- Senator McCain and Republican leaders are courting other Democrats who are upset with their party’s radical shift to the left and their Marxist agenda. Two Democrat Congress acknowledge that they’ve been approached by the Republican leadership, but have given reassurance to Pelosi and other Democrat leaders that they have no plans on switching their party.

- William Daley of Chicago wrote a warning in the Washington Post to Obama, “The announcement by Alabama Rep. Parker Griffith that he is switching to the Republican Party is just the latest warning sign that the Democratic Party — my lifelong political home — has a critical decision to make: Either we plot a more moderate, centrist course or risk electoral disaster not just in the upcoming midterms but in many elections to come.”  Hopefully, Pelosi, Reed, and their puppet Obama will ignore Daley’s warnings.  Read more here.

- The Senate passed their version of the health-care bill which doesn’t live up to Obama’s promises;  it raises taxes across the board, it leaves 8% uninsured, it’s funded through tax increases and not premiums, verification for illegals is weak, and it cuts medicare and medicaid.

- Fox is working with 19 Entertainment to order more seasons of the hit show ‘American Idol’.  People familiar with the talks say that Fox is committed to renewing the hit show for 3 or more seasons after the current contract expires in 2011.  The news comes just as rumors have been circulating that judge Simon Cowell may leave the show when his contract is up to focus on bringing his hit show ‘X Factor’ to the United States.

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Moving takes a long time– and doing it during the holidays is quite the undertaking, but we’re managing.  We’ve done some decorating and still trying to locate the rest of our stuff buried somewhere between the garage and the attic.  This year we won’t have the house as decorated as we’d like, but we’re doing enough to make it feel a lot like Christmas.

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