The Democrats seem to have a new strategy when it comes to their precious government option (they call it a "public option," but it's government through and through). The new tactic? Just don't talk about it. I'm sure if you got your copy of the Democrat talking points for the Sunday talk shows, you would see "downplay the government plan" as the headliner. I guess they figure that the less they themselves talk about it, the less you are to protest it. Maybe they think you will even forget?

Make no mistake .. the government option is absolutely crucial to the Democrats. Here's why. This IS NOT about making sure the American people get healthcare. This is ALL about making sure the government controls the process. The very purpose of the government option is to present the private insurance companies with an opponent in the marketplace which they cannot compete against. The very purpose of the government option is to run the private insurance companies out of business. How, after all, do you compete with a company that doesn't have to make a profit and that will always ultimately be backed up by the taxpayers? When that happens Obama proudly announces that the dishonest, greedy insurance companies couldn't stand up to the honesty and integrity of the government operation, and clearly the only just result would be for the government to run everything.

Well ... you really showed up over the weekend. Those of you who participated in the Tea Party protest in Washington sure did make a splash. You are to be congratulated. You did it! You showed up in numbers that not only surprised the DC police, but that I suspect shocked the political class. I was at an event last evening where I had a chance to shoot the breeze with both of Georgia's U.S. Senators. Let me tell you, my friends ... you've made an impact. There will be a lot of Senators and Representatives heading back to their Capitol Hill offices today trying to figure out just what this tremendous showing means.

The White House seems to already have it figured out. Presidential dog-washer David Axelrod said yesterday that the people who showed up in Washington yesterday "don't represent mainstream American views." So ... there you have it.

I'll tell you who else is surprised. That would be the New York and Washington press corps. As my father would have said, "They didn't know whether to s___ or go blind." (Where did these Marines get all of these colorful sayings?) The media, you see, has an ideological platform to support; and trying to give the appearance of presenting an objective picture of what happened media in Washington over the weekend, while protecting their ideological platform, turned out to be almost impossible.

The first issue to come up was the parsing down of the crowd size. Many lamestream media outlets described the protest as "thousands." Then it grew to "tens of thousands." But in fact, the number could have been as high as 1.5 million protestors. Sadly, it took a British newspaper to report the higher figure. To visually see how many people showed up in Washington, take a look at this time lapse video. Pretty neat, huh?

Also take a look at two instances that occurred on CNN, while trying to cover the Tea Party protests over the weekend. The first is CNN trying to do a story on Rep. Joe Wilson:

Toward the end of the live broadcast, the anchor just turns around to address the crowd because she is being drowned out by the protestors. The next is CNN interviewing a Tea Party protestor. You can tell exactly what this anchor is thinking, but this protestor handled himself with civility and eloquence.

If you ask Obama or his advisors like David Axelrod ... they will tell you that this DC protest does not represent the mainstream view in America. That's also what they said over the month of August for people who voiced their opinions at the healthcare town halls. This is the strategy of the left: marginalize the outcry. Make them feel isolated. It's harder to fight something if you feel that you are alone.

If you really want some change in Washington, you can't let Washington and the mainstream media marginalize you in this manner. You have to continue this sentiment through next year's election and beyond.

My question: Was this a moment or a movement. If this is truly a movement, you have to keep the momentum going through election time because that is when you can really make a change.

We can hope, can't we?

Oh how I would like to see a march on Washington of that magnitude promoting the FairTax. Now with the looters in charge in Washington right now that could well be an exercise in futility. But if the Republicans get on the ball and make the FairTax a part of their 2010 platform (another Contract with America?), do you folks think we could gin up a crowd like this?

That's our president speaking. He's referring to the Republican opponents of his healthcare takeover plan. Obama says "What are you going to do? What's your answer? What's your solution?" He then goes on to say that the Republicans have no plan; they've presented no alternatives; all they want to do is make sure there's no reform.

This, of course, is a lie .. and Obama knows it. He also knows that the neither the Washington Post nor the New York Times will challenge the president by presenting the GOP options that are already on the table.

Just a few examples?

• Expand health savings accounts.
• Allow individual consumers to deduct the cost of their health insurance from their taxable income, just as their employers do.
• Controls on medical malpractice suits.
• Allow individuals to buy insurance across state lines.
• Allow like groups to combine their numbers to buy large group health insurance policies.
• Expand the treatment authority of nurse practitioners
• End absurd state imposed insurance mandates that drive insurance costs up.

Just to expand on one idea the Republicans have put forth ....

Do you know that in some states it is actually illegal for an employer to pay for a health insurance policy that will actually be owned by the employee? In other words, the employer cannot buy an insurance policy for an employee that the employee would be able to take with him when he leaves or changes jobs. You have to ask yourself why this particular law would have been passed. Easy: because if you actually own the policy it increases your independence. These politicians simply are not going to take any actions that will increase individual independence. The motive force behind governance at the federal level is to create and expand dependency. So ... to respond to Obama's "What's your answer?" rant .. let's talk about changing this particular law.

Try to remember some of these ideas put forth by the ObamaCare opponents the next time our president gets up in front of the cameras and says "What's your plan?"

If Obama is so focused on health care reform, could someone please tell me why there are so many parts of the ObamaCare plan that benefit labor unions and promote unionization? Just another indication that this is not about health care, it's about control --- and paying off your friends.

By now you know that some thug shot and killed an anti-abortion protestor outside of a school in Michigan last week. James Pouillon was standing across the street from a school holding aloft pictures that were purported to represent aborted fetuses when he was gunned down. A man has been arrested and charged with Pouillon's murder.

Now .. .make no mistake. I believe that the man who gunned down Pouillon should be convicted and then executed. In keeping with my oft-stated position, I think that he should die the same way his victim did. He should stand before a firing squad.

So .. why this column? Well, two reasons, actually, First ... I want to address the way the media defined the players in this sad story. Secondly; I just feel like really stirring up the pudding here with the anti-abortion crowd. Since most of these anti-abortion activists are men and will never really come face-to-face with the issue, I just enjoy getting under their skin.

You will notice that I've been using the sobriquet "anti-abortion" thus far in this piece. For the most part the media has been defining him as "pro-life." Well, I have a problem with that ... so let's proceed with making a huge number of people mad as a hornet's next. Just send your "I'm never going to listen to you again" emails to getoveritfool@hotmail.com.

Simply put, the "pro-life" label is bogus. It doesn't work. These labels have to define both sides of this issue on comparative terms. "Pro-life" fails the test. If one side is "pro-life," than the other side must be "anti-life." You simply cannot take people who support the idea of a woman's right to chose as "anti-life." Being "anti-life" would mean that in virtually all cases where a decision had to be made between life and death, that person would chose death. I would hate to be a bicyclist on a narrow road in front of such a person.

OK .. let's move on to "anti-abortion" and "pro-abortion." Again, it doesn't work. I'll use me as the example here. I am most definitely anti-abortion with exceptions, of course, to protect the health and life of the mother. Having said that; I do not want our government to have the power to use a gun to force a woman to have a child that she does not want to have. Now don't give me a hard time with this "use a gun" thing. Government is force. Government is the only entity in our society that can use deadly force to accomplish its goals. That's what the so-called "pro-life" activists are after ... giving the government the authority to use force in this manner. Anyway; to use the "pro-abortion" label to describe me would be factually wrong.

So, where does this leave us? Well, just what are we discussing here? That would be whether or not a woman should be able to make the choice between terminating a pregnancy or going full term. And there is our solution. There we have the proper way to describe the combatants in this seemingly endless argument. If you believe the ultimate choice should rest with the woman, then you would be pro-choice. If you believe that instead of choice there should be compulsion, then you're anti-choice.

If the media in this country actually gave a rip about accurate and objective journalism these are the phrases that would be used in reporting on the controversy.

But in case you haven't heard ..... you Tea Partiers have brought back the issue of race. This is the other way the MSM chooses to handle these protests. The liberal media can't, for the life of them, understand that there could be this many people who are not in love with massive and overbearing government. So they are trying to come up with other reasons why so many people would gather in protest, and the one reason they keep returning to is race. They continue to believe that this outcry has nothing to do with our imperial federal government but has everything to do with the color of the president's skin.

Take a look at this screen shot, for example, from CNN. Along with its coverage of the Tea Party in Washington over the weekend, CNN questioned whether or not this had anything to do with race.

In another example of race-baiting, Maureen Dowd of the New York Times wrote a column accusing Rep. Joe Wilson of racism. She says, "Surrounded by middle-aged white guys -- a sepia snapshot of the days when such pols ran Washington like their own men's club -- Joe Wilson yelled "You lie!" at a president who didn't. But, fair or not, what I heard was an unspoken word in the air: You lie, boy!"

Oh .. .and while we're at it, everyone knows that the Asian woman who called a foot-fault on Serena Williams over the weekend is a die-hard racist and probably has a white sheet and hood in the back of her car.

Even ACORN has jumped back into the race issue ......

It was the MTV Video Music Awards last night in New York. Taylor Swift won the award for the best female video. She's 19-years-old and she sings country music. That's not exactly the target demo for the MTV Video Music Awards.

Sooooooo .... Swift is on stage accepting her award when Kanye West runs up and grabs the microphone away from her and said "Yo Taylor. I'm really happy for you I'm let you finish, bit Beyonce had one of the best videos of all time ...." West then left the stage to boos .. and Swift didn't get the chance to finish her acceptance remarks.

Later when Beyonce was accepting her award for the best music video of the year (that would be male and female) she invited Taylor out on stage to finish her remarks. That showed real class.

Now .. since we're so busy slinging charges of racism around (see previous and next items) let's acknowledge that if it had been a black female on the stage and the microphone had been grabbed from her by a white male, all racial hell would have broken loose. Do you remember that presidential debate some years back when a Republican male candidate walked up to Hillary Clinton while she was answering a question? The media was quick to condemn the move as sexist. Let's see where those same people are today.

Kanye West once again shows that he is a classless pig.

The mainstream media also had a hard time covering the ACORN scandal that hit last week. To my knowledge, FOX was the only channel carrying the story that went a little something like this: James O'Keefe video tapped his counseling session with an ACORN employee. He posed as a pimp and brought along a "prostitute" and was advised by an ACORN employee how they could get loans for their prostitution business, etc.

Somehow, the revelation of this video turned into an issue of race.

Here's a statement released by Margaret Williams, a board member of Maryland's ACORN office: It is clear and not coincidence that FOX continues to attack and divide our nation along racial lines. We believe our country is beyond this type of attack and call on all Americans to demand that FOX stop its racist coverage.

Here's another statement from ACORN's chief organizer Bertha Lewis. She says that conservative forces were conspiring to make ACORN the "Willie Horton for 2009." She also says, "We are the boogeyman for the right wing and its echo chambers."

The latest? Now ACORN is claiming that the video was altered and in no way represents what went on in that office in Baltimore.

Meanwhile, the fallout from this ACORN expose is not looking good for James O'Keefe. He is now facing the prospect of being prosecuted by Baltimore City's State Attorney. His crime? Violating a Maryland law that makes it illegal to tape someone without prior permission. If he is convicted, he could go to state prison for five years.

Isn't this just rich? O'Keefe vividly illustrates for the American people the essential corrupt nature of the ACORN organization .. and now he's facing the possibility of criminal prosecution. The ACORN workers who aided and abetted the illegal prostitution business? They can't be prosecuted because the only evidence against them was illegally obtained .... In Maryland you can't videotape someone without their permission.

Something good has come from this whole episode. The Census bureau has informed ACORN that they will have no role assisting the federal government in the 2010 Census. I say watch this one closely. The Obama Administration is going to do all it can go inflate the census numbers in minority areas, especially Hispanic areas, so we'll see if this ban of ACORN actually holds. My guess? ACORN will be up to its usual corrupt tricks during the Census. We'll see if I get a big "I told you so" on this one.

If it is back, it won't be for long. Today Obama is going to give a speech on Wall Street. Literally. Obama on Wall Street. Wonderful. That's like sending a child molester to a day care center. Obama will be speaking just steps from the New York Stock Exchange, "[stressing] that regulators and legislators not only in the US, but around the world, need to take the next steps to tighten financial regulation."

Ten days from now, the G20 summit will work on their plans to curtain banking bonuses, as well as other means to regulate the global financial system.

Looks like it. I heard McCaskill yesterday speaking out about these advertisements on cable television for scooters. She says many of these scooters are for people who don't need them. She's right. They're just fatasses who don't want to walk. You folks would be shocked to know how much our government spends on these things. Hint ... look way past hundreds of millions.

Besides .. they really can clog up a walking path.

Take a look at this picture from Obama's healthcare rally over the weekend. Got the message? Stability and security.

You have to read this one. Why? Because we're going to be hearing this more and more. Maureen Dowd says that "Some people just can't believe a black man is president and will never accept it.´ Yeah, Maureen. That's it. It's all about his skin color, you ditz.

According to White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, we have a trade policy based on "fairness." China doesn't seem to be liking that too much.

The high unemployment rate is going to remain "unacceptably high" for a number of years, according to Obama's chief economic adviser.

From the Wall Street Journal: Higher Taxes Are Coming. Are You Prepared?

Mark Steyn has an excellent column ... People see right through Barack Obama's urgency to pass healthcare reform.

Barack Obama has approved plans for the US to start direct talks with both North Korea and Iran.

A good read on another government assault on America's small businesses. Don't you just love government under Democrats?

Obama says that his healthcare plan "won't add one dime to the deficit" ... yet he won't tell us the details on how he plans to do that.

Why hasn't anyone explained to the president how his mandates and requirements on health insurance is going to drive up costs?

Obama is trying to answer the following question: "How can we make sure that civility is interesting?"

The Federal Census Bureau decided to sever ties with ACORN. Plus: Now ACORN may face scrutiny over federal housing grants.

George Will takes on the book banners.

The fundamental problem for Barack Obama and the Democrats is that the public doesn't trust them.

And on that trust issue ... How about a little fact-checking on Obama's statements about health insurance.

The Senate's "gang of six" is working on closing any loopholes in the healthcare bill that would allow illegal immigrants to gain access to government health plans or subsidies.

Rep. Dianne Feinstein believes that it is her job to "[change] the way the country's biggest insurers do business."

After Rep. Joe Wilson's "you lie" outburst last week during Obama's address to Congress, he has racked up $1 million in donations.

How are federal contract being awarded with stimulus dollars? To big companies with little competition.

The European official responsible for banning incandescent light bulbs turns out to be a former communist. That sounds about right.

Yet another "hockey stick" graph on global warming has been published ... and yet another "hockey stick" graph has been found to be fundamentally false.

Taxpayer-funded trips taken by lawmakers are coming under extreme scrutiny lately.

Guess which moonbat is being courted by the Green Party as a possible future presidential candidate? I'll give you a hint ... this party also thought Cynthia McKinney would make a good president.