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JimP| 7.8.10 @ 6:47AM

I don't agree about the Financial Reform effect. It's too wonkish altogether, IMO. If it passes people will still be out of work and the gulf oil spill/leak will still be going on probably. Not to mention ObamaCare which 60% want completely repealed. Financial Reform sounds of fatcats on Wall Street who got bailed out by their Dem friends and Obama. I realize I could be totally full of crackers, but I just don't see the electorate being swayed by Financial Reform.

Alan Brooks| 7.8.10 @ 8:28AM

"and then send Obama back to Illinois in 2012."

And send a GOP lapdog to the White House that year?

Sam Vaughn| 7.8.10 @ 8:49AM

Hi Alan, best wishes on a great summer. That's a simple statement surprising in it's lack substance and overt churlishness. I expect more challenge and obfuscation. The rebuttal is simple, if the GOP establishment thinks they're going to walk media acceptable candidates back into Washington they're wrong and you're wrong. "We the People" are pushing forward leaders to take the down the "old guard" elites. I suggest you do the same. Or perhaps you should like many other progressives have the courage to admit your marxist convictions. I've never been interested in politics till I realized people exist for which the ends justifies the means,,,, yes, character really matters....

Believer| 7.8.10 @ 10:39AM

Sam Vaughn- When you wrote " We the People" are going to take down the " Old guard " elites, I wanted to cry. The modern Politics both left and right have voters like you so blind that you cant see whats happened to both Party's. So little will change if Republicans throw them out of office that the common voter wont notice the differance, make a real differance and vote out the Two party's who have destroyed our Nation.

Grahammer| 7.8.10 @ 5:05PM

difference, difference, difference!!!! e,e,e,

Trish| 7.8.10 @ 7:41PM

Sam, I totally agree. I am a disgusted public school teacher. I have a couple of advanced degrees. I have seen so much abuse of our tax money that I am now a member of the Tea Party. Got the Tea Shirt and my air tickets to DC in Sept. for the 2nd national rally. There were 1.8 million there last year. It was authentically grassroots and quite spontaneous. It has grown enormously in one year. We are backing conservative only. NO MORE RINOS!

old white guy| 7.8.10 @ 9:22AM

a gop lapdog would be preferable to the commie lapdog you have defacating in the oval office at the present time.

JimP| 7.8.10 @ 9:24AM

To what are you refering in my comment? Just say no to drugs, Alan.

Dan Hirsch| 7.8.10 @ 9:48AM

Alan!

Tell us! We want to know!

Are you an unrepentant communist or just a useful idiot?

Please tell us!

Alan Brooks| 7.8.10 @ 2:54PM

Okay, I'm a pot smoking DRAFT DODGER. Alright? burnt my bra just yesterday.

Went dancing with Jane Fonda on the TV show
"Dancing With The Communists"

chester arthur| 7.8.10 @ 3:32PM

'And send a GOP lapdog to the White House that year?'The alternative is to keep a Soros/socialist Urkel in the job.Somehow,in this case,even a lapdog sounds almost appealing.But who says it will be a typical republican?The choices are much wider with the ascendency of the true conservative tea party movement.We just might see someone the blue-blood 'power brokers',who don't have as much power as they think anymore, would never pick on their own.

Alan Brooks| 7.8.10 @ 4:17PM

Why, Chester, it sounds almost too good to be true!

Trish| 7.8.10 @ 7:45PM

My dream 2012 GOP team: Brewer for Prez, Bachmann for VP.

RCV| 7.9.10 @ 7:03PM

We Democrats could only hope! From your lips to God's ear.

Jim Fallon| 9.2.10 @ 2:49AM

Judging from what I have read so far the Fascist propaganda that has been pumped out for the last 20+ years has been working and nearly ready for the complete corporate takeover. The years of constant brainwashing by the likes of Limbaugh, Savage, Hanity, and For the Ladies, Ingram, and Coulter. Finally the newest addition to the corporate war against American, Glen Beck.
Now Beck was put in to see how far the brainwashing through years of lies and diversion from the treason of these corporate enemies, by attacking other races, religions, others who are not like us and vilifying other counties form of commerce, especially the ones where the workers and the middle class of those countries share in the fruits of their labors instead of only the very richest 1% to 5%
These Fascist have nearly archived there goal and they are using Professional Wrestling type actors like Beck now to test the public to see how many of our people they now have control of. They know 25 to 30 years ago if they put someone so completely laughable like Beck on the air back then, all of the public would have either watched one episode and never again or complained and demanded this crap be removed from the airwaves.
Back then you couldn't easily BS the American people. We were truly informed by our news broadcasters (that’s because it was illegal to lie to the people back then, and we had a much better educated people back then. We had classes in Government and Social Science. We knew the mind of Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton. And we knew what our rights were and we fought to keep them.
We had strong unions that protected all of Americas workers by setting standards that protected the health of the people and made the corporations pay us a good living wage.
The corporate Fascist's were kept in control after the last Great Depression for 40 years and Americans had a wonderful life. That has all changed from 30 years of slow brainwashing of our people. Now there are enough people in this country that have been trained to vote against their own survival that the Fascist’s are nearly ready to try to fully take over.
All I got to say is it's going to be one hell of a revolution and don't underestimate all of the Americans who have been quite all these years, they will be your worst nightmare!

Lapdog| 7.8.10 @ 7:51PM

Alan,

You are an idiot!!!

What are you doing on the TA website? Go back to the leftist hell from which you came.

Obama is the worst president we have had since Jimbo Carter. In fact, he makes Carter look like an effective President. And you have the gall, the temerity, to talk of GOP lapdogs?

A lapdog would make a better President than this jerk.

Go to hell, scum!!

J 'Revees| 7.15.10 @ 1:56AM

In as much as I don't approve everything the Democrats are doing, seeing the mess the Republican left this country in, I could never in my life time vote for any Republican. I believe the worst Democrat is better than the best Republican.

Kitty| 7.8.10 @ 6:51AM

Let's face it: If it weren't for a lot of the Republican poltroons in DC, the tea parties and other such grass roots efforts would never have taken off. Too many Repubs are walking endorsements for term limits.

Eric Cartman| 7.8.10 @ 9:46AM

I agree, Kitty. You nailed it. To any GOP staffers, congress-critters out there: Do you think you can take advantage of this situation and not sound like clueless idiots flaking for the insurance industry and big oil? Do you think you can hire a writer or someone who can take these issues and explain them like a certain talk show host? Or better yet, Ronald Reagan? Do you think you can stop giving the media big, stupid lines they can play 24/7 to make you look evil and dumb? Do ya think you can do that? You guys are pathetic.

Sam| 7.8.10 @ 3:43PM

Eric,
This is gonna sound strange, but for once, I agree
with you.

Eric Cartman| 7.8.10 @ 4:00PM

Wha,wha, WHAT??? Well, we can agree on something at least.

Don L| 7.8.10 @ 6:56AM

Like a parrot in a bird cage, the public can sway all it wants. Unless it is able to completely open the door and escape, ...but then so many bird brains like being in the cage!

Carol| 7.8.10 @ 7:19AM

Scott Brown is a progressive just like Beck said the morning after he won. He and those other 2 back-stabbing progressives Snowe and Collins will be the other 2 to sign on to Obama taking over the Financial Sector of the United States of America.

I agree. If McConnell doesn't convince those 3 to not sign on - forget about America. We will just be taking our frustrations out on the internet while we can before Obama shuts it down and/or while we can afford to still have internet service.

carnot| 7.8.10 @ 10:05AM

no...

- those who can will move overseas

- those who can't will send their $$$ overseas

- those who have the ability will begin to convince many in the military to leave the military at the end of their obligated service and not serve a set of values and institutions that have been corrupted

RCV| 7.8.10 @ 11:32AM

Bon voyage!

Chalkdust| 7.8.10 @ 7:20AM

Mr. Homnick:
I think our common good is more dangerously held than you portrayed.

Currently, the Republican party is a two legged stool propped up tenuously by the Tea Party and the Democratic party's headlong dash to turn America into a socialist country before all but the most alert even know they are going to the gulag.

Maybe enough motivated people can grab the rudderless, leaderless Republican Party that has been stuck dumber than usual by the scruff of the neck and drag "them" to victory.

But I gotta say it's not looking like a sure winner; with the partys RNC "leader" dumb as a post and getting backed into a corner every other week, the house minorty leader drunk as a lord 24/7, the senate minorty leader missing in action and the remaining elected party leader hiding under the church pews, Nov. 12th is anything but a down-hill drag by the short hairs.

pugsley| 7.8.10 @ 11:42AM

And once again, stating all these things how can it be that this is all coincidence? I think not. I have said for more than twenty years they are all in on it and I still say it. As long as these characters are in power it really doesn't matter what letter is in front of their name. The perks, the money, the power, the trips and everything else just keep on flowing into their coffers. The tipping point may have already been passed and no one reacted. Could be what has the rats so empowered these days. They seem more than confident they can come out into the open with their plans, and still no one reacts. The Kagen sham was the last straw, or so I thought, the entire thinking population of this country should have erupted during that dog and pony show, but no, not a whimper then. What next?

FTM| 7.9.10 @ 2:22AM

I was going to post this at the end of the comments section but you kinda/sorta led me into the comment.

I have a pet theory that American politics has become a contest since the end of the Wilson Administration, certianly since the end of the Johnson administration, to stave off the final fiscal disaster for another four years. Both parties spending money that doesn't exist in order to entitle their own constituencies. A perverse game of musical chairs if you will. Guess who won't have a chair when the music stops?

Of course the upside of the music stopping is that the entitled masses and government sector employees won't know how to act in an gravy-trainless environment and do the only sensable, productive thing that they can do and that's to starve to death. (After they've burned every urban center in the country to the ground protesting.) Win/win.

P. Aaron| 7.8.10 @ 8:10AM

If Social Security is the "3rd Rail" of politics, Medicare and Obama care have electrified the 2 remaining rails.

Republicans and conservatives will only survive by repealing Obamacare...convincingly. Not in part, not 1 or 2 provisions, but the premise of government run healthcare.

If not, we are fast tracked to socialism. Conservatives will not matter, Republicans will have their platforms reduced to a 'Maintenance crew" to 'slow' government growth. Eventually republicans won't be necessary.

carnot| 7.8.10 @ 10:08AM

and it won't work. the economic debacle this is sure to bring will end state as it did in Greece recently...only on a much larger scale

FTM| 7.9.10 @ 2:25AM

The Republicans don't have the reproductive fortitude to repeal President Obama's hijacking of the American healthcare system. They'll be, as in the past, too busy trying to appear "mainstream" whatever that means to get the job done.

Melvin| 7.8.10 @ 8:37AM

What is even more disturbing is the Republican Leadership's refusal to change their dogma. It doesn't work, they know it doesn't work but for reasons known only to them, they just sit there and basically do absolutely nothing to defend their Party.
I refuse to fall under the belief that the Republican leadership is completely in the dark, while their Party crumbles around them.
John Bohner, Eric Cantor, Mitch McConnell, and John Kyl appear to be immovable and stuck on the message of, "Well at least we're not the Democrats."
It's not that the Liberals, and the Progressive Demcorats are any smarter in their leadership, but the Republicans just sit their and allow the kids to play with matches, knowing full well that the Democrats could very well burn this Nation down.
When someone does step outside the Party line and attacks the Democrats, the Republican Leadership admonishes them.
Republicans, Libertarians, and Independents have to come together to completely purge the Republican Party of the old Country Club Blue Blood Progressive Fossils.
The Republican Leadership is thinking that it is honorable to stoically go down with the sinking ship, but the rest of us don't want to drown, we want to fight, we to live.

FTM| 7.9.10 @ 2:28AM

I live in Kentucky, McConnell's state. I don't know about the rest of those guys but if you want to talk to McConnell you have to wave a thousand dollar bill at the guy, for a while, first. Better to make a fan out of thousand dollar bills, the bigger the fan the faster you'll attract the guy's attention.

The Bishop| 7.8.10 @ 8:49AM

Their are not enough statesmen(stateswomen) left in this country to save us from running headlong over the cliff. Thelma and Louise (Harry and Nancy with Barack in the backseat urging them on) are at the controls and the Republicans couldn't find the brake if they even wanted to. Citizen rebellion, which used to be so anathema to my way of thinking, seems to be the only Constitutional means of getting our country back. But I dream.

Bob Cotten| 7.8.10 @ 9:25AM

Here is my acronymn for the GOP:
S- tupidity
H-ysteria
I- gnorance
T- imidity (The democrats are all of these things EXCEPT the timidity part. The republicans give out gold medals for timidity!)

Louis Jenkins| 7.8.10 @ 9:38AM

But I dream? Do not dream buddy, its on the way. The Republican leadership is in a fog. They stoop and bow to what ever the Democrats want. This Tea Party thing had better find traction soon. The problem is we don't have a leader, but also we don't want one. Yes, I've posted and said that Glenn Beck is not a leader, and that the Tea Partiers don't want a leader. That's what the Republican leadership is banking on. We had better get busy, or we'll be out in the cold come this Nov. And a lot of us are upset.

Believer| 7.8.10 @ 10:49AM

Louis Jenkins- I know your frustrated, there a lot of out there, but be very careful what you say on the web.

Anthony| 7.8.10 @ 9:45AM

It bears repeating, the establishment Republican agenda is not our agenda. They are about their power and remaining in Washington as long as possible.
They dither at the edges of Obama's radical agenda and pretend they are the bulwarks against his march for American socialism.
These gutless R clowns won't even put up a filibuster against a judicial nominee who was/is in favor of sensorship of speech by hack FEC bureaucrats. You'd think this would be the perfect candidate to at least put an end to the filibuster of judicial nominees once and for all, but no, they haven't the guts or the desire.
Nope, folks we are on our own. Support individual candidates and by- pass the pathetic RNC, and hope for the British to attack Washington again and this time finish the job of burning the town to the ground.
TERM LIMITS, TERM LIMITS, TERM LIMITS.

Al Adab| 7.8.10 @ 1:30PM

VOTE em OUT, VOTE em OUT, VOTE em OUT

We get what we deserve. Perhaps the up side of this administration of Guilt is that the voters will again realize they, not elected officials, are the sovereign. The people we send to Capital City or to Washington are not our betters or some elite. They should be people we know and respect, people who are willing to take their turn in defending our Liberty. That alone is the purpose of Government.

flybynight| 7.8.10 @ 9:48AM

In all public media today more and more people are giving evidence and testimony of being fed-up-to-here with politicians both Democrat and Republican, and millions of us are especially grieved by the AFSCME-AFL-CIO-SEIU bureaucrat workforce. The D's & R's use the huge city, county, state and federal bureaucracy for their power-base. Literate people who speak English are beginning see the complicity between D's and R's. Illiterate people who don't speak English are being used for the votes to strengthen the tyranny of Democrat-Republican greed and lust for power. It's a race to the finishline. Do the soft-handed, luxury-loving Party Leaders really believe that We The People are as corrupt as the Democrat-Republican Party Leaders are? Somebody's in for a big, big surprise.

Petronius| 7.8.10 @ 9:55AM

We are now well passed Goldwater's break point. Nobody cares except us. Liberals control all the election boards, count all votes, and pick all candidates. We cannot win politically. And there will be no revolt because we have all the risk and the government has none. So if there are any McVeys out there who would rather die attempting to remain free, they don't care about that either as those few would provide the excuse for eliminating the rest of us.

FTM| 7.9.10 @ 2:35AM

Why revolt?

What would revolution change if there were to be a reveloution?

I say let the system crash of it's own accord, and it will crash, sooner or later. What is going on in this country for the past fifty years now is finally coming to a head.

You'll have a chance shooting at the local pond-scum, brigands and looters after the crash. You don't stand a chance against the current crop pre-crash pond-scum, brigands and looters. Totally different animals.

RCV| 7.9.10 @ 7:02PM

The Republic will endure long after the current crop of apocalyptic wing-nuts is gone.

old white guy| 7.8.10 @ 9:59AM

there are not enough intelligent americans to foment a citizen rebellion. some are talking a game but they don't really have game. it will take one million armed men marching on washington before the communits in power even blink and then they will have the army fighting u.s. citizens and that will also be ok with them.

FTM| 7.9.10 @ 2:36AM

The American military will never act against American citizens. The American military would be part of the rebellion.

Thing is, there will be no rebellion.

jb| 7.8.10 @ 10:03AM

I have heard this comment about; "Civil Rebellion", always in the context of armed revolution, so many times of late it scares me.

The American revolution of 1776 had an actual army, (British) to fight; who here actually believes the US military would ever take to the cities and fields to suppress the civilian population? That's highly unlikely. So who do you think will oppose the real revolution which will, and should, take place at the ballot box? The NBPP is but a wart on the face of our otherwise beautiful nation. The topical application of a little citizen justice would send these rats scurrying back to their taxpayer built ghetto holes in short order.

The most important thing we can remember is to exercise our right to vote,,, staying home on November 2; and then blaming your problems on the government won't cut the mustard. Anything less is un-American, and definitely un-patriotic.

Petronius| 7.8.10 @ 5:15PM

Those presently serving in Their armed forces were educated in Their schools. Their officer corps is controlled by the DOD Social Office in Liberal Fubar P.C. fashion. Even the Oklahoma National Guard grunts obeyed Nagin's unlawful orders to disarm the residents of New Orleans, most of whom still have not had their guns returned nor will they because Nagin's friends stole them. All the troops have to do is block all the highways.
Decamping is out of the question without enough gold to hand to live out ones days in exile. So we will be subjugated, dispossessed, and persecuted.
And if you get sick and didn't vote for them their new health care administrators will tell you to drop dead.

Claudia Monteverdi| 7.8.10 @ 10:10AM

THE BANALITY OF MILK

Jay, were it not that I know you to be most perceptive and uncannilly accurate in your predictions, I plant myself four square on the milkmaid' 3-legged gizmo..

Nuts! Jay, how you overrate the keenness of the American Electorate and the intellect of the Dc class, beit Rep, Dem or Etc...(no offense to DC, I adore Stephen Stassburg and Adam Dunn)..

We are dealing with a mentality which opted to vote for a completely absurd person for President, who's sudden lack of esteem for him stems not from any dissappointment or disapproval of his (ugh) deeds; but from (in the nonsense verse of Jimmy Carter) the malaise stemming from the mishmash he emanates...They no longer can figure him out, Jay--as simple as that...So he gets some inane Wall Street reform thing passed thanks to the squishy soft pair from Maine? So what! The public doesn,t give (to qoute Dick Whittington, thrice Lord mayor of London Town) a bloody rat's ass...They think of jobs, they are super sensitive to blck over white favoritism whilst ever fancying themselves as very good people...sort of "to kill a mockingbird" good guys, get it? Iran? yeah they heard of that place, that's where the rugs come from, but BLACK MUSLIMS????? Show them the GOP line on the ballot...
Absolute bottomline, only whackpot Rand Paul prevents me from making an all out, no equivocational prediction of a Republican Senate as well as the utter certainty of a Republic House..Barton didn't help and Steele muddies the waters but it's good ol' "whites only" Rand Paul who creates my only doubt of a thermopolae like battle with the Republicans as glorious winners....

I live in a great country made small by it's hideous government, one in which a President holds a state dinner for Hassad of Syria and lavishes parties and galas upon Chavez..the American voter has sensed that the U.S. is about half a step ahead of that sorry state of affairs (I speak of Argentina) ..but still a nation where staunch supporters of Israel applaud when Obama refrains from kicking Netanyahu in the groin..at least in view of the camera's lens..

The banality of milk being what it is, I disagree completely with the notion that these folks could be diverted from their task of "throwing the bums out" because of some silly "victory" in a Wall Street Reform bill..No Way!

Go cast thy milk 'pon troubled waters my dear Sir, the American electorate knows what it's main task MUST be in November.....

Get it? No need for public capitulation, your stellar record drowns out this grievous error.

Love and Kisses,
Claudia

Mike| 7.8.10 @ 10:40AM

Pardon me, but you aren't making much sense.

Claudia Monteverdi| 7.8.10 @ 10:12AM

Followup on prior important communication.....Oh Jay, Did I tell you that I love you?
Claudia

Bob Miller| 7.8.10 @ 10:14AM

In the end, what most matters is is the percentage of November 2010 voters who, against all odds, can still think and are still patriots.

Streetfighter| 7.8.10 @ 10:27AM

The fall election is important, but we must fight on no matter the results. This whole process is going to take several election cycles. We have only been at this for a few months. To expect a complete overhall of a system that has been in the making for decades, simply will not change that quickly. Stiff upper lip folks. We are in the right, we shall win in the end.

Proud Mormon| 7.8.10 @ 11:03AM

Can't we all agree Romney is the best GOP presidential candidate in'12. Mitt for President!

Doctor Right| 7.8.10 @ 11:30AM

Ummm...No.

Al Adab| 7.8.10 @ 1:33PM

Sorry Proud one, NO. He is still his father's son.

Remember the Republican Stop Goldwater movement of which Romney was a part? Just as Bush opposed Reagan, Romney and others opposed Goldwater. Conservatives, not Republicans are needed.

George S| 7.8.10 @ 11:26AM

Yes, Republicans are uncanny at inspiring pessimism but there is one obstacle the Democrats cannot overcome: despite a compliant media, who make no mention of the misery felt by the entire country, Obama and the Democrats are polling at or below 40%. If the media were doing its job, there would be recall elections everywhere. Usually, if any incumbent polls below 50%, they will lose (Dick Morris -- always been correct on that barring scandal or similar circumstances). It's one thing, in times of economic expansion, to mercilessly pound the incumbent Republican president in order to convince a fat, dumb and lazy electorate that we are one paycheck away from another Great Depression but it's quite another to find that same electorate who actually are experiencing misery -- with the full knowledge that it is INTENTIONAL -- are willing to be bamboozled in believing roping in a couple of Republicans in a financial reform bill or "deemed" budgets to be a healthy indicator of a competent government.

Right now, all we know is that Democrats gotta go. Once done, then we can weed out the liberal driftwood in the Republican Party. Remember, since 2008 this has been a two-front war: one against statism and one against liberals in the Republican Party. We can't mount two major offensives simultaneously in one election cycle -- it took a hundred years for progressives to get to an Obama, it will take a little time to get rid of the Grahams and the McCains. You cannot look at Ronald Reagan as he was the anti-Carter, but was undermined by liberal Republicans in Congress and within his administration.

This reform we are hoping for will not be won in November or in 2012, it will be a battle to pass on to our children and grandchildren. The job right now is to stop the train driven by Obama. The country fundamentally understands that. Despite the cheerleading by the Fourth Estate.

darcy| 7.8.10 @ 5:18PM

Take your grandkids to Tea Party events. I took my 12-yr-old granddaughter to an indoor (air-conditioned) Tucson Tea Party last night where Sheriff Babeau of Pinal Cty was the featured speaker. She told mom and dad when she got home that it was "awesome." We talked politics the whole 45-min drive home. I've been bringing her along for about two years now, ever since she was old enough to understand the concepts.

It's her generation that needs the tools to fight the Left, as I agree this will be a long, hard, slog. And oh yes, she does indeed understand that the mere R behind a pols name means nothing, and words mean nothing; the only thing that matters is what they DO.

Choey| 7.8.10 @ 11:30AM

No.. Romney created a disaster in MA and still seems to have serious liberal leanings. I think he'd be a great treasury secretary though...

The Woz| 7.8.10 @ 12:08PM

Proud Mormon:

Mitt Romney for president? They say that every picture tells a story, so behold the photo published in yesterday's Wall Street Journal: Governor Romney signing the Massachusetts health care bill with a beaming Ted Kennedy looking over his shoulder. That should tell you all you need to know about Romney's likely political direction if elected. He's never disavowed that action, fair enough, I disavow him as a candidate. Looks great in a suit, though.

Bob Miller| 7.8.10 @ 12:11PM

We should also consider that Americans have now personally experienced the effects of Democratic misrule, and are less likely to believe fantasies.

AMENBRO| 7.8.10 @ 12:16PM

AMEN BROTHER

Leave it to the entrenched idiots at the WASHINGTON COUNTRY CLUB to SCREW THE POOCH.

Been breaking my heart for years. Bonyer, Hatch, McConnell, McCain, Robert "what the hail am I doing here" Burr, Lyndsay "GUGADAY" Graham & Co. thank you for your service. Can you all please exit stage RIGHT while endorsing some FRESH MEAT/IDEAS please.

Hows about REAL PEOPLE for a change!

Besides you can get even RICHER on the speaking tours. Not to mention tell all BS books the attention span of a gnat American Public will devour.

After all we are finally rid of Arlen Specter. BABY,,,,, that's one HAIL of a start.

Kay| 7.8.10 @ 1:01PM

The writer says, "...Obama exploited the financial crisis...", should say Obama (and his ilk) CAUSED the financial crisis, then exploited it. Another point: who says Obama should be sent back to ILLINOIS? It remains to be seen to where he should be sent. Time will tell.

darcy| 7.8.10 @ 5:21PM

To the woodshed? the pillory-stocks, dressed in tar and feathers?

Al Adab| 7.8.10 @ 5:39PM

There's a plan. Darcy for Sheriff.

darcy| 7.8.10 @ 8:40PM

;>)))

Al Adab| 7.8.10 @ 9:43PM

!?

JJ| 7.8.10 @ 2:10PM

This writer is correct.

But it's not about Republicans winning. That won't be enough.

Americans are losing every day. And Obama is winning every day.

The media is looking the other way or hailing progress (ABC News for example) in the Gulf Oil spill. There is no federal effort to clean up and Obama has worked his way out of the situation.

The media runs America. And as long as the media is taking up for Obama then we are exactly where we were in the summer of 2008. That is -- no tough questions for the President.

Even that sole outpost of Americanism, Fox News, almost seems embarrassed to ask a tough question or press a tough line.

Credit CNN's Anderson Cooper (of all people) who is down there in the Gulf asking why the media is prevented from showing the OIL SLICK and letting Louisianna politicians tell how they are being ignored as they face "war" against the oil.

Americans lose when they are brainwashed by the media into believing we must get off our "dependence on foriegn oil"

Even Republicans say so. Meanwhile do you think China is getting off it's dependence of foriegn oil -- nope. They want more oil, from anywhere on earth.

Oil runs the world. Oil is cheap. It works.

Ok, so we want our our own and not their oil. Then we must drill.

Every nation on earth uses foriegn oil. The politician who comes out and speaks plainly on this would be serving his fellow Americans wisely. But that won't happen -- wishy-washy Republicans will try and sneak there way in with moderate down the middle policies.

The lessons of Governor Christie will not reach the national stage.

Only when Americans take back their country from our poisonous left-wing media will be headed on the right track -- and then people like Obama will never make it past the Iowa caucus.

Jennifer| 7.8.10 @ 5:14PM

Does he have to come back to Illinois? I'm just asking. We have plenty of problems here, and he appears to have been involved.

FTM| 7.9.10 @ 3:23AM

Jennifer,

I used to live in Illinois. Move. Move anywhere. Anywhere is better than there with the exception of the east and left coasts. I know a lady that moved from Californnia to Idaho, works less and has more money at the end of the month. Call it "White Flight" or "Brain Drain" whatever, be on the smart side and leave the sinking ship to sink.

Ken (Old Texican)| 7.8.10 @ 7:23PM

YES WE DARNED SURE CAN!

Mr. Homnick,
Thank you for the cautionary tale.....BUT........you are a writer. Do you keep a loaded shotgun under your bed?
Do you keep a loaded rifle in your car/truck/SUV ?
...with extra MAGAZINES?

Did you buy your wife a rifle for a wedding present...(as I did), then teach her how to use it?

Do you have a year's food and medicine and fuel stored?
Sir, with all of your resources, are you quite up to speed yet with the Americans who are determined to turn all this crap around?

If a black panther shows up in a Texas polling booth, he will get one single warning shot.

Then he has to choose. (Heh)

SIGNING OFF NOW...YES WE DARNED SURE CAN!

Ever heard about the game..."cowboys and Indians"?

Ever wondered why you hear kidnap stories from Arizona and New Mexico and California...but never from Texas?
Let me spell it out for you...
T E X A S R A N G E R S

AMENBRO| 7.9.10 @ 9:24AM

Filibusterers STILL REIGN IN TEXAS.
God Bless YA sir.

I feel the exact same way just ain't got the fuel.

Osamas Pajamas| 7.9.10 @ 12:59AM

Complacency is a killer --- if you are apparently 8 or 9 points ahead --- that is not enough. Hemingway in "The Green Hills of Africa" --- "The way to hunt is for as long as you live against as long as there is such and such an animal..." So be prepared for the 2010 and 2012 elections. Don't assume that OhBummer and the OhBummer Wrecking Crew will get trounced. Crawl over broken glass to vote. Crawl over the broken bodies of anyone who tries to stop you from voting --- or anyone who tries to steal, hijack, or cancel your vote. MAKE SURE THAT ALL OF THE MILITARY VOTES ARE COUNTED. There's no guarantee that all our lads and lasses in uniform will vote to kick OhBummer in the pants, but these military folks have stuck their necks out on the line, on our behalf.

Yosemeti Sam| 7.9.10 @ 1:00AM

" ... The Republicans are ... leading by large margins in the polls but not through their intrinsic virtue or their irresistible charm or their overwhelming intellect. Nor are they wielding a résumé of tangible achievements on behalf of the American public...."

Well - Harrumph, to that punditry mouthful!

" ... Nor are they wielding a résumé of tangible
achievements on behalf of the American public...."

Resumé - of tangible achievements?

How about the clear, transparency, if one prefer, Congressional record of virtually stalwart Republicans and their NO votes on oppressive/socialistic Democrat/BHO-Leftoid-cabal-formulated stealth legislative issues; Republican NO votes in congruity with the NO
sentiments of an unmistakenly - especially now - primed voter majority?

One believes the general voter (middle class) is astute enough to fathom the class warfare being ratcheted upon themselves by the Democrat party.

PEN1 - LBSM - will try to make voters heads spin from their lactose spin; yet Leftoids' heads are the ones that'll be spinning on Nov 3, 2010.

Yo, is that Liberty Bell in Philadelphia - in working order.

May it lead the chimes throughout the land come Nov 3, 2010.

As prelude - may the GOP primaries be a citizenry gauntlet i.e. the means
to that end!

GOD willing - Amen!

Tom in Michigan| 7.9.10 @ 9:59AM

If the Republicans don't oust the left from power in November, this country will become just another failed socialist state.

However, if the Republicans don't come up with cogent plans; plans the American people can understand and buy-in to which will undo the leftists' destructive policies; they cannot win.

Even if the Republicans DO develop answers to what's troubling us, they will have a difficult time getting their message out due to the complicity of the leftist media in putting forward the Obamavik agenda.

Even IF they DO get their message out; unless the Republicans rid themselves of Democrat-Lite members of their party, they still can't win (were any of you as embarrassed by Lindsay Graham's kissing of Elena Kagan’s derriere as I was – I mean, Al Franken’s stupidity is to be expected? Graham’s a nice guy and a good person but, he still labors under the illusion the left is somehow “the loyal opposition” instead of an enemy to be defeated).

Finally, if the Republicans regain the majority and revert to their "business as usual," pork-barrel, high-spending and just plan sometimes stupid selves (e.g. tolerating the likes of Larry Craig, allowing their leader to stay in place even after making really dumb comments), it's basically over for America. We'll have allowed a tiny minority of leftists (of the 20% of Americans who identify themselves as “liberal,” less than half are the hard-core leftists of the Ayers-Soros sub-species) to destroy what was once a great country.

And, if you want to see America a generation from now under leftist rule; come visit me in Detroit.

Do I have faith in Republican victory? Well, I think they can win but, I'm not sure they can govern unless they really and truly get back to America’s core principles of limited government, respect for the Constitution, low taxes and individual liberty.

Plus, they've snatched defeat from the jaws of victory before. We’ll see if they can get their faces out of their fundaments between now and November.

LitlBits| 7.9.10 @ 11:05AM

All of you who've made these comments - who seem to have little hope of reclaiming the Republic for which we stand - how much time do YOU spend working for DECENT candidates? Have you helped with LEGAL voter registration? Do you work at polls - poll watching, etc.?
Have you bothered to write/call your Congressman/Senator? Have you even bothered to learn real history instead of swallowing the tripe that is served up by public schools? How many of you have read the Federalist Papers to enhance your knowledge of Constitution?
Have you shared your zeal and knowledge with others? Have you tried to educate others as to the truth? - teaching them about the Constitution and the history that proves that this Impostor in Chief is simply repeating historical attempts that FAILED!
If you're not doing anything but writing comments, then you have no right to complain! Have you written to your state GOP offices? gone to any local meetings and tried to MAKE change happen there?
Too much apathy and acceptance of the 'big daddy' government has made us fat, lazy and perfect subjects for the socialist takeover....and - given that NASA's new frontier is Islam - don't be shocked if one day soon there's an Executive Order stating that Sharia Law is now replacing the Constitution!

Tom in Michigan| 7.9.10 @ 12:19PM

A bold challenge, indeed. And, you're absolutely right. For my part, the answer is: yes to almost all your challenges. I'm actively working for one of your Republican gubenatorial candidates and correspond regularly with my congressman and Senators (both of whom are Democrats and couldn't care less about what I think). As for education and sharing my knowledge, I've been warning against what's happening today for almost three decades (I'm an old 60s rat myself so, I know these leftists!).

I don't think the issue is apathy as much as it the fact that, in many ways the Republicans gave us both Clinton and Obama, two of the three most destructive Presidents, along with Carter in history).

We need the Republicans to stop acting stupid, in a word. I'm looking to people like Paul Ryan or Mike Pence or Mitch Daniels to get us out of this mess-not Graham or Snow or their ilk.

RCV| 7.9.10 @ 6:55PM

Yes, that Bill Clinton was sure destructive -- welfare reform, a balanced budget, surpluses.

JmsA| 7.11.10 @ 3:21AM

RCV,

"Yes, that Bill Clinton was sure destructive -- welfare report, a balanced budget, surpluses."

All republican accomplishments for which Clinton with the aid of the mainstream media took credit for.

Allow me to explain:

Welfare reform stems from the "Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996." Introduced by Rep. E. Clay Shaw, Jr. (R-FL-22), it was a cornerstone of the Republican Contract With America.

Although Clinton strove hard to narrow the deficit through tax increases as part of the 1993 budget, much of the focus on that first year was on non-economic policy, including but not limited to “Don’t ask, Don’t Tell,”as well as the nationalization of health care. He did so with Democrat majorities in Congress, as he incrased taxes on the wealthiest individuals, and began a public works programs to reduce unemployment. That said, though many consistently praise Clinton’s handling of the economy, his first two years in office often go (conveniently) unmentioned, and for good reason, as unemployment worsened, averaging 6.8% during his first four years in office, as opposed to 6.3% under George H.W. Bush’s only term. Although many will deny it, much of Clinton’s economic success is entwined with Republican policies. Budget balancing Republicans were in the lead on this long before Clinton even began to plot his presidential run. This included but was not limited to Republicans Phil Gramm and Warren Rudman, who later joined by Democrat Ernest Hollings, tailored budget limiting legislation, ultimately passed into law by George H.W. Bush as the Budget Enforcement Act of 1990. Alan Greenspan having referred to it as a ``monument to congressional self-restraint,'' it goes without saying that during the Clinton years, Republicans did more than their part to balance the budget, which they not only put in writing in their Contract with America, but backed by their shutting down the government in 1995. Thus clearly demonstrating their sincerity about budget cuts, Republicans also broke ground on welfare reform, though Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich garnered much criticism, much of it from Clinton himself as well as the mainstream media, and Secretary of Health and Human Services Department, Donna Shalala. Later realizing, however, what political harm he might do himself were he not to sign such into law, Clinton reached a compromise with a Republican led Congress to pass Welfare reform.

Although there has also been much disagreement about the merits of the tax rate negotiated with Republicans by Clinton’s Secretary of the Treasury, Robert Rubin, a deal that brought down the capital-gains tax to 20 percent, Clinton, Rubin, and Greenspan did not accomplish this all by themselves. They did it under constant pressure from the Republicans. This decreased tax rate allowed the economy, assumed by many to be heading into recession, to find its second wind, as extra tax revenue flooded into federal coffers, which along with the savings from the welfare reform act and national defense cuts, helped bring about the much lauded Clinton budget surplus. Prior to this, however, one must not dismiss the very reason for the so called Clinton economy: Reagan’s tax cuts.

Following Reagan’s lowering of the tax cut from 70% to 40%, despite delaying tactics by a Democrat-controlled congress, twice the amount of money flowed into the general economy instead of into the non-productive federal coffers. Reagan also eliminated many tax loopholes (many of which sanctioned by the Federal Government, such as “energy producing windmills”) and shelters, leaving the rich to pay higher taxes, which prompted them to invest in the private economic sector, including the later to take off information technology sector.

It should be also noted that as of the last quarter of George H.W. Bush’s presidency, in 1992, contrary to that very same year’s presidential politicking by the mainstream media at the behest of Clinton, the economy was growing at a 3.9% rate per annum. In other words, though there was low inflation and positive growth, the media turned it into, to the benefit of Clinton’s presidential aspirations, an utterly flailing and failing economy, which miracously recovered as Clinton walked into the White House, as some would have us believe. In fact, Clinton had inherited a growing economy, or as many have put it, the second wave of the Reagan’s economic boom. This stems from the fact of continued growth, save for the brief instance following the raising of taxes by a democrat-controlled congress, which George H.W. Bush signed into law as he broke his “Read my lips” pledge.

Clinton did some very good things, including his reaching across the aisle and working with Republicans, increasing free trade, as well as ensuring good leadership of the Federal Reserve. That said, although the Democrats and their allies in the media and others want to rewrite history as their party creating and owning the golden ‘90s or “Decade of Prosperity,” a period which looks better at every telling, they don't own it alone, as the Republican did as much, if not more to make it so.

RCV| 7.11.10 @ 4:06PM

There's no question that GOP bipartisanship played a large role as I am happy to concede. If we only had such constructiveness today.

righton2dgrave| 7.10.10 @ 10:53AM

You guys just keep digging. You're are in for a big surprise come November.

chis| 7.10.10 @ 11:06PM

We're in trench warfare, Oval Office vs. Liberty and the Repubicians fight with Marshmellow Fluff while the socialist radicals throw bombs.

Conservatives & Republicans better get some balls and a stronger backbone to hold them up, or America is over. End of story and liberty too foooools!!!!!

Your childern and Grandchildren will hate you until the day you take your dirt nap and thereafter you idiots.

Actions speak louder than soundbites and talking points a$$holes. Stand up when you take a piss otherwise go paint your toenails and answer to the name of bitch!