Legislative leaders in Massachusetts believe they have enough votes to give Governor Deval Patrick (D) the power to appoint an interim US senator to Ted Kennedy's vacant seat. Such an appointment would allow Democrats to regain the supermajority of 60 in the Senate allowing the Obama administration to ram through controversial legislation such as health care reform and cap & trade without Republican interference.

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Candidates are starting to step forward to run for the late Senator Edward Kennedy's seat in the January special election and a couple of names being mentioned as possible contenders are decidedly not Democrats. While neither of these men has officially announced their candidacy, they haven't ruled it out either and have been getting some serious buzz in the Bay State and beyond.

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Two things have happened recently that may signify the last gasp of 1960's liberalism. The last Kennedy brother has died and Obamacare has all but died on the operating table. Could these two events signal that we are finally free from the ridiculous influence of the 1960's hippy movement? Have we finally rid ourselves of the illusion that a radical utopia can exist where flower power and socialist ideals can defeat terrorism and create prosperity?

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As President Obama enjoys golfing, tennis and his $35,000 per week vacation rental the media provides wall-to-wall coverage of the travels of the dead body of a US Senator. Meanwhile real Americans are suffering. According to Atlanta Fed chief Dennis Lockhart, "If one considers the people who would like a job but have stopped looking - so-called discouraged workers - and those who are working fewer hours than they want, the unemployment rate would move from the official 9.4 percent to 16 percent." (source)

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Equality under the law won over judicial empathy today. The Supreme Court ruled in favor of a group of men in New Haven Connecticut who worked hard to earn promotions according to the rules set forth by their employer and were then denied said promotions because of race. Not much of a news making story except for the fact that the men discriminated against are white. And the decision the high court overturned in their ruling was made, in part, by current Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor. And the decision was based on the rule of law not President Obama's preferred criteria of empathy for the litigants.

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