lincoln

In Flanders Fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields

By: Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (1872-1918)
Canadian Army

He was getting old and his hair was falling fast,
And he sat around telling stories of the past.
Of a war that he had fought in and the deeds that he had done,
In his exploits with buddies; they were the heroes, every one.
And though sometimes to his neighbors, his tales became a joke,
All his buddies listened, for they knew whereof he spoke.
But we'll hear his tales no longer, for he has passed away,
And the world's a little poorer, for a soldier died today.
A. Lawrence Vaincourt

In the last two years, my family has buried three heroes from World War II, and we and this nation are poorer for the loss of those valiant men who when they were young all volunteered to fight and preserve freedom.

The first hero to die, was my father- in-law, a quiet gentle man who was a jeweler and who could repair almost any watch, a trade he learned in college, on his GI Bill. Poppa as the kids called him never spoke of his bravery or the wound that nearly killed him and earned him his purple heart at the Battle of the Bulge. His brother-in-law passed long before I met my husband who was in the Bataan Death March. I have been told he never mentioned is torment or trials much either.

My father, my first and forever hero, died a few months later. He was lucky, he was never wounded. In World War II he was in the 82nd Airborne, and he too, never discussed jumping out of gliders into the dark of night, or what he witnessed. My father retired from the United States Army Band, and when I was a teen frequently played Taps at Arlington Memorial Cemetery and I watched as he played Taps at the Tomb of the Unknowns on Memorial Day twice, and I was so proud.

My Uncle, died just this month, was on the USN Thornton at Pearl Harbor on the day of infamy, and he only mentioned it a few times. While looking for information about the USN Thornton, where his entire tour of duty was spent during the war, I was surprised to learn that the Thornton was also at the battle of Midway, and at Guadalcanal. He too retired from the United States Navy.

These men never were anything but proud of serving their country, and I am so grateful to have have them as part of my life, and I will treasure the legacy of Honor, Duty, Country, Family that all these wise kind and gentle men displayed throughout their lives.

Join me in a remembrance of those brave men, and those in your family, in my resolve that they had not died in vain.

Slip Sliding and Side Stepping Sestak

This nasty peice of dirty laundry and law breaking has been mentioned in the press since early February.

For the past three days I have read endless articles, 23 to be precise regarding the job (still a secret) offered to former Admiral and current Congressman, Joe Sestak.

What precisely was this effort to protect Obama's initial filibuster blocker Arlen Spector? Was it an effort prevent his loss in a troubled run to be the winner in the Democratic Pennsylvania Democratic Primary, to protect Spector from his loss this month?

One can rationally surmise that Spector switched parties to gain Democratic backing after the election of 2008, as he felt certain his seat as a Republican was in jeopardy. However no one is discussing this driving factor, the protection of the Spector and gift for his party jumping athletics in 2009.

I need a shower, my waders have become smeared with more sludge that can be found at a sludge plant. This reeks of Chicago style politics, and it really smells. Even the mainstream media has picked up the scent.

Sestak's mercurial statement that he was offered a job to not run for the US Senate seat against Arlen Specter, in the Democratic Primary seat in the Senate, falls flat in the honesty gut check column. His efforts to look like a hero are empty, and ring less than true, with out the full story, which not only Pennsylvania but all Americans have a right to know.

Who in the Whitehouse made this offer? What was the position? Even more importantly would this be a position that was made as an offer at the behest of the President of the United States?

This is dirty Chicago politics at its worse. Defenders of the Democrats say, both parties do this, and what is worse paying off debts, and that this is a common practice. This sort of apology for anarchy committed by both parties in the Federal Government needs to stop.

From, this link, http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/congress/Sestak-may-face-ethics-probe-over-claims-of-White-House-job-offer-94534059.html says, Daryl Issa, ..."Republican Minority Chair of the ranking member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, said "his panel is obligated to investigate the claims because they involve three felonies, including offering a bribe and interfering with an election."

However with each assertion that what he is says is true fact, Sestak refuses further comment. This You tube is a collage of his assertions, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJLejs_0ZR0&feature=player_embedded .

Republicans are hamstrung to really push this issue, as they lack sufficient numbers to mount a real effective demand with teeth to call for the Department of Justice to call a Special Prosecutor, or even initiate hearings. This little tidbit has been out there brewing since February. Sestak has taken the path of least resistance hoping to land near but not in this can of fish.

Gibbs, Press officer to the President has obsfucasted to the point of ridiculousness. The MSM until this week remained compliant, but all reporters in their own self interest have suddenly become Bernstein and Woodward. Even the New York Times and Washington Post.

Believe it or not even Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) is quoted here, http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/99731-durbin-wants-answers-from-sestak "the onus is on Sestak to say more about the offer he claimed to have received from the Obama administration in exchange for dropping his primary challenge to Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.).

"At some point, I think Congressman Sestak needs to make clear what happened," Durbin told reporters at the Capitol."

In this link, http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/05/25/gop_congressman_issa_on_sestak_white_house_job_offer_crimes_and_felonies_have_been_committed.html
which also includes a video of Daryl Issa, from Real Clear Politics, says. ..."The White House has dodged questions about the matter until recently. Yesterday, Obama's senior adviser David Axelrod said "nothing inappropriate happened." White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs gave the same response on Sunday's "Face the Nation." Here is link to Issa's blog http://issa.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=23&Itemid=29 from his Congressional site, and his closing statement reads as follows, ..."The bottom line is if the White House continues to stonewall Congress and the American people, I will petition the attorney general to appoint a special prosecutor to launch an investigation into the allegation. In the meantime, I fear we’re in for more obtuse and evasive statements from administration officials. In that case, the White House will be falling back on a concerted scheme and cover-up strategy not seen in Washington since the days of Watergate.

Here is the link of the response of the Justice Department, to Representative Issa, http://abcnews.go.com/images/Politics/Issa_WF_052110.pdf

Even one of the most left in the Democratic Party is calling for and investigation according to Townhall: http://townhall.com/blog/g/aa48ed50-76b2-4d30-8e41-ca74e3d3fae5?comments=true&commentsSortDirection=Descending Granted, Weiner's motives are questionable, or maybe he is truly offended.

Michelle Malkin, in this piece, http://townhall.com/columnists/MichelleMalkin/2010/05/26/look_whos_behind_the_white_housesestak_stonewall

points to Bauer, the White House Council to the President, one of those many "Chicago fish" seen in the can.

Just this week, all seven Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee sent this letter, http://abcnews.go.com/images/Politics/Letter_Holder_Sestak_100526.pdf urging the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate Congressman Joe Sestak's claim that a White House official offered him a job to induce him to exit the Pennsylvania Senate primary race against Senator Arlen Specter."

In a scathing article from National Review On Line,
http://article.nationalreview.com/434947/obama-omerta/robert-costa
..."Americans deserve to be told what Sestak knows. The line between transactional, horse-trading politics and abuse of power is very fine, and best evaluated by someone other than Axelrod and Gibbs. Besides, this Sestak flare-up is far from the first instance of unseemly deal-making under Obama’s watch. Last year, for example, the Denver Post reported that deputy White House chief of staff Jim Messina offered Andrew Romanoff, a Colorado Democrat, a job at USAID if he’d end his primary challenge to Sen. Michael Bennet. Like Sestak, he refused.

Why is Sestak afraid to say more? Three months ago he told The Ed Show on MSNBC that “to go further” than he has in explaining what happened “serves no purpose, because that’s about politics.” No, it’s about the law. Sestak should talk.

Somebody might want to remind the president how that story ended."

I agree, there is no "if in ethics." Both Sestak and the Whitehouse have an obligation to come clean with the American public.

The statutes, which appear to be in question for violation, are:

http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/uscode/18/I/29/600

http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/uscode/18/I/11/211

http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/uscode/18/I/29/595

The stench of this is really bad. Sestak has placed himself in a corner, and this administration will happily throw him under the bus. If Sestak had the true ethical center he claims, he would come clean instead of waiting for some exonerating condition that helps him to excuse his part of this offer. He should have immediately left the Whitehouse and made a statement to the press, this is what a man of honor would have done.

It is unlikely that Rham will fall on a sword for the President or his personal very shifty, Bauer Chief Council to the President.

Today, in his first press conference in 309 days, the last question was by Major Garret about the Sestak offer, and the 44th in yet more obsfucation said soon the Whitehouse would be releasing a statement regarding the incident. At his press conference President Obama made this claim, which is nearly the same in my estimation of 'trust me this won't hurt.' I am certain in this really shady deal somehow his aides and administration will find some way some justification to blame Bush, Cheney and former Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich. http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/senate-races/100257-obama-on-sestak-controversy-nothing-improper-took-place

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Today is Friday the day after the fall out and I just have to add this,from the Washington Examiner, http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/Obama-dodges_-but-Sestak-questions-won_t-go-away-95071799.html ..."
Well, when the president was asked about it at his news conference Thursday -- the question didn't come up until the very last reporter was called on -- the normally long-winded Obama spoke for a total of 32 seconds."

This is not going to go away. How delightful!

And this is just in, http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/28/white-house-used-bill-clinton-to-ask-sestak-to-drop-out-of-race/

..."As chief of staff and previously as chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Mr. Emanuel has not been shy about trying to steer party nominations to those he considers the stronger candidates. The White House under Mr. Emanuel has also leaned on Gov. David Paterson of New York to drop out of this year’s gubernatorial race, which he eventually did under a cloud of scandal. Andrew Romanoff, challenging Sen. Michael Bennet in a Colorado primary, has said Mr. Emanuel’s deputy, Jim Messina, offered him a job to drop out."

Here is the link for the text of the Whitehouse release, http://www.realclearpolitics.com/mediawatch/Sestak%20Memorandum.pdf

So now deniablility for Obama is confirmed by the convicted perjurer Clinton!

American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Endorses Outrageous Procedure

Dhimmitude is alive and well in the United States.



One has to wonder if this practice now endorsed by the AAP will bring the weak sister feminist out in protest?

Be prepared to be outraged.

From, http://spectator.org/archives/2010/05/25/aap-gives-fgm-an-aok

"...It is an open secret that the procedure is meant for baby girls born into families among the 10 million Islamic followers in the United States. As Mark Steyn put it: FGM is a "key pillar of institutional misogyny in Islam: Its
entire purpose is to deny women sexual pleasure..."

The brutal FGM procedure is not a medical procedure; instead it is a cultural, religious, or social practice. The underground practice of altering or removing the female genital organs is common in some African, Asian, and/or Islamic countries such as Egypt, Sudan, Somalia, and Mali. Actually, the procedure is prohibited in Africa, "in order to eradicate" the practice. The African Protocol on the Rights of Women prohibits "in all states" all forms of "female genital mutilation, scarification, medicalisation and para-medicalisation in order to eradicate
them..."

And it goes onto say, "...The supposedly intelligent physicians in the AAP are endorsing a policy for a brutal, sexist, non-medical procedure that is universally condemned. Their own 1998 statement recognized FGM as a human rights violation, and they opposed "perpetuating a social practice with cultural implications for the status of women." Today, however, AAP members are more enlightened; they no longer use the acronym, FGM, choosing instead to recommend "female genital cutting (FGC) or ritual genital cutting." These terms are meant to be "neutral" and "descriptive" rather than culturally insensitive. Ironically, they oppose only those forms of FGM which "pose the risk of physical or psychological harm" -- as if ritual "nicks" have no such risks. One writer described the "harm reduction" as similar to "the difference between amputation and laceration..."

I wonder how the great appeaser Obama would feel about this practice, or the First Ladies view of this inhumane practice, and that it happens quietly in America to young defenseless little girls. If you will recall he was supportive of his 'babies (daughters having abortions). Will the Department of State add this to the list of violations of Human Rights in their report to the UN?

This site has more graphic details, and you should go and see it so that you will be appropriately offended.

We have clearly lost our moral compass. Any doctor that engages in this practice should lose his license. Will this provedure be covered in the Healthcare Bill?

http://barenakedislam.wordpress.com/2010/05/08/islamic-female-genital-mutilation-gets-seal-of-approval-from-american-academy-of-pediatrics/

Our nation has allowed a group of Doctors to engage in and support an ammoral barbaric practice.

Misogyny is an ugly chauvist practice. That the American Academy of Peadiatrics should not endorse such an abominaable practice on young girls. This is a real moral outrage.

Where is NOW on this issue.

And how is it that this happened under the radar? Who are the monsters that supported this outrage? How is it that these monsters still have a license to practice medicine in this nation? what is going on at State Medical Boards and Licensing?

To say I am outraged is a gross understatment.

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Update on this issue also, http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/05/pediatricians_group_reverses_f.html

..."Today the AAP issued a statement saying it had "retired" its statement and saying it opposes FGC and doesn't endorse the "clitoral nick." The group's president, Judith Palfrey, said the policy was retracted "because it is important that the world health community understands the AAP is totally opposed to all forms of female genital cutting, both here in the U.S. and anywhere else in the world."

No Lei No Lei Oh Lei Lei, Djou Wins in Hawaii!

And as the sunset over the western Pacific from Hawaii the sky was just a bit redder today!

The signs were everywhere the last few weeks, that Honolulu City Councilman Charles Djou would win a Democratic-held House seat in Hawaii in the district where President Obama grew up -- the latest triumph for the GOP as it looks to take back control of Congress.

Djou embraced the Tea Party movement and made appearances at Hawaii's tea party protests. His message was clear: Taxes are too high, the federal government has grown too large, and wasteful government spending hinders economic prosperity.

Djou received 67,274 votes, by a nine percent margin, of 39.5 percent. He was trailed by state Senate President Colleen Hanabusa, a Democrat who received 52,445 votes, or 30.8 percent. The other leading Democrat, former U.S. Rep. Ed Case, received 47,012 votes, or 27.6 percent.


Hawaii like the continental states is suffering from a huge $1 billion deficit, and Djou smartly stayed on point and his campaign focused on taxes and government spending. Hawaii's unemployment rate has nearly doubled in the last three years.and the tourism tourism-driven economy is troubled.

Hawaii has not had a Republican Congressman since 1991.

So get your coconut drinks out and roast a pig! The Democrats now have suffered a loss in the bluest state West of Massachusetts. There is no way that the talking heads can spin this into a happy moment.

It will be a challenge in the fall for Djou to hold this seat, but for now, we are all Hawaiians!

Sunday let us all gather around wear red leis and face to the west as we do a little hulu and say Mahalo Nui Hawaii for that sending a message that Obama is not their so favorite son!

And just like the Olympics, and Virginia, and New Jersey, and Massachusetts, Obama failed to deliver the Congressional district where his grand parents lived and he lived while he was their ward.

Mahalo Nui Hawaii!

Senator Bob Bennet Compares Tea Party To Jimmah Carter

Bob Bennet like many others failed to listen to his constituents. And he like many in Washington, even after a defeat that should have sent him to personal reflection, does not understand this movement.

Like many in public office and in both parties, and the main stream media, our elected officials and government servants starting with President Obama and his administration think that they can continue to shove their agenda down out throats.

He seems to think that it was inappropriate for him to have suffered the consequences of his votes.

What a pathetic bitter old man. Maybe he and Arlen Specter can start a support group.

His bitter comments can be found in a Washington Post Editorial piece, dated for release tomorrow, found here,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/21/AR2010052103216.html?hpid=opinionsbox1

The first salvo from the man who fell from grace because like others in the Capitol who are public servants, who also did not listen to his constituents, is this:

..."Unlike Carter, Reagan had more than slogans. He came to Washington with a clear plan to revive the economy and overhaul the tax code, revitalize the military, and, most important, boost the national spirit. He saw the Republican Party as a "big tent," and he successfully did what is considered political suicide today: He worked across party lines and tried to find compromise.

With Carter, Democrats had the White House for one term; with Reagan and the first George Bush, the Republicans held it for three. That has happened only once since World War II.

There's a profound lesson in this for the Tea Party movement
Guess he didn't understand the message. In January he can apply for unemployment, or maybe he will like Specter switch parties to seek re-election.

Unbelievably he goes on in his complete inability to understand this movement and our contempt for what arrogant elected officials who think that they know better that their constituents further states,

..."Their two strongest slogans are "Send a message to Washington" and "Take back America." I know both very well because they were the main tools used to defeat me in Utah's Republican convention two weeks ago. They also worked in Kentucky on Tuesday. They are more powerful than most pundits inside the Beltway realize.

Yet when the new members of Congress whom these slogans elect in November take office, the question becomes: Will they be Carter or Reagan?

Will they stand firmly on partisan sidelines continuing to shout slogans? Or will they reach across the aisle in the interest of the country? Will they offer constructive proposals to help solve our problems?"

And he closes with this,

..."I urge all of the Tea Partyers to follow Reagan, not Carter. If they want their movement to be more than a wave that crashes on the beach and then recedes back into the ocean, leaving nothing behind but empty sand, they should stop the "gloom talk." These are not the worst times we have ever faced, nor is the Constitution under serious threat.

Our economy is still the strongest and most resilient in the world. Our government is still capable of responding to the leadership of men and women who believe our problems can be solved. We must not follow the siren song of those who are in a frenzy of despair.

After all, we survived Jimmy Carter, didn't we?"

And it appears after some reflection to add insult to injury to one of the reddest voting blocks in America he has the unmitigated gall to compare his constituents Jimmah Cartah.

Even more the outrage this old lion refuses to take personal responsibility for the tin ear and affront to those whom he served in Utah.

We will honor Lincoln's statement and insure, "...that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

Senator Bennet you should have listened to you voters. In light of your public editorial fit, I have to say that you have received your just desserts.

Blaming others is a true sign of narcissism.

Apparently the Democrats are not the only ones to suffer from an unguided sense of entitlement.

This outrageous chastisement of voters in your state, shows just how much you deserved this serving of cold voter revenge.

We have a message for you Senator Bennet, and your fiefdom building arrogant buddies, our house cleaning is just beginning.

We are not a crazed bunch of sloganeering spoiled children, we are Americans, and we absolutely are determined to protect this Republic from this 111th Congress and an man who serves as President who finds our Founding Documents fatally flawed.

I say good riddance, and hope the door hits you firmly on your backside.

Just Say NO!

Republicans need to grow some backbone. The habit of aiding and pushing forward bad legislation from the Democratic party needs to stop. Just today Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins broke the filibuster to move the Financial Reform Legislation through, and ugly invasion of personal finances whose ramifications will be disclosed only after it has passed.

There is no guarantee that McConnell can hold his minority to block the nation killing Cap and Trade Legislation.

The Health Care bill would have never made it to the Senate floor without the help of a Single Republican Senator.



Cap and Trade would not have passed the house with out the aid of 8 Republican Congressmen who signed on to that fabricated Nation breaking nonsense.


We can blame the Democratic Congress all that we want, but it is just whistling in the dark as there is always some one from the right side of the aisle who will perform the famous reach across the aisle maneuver, and with a the 'pat on the back good buddy system' of doing business in Washington D.C. reach and pat their pals back and be enablers complicit in these dirty deeds.

Every Republican that voted for not just these bills, but add TARP, the Stimulus, the GM and Chrylser Bailouts and the gangs of 6, 8, 12 and 14, to this list would fall into that category.

Already it is sounding as if Elena Kagan, who by the way helped to bury Obama's scholastic records, will sail through the Senate.

Our elected officials would be wise to pay attention to the growing level of contempt that the average American voter has for them and their job performance, and this is more than evident in this recent poll from Gallup,

http://www.gallup.com/poll/128120/Satisfaction-Historically-Low-Midterm-Year.aspx

Why the Republicans in the 111th Congress and Session of Senate have not barricaded themselves in the House and Senate and voted not just NO, but NO UNTIL HELL FREEZES OVER is beyond me.

Any Congressman/woman that voted yes for the health care bill should have to surrender their special cushy best in the world coverage and likewise receive what they are asking Americans to accept.

It it is my opinion that that the members of the Republican Delegation lack a spine.

All the good the efforts of a few Republicans in the House over the energy bill before the 2008 Elections by barricading themselves in the House and almost (only a few did this I might add) looking like Congress finally after nearly 40 years had a clue about energy, you and your 'Honorable' friends and enablers lost. While the Senate did in the end form a wall of NO they were well too late to effectively stop the Democrats from gobbling up 1/6th of the economy in a 2,000 page bill NO ONE READ.

The Republican Delegation has sure rolled over and played dead since then. Graham even had enough gall to co-sponsor a Cap and Trade bill with John Kerry and Joe Lieberman, despite common knowledge that the science behind this lie was cooked. And the whole idea is the largest fraud and scam in World History.

My advice to our Republican elected officials ...grow a backbone or find yourselves out of a job.

JUST SAY NO
JUST SAY NO TODAY
JUST SAY NO TOMORROW
JUST SAY NO NEXT WEEK
JUST SAY NO NEXT MONTH


JUST SAY NO UNTIL THE FALL ELECTIONS

PROTECT THIS NATION, Even though the Democrats have the votes to get what they want do not compromise.

JUST SAY NO UNTIL November 2, 2010, and keep up the pressure through January.

America will reward those with enough courage to defend this nation and our Constitution if you and the rest of the members of the House who are Republicans JUST SAY NO we will honor you with another term.

JUST SAY NO and we will keep our bargain and we will honor you with another term.

Congressman and Senators, Sirs and Madames, if you and the other Republican Representatives find it necessary to join with Democrats and vote yes on any of their introduced Bills and legislation we the the American public will find it necessary to support and vote for someone who will listen to us and we will remove you and the rest of the enabling Republicans along with the complicit Democrats from office in 2010, if not in 2012.

We the voters will exercise the power vested in us by the Constitution, and we will insure Lincoln's words, "that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." are honored.