It looks like the Democrat Party's hope for an anti-incumbent revolt that would return them to power might  come true. Rassmussan Reports is indicating a big Congressional victory for Democrats in 2006!

This observer is inclined to agree. Even if Jerry Seper, the crack investigative reporter for the Washington Times, is correct, and only 5 members of Congress that are the focus of any serious investigations in connection with Jack Abramhoff---and one of them is Democrat House minority leader, Harry Reid--it is only natural for the public to blame the party in power.

According to an online summary of recent polls by All Poll.com, the Republicans are taking the brunt of the blame for the atmosphere of cronyism and corruption in Congress.

But corruption and cronyism in Congress aren't the Republicans' only problems......

We need a viable opposition party in the United States to Republican Party, which is the party of the Country Club elite, and Wall Street. Right now the Democrats are the party of the cosmopolitan urban elite, and Wall Street.  Not much of a choice for the 60% of the population who work for a living.

Paul M. Weyrich, of the Free Congress Foundation offers a way for the Democrats to win, and I'm inclined to agree with him.

On day of national rememberance for Martin Luther King, Jr, it's important to remember that his inspiration for equality of the races was inspired by his belief in God, and the American Tradition of the dignity of the common folk.

The...uh..."diversity" of the center-to-left political spectrum is sometimes baffling to folks like me, who work for a living, and are trying to do raise families in an increasing hostile 2-pronged economic and moral war on them by the cosmopolitian elite.

I thought this was an interesting observation on the defining the difference between a Hillary Clinton and a Ward Churchhill. It sure clears things up in defining who is leftist and who is a mere liberal.

EXCERPT FROM: Why the Left Hates Israel http://www.americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=5106

The left in this country includes large numbers of academics, journalists, human rights activists, environmental and animal rights activists, entertainers, and some church groups, women's groups, racial advocacy groups and unions. There are also liberals who are members of these same groups. I distinguish between leftists and liberals by one key test: how they feel about the country in which they live. If you tend to regard America as a primarily flawed, evil, unjust, racist country (or at least when Republicans are running it), and most importantly, believe that the US is the primary threat to world peace internationally, then you are a leftist, and not a liberal. Of course, many leftists are perfectly happy to be living here, amidst all their complaints about the country, and regrettably all too few Hollywood artists carried through with their threat to leave the country after the 2000 election.

Mr. Everyman has always thought that Pat Robertson is a media "celebrity", and is not representative of the views of Christians and traditionalists in the United States.

More proof of this came down recently when Richard Land of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission blasted Robertson for saying that God struck down Sharon for his policies of withdrawing from indefensible settlements on the West Bank.

Richard Land stunned and appalled at Robertson's Comments
http://www.faithandfamily.com/partner/Article_Display_Page/0,,PTID313086|CHID590694|CIID2153114,00.html

Traditionally, it's been the leftwing that hurtles the anti-semitism and racist charges. But more and more, the charge seems to have a distinct right-wing flavor.

A pillar of the culture war between the cosmopolitan elite and those of us who actually do most of the fighting, tax paying and work in this country, has been the attack on anything that smacks of "religion" in the classroom.

What's such a farce about the whole debate is the obnoxious pretention that the whole argument is based on "science"! We know that Liberals are just as inclined to demonize science as "politically incorrect", whenever "science" gets in the way of their own ideological zealotry.

Nothing illustrates the hypocrisy of liberalism better then it's demand that Darwin's theory of evolution be taught in the classroom as "science".

"Based on a review of the first three episodes and the clearly voiced concerns from our viewers, we have determined that the program "The Book of Daniel’ is not appropriate for broadcast television in this community."  Elden Hale, Jr. Senior Vice President Meredith Broadcasting and General Manager of WSMV-TV. 

Traditionalists and Christian conservatives are angry over the new NBC series, Book of Daniel. And local NBC affiliates in Red State America are responding to the pressure by cancelling the series.

But traditionalists and conservatives might want to consider that TV shows like Book of Daniel might be more persuasive arguments on behalf of traditional family values then they might think.

China Set To Reduce Exposure To Dollar/ Move Would Probably Push Currency Down By Peter S. Goodman Washington Post Foreign Service Tuesday, January 10, 2006; Page D01
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/09/AR2006010901042.html

The US Economy has become an insane Keynesian perpetual motion machine, fueled by low interest rates made possible by massive deficits sold to a Communist Government which is ideologically and culturally our enemy.

Speculation has been that China would stop buying US dollars is now officially confirmed. This has major implications for the US economic recovery, which is riding on low interest rates and rising real estate prices. In a recovery without jobs and with wages declining, the real estate bubble has been a boom for homeowners, who can dip into their home equity to make ends meet.

If China reduces it's investments in US debt, that means interest rates will rise, and home purchases will slow down. Since so many real estate purchases have been made in the expectation of prices continuing to rise at a certain rate, even a slow down has the risk of accelerating the real estate bubble into a meltdown.

A major disappointment in this recovery has been wages, which are not rising. If the dollar falls, the wages are going to buy less at Ikea, Walmart, and Rite Aid. Bad news for middle class families with a couple of kids trying to keep a house over their head without falling into debt.

Wall Street is singing the same old song, that the US has trapped the Chinese in our perpetual motion machine, and that they must continue to subsidize US consumer demand in order to keep their factories busy. But Wall Street has it's own agenda, and that's the profits it makes dismantling US companies and financing their rebuilding in China.

This announcement yields little hope that the Chinese will cease it's relentless pressure on domestic employers by artifically pegging it's yuan lower then the US dollar. If the Chinese need to diversify their debt holdings, and it matters little to them if the dollar falls, because the advantageous relationship the Chinese have enjoyed between the dollar and the yuan will remain the same.

If there is an intellectual movement in America to whose invention Jews can lay sole claim, neoconservatism is it. It's a thought one imagines most American Jews, overwhelmingly liberal, will find horrifying. And yet it is a fact that as a political philosophy, neoconservatism was born among the children of Jewish immigrants and is now largely the intellectual domain of those immigrants' grandchildren. Understanding what might be Jewish about this movement (or "persuasion" as its godfather, Irving Kristol, prefers it be called) should be possible without being accused of conspiracy theorizing about secret cabals pulling strings for Israel.