THE GOP IS ACTING 'ANTI-AMERICAN' 

Democrats are ramping up their efforts to demonize the GOP and this time they want to hit 'em where it hurts ... their patriotism. Take a look at the rhetoric out of Democrats in Washington just in the last day.

Senator Harry Reid was upset with Republicans efforts to filibuster the Wall Street reform bill. The Republican filibuster was so egregious that Reid believes it is "anti-American." Seriously! Here's what he had to say: "All of this talk from Republicans about wanting to do something about this bill before it gets on the floor is really anti-Senate and anti-American." Oh yeah .. "anti-Senate." How about "anti-Democrat-controlled Senate!" Count me in.

I'll promise you folks ... after the Democrats manage to pass this so-called "financial reform" bill we'll start learning quite a bit about the bill and what's in store for American business. Maybe you'll come up with a great idea for a new business, only to find that the federal rules not make it almost impossible for you to find an investor. Perhaps you'll try to buy a new home, only to discover to your dismay that the new underwriting requirements are so onerous that you are destined to be a renter until your eight-year-old graduates ... from grad school. Or maybe the water pump will fail on your truck - the truck you need for work - and you don't have the $250 to get it fixed. Your choice will be to take a few weeks off or go to a payday loan office and borrow $250 against your next paycheck. Oops! No payday loan office? Thank you Democrats! And thank you Republicans for not doing a good job of pointing out the negative aspects of this bill ... a bill aimed at nothing more than increasing the level of government control over our economy. Oh .. and thank you ObamaMedia for not giving us the full story.

I've mentioned this on the air --- don't think I've written about it here. I have a friend named Bernie Marcus. Great guy ... really one of my heroes. Ever heard of him? He left a job in California at the age of 49 and moved to Georgia. Here in Atlanta he and his pal Arthur Blank came up with an idea ... a super store for home improvement. I remember the first store they opened right outside Atlanta's perimeter highway on Buford Highway. They called it "Screws n' Things. Now, wait. I'm lying. They called it Home Depot. Well, I'm sure you know the rest of the story. This was pure capitalism at work; one of America's great business success stories. This country is virtually littered with people who got jobs at Home Depot, invested some of their earnings in Home Depot Stock .. and ended up being millionaires. Do stories like this interest you? You can read a book by Bernie and Arthur where they tell you how they did it. Here's your link:

So .. why this story of Bernie Marcus? Bernie and I have had talks about his Home Depot success story. I've read the book. Bernie tells me that there is no way ... maybe the phrase was "no way in hell" ... that he and Blank could repeat the Home Depot story today. Home Depot was then. Obama is now. The type of entrepreneurship that allowed these two amazing men to go from scratch to $30 billion dollars .. leaving millionaires scattered in their wake ... is pretty much gone, and it will be finished if Chris Dodd and Barry get their way. So long entrepreneurship. Hello government-controlled economy. You're gonna love this stuff folks.