No excess commentary, just four stories for your consideration:

1. The Obama administration through a ObamaCare provision starting in 2011 puts the screws to special-needs families.

2. Mass. senator John Kerry, who has been pushing climate change “cap and trade” legislation that would destroy the livelihoods of thousands of coal miners throughout West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana, thought he would dodge paying $500,000 in state taxes by lodging his posh yacht in nearby (and oh-so-convenient) Newport, RI. Until he got “yachted”, of course…

3. Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank, who has no problem forcing private banks and lending institutions to pony up their own money to underwrite loans to high-risk home buyers, raises a stink about not receiving his $1 senior discount on a ferry to a trendy Fire Island gay haunt.

4. The Democrat-controlled Senate pushing a so-called “DISCLOSE Act” that would allow greater union spending while suppressing the ability of grassroots organizations to contribute to election campaigns. The latest vote failed today, but with the unions (especially the purple people-eaters of the SEIU) so deep in the Dems pockets don’t expect this to die easily.

Such is the true face of modern-day liberalism. Anyone who thinks today’s Democratic Party still stands for the have-nots in this society and are rightful heirs of the honorable tradition of the likes of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, and JFK and RFK better set their internal clocks for a political wake-up call come this November. Because it’s coming, and it can’t come too soon.

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