The American Spectator

When Republicans have completed the job of becoming like Democrats, what will be the motivation to support either?
— Lawrence

CARACAS, USA
Re: Robert Stacy McCain’s Winning Washington, Losing America:

I’m glad to see some signs of reason in the media! I have but one comment on the health care bill and the current administration in DC. I am extremely worried that they are bound and determined to turn the USA into a banana republic and consequently third world country. In time, if permitted to continue, they will make Chavez in Venezuela look good.
— Robert

THE ME TOO WING
Re: Grover Norquist’s Will 2010 Be Another 1994?:

The Democrats in the 2006 and 2008 elections cannibalized a large number of the RINO Shills that had protected seats from otherwise being held by serious Republicans This has given them a short burst of increased political power with no improvement in ideological strength.  The Democrats clearly expect gushes of money from somewhere but I think that they underestimate the benefit the Republicans will have from losing the “me too” wing of the party. With no votes for this bad bill the Republicans look  better than they have since the nineteenth century.
— Gregory

KEEP THE CHANGE
Re: Andrew Cline’s Obama’s Purple Politics:

It is obvious that by “Hope and Change” Obama meant we had better “Hope” he allows us to keep the “Change” in out pockets!
— Gretchen L. Chellson
Alexandria, Virginia

SO WHAT?
Re: Jeffrey Lord’s Health Care Rebellion: Lessons From Martin Luther King:

So, what if he calls off the election?
— Mike Showalter
Austin, Texas

THE FIFTH COLUMN
Re: Ben Stein’s My Thoughts on Watching the Dems Stab the Constitution on the Congressional Floor:

The Democrats, liberals, and leftists in Congress didn’t just stab the Constitution. They ridiculed, then debased it before their criminal act.

By the way, “The supine cowardice of the mainstream media here is almost beyond imagining”? Great image and spot-on condemnation.

But they’re not cowards: They’re collaborators. The Fourth Estate jettisoned its integrity and professionalism a long time ago — and then it became, as it actively remains, the Fifth Column working for Obama and the other Democrats, liberals and leftists.
— C. Kenna Amos Jr.

Welcome to Serfdom.

With the election of Barack Obama and his cadre of leftover leftist radicals that comprise his administration we have seen the steady erosion of liberty, the uncontested take over of private enterprise and the diminution of American prominence and influence on the world stage. No longer is America seen as the last best hope for oppressed peoples everywhere. Now America is seen as another socialist state mired in collective guilt and government intrusion into the pursuit of our life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. In her remarks prior to the vote on the healthcare bill, the intellectually challenged speaker of the house has completely misconstrued the meaning of the Declaration of Independence, that inspired document that was written to beat back the unfettered control of totalitarianism. Our life, our liberty and our pursuit of happiness were intended to occur without government’s guiding hand, bludgeoning club or threat of imprisonment. Today, however, we awake in a perversion of America.