AMERICA

We intend to close the pattern ahead of most other observers. We first highlighted health care in a mid-July sketch. Some comments reside under "US Economy" as the debate has taken us there and back. We have isolated major points of weakness in the administration's bill and instances of less-than-truthful behavior by its proponents. Now these key flaws to BO’s plan are front and center.

We have often considered it a miracle that we have retained a republic, that founder James Wilson’s sense of natural law is still sacrosanct, because fully one third of Americans don’t give a damn, a third are pre-programmed to knock their country, and a third are real patriots - a mirror image of Revolutionary times. How in the world have we survived as a star for others to emulate? We feared we would not, or could not any longer, until that is - THE TOWN HALL MEETINGS! America, when pushed too far, will accept no more. Out of the closet they come. The Germans and Japanese found out the hard way. So will Obama. Americans have smelled the acrid scent of a social state, more, of a fascist state. They have demonstrated they are not stupid. They may not own a Webster’s but they have enough common sense to recognize that when the state attempts to direct their lives they’ve seen that before, and it won’t happen here.

Robert Craven