My friend John O'Callahan wrote this editorial, and I thought I would post it in my blog for you to read. I can't agree with him more.

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There have been many times over the years that we have been called, as republicans, the party of no.  For all those that say this I say that they are correct but they are spelling the word no as a negative not the positive that I see.

We are the party of know!  We know that what has been happening over the last six months is not the path that our Great Nation should be on and we have some good suggestions but the democrats have the votes in the house and the senate.  We also know that because of this they will not listen to anything that a republican may say unless we sing their song, and we know that they are singing off key!

We know that the cap and trade bill will cost jobs, increase the price of all fuel putting us back into the days of President Carter and the misery index.  We know that it will be even worse than that because at lease he asked us to lower the temp against the winter cold and not so high against the summer heat.  This bill will force us into this and there will be no relief in sight.  We have a president that said during the campaign that if a company would try to start new oil refinery or coal fired plants that they would go bankrupt in the process.  We know this because we have it on tape.  So yes, we are the party of know!  We know what he is doing.

What else do we say know to?  We know that there are now at least 15 positions assigned by the President that are only accountable to him.  They were not approved by the senate or congress nor are they answerable to any of these two bodies.  Just think of the power these people have then you can be the party of know as well.

The liberals do have it correct that the Republican Party is the party of know.  They just need to learn how to spell the word correctly and then they too would be on the road to knowing as much as we do.

John J. O'Callahan