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I've been hearing a good deal of input on the matter of social issues.  Some moderates or independents, are claiming that this is not the election to waste time on social issues.  Fiscal issues are the way to go.  And they may be right superficially.  But I feel compelled to make a point here that might throw a monkey wrench in that recommendation.

Maggie Hassan’s (Hate) Free Speech amendment may be dead but it’s inspiration, the DISCLOSE act lives on.  Big brother is no less wicked nor is it any less partisan.  According to the Center for Competitive Politics (CCP), the DISCLOSE Act would…

In an effort to stop age discrimination bars, restaurants, and retailers will no longer be able to ask people to show proof of age when buying alcohol, and signs saying we proof up to age 40 will have to be removed.  This stems from repeated complaints that people who appear to be old enough are being harassed by merchants to prove they have a right to be there, and a legitimate cause for utilizing their services.  Profiling, they claim, is causing them inconvenience and embarrassment, and that their personal privacy and civil rights are being violated because of their appearance. 

Some liberal talking heads are already toeing the narrative that Elena Kagan is a little bit conservative.  That she could (possibly) shift the court to the right.  Really?  Hardly.

This narrative is deployed to impress upon the disinterested, distracted, or dumbfounded that any opposition by the right to her nomination is evidence of just how right wing they must be to object to the "more moderate/conservative" nominee they paint in the picture of Kagan. 

“Let me be clear” may be giving way to “From Day one.”  “From Day One” is the new backstop in the absence of physical evidence.  "From day one," the Obama administration was working behind the scenes on a response to the BP oil rig explosion.  You're damn right they were.

Carol must be pleased.  She used parliamentary magic to help pass (ram) her leaderships notion of insurance reform (That's Health Care to Obamacrats) on a raft of promises she was told to read off dog-eared 3 x 5 index cards.  But since passage of the trillion dollar take over, little if anything has turned out to be as she was instructed it would be.

Carol is as unpopular or more so after passage.  The only 'Bump' was the one Pelosi gave her when she brained her with a sap.