Now that Pelosi and Hoyer have shown their power from spite and personal venom in not passing the FISA Bill as the Senate has, makes me wonder greatly as to where their patriotism is placed. I can only think, it must be for al-Qaeda. How they can take even one tiny bit of protection away from the American people to go on vacation is beyond me. I hope they can sleep well. I know I am sure glad they investigated Roger Clemens before they left. After all, this was more important than FISA. Then, of course, they, trying to bypass executive privilege, put out a hit-list on Josh Bolton and Harriet Meyers - much ado about nothing. Reminded me of chickens in a pen, scratching around, making noise and accomplishing nothing.

I also am a maverick. I don’t use this to make the Democrats like me. McCain couldn’t contain himself as he was consorting with the Democratic party to undermine the Republicans. I can hear him now saying to himself “They like me, they LIKE me!” Is it any wonder they did as they did, all in their power to add to his skulduggery by use of the media under their control? I hear the scorn in the voice of Jack Kemp and Phil Gramm. Where was their scorn directed when McCain was working with the Democrats to undermine the Republican party? Now they say that the real Conservatives out in the country should shut up and abandon their principals for party unity. I know they are seeing themselves as power brokers in the McCain administration. I see them as court jesters. To them, I guess, they think he has a right to his maverick status and keep his principals, but ours doesn’t matter. That doesn’t set well with me.

Did these sages of the party have any objections to McCain helping to stop drilling in ANWR, take away free speech with McCain/Feingold, and try to increase the Democratic base with McCain/Kennedy? McCain voted with the Democrats on tax cuts in 01 and 03. He wants to put massive amounts of money into global climate warming when it doesn’t even exist, but is part of the Democrats program. It’s time for him to compromise with the Republican base as he was wont to do with the Democrats.

Back on a subject I have covered before - the Deputy Defense Secretary having as his number two a Muslim named Mr. Islam, who had an analyst of Islamic affairs let go because Mr. Islam said he was a Christian Zealot with a pen. When will we find out that he isn’t a real American, as the Chinese aeronautical engineer who gave information to China after years with Rockwell, and after that with Boeing? This, after an Islamic woman worked in the FBI and CIA until caught.

Now as Congress adjourns, they stiff a vote on the FISA Bill to go on vacation and do a little politicking, but fortunately they were able to get in the hearing on steroids and try to bypass executive privilege to get Josh Bolton and Harriet Meyers for some more investigations. They have found they can do more preening and posturing for cameras in investigations than in legislations. I don’t know if Henry Waxman knows this or not, but he isn’t pretty and comes across as a ferret-face with a mustache. Then Arlen Specter looks like a pit bull slobbering. You probably think I am not a nice person - perhaps not, but I am someone who is for legislation and not investigations. I believe that is what we sent them there for.

I am fascinated by the Democratic party’s implosion and their in-fighting. Hillary, being behind, is calling for more debates, and Obama, being ahead, would rather not, but will debate in the two already set. DNC rules about Michigan and Florida are now being argued about by not only the Clintons, but a member of Hillary’s campaign, who was on the DNC when these rules were set. But as it would help Hillary now, he has changed his mind - poor guy.

Our freedoms are being taken away daily. The UK is talking of licensing people who smoke. People in this country are suing their next door neighbor for their second hand smoke. I can wager that Martinis and Manhattan, etc., will not have to be licensed because our elites would have nowhere to go to meet their other elites and also deprive singles from having a place to go to score. Can you imagine the outcry if all cocktail lounges and fancy bars were to be shut down? What an outcry there would be - more from the fancy elites than from the rednecks. The elites wouldn’t have anywhere to go to make connections. What a sad world it would be if not only smoking was denied, but so was liquor, beer, and wine. If you research a little bit, you can see what happens as it did in prohibition. Joseph Kennedy, the father of the Kennedy clan, would not have been able to make all that money with his bootlegging, and FDR wouldn’t have had him head the SEC and rob other people as well. It was like having a fox guarding the hen house, and that’s exactly what happened… the chickens got killed.

After prohibition, because of his bootlegging connections, Father Joseph got the concession for importing scotch whiskey for quite a few years and made some more money. Now, RFK Jr. and Joe, sons of Robert Kennedy, are preaching morality while using that same money - and the beat goes on.

May God continue to bless the USA!