The United States isn’t going to the dogs, which would be a good thing. Instead, it’s going to the dolts.

You want proof? Okay, ABC asked a group of typical voters three questions. One: Is ObamaCare a socialistic program? (Yes, they replied.) Two: Is the Affordable Care Act a socialistic program? (No, they said.) Three: Is the Affordable Care Act better than ObamaCare? (Definitely, they decided.)

A few minutes after Danne Desbrow received a 53-year sentence for murder, Judge Patricia Cookson not only married him and his fiancée, Destiny, but Judge Cookson had baked them a cake to celebrate the happy occasion. Is there something about wearing a black robe to work that destroys brain cells? Or do you simply have to flunk an IQ test to get the job in the first place?

Barack Obama was cranky because the government shutdown caused him to cancel his trip to Asia. Inasmuch as it costs the taxpayers a tidy fortune every single time he leaves the White House, why is it he never engages in teleconferencing? If it works for people who actually have important business to conduct, it should certainly work for the campaigner-in-chief.

Any time I hear about some tyke being suspended from kindergarten for pointing a stick and going “Bang!” I recall that I and every single kid I grew up with played with guns – water and cap – and not one of us wound up killing anyone or having a rap sheet. So maybe, just maybe, it’s time for all you teachers and school principals to grow up and acknowledge gun violence has far more to do with values and parenting than it does with inanimate objects.

I find it odd that there wasn’t a single Democrat in the Senate who was willing to stand up and announce that Harry Reid doesn’t speak for him, and that if the Republicans were willing to vote for a spending bill if all that was required was the elimination of the tax on medical devices, he was all for it. After all, even the Democrats knew that particular tax was not only a sure way to kill thousands of jobs, but to discourage medical research. Can you even begin to imagine how wonderful the perks must be for a U.S. senator that 54 of them would rather be viewed as eunuchs than risk the ire of Obama, Reid and the DNC!

In spite of all the recent news about black-on-white crime; in spite of Eric Holder’s refusal to even indict blacks who intimidate white voters; in spite of all the demonstrations on behalf of black thugs staged by Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton; and in spite of Obama exhibiting far more regard for Muslims than for America’s Christians and Jews; a recent poll indicated that only 37% of white Americans regard black Americans as racists. It makes me wonder if the other 63% also lie to themselves or only to pollsters.

When the majority of House Republicans voted to conduct additional hearings regarding the IRS and Benghazi, the Democrats, taking their lead from their supreme leader, insisted the Republicans were playing politics over phony scandals. But when the Democrats passed ObamaCare without a single Republican vote, we were supposed to believe they were divinely inspired, and ignore the bribes and threats that emanated from Obama’s enforcers, Pelosi and Reid. It’s reminiscent of the Wizard of Oz insisting that Dorothy and her traveling companions pay no attention to the fellow behind the curtain.

In closing, I’ll leave you with three quotes. Henry David Thoreau said, “Beware of enterprises that require new clothes.” Ben Jonson said, “Being on a ship is like being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.”

I say: “Liberal politicians remind me of those testosterone-deprived willowy lads one used to see, and perhaps still sees, holding lighted candles and swaying at Bono concerts. Unfortunately, too many Republican politicians seek to emulate those twerps, hoping to woo female voters.

"My advice to them is to forget about it. They merely make a hash of it and wind up embarrassing themselves. If a woman happens to go for that type – as with shoes and handbags – she wants the genuine article, and not the cheap knock-off.”

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