Last night, my bride and I were watching television.  We were catching up on episodes of Blue Bloods, a series about a family of New york City policemen , in which Tom Selleck portrays the NYC Police Commissioner.  One thing that struck me last night was that, no matter how busy their lives got, they always had Sunday dinner together as a family:  Grandpa, In-laws, fiances’, the children…everybody.  And even if they’re just having a small dinner, they say Grace.  It reminded me of Home Improvement, where Tim “The Tool Man” Taylor and his family always said Grace around the table. 

The writers of these series get it.  America is made up of a wonderful people…a resilient people.  75% of which are unashamed to proclaim their Christianity.  54 % of which, according to gallup.com, in a poll taken right before the Midterm Election, indentify their political ideology as Conservative.

Now, I’m not a Pollyanna.  I realize that there are also dark forces at work in our  country.  Just the other day, 13 year old Cody Alicea of Denair, California, was told that he could not fly the American flag from the back of his bicycle to and from school for his own safety.  Cody had been flying the flag in honor of his Grandpa and all other American military verterans.  He was told by the school superintendent, Edward Parazz, that certain students were complaining.

Certain students.  As in illegal certain students?  What is the world has happened to California?  After viewing the way the Midterms played out, one could ask about the status of certain parts of the Northeast as well.

The overwhelming majority of the electoral map was awash in a sea of red, indicating an embracing of Conservative American values by the majority of its citizens, or, at least, a growing intolerance for the Progressives and their ideology that have put our country in the economic distress that it is in.

Cody’s problem is a shining example of this ignorant ideology.  Instead of being worried that they were not appropriately teaching civics and American history to the illegals, they were more worried about the illegals’ non-existant right to demand that Cody remove the flag of the country that they are currently trespassing in. 

After being deluged by e-mails, phone calls, and unwanted national attention, the powers that be acquiesced and said that Cody would be allowed to fly the flag of his country on the back of his bicycle.

This week was an appropriate sequal to the story of November 2nd, 2010, where Americans stood up on their hind legs and began the process of taking back their country.

What has been fun to watch since that day is all the clueless Libs, in the MSM and the New Media, trying to figure out what happened that night.  Their excuses have been ranging from ineffectual communication by the administration and the Democratic Congress about all ther wonderful things that they’ve accomplished since Scooter ascended to the Throne of the Regime,  to just outright blaming it on the ignorance of the American people. 

Fox News analysts, and old fashioned Democrats, Pat Cadell and Doug Schoen, warned their estranged political party that a Political Massacre on November 2nd was coming, but the smartest people in the room did not listen to them.

So now, the Dems are trying to regroup, and it is hilarious.  Nancy Pelosi has decreed herself the new Minority Leader of the House, and there hasn’t even been a Congressional Election yet.  Obama got the heck out of Dodge (using our money), taking a 9 day trip to Asia, and it’s turned out to be a complete and utter failure.  And this morning, I’ve read that he wants the Lame Duck Congress to push through the START Nuclear Arms Treaty with Russia. 

The START treaty, which has been pending in the Senate for months,would reduce the limit on strategic warheads to 1,550 for each country from the current ceiling of 2,200. It also would set up new procedures to allow both countries to inspect each other’s arsenals to verify compliance.

Scooter and his minions do not seem to have paid much attention to what American voters said in excercising their vote on November 2nd.  These Progressives are so out of step with the wishes of the American people, they remind me of Gomer Pyle trying to keep up with the rest of his platoon as they march, and Americans are playing the role of Sgt. Carter.

If the Progressives continue to turn a deaf ear to the wishes of the overwhelming majority of Americans, in the Presidential Elections of 2012, they will experience a second Political Massacre the equivalent of the Eskimos putting Grandpa out on a ice floe and pushing it away from shore.

To leave you with one more television-driven analogy, America’s situation is kind of like that of Arthur Fonzarelli.  In a great moment from the TV series Happy Days, Fonzie is sitting by the bed of his best friend Richie Cunningham, who is in a coma.  Fonzie had let Richie borrow his motorcycle and go riding with his girlfriend, Lori.  They got in an accident, and Fonzie, naturally, blamed himself.  Fonzie wasn’t a religious guy, but he reached out to God, pleading for the life of his best friend.  Richie wakes up from his coma.  Fonzie looks up to God, flashes that famous teeth-filled smile, gives a thumbs up and says Heyyyy! 

Americans know where our inalienable rights and our country’s blessings come from…and we are grateful.