What will Claire do?

Will she join her fellow Dems in shoving through a healthcare bill America has overwhelmingly rejected? Will she make a mockery of bipartisanship before the supposed bipartisan summit next week? Prime Buzz:

As Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill wings her way back to the U.S. today after a week in southwest Asia, a letter sits on her desk, awaiting her signature.

The letter, to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, calls on him to bring the public health insurance option back up for a vote.

This time, through, the Senate Democrats who signed the letter want a vote on the measure through reconciliation, a process by which it could pass with limited debate and require only a simple majority – 51 votes.

If the Senate flouts democracy this way by using a measure meant for budgets, not a takeover of 20% of the U.S. economy, Democrats will reap hell once again at the polls, this time in the fall. No excuses any more. It's a failure of leadership. What will you do, Claire? Will you be a leader?

About Those Billboards

Bumper stickers aren't enough any more. Americans are so outraged by what's going on in Washington they're resorting to billboards to get their message out. A miss me yet Bush billboard sprouted up north of the Twin Cities. True North reports two small businessman have owned up to the deed.

Over in Iowa the theme is NObama.

And in Illinois, who can forget the excessive over the highway signs of our recently impeached governor Blago. Folks shudder at sightings of the supposed recovery.gov project signs, a reminder of the waste and corruption the state is noted for, gone to Washington. As my friend Marathon Pundit notes, Illinois unemployment is in double digits.

Still, I can find something to be cheerful about, recalling an old song sung by my dad who lived through the Depression, though he was a kid then.

I love a billboard, I always will, because a billboard gives me such a thrill.
When I was a little child, a circus billboard drove me wiiiiiiild.

Americans are still expressing themselves through billboards. They're not all government ones yet.

Call Earl Pomeroy, North Dakota!

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Kristi for Congress

The South Dakota Assistant Majority Leader and a family farmer-rancher, Republican Kristi Moen challenging Dem Stephanie Herseth-Sandlin, running on the fundamental issue this year--not spending more than we earn. And she's heading out around the state in a winning vehicle:

If I am elected to serve as South Dakota’s Congresswoman, I promise that I’ll make our voice heard. Over the next nine months, I am going to get in my truck and hit the roads of South Dakota. I will make my case directly to the citizens of this great state.

Another quality candidate rising up to represent the people.

HT South Dakota War College. Could Kristi's decision have anything to do with this?

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Something Lacy

Happy Valentine's Day.

P.S. Something else to celebrate--Lincoln's birthday. And Kansas proclaims its sovereignty.

...North Dakota welfare queens? Questioning The Economist. NRO.

Perhaps we should allow nude scenes in school plays

Caffeinated Thoughts on an Iowa court ruling.

Frozen Wasteland

(Video)‘Minnesotans For Global Warming’ Call Out Gore Over Harsh Winter in ‘Frozen Wasteland’