The American Spectator

Fair enough. But now senator YOU are in the driver’s seat. Its now YOUR party completely in charge. When my kids and their kids, burdened by horrendous tax rates, look back at what happened, YOU will be the one they blame. After all, it was YOUR budget committee that made the problem not just worse, but unsustainable.

Conrad’s irresponsible (dare I say moronic?) philosophy when it comes to the federal budget is no different than the person who goes out and spends $5000 they didn’t have on a credit card. The solution? Why go out and spend $15000 more!

The day of reckoning is coming senator. You are on your high horse for now. But it’s a long, long fall to the ground. And you ultimately will be the one held in contempt for your arrogance and irresponsibility. You will be the one held accountable.
— Garry Greenwood
Gearhart, Oregon

KUDOS
Re: Patrick O’Hannigan’s Defending Mary Ann Glendon:

Mega kudos to Mary Ann Glendon for her stand against tyranny and her willingness to be vilified, as all people of principle will be by this new gang in charge. I do not want to minimize this praise of her by shifting the focus to Obama but has anyone else noticed the many similarities of Obama and his South American friend Chavez? First their appearance (they both have the same sh*t-eating grins in the gift exchange photos), their common tendency to prosecute and imprison their political opponents, their desire and actions to control the media, their ever-readiness to nationalize or federalize private companies, the massive egotism and self-aggrandizement, etc., the list goes on and on. All this by a man who has no personal accomplishments to speak of other being an ACORN community activist. Scary as hell!
— Jack Wheatley
Royal Oak, Michigan

Let me try to understand the crystal clarity of what I just read (Patrick O’H) — Our former president George W. Bush who with his VP approved torture is “unscrupulous.”  And the present president is somehow sullied by his rhetoric — and no doubt soon you will weigh in on his use of the word “empathy.”

Prof. Glendon has worked unquestioningly for the USSCB, an all male group for twenty years. Why change now.
—Barbara Lonnquist 

INFORMED AUDIENCE
Re: George Neumayr’s The Pre-School President:

What we are missing about O’s pronouncements in each and every new event is this…it is all he really has to offer. Better to expect this and plan to care for yourself. But saying that to the crowd at The American Spectator is redundant. We already know how to think for ourselves!
— B. Gunn
Texas

ALWAYS BE PREPARED
Re: John C. Wohlstetter’s One Second Too Late: America’s Fate?

This book (on CD) arrived yesterday and is the next book my husband and I will listen to. And while we listen we will be grateful we still have my 1968 Volkswagen and my husband’s favorite old truck, a 1972 Chevy longbed. The VW is in working order and its engine was rebuilt by our son when he was 16. His father was convinced that since he planned to become a pilot he must rebuild an engine in order to know how an engine works. My husband reasoned that if he knew what made an engine work that it might made the difference between life and death if he was in a plane that was shot. Having augered in a Cobra helicopter in Vietnam, my husband understood the value of personal knowledge makes.

The summer Ben rebuilt it was hot and long and tedious for me, as he ranted and threw tools as he worked. He talked out loud the entire summer about how idiotic the task was. Six years later, in his first week of flight school, I still remember the phone call from him. I answered and Ben said simply, “Mom, tell Dad that I am the only pilot in training here that knows how an engine works and I now know what he wanted of me. Tell him thanks.”

We are prepared here at the Tangle-T for any event, including EMP due to owning cars from “the olden days!” Our problem as a country is we have a young inexperienced President who wouldn’t know much or understand the value of planning ahead, having never faced hard physical work of any kind. He will be the President of Panic when this happens, of that I am sure. 

Just the thoughts of an old Texas rancher…
— Bev Gunn

JUST WAIT .08 OF A SECOND
Re: Eric Peters’s Obama’s Man from MADD: