Have you voted yet?
It might not matter if you're in the military. It never seems to matter if you're in the military because people in the military tend to vote for a certain party. The party our servicemen and women don't tend to vote for has a sorry history of not seeing to it that those votes are counted. What party am I talking about? Well, I won't mention it by name, but Harry Reid, Barbara Boxer, Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank are members.

I'll say one positive thing for the Democrats, they sure can get out the vote, even the vote of the dead. Republicans don't know that it's not how you play the game, it's whether you win or not. They actually think that the rules count and can't understand when things like hanging chads (you remember them) happen. As one pundit says, if it's not close, they can't cheat).

Tomorrow's 2010 midterm election is supposed to be:
a) a referndum on Obama's presidency and policies
b) a counter-balance to make sure the Democrats don't have too much power
c) proof of the strength of the Tea Party
d) something else for fans of glee to do on Tuesday

That Obama and the Tea Party are the stars of the 2010 midterms, famously or infamously, there can be no doubt. In my many decades on this planet, I've never seen a presidency like Obama's and I've never seen a movement like the Tea Party.

Obama is not the first president to push a left-wing agenda. You can actually trace this trend back to Teddy Roosevelt's two terms as Republican president (1901-1909), though Roosevelt has little in common with the modern progessive as he actually enjoyed and practiced the manly purusits of soldiering, hunting, and boxing. Still, Obama is arguably the most left-wing president in history, and that's including Lyndon Johnson, Jimmy Carter, and yes, Richard Nixon. It's certainly the most socialist presidency since Franklin Denalo Roosevelt's reign.

Bernarr MacFadden (1868 - 1955) was a physical fitness enterpreneur and publisher who initially supported the presidency of Franklin Denalo Roosevelt (fifth cousin of Teddy) but soon saw that he'd made a mistake and had the paper and ink to say something about it. And he did just that in the 7 November 1936 issue of Liberty.

1. Adding more than ten billion dollars to the public debt.
2. Failing to balance the budget, a definite pre-election promise.
3. Repudiating definite governmental contracts.
4. Aggravating class prejudice, a criminal use of official power.
5. Abusing the dictatorial powers given to the President.
6. Increasing the cost of living, lessening the buying power of the wage earner, and reducing the standard of living.
7. Spending two dollars for everyone it has collected during its tenure of office.
8. Increasing taxes far beyond any previous administration.
9. Diverting relief measures to serve political purposes.
10. Replacing the merit system with favoritism far more than any previous administration.
11. Using Congress as a rubber stamp for passing so- called "must" laws.
12. Passing laws which have infringed the guaranty in the Bill of Rights.
13. Encouraging the passing of legislation known to be unconstitutional.
14. Contemptuous references to the United States Supreme Court" horse-and-buggy days," etc.
15. Taxing one group of our citizens to favor other groups.
16. Concealing extraordinary increases in governmental expenses by maintaining they were for relief.
17. Making every possible effort to centralize government in Washington, thus robbing the states of their legal rights of self-government.
18. Building up what the President refers to as new instruments of power which would be opposed to the liberties of the people if placed in other hands than his own.
19. Destroying millions of dollars' worth of food while millions of our citizens.. are subsisting on charity.
20. Using boondoggling to make it easier for politicians to increase expenses.
21. Adding nearly a quarter of a million employees to the federal pay roll.
22. Vastly increasing bureaus and commissions, notwithstanding the pre-election promises to eliminate or "cut to the bone" these governmental departments.
23. Creating a silver-buying policy, spending hundreds of millions trying to raise the price of silver, trading away good American currency.
24. Making trade agreements with favored nations at the expense of American labor, farmer, and consumer.
25. Opening the floodgates of Communism by recognition of Soviet Russia, and allowing that country to float bonds here in violation of the Johnson.-act, and the employment of Socialists and Communists) and refusing to deport aliensJiving here illegally.
26. Menacing the safety of every savings account and insurance policy by forcing the banks to buy government securities in dangerously high quantities.
27. Undermining business and industry by threats and the imposition of unjust taxation upon reserves.
28. Establishing the government in countless ways in competition with private business, using taxpayers' money for this purpose.
29. Conducting a ruthless campaign against all critics, even to violating the Bill of Rights.
30. Leaving available for government investment the proposed huge fund designed for the social security of employees and aged.
31. Taking the lives of twelve young army pilots in an effort to turn the air-mail service into a bureaucracy.