The New Orleans Saints 35 The Pittsburg Steelers 32

The Saints won their second road game of the season in defeating the Steelers and their record stands at 5-7.  The win was important because the Atlanta Falcons won also with only four games left on the schedule.  Does this game signal a turnaround for the Saints?  Time will tell.

The Steelers defense shut out Saints receiver Jimmy Graham but their secondary played poorly allowing three touchdowns with two defensive breakdowns and one with the defenders back facing Brees and did not know where the ball was.  Result, easy touchdown.  Of course the important thing is the Saints won and ended their three game loosing streak.

Payton and Ryan continue their little exchanges on the sidelines at the expense of the team and after 12 games all is not well between the two.  The Saints started the season just like they ended last season on a loosing note.  Will they finish strong in their last four games like they preach.  They have not done that in the last three seasons, so let the guessing begin.  

The seven sports writers for the Times Picayune all picked the Steelers to win the game.  They are still shell shocked after their silly predictions early in the season.  Lets see who they pick for Sunday's game with the Carolina Panthers.  

This commentary written by John Lucia

President Obama's Final Two Years In Office: What Will The New Year Bring? A Continued Story

In January the new year will begin with a triple history that will unfold before the people.  President Obama will begin his final two years in office, the U.S. Congress will be controlled by the republican party and the middle east remains a very unstable and volatile region because of ISIS, the Israel-Palestine situation and the unpredictable behavior of various factions in the region.

I wrote a commentary after President Obama was re-elected and suggested that in the President's second term he should use his executive authority to get things done when the reublican party failed to act on matters affecting the country and its people.  The President has done that, the latest example being the immigration issue.  The President should continue to do that when necessary in his final two years.  He should also use his veto power when necessary to stop any right wing or extreme agenda of the republican party, especially when it comes to the special interest groups and more tax breaks for those who need them the least.  The President has enough democratic votes in the U.S. House to uphold any veto and the democrats should use that leverage.

The President should keep his word on no American ground troops in combat in the middle east.  He should also remain cautious in forming policy for that region where people who live there lack the will to defend their own people because of Islamism, tribalism and sectarianism.  ISIS is not the mighty military force the news media has made it to be and the United States air power is proving that along with some Kurds and Iraqi ground troops who have been willing to engage ISIS.

President Obama's attention to continue the economic expansion, job creation, reducing the federal deficit and reducing the inequality in middle class income should remain a priority.  The country and its people have come a long way since the second great republican depression and the President needs to keep the republican's hands in their own pockets.  The negative voices have nothing to offer the country or its people and they will continue their policy of obstruction to try and inhance their party's chances of taking the White House in 2016.

The one thing that the democratic party lacks is their failure to have a quick response to the republican's noise machine of lies and falsehoods they spout on a daily basis.  President Clinton had a response team that did so to the republican's attacks.  The republicans could not handle the push back so they impeached him to no avail.  Obama needs to develop a team to follow President Clinton's lead in quickly exposing the republican noise machine.

And yes, it is another democratic President that has reversed the disaster left by the previous republican administration.  This writer knew it would happen from the very beginning and you read it here first in "PolitiDose" your daily dose of political commentary.   Stay tuned.


This commentary written by John Lucia