The American Spectator

Robbins Mitchell| 11.18.10 @ 6:16AM

"His appeal is less loud, more profound, less distinct, more stirring—and sooner forgotten"

~Joseph Conrad~
"The Nigger of the Narcissus"

Tomas| 11.18.10 @ 11:41AM

I got into a debate with a liberal on Twitter regarding incumbency. My position - as is the position of the majority of Americans - is to throw out the career politician and start over. Establish term limits.

Of course, he didn't agree. He loved the current political status quo. His argument for rejecting the anti-incumbent fervor was something I had never heard before: "Institutional Memory."

He never explained what it meant. He just blocked me.

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Christopher Holland| 11.18.10 @ 10:40PM

Whenever liberals defend the status quo, I remind them of Ronald Reagan's comment that status quo was Greek for 'the mess that we are now in'. It always burns them up, they hate to hear that, which makes me enjoy it even more.

Bob From District 9| 11.19.10 @ 11:15AM

Since both Reagan and Bush II were responsible for getting this country into the worst "status quo" of my lifetime (63 yrs now), maybe he would know.

Remember, all of the debt load (debt as percent of GDP) accumulated since the end of WWII has been under Reagan/BushI/BushII. Of the $12T debt Obama inherited, built up over 234 years, over half was accumulated under GWB.

Under GWB the federal government was 100% under republican control for his 1st 6 years, but the acomplished nothing except let this country go into debt, and run the economy into the ground.

dragon6actual| 11.19.10 @ 12:32PM

It was on the order of $1.6T ascribed to Bush 43 (contirbuted to by previous administrations). The $11T figure belongs to Obama. Mr. Obama managed to outspend the last several administrations, and did it in his first two years. I can't wait for 2012.

Renard| 11.19.10 @ 11:52PM

Sorry to burst your bubble, Bob from 9, but Presidents Reagan and Bush did NOT get us to this point. The housing bubble did us in. Blame can be squarely placed on Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, Maxine Waters, and a slew of other liberals. They were the ones who DEMANDED that the banks make mortgage loans to people who shouldn't have been able to put a toaster at Sears on lay-away.

Who do the bankers think they are, saying that a couple making $39,000 between the two of them can't afford a $300,000 house??? Of all the nerve!

carnot| 11.20.10 @ 11:07PM

well that's just grand..Bob! then all the Lib pundits who claim Republicans are apostles of greed and pawns of the rich must be wrong......cuz Federal budgetary woes are driven by unsustainable entitlement spending.

who knew?! Republicans were accountable all along for the "caring"..."socially responsible" programs currently eating up all future opportunities.

ROWDY BOOTS| 11.21.10 @ 2:06AM

Bob,

District 9 is an Alien Slum. Is it a coincidence that your thinking is slum-like.

Read a book or get a job!

Rowdy Boots

Doug| 11.21.10 @ 7:24PM

Bob - Well, spending bills start with the House, go on to the Senate then for final signature by the President. That is why a number of Presidents have been asking for the line item veto. While I won't go as far as to suggest Presidents have NO fiscal input, I don't understand why people put it all on the President...

Reagan Loyalist| 11.18.10 @ 12:51PM

GWB was always a ruling class member but he had and has character, humility, a solid moral compass. Obama is a secularist elite, a relativist. He never allow the law, or civility and especially morality to dissuade him from implementing his agenda.

Hasn't it been refreshing to see W refuse to play dirty? I didn't like many of his policies but I loved him. We miss that manly, straight talking twang.

josil| 11.18.10 @ 5:59PM

You are absolutely right. Bush, whatever his mistakes, has the character that Obama lacks. And, his Veep is totally devoid of integrity.

Bob From District 9| 11.19.10 @ 11:10AM

GWB has humility? He thought he was chosen by God to run this country.

GWB has a solid moral compass? He thought it was worse to be called a racist than to actually be responsible for the deaths of over 4500 Americans and 100,000 Iraqis in his war for oil.

He has character? He said he sleeps well while Americans were dying in a war that he didn't need to fight.

GWB Was a puppet who let this country go into the toilet, and all you can do is praise him and condemn the man who is faced with bringing the country back up.

That manly, straight talking twang? He was more New England than Texas.

Manly? A man who used influence to get into the National Guard, then couldn't finish that?

GWB was the most corrupt president in my lifetime, and his family probably the most corrupt family in US political history.

Phil| 11.19.10 @ 10:25PM

You are a total idiot if you believe for one second that king Obama has anything good to do for America. Oboma spent more in 2 years bailing out his friends than all the past presidents combined. To try and blame Bush without actually doing any research make you a typical moron that's drinking Obamas cool aid. Wake up!!!!

Rowdy Boots| 11.21.10 @ 2:09AM

Bob,

You are beginning to irk me. If you can't stick to factual information, please re-direct your inane commentary to msnbc, or cnn or some other pigslop media outlet where it would be more appropriate.

This site is for intelligent conversation and debate.

Also, Shut Up!

Rowdy Boots

GKPAL| 11.21.10 @ 10:15PM

Bob; You are a moron. Not worth my time rebutting your idiotic statements.

Alan Brooks| 11.18.10 @ 1:02PM

"Americans had to mutiny to save the ship of state."

As they did in '92 against the clueless post Cold War
pantywaist from Kennebunkport and his incompetent crew of Sununus.

Alan Brooks| 11.18.10 @ 1:07PM

... But go ahead! continue to nominate Bushes, Mitts and mutts- and other middle/lightweights.
Do as thou WILT.
You dig your own graves; OR-- if you find that offensive, you make your own beds. It is whatever you want, wherever; whenever. Let every hog slurp out of the trough of its own choosing.

bus| 11.18.10 @ 4:16PM

And the one term Senator, community organizer, and professor is a heavyweight?

Alan Brooks| 11.18.10 @ 4:29PM

You mean Obama is not as heavyweight as the guy whose real claim to fame in the '08 election was being tortured in 'Nam four decades before?
And he used the epithet 'gooks' to describe his former captors- what a foolish way to garner Asian votes. Face it: he was (is) a Bob Dork- type.

if you can't convince another Reagan to run, you will have to throw in the towel.

Albert| 11.18.10 @ 5:34PM

"You mean Obama is not as heavyweight as the guy whose real claim to fame in the '08 election was being tortured in 'Nam four decades before?"

This is correct. He is not. As bad as the Bushes have been, as bad as McCain is as a Senator and would have been as President, these men are STILL better men than your Bozo the Clown now in the White House. One simply can not get any more lightweight than President Bozo, a lightweight in both character and intellect. A buffoon. A fool. A puppet for his handlers. If he is the best you have, then you have nothing at all.

Alan Brooks| 11.18.10 @ 6:16PM

Things ARE better in many ways. I checked with VA, veterans are being treated better now.
But, naturally, you will say "that is Bush's doing, a delayed improvement from his policies over two years ago.."

Anything goes right, you praise Bush; if you need to blame that which goes awry, blame Obama; he is your pin cushion-- there to JAB. Because he is black, you can use him as your voodoo doll, so perhaps Carter was partly correct; it might be partly based on race.
High tech lynching of an uppity...

Albert| 11.18.10 @ 6:41PM

Horse manure. You are delusional. And should you projecting your own disfunctional behavior on to others. A sign desperation and of having no valid argument: Bring up racism. You are laughable.

Albert| 11.18.10 @ 6:42PM

Horse manure. You are delusional. And should you STOP projecting your own disfunctional behavior on to others. A sign desperation and of having no valid argument: Bring up racism. You are laughable.

Martin Treptow| 11.18.10 @ 7:04PM

In Freudian psychology, Psychological projection or projection bias is a psychological defense mechanism where a person unconsciously denies their own attributes, thoughts, and emotions, which are then ascribed to the outside world, such as to the weather, or to other people. Thus, it involves imagining or projecting that others have those feelings.

This is all I hear from the Left anymore. One giant mass projection.
It appears that, once the focus of the original psychosis fades, Bush Derangement Syndrome evolves in Projection Disorder.

Cheers!

Margie| 11.19.10 @ 3:27PM

Well said, sir.

RacerJim| 11.20.10 @ 11:41AM

More things ARE WORSE in more ways thanks to usurper POTUS Obama . As a Vietnam Veteran I know the VA isn't treating me any better, or worse, than before. However, Medicare has treated me worse than before. And since usurper POTUS Obama STOLE $500 BILLION from the Medicare trust fund in order to subsidize Obamacare I very logically say that is Obama's doing. Additionally, for the first time in history there has been no COLA for Social Security...not in 2009, not in 2010 and probably not in 2011 and 2012 either...that also is Obama's doing.

Disgusted| 11.19.10 @ 6:31PM

Alan, that's Mr. Bob Dole ---veteran & former POW--- to you, asshole. You are't worthy to even exist on the same earth as the patriot former Senator Dole.

carnot| 11.20.10 @ 11:10PM

nahhhh...along the way we'll dig yours as well.

Rowdy Boots| 11.21.10 @ 2:13AM

And exactly what do you suggest?

To continue to give hundreds of billion of dollars to sycophants, welfare cheaters and people who think like you that the government actually owns all the money and we just are lucky to have what is left?

GROW UP--I AM SO SICK OF YOU IMMATURE LEFT WING CRYBABIES WHINING OVER YOUR LACK OF UNDERSTANDING OF HOW THE WORLD ACTUALLY WORKS.

OBAMA IS A HISTORIC MISTAKE AND BUSH IS A REAL MAN WHO DOES NOT BLAME EVERYONE ELSE FOR HIS MISTAKES.

ALAN--YOU COULD LEARN FROM HIM.

OR SHUT UP!

ROWDY BOOTS

Appleby| 11.18.10 @ 6:48AM

Zero cannot hear the American people because he cannot stop talking long enough to hear anything.

His ship has sailed, and he was at the airport. Talking.

Akaky| 11.19.10 @ 3:09PM

I wonder if he got the pat-down or the scanner treatment; in either case it seems difficult to detect something in an empty suit.

John C. Benso| 11.18.10 @ 6:49AM

I have not read anywhere a more cogent paragraph describing what is in the hearts of Americans than the following. Thank you, Mr. Cline. "Two years ago, the people craved change. But they didn't want to change their country; they wanted to change their government. They demanded a government that was open, honest, accountable and trustworthy, and which would actually fix broken things and leave everything else alone. Obama seemed to offer all of that. Now, after two years under his governance, America knows better."

TennesseeVolunteer| 11.18.10 @ 7:45AM

Mr. Cline, Obama never offered this. He offered something called "hope and change" with no proof that he had ever delivered anything other than government grants, affirmative action, back room political maneuvering to get elected and sat at the pew of a Black Theologist who blames all things white and Jewish for the supposed sins of a great country

Stephanie| 11.18.10 @ 2:29PM

But John, the one said he was going to "fundamentally change America". He didn't say he was going to change Washington. He told the people what he was going to do and they went with it. Fools.

JF| 11.18.10 @ 4:42PM

You are dead on, Stephanie. Obama was the only candidate who was truthful. Those who voted for him read into his statements their own wishes and fantasies rather than looking at the reality of his words and the quality of his associates (e.g. Bill Ayers, Rev. Wright) and drawing a logical conclusion from that.

Al Adab| 11.18.10 @ 5:04PM

You are right Stephanie. He told us and too few listened. We have no one to blame but ourselves. Now, what do we do about it?

Christopher Holland| 11.18.10 @ 10:47PM

If Obama thought he was going to fundamentally change America, it looks like he got it wrong, because America is bouncing back, it isn't keen on being bent out of shape. Obama is a screaming liberal who thinks that government can change everything. The whole history of America is that this isn't the case. Obama doesn't understand his own country and his own people and he is failing because of it.

RacerJim| 11.20.10 @ 11:45AM

Obama understands America all too well, and has been hell bent on destroying it.

Ret. Marine| 11.18.10 @ 7:05AM

Aaaah, something to consider here Mr. Cline, he actually said, "in five days we are going to fundamentally change this country". Powerful words and who would have guessed it in the fashion he set about to change. I have had a question from the start of this statement, who in the hell gave him permission to change anything about this Representative Republic, and what does he think our Constitution, and the many checks and balances are about, his right to fundamentally change, bull*^it, he has no authority to change anything, We the People, not him as a self imposed wannabe dictator, he just thinks he smarter than the rest of us, a very flawed idea to say the least. He is nothing short of a National embarrassment. Never send a boy to do a man's job.
What this boy is now seeing is the total of his lies to We the People, and we are not as arrogant, inept, ignorant and stupid as to not understand what the total sum of his handler, soros along with the entire democratic socialist/marxist/progressives he caucused with to knaived with to the end of his ruin. He's getting just what he has given us in the two short years of his arrogance, total disrespect for whatever he says, does, or thinks he is going to get away with. In total, a complete loser, and now We the People are just confirming what we allready knew, there are traitors among us and they will soon pay for the damage they have tried to do to our beloved Nation. The first step has already happened. They lost, We Won.

RacerJim| 11.18.10 @ 12:05PM

Ditto everything you said, Ret Marine. Bottom-line to the mid-term elections is indeed "We Won", "We the [center-right] People..." that is. We don't mind the Democrats joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back. Eh Obama? :-)

Impeach Don't Wait| 11.18.10 @ 9:23PM

"...who in the hell gave him permission to change anything about this Representative Republic, and what does he think our Constitution, and the many checks and balances are about, his right to fundamentally change, bull*^it, he has no authority to change anything,..."

Yes, and we saw how our wonderful Congress--"check and balance" that it is--jumped right into his arms. So the real "check and balance" had to jump in--We the People--and vote them out! Gridlock? Heck yes! It's called applying the brakes! I'm sure of this: now I hope Republicans compromise on absolutely nothing! To me "bipartisan" is a bad word. And frankly, I feel the Democrats are not fit to hold the reins of government ever again. I feel that strongly about it! They have nothing I want or need, it's ALL destructive to America.

My favorite line from the article above: "Our only hope was to mutiny and drop anchor."

MtTopPatriot| 11.18.10 @ 7:17AM

Ah but he does understand America, for anyone who could say such a thing, essentially marching orders for his minions and sycophants of the agenda for destruction of America, and an elitist shout out to like minded social tyrants and engineers, could only speak of such things if they fundamentally understood the fabric of our Republic intimately. What obama's fails to see is what he portends in this comment is not our liabilities, weakness, and serious faults, but the ingredients of our greatest strengths.

Melvin| 11.18.10 @ 7:34AM

The only thing Obama hears is the Marxist voice of his father.
The American people are Colonial Imperialists raping the world for it's own selfish ends. That how Obama sees it, thats how Michelle sees it, and that is how the Social Democrats see it. And Democrat is just another softer name for Marxist.
It wasn't the Republican Party that made huge electoral gains a couple of weeks ago, it was the American Communist Party that made even bigger gains within the American Social Democrat Party.
The American Communist Party now holds more Congressional seats than they have ever held in known American history.
Marxists are very patient people are they not? Don't be surprised when they vote to put the face of Carl Marx on Mount Rushmore.

Al Adab| 11.18.10 @ 11:17AM

Children especially young boys, abandoned by their fathers develop a unique pathology in which they seek approval and recognition (love and acceptance) from surrogates. In this case, as in Bill Clintons, the surrogate becomes mentors and a larger adoring public. It is very sad for the individual involved and as in this instance for the nation this person helps govern. If rejected they are likely to develop self destructive tendancies and behaviors.

David in MA| 11.18.10 @ 1:14PM

So, are you saying obama has a mental illness?

Christopher Holland| 11.18.10 @ 10:52PM

Well, he does think that he can sodomise a whole country without anybody complaining about it. That sounds like a mental illness to me.

David in MA| 11.18.10 @ 1:17PM

I have read that there are 80 admitted communists in the American Congress.
But how are many unknown?
Voters need to investigate those who seek public office more closely before voting for them.

Al Adab| 11.18.10 @ 3:49PM

Members of congress who align with the DSA are certainly Socialist (if not Communist) the distinction being more style than anything. At last count there were 75 members. Look up DSA for the information. Sorry, I'm too much the technophobe to put the link on.

As to the other question, most likely. Narcissism qualifies.

JF| 11.18.10 @ 4:47PM

Narcissism is a symptom of a much more insidious pathology called borderline personality disorder. People with this have no conscience, can't relate to other people on a one-on-one basis, believe everyone is put on earth to serve them, will lie as easily as they tell the truth if it gets them what they want and throw anyone under the bus who gets between them and their intended goal. Does this sound like Obama???? (And possibly 80% of congress as well.)

RacerJim| 11.20.10 @ 11:50AM

Amongst the members of Congress who are long time members of the DSA (Democratic Socialists of America) and CPUSA (Communist Party of the United States of America) is none other than Rep Charlie Rangel.

rjh| 11.18.10 @ 7:38AM

"Our only hope was to mutiny ..."
Good article, Mr. Cline, with one exception. The term mutiny implies that we were under someone's command. The American people do not function as the "crew" for the President or for any other politician. Our elected officials' duties are spelled out clearly in the Constitution...they work for us. Perhaps if we stopped referring to them as our "leaders", more people would understand this.

justasimplepatriot| 11.18.10 @ 10:11AM

There-in lies the problem. You are correct but your worldview is in touch with reality. Obama's isn't.

Sheila| 11.18.10 @ 11:16AM

Well said, rjh. We are citizens, not subjects. Our Founding Fathers instituted a republic for "ourselves and our posterity," not to make the world safe for Muslims and third-world dictators.

PaulD| 11.19.10 @ 6:16AM

VERY WELL SAID!

David in MA| 11.18.10 @ 1:13PM

There is an idea, call the elected people who represent "US" our employees and call obama, obama....not Mr. not President, simply obama...that will drive them nuts! Maybe enough so that they will quit and more compentant and concensiuous people will apply for the jobs.

bull-gator| 11.18.10 @ 8:14AM

I view obama as a new hire to our company (country) that had a thin, but tidy little resume and sold himself in the interview (campaign) as one who could make a positive difference (hope and change) in our company (country). Well, the probationary period is over and We the People are going to fire this little pipsqueak as soon as We are able (2012 presidential election). Make no mistake about who is in charge here. We the People do not have to mutiny, We just have to fire the inept employee.

RacerJim| 11.18.10 @ 12:34PM

I agree with your analogy with one preminent exception: Obama's probationary period was his 2 year long "inteview" (campaign), during which anyone who tried to check/verify any references on his resume hit a brick wall. If Obama were a potential new hire to my company, especially for any position requiring a National Security Clearance, I would have shredded his application/resume as soon as I hit a brick wall on any of his references.

MikeD| 11.18.10 @ 8:33AM

Barak Obama is a very lucky man...so far. He is so far out of touch with Americans because he is not one of us, and fiercly proud of the fact. He views us with the complete distain of a card-carrying member of the "Elite". He shares nothing with the people who allegedly elected him; an election that is stained by the constant manipulation of the electoral process practiced by the Democratic Party. If it's close, they'll find a way to steal it. He is vain and arrogant in his self delusional belief of his own superiority.

He's a lucky man because America has, so far, adhered to the rule of law and the protest of the ballot box. But he, and his fellow thugs like Nancy Pelosi, are so delusional that the rule of law may not always be enough to control, and possibly eliminate him. He'd better hope and pray that the very restless undercurrent stays non-violent.

I sincerely hope that the Republicans exercise their responsibility to learn what this man is hiding when they assume lawful control of the House in January. Additionally, Obama and his fellow thugs should be exposed to legal scrutiny as a result of their questionable, and probably illegal, methods of ramming legislation through in defiance of our Constitution. These people need to be stopped at all costs before the Country descends into violence; which is what Obama and his gang are hoping for so they can declare martial law and crush us forever. I just wonder what our Military would do when Obama and his thugs ordered them to protect HIS A$$ by firing on their friends and families. He'd better not be too comfortable of their choice when the crunch comes.

davelnaf| 11.18.10 @ 8:48AM

By now most people have the sense that there is a deeper, underlying pathology to Obama that has yet to be fully plumbed. Did we see it peek out during his post-election news conference? I have to think we did.

Tim*| 11.18.10 @ 9:05AM

The Tea Party Rebellion Now Escalates.

The GOP Primaries & The Midterm Elections were Battles in The Ongoing Tea Party Rebellion.
Nothing Is Settled.
The Earmarks Fight was an early Senate Lame Duck Battle.

The Tea Party Rebels Will Be Seated In January.
Lots of House & Senate Battles Coming Up.
We Walk & Chew Gum At The Same Time & Begin Preliminary Planning For The 2012 GOP Primaries & Then The General Elections.

The Tea Party Is Inside & Outside The Congress & The GOP.

Carpe Diem.

Rmm| 11.18.10 @ 9:53AM

At times it becomes delightful to see discomfort overtake someone. Our false prophet Obama has finally had his comeuppance which is something to behold. The guy has had a serious ass whippin and still denies it happened. And we call this being presidential? I would hope O's backers are having second thoughts about putting any faith in this "little" man.

justasimplepatriot| 11.18.10 @ 10:08AM

Regarding Obama, his education, his world view and his complete incompetence - one phrase comes occurs to me:

"A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Waste"

Mistral| 11.18.10 @ 10:30AM

I revel in the complete deconstruction of the Obama myth and the exposure of his absolute incompetence and unsuitability to govern. He is a total failure. His dysfunctional narcissism is plain for all to see matched by the hypocritical absurdities of his wife who has to be the most undignified first lady in the history of the USA. Her husband matches the superlatives for being the most incapable. Perhaps Americans can find it in themselves to be better informed about who they are electing next time round: there is no room for similar incompetence as was demonstrated in the last presidential elections.

Brian Ankner| 11.18.10 @ 10:33AM

I bought a book at a garage sale a week ago and as I was thumbing through the pages I found a newspaper clipping, this is what the 'editorial' said:

===============
"Money to Capitol Never Ending Drain"

Editor, Daily News - Feeding Washington with money is somewhat like pouring water into a rat hole - it never fills up.
We are being taxed now until it hurts, and President Johnson is maneuvering with all of his skills to get a tax raise. He is asking the people to appeal to their congressmen to back him up so he can 'bleed' us more.
If Washington valued money and used it more wisely, it would be a different story. It appears to me that some of our tax money is being used in certain programs where, perhaps, it will get votes for our aspired leaders who 'love' the high seats in Washington. If this be true, it is a sin in the sight of God.

George R. Hunt
Kathleen, Georgia
=================

Seems like nothing changes, they were upset about the same things then as we are now. I thought it an interesting read and will frame this little bit of history.

Tim the Enchanter| 11.18.10 @ 11:47AM

"What Obama Fails to Understand" is the title of this article. To do that topic justice, it would take a book, not a mere article.

Francis W. Porretto| 11.18.10 @ 12:57PM

"Obama views American reluctance to stray from tradition, sacrifice individual liberty, and undermine institutional stability as nothing more than mindless superstition to be overcome by superior reason and logic."

This implicitly assumes that Obama sincerely believes in the utility of his nostrums. There's no evidence to that effect, and powerful evidence to the opposite. Remember when he said that he supported an increase in the capital-gains tax rate, even if it would decrease federal revenues, on the basis of fairness?

Doug| 11.18.10 @ 1:01PM

Obama as Captain Queeg? Someone stole his quart of strawberries? :)

Actually, I think Mr. Obama's problem is that he only listens when he is talking.

Albert| 11.18.10 @ 5:42PM

What makes you think he listens even then? If he actually listened to himself he might notice the excessive "uh's" and "um's" he employs in place of actual speech.

David in MA| 11.18.10 @ 1:06PM

What America fails to understand is that obama has the mindset of a socialist dictator!

Louis Jenkins| 11.18.10 @ 1:09PM

King Zero has his eye on the prize. The great white whale Moby Dick. And we're the prize to be stripped of every ounce of flesh that we may possess. Let's hope we do not fall prey, but continue our battle to remain free. We've won round one, now set our sights on round two and be rid of the teleprompter n chief.

Marty| 11.18.10 @ 1:12PM

Before the election, PJ O'Rourke wrote in TWS that this isn't an election, it's a restraining order.

Stephen| 11.18.10 @ 1:20PM

The rejection of Democratic policies comes for two reasons: 1. The thought that they go too far; and 2. The thought that they don't go far enough. To assume that all of the 60% reject Democratic policies because of #1 is myopic and delusional. At least 50% of that 60 % reject Democratic policies for reason #2. You are experiencing selection bias if you don't account for that fact ...

tdiinva| 11.18.10 @ 2:23PM

Ah yes Americans want Communism that's the ticket.

Moron

Jeremiah| 11.18.10 @ 2:44PM

Stephen, you are delusional. Do you think 50% of that 60% voted for Republicans because Democrats weren't loony left enough? Are you serious? Get a clue. You and your mindless ideologues use what intelligence you have not to analyze, not to weigh evidence and reason, but to prop up a silly fantasy that has never worked and never will.

You and your silly policy preferences wrecked Russia, wrecked Cuba, wrecked East Germany, wrecked Poland, wrecked Czechoslovakia, wrecked Romania, made Vietnam and Cambodia into killing fields, and has made China into the world's largest prison. The EU is desperately trying to run from their flirtation with your policies to avoid complete collapse. So what do you do? You try to wreck this country. And you think you are the smart ones?!!! Never has an "intellectual elite" been so feckless and stupid.

You have this romantic image of yourself from the 60s, storming the barricades and speaking truth to power. The barricades are being stormed...but you are the barricade. You are the power to which truth was just resoundingly spoken.

Twenty years from now novels will be written and movies will be made about an ignorant, smugly superior group of reactionaries who tried to rob a people of the liberty and prosperity they had forged with their own hands. It will be art celebrating peopl who genuinely did rise up to speak truth to power, to take the reins back from people who were always wrong, but never intellectually curious enough to examine why their 'brilliant' schemes ended in disasters. You think you are the philosopher kings, but you are just the Mr. Magoos of history, blindly ambling forward leaving collapse and disaster in your wake and wondering why people don't thank you for it. I hope you live long enough to see the magnificent artistic depictions of what you and your class really were.

Deborah D| 11.19.10 @ 6:26AM

Jerimiah -- bravo, sir, bravo! I hope I'm around to read the book and to remember with a smile on my face how WE the People rose up to take our country back from delusional, power-hungry, fools.

JF| 11.18.10 @ 4:55PM

I acknowledge that there is a far-left contingent who is disappointed that Obama didn't take the reins in Hugo Chavez fashion. But Stephen, if you believe these people are a majority in this country leads me to believe that you don't get out much. The zealot leftists are a distinct minority, and with God's help, they'll dwindle down to a whisper.

beebop| 11.19.10 @ 8:19AM

Most of them are currently debating Ipad versus Kindle ... a far better use for their limited talents to actually ACCOMPLISH anything!

ONTIME| 11.18.10 @ 1:34PM

There may be more to this than meets the eye and if We the People are not careful we my wind up trapped and squeezed into a government we may not want by a ulterior, a plotting devious group of those in the government that would use our anger to achieve their means.

I am talking about the ability to manage anger and turn it into communism, such as was done to the Chekz after WWII by the communist party, although small very effective at manipulation. As much as we preach and extoll democracy and freedom for all, we have already see how it can be corruptedby malicious politicians and this gang that is adminsistrating today is just such a crafty bunch. They have already taken your trust, your elections and your faith and made a mockery of it with hope and change, with ACORN and SEIU, with avowed communist in high places of government untouchables by our own law until the congress acts.

Carefulwith that anger America when caution can still be used to dislodge these neer-d-wells with real law and perserverance.

Will| 11.18.10 @ 1:44PM

The guy is definitely a liabilty for the country. My fervent hope is that the Obama experiment costs the Democrats dearly, for many years to come. He knows exactly what havoc he's creating, and I believe he and his followers enjoy it.

Ken Sears| 11.18.10 @ 1:52PM

I didn't WANT to not like the man, even if I saw things from the opposite side of the political-philosophical spectrum. But he has worked so hard to make me not like him, I feel that to do less would be an insult to his efforts. Indeed, he seems to have been intent on winning contempt and loathing. It appears to be pathological. What demons of his are driving him, I doubt even he grasps. But there is a lot of hate behind that professorial veneer. The man has a big smile for anyone who agrees with him that the entire order of civilization must be torn down and rebuilt in his image. And the Obamapress calls the smile geniality. And expects us to nod in assent. American Pravda.
In the movies, it's generally the bad guys who smile and coo warm soft phrases, like, "Are we comfy, Mr. Bond?", while they've got the good guy tied to some contraption about to vivisect him. It's usually the good guys who are "impolite" and use words like "fiend". That's what the Libleft calls "hate".

Frisbee| 11.18.10 @ 2:02PM

"But he has worked so hard to make me not like him, to do less would be an insult to his efforts"

Ha! LOL Ken. Great post.

Frisbee| 11.18.10 @ 2:00PM

Who was is that said:
The Republicans aren't the party of "No", but the party of "Hell No"?

HighlanderJuan| 11.18.10 @ 3:01PM

That would be Steve Doocey from the February 11, 2010 edition of Fox News' Fox and Friends:

http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201002110001

or maybe Ann Coulter

http://www.mdjonline.com/view/.....eft_column

Deborah D| 11.19.10 @ 6:33AM

That was also on a great Tea Party sign held up proudly by an African-American member of the Tea Party. I saw the picture online! Here's one picture: http://degreeofmadness.typepad.....ll-no.html

Oldefarte| 11.18.10 @ 2:22PM

They elected him out of a sense of generosity of the heart [to make his the first black president] and a slight ignorance as to who/what he is. They simply MADE A HUGE MISTAKE for which they are now paying for as a result of his policies and procedures!!!!!

HighlanderJuan| 11.18.10 @ 2:54PM

Interesting time we live in. Looking back at how the Clinton team thrashed the White House on their departure, I can now see what the Obama team is doing to America - thrashing it the same way. It's like children throwing a temper tantrum.

Do socialists and democrats know how to create anything besides disarray and destruction?

carol| 11.18.10 @ 3:32PM

the leader of the free wold is out to lunch we shall not go back to sleep someone has to take charge

kate| 11.18.10 @ 3:39PM

None of the work of the Presidency has caused Obama to pause to consider what he sees in the mirror. Somehow, while travelling the world, taking numerous vacations, losing the majority in the House and almost losing it in the Senate, and crippling our economy, health care system, and threatening our way of life, he has managed to produce more literature to inform and inflate the public's opinion of his most important personage. Just google Obama books and see the multiple products of his in the past two years. Clearly, he is not focused on his job or the tasks at hand --- only on communicating his greatness to the rest of us.

James Brown| 11.18.10 @ 3:46PM

It is not his fault. He never claimed to be anything but a socialist with a deep hate for capitalism in general and this country in particular.Most voters had no idea that he felt this way because the so called MSM carefully hid what he thought (although most agreed with him). They told us he was what his now VP said. A person of color who was personable and spoke well with no Negro accent (Bidden not me). He was going to be the next empty suit fun to watch or be around President like JFK even if equally unqualified. (Who was supported by a part of the media even in the days when expressing one bigotry was allowed as the first "Catholic President". No need to ask what his qualifications for the job might be.

Someone needs to bring a class action law suit against the major media for deliberate fraud and selling a known (to them) defective product.

Brief aside I am a practicing Catholic and earned at least a few minor death threats working for civil rights in the 60s and 70s.

Michael| 11.18.10 @ 5:31PM

"A person of color who was personable and spoke well with no Negro accent (Bidden not me). "

Um, James, Biden didn't actually say that. You should at least TRY to get who said it, rather than just making it up like the right wing, like Bachmann saying Obama's India trip cost 200 billion dollars a day.

WAKE UP| 11.18.10 @ 6:47PM

Never mind Michael, soon we'll have a REAL black man in there. Allen West.

beebop| 11.19.10 @ 8:23AM

Harry Reid.

It was Harry "best bro 4evah" Reid.

Ken Sears| 11.19.10 @ 10:50AM

Apparently, Michael considers it a point of seismic significance that it wasn't Biden but Harry Reid who uttered the oh-so-enlightened phrase. "Um", Michael (if I may quote you), Reid actually DID say that. Biden, Reid, same thing. You should at least TRY, Michael, (if I may quote you again) to stand back and get the picture.
If I recall correctly, what your master of erudition, VP Biden, actually DID say was something about Obama's being "clean".
Rather than engage in snarky "ums", Michael, you might have offered a helpful correction and enlightened us all to what Paragon of Progress Biden's quote really was. Now that we've clarified it, I'm sure you're beaming with pride over both him and Reid and their worthy utterances. Speaking of "making up", they DO make up the darndest things, don't they?

John Bailo| 11.18.10 @ 6:43PM

Obama was Liberalisms last ditch effort to hold on to power and money. They lost both. Obama is left with two choices...continue as he has been and become irrelevent. Or become a Republican.

WAKE UP| 11.18.10 @ 6:46PM

The plain fact is this: whatever their virtues or vices, their competence or malfeasances, however misguided or on target they were, the one thing that can be fairly said of EVERY President before Obama is that each was, in his own way, undeniably, patriotically, characteristically AMERICAN. Obama is not. And that's where it begins and ends.

Hank| 11.18.10 @ 7:20PM

What American characteristics does Obama lack in your view?

Christopher Holland| 11.18.10 @ 10:59PM

All of them.

carnot| 11.20.10 @ 11:22PM

I dunno...being born here?

Ted R.| 11.18.10 @ 7:23PM

Ugh - there it is, the true face of conservatism. Denying his political opponent's legitimacy even as a fellow citizen. This is the kind of rhetoric that comes right before things turn violent. YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELF.

Simon Templar| 11.18.10 @ 9:11PM

Oh, you mean like calling 20 million people racist who happen to believe in small government who show up at Tea Party's..or maybe 500,ooo thousand Americans praying for honor on the Washington Mall as Nazi and white supremacist or calling a standing president a war criminal, fascist, and calling for his assasination? Or maybe the kind of rhetoric that calls a VP candidate an idiot, moron, a bad mother, a kook, a religious nut...? Shall I go on? Ah, the true face of socialism disguised as American Liberalism today. Actually this kind of rhetoric does indeed precede historic violence as seen by every left wing movement in the 20th century. The only difference this time around when your ilk starts shooting will be the the return volley of a well armed AMERICAN public exercising their 2nd ammendment rights as instructed by our forefathers who warned us about you bastards.

WAKE UP| 11.18.10 @ 10:35PM

Thanks Simon - here's some ammunition (Hank and Ted, listen up):

Obama has been sending signals from day one : Sends Churchill’s bust back (how DARE he - that belongs to the American people!). Goes to Cairo to shoot America down (with script written by Imam Rauf!). Bows to Saudis. Pro-mosque comments at a Ramadan dinner. Troops unable to vote in the mid-terms. Won't prosecute the Black Panther intimidators. Won't comment on the undesirability of the Ground Zero mosque (coward!). Tells NASA to turn the space programme into a Muslim outreach programme (excuse me? - this, to people whose sole aviation achievement is to get bombs onto aeroplanes that their own backward culture couldn't invent in the first place.) And can't bring himself to read the Prologue properly, in its full glory (traitor!) Then wastes millions of dollars fleeing to Mumbai after the worst election result for his party in decades.
This man is about as un-American as it can get.

Christopher Holland| 11.18.10 @ 11:03PM

I'm not ashamed at all. I am proud to be a conservative and I don't care what anybody thinks about it. And I think that Obama is a clown. So there!

Gordon| 11.20.10 @ 8:49AM

The only one talking violence is You !

Jose Luis Stecca| 11.20.10 @ 11:42AM

Ted ? Ted "to small" Rall ? Is that you, Ted ? Tell ya what, Teddy... When Barrack Hussein Obama AKA Barry Soetoro produces his Certificate of Live Birth... and said Certificate shows that he was born in Hawaii... Then and only
then will I admit to his legitimacy...

Until that time there is no shame in refering to Mr. Obama as the Usurper in Chief

RacerJim| 11.20.10 @ 12:03PM

The person listed on Obama's "Certification of Live Birth" as his father was never a U.S. Citizen of any type, therefore Obama could have been born in the Oval Office of the White House and he still wouldn't be eligible.

There is indeed no shame in the truth. Barack Hussein Obama/Barry Soetoro is indeed the Usuper in Chief

Hank| 11.18.10 @ 7:20PM

Mutiny? You mean, hold an election. Like we did two years ago? And two years before that? And two years before that?

RobbyS| 11.19.10 @ 1:12AM

Indeed. The country is unsettled.

Simon Templar| 11.18.10 @ 8:53PM

Six out of ten independents realized that they were decieved by a socialist democrat pretending to be a centrist. The rest of us, the 47 percent who voted in 2008 already knew this and got real angry when this became so frick'n obvious that we organized and convinced those sixty percent of independents to vote Republican. That's what happened in a nutshell.

Ted the Red..your still out here..not enough activity out at Huffington to capture your interest? Wake Up was refering to your Leader's anti-american rhetoric and apology tours he is so fond of taking every 6 months. Read his book and just maybe you will learn just how much your messiah hates this country as it is and why he feels the need to transform it. BTW, do you get health benefits from Soros and moveon.org for your communist agitation and blogging activities on conservative web sites?

WAKE UP| 11.18.10 @ 10:37PM

Simon, see my response to Hank and Ted just above (though there's really not a lot one can do about such wilful suspension of intelligence).

Brian Richard Allen| 11.18.10 @ 10:03PM

.... O'Zero ... has become even more detached and disdainful since his "elevation" to the presidency ....

With its unique-in-the-Human Experience upside-down 'Organizational Chart' with We, The People -- and the triangle's 'base' on the top and our most trusted servant at the pointy bit on the bottom -- America's presidents (let alone pretenders to the position like the present person so pretending) are not "elevated" to the presidency.

Almost none of us and most of them don't get that.

And that's where most of their failures begin.

Those of the sail-eared simpleton no exception.

RobbyS| 11.19.10 @ 1:18AM

Fifty years ago, when John Kennedy was elected--as a conservative Democrats, BTW, the national capital was a medium sized city and Maryland and Northern Virginia were still open country. Now it has become the center of a huge metroplex, populated mainly by government workers and workers for companies that fed off government. All that talk about the Imperial Presidency went to Obama's head.

Henry| 11.19.10 @ 1:21AM

obama is merely a Marxist. He has been around Marxism his entire life, from birth to current. It really doesn't get any easier than that. America is falling to pieces. It is what many people call Sociatal Breakdown. obama merely will be the key to unlock the financial meltdown causing a Rome like "burning." He has no answers. Everything he has done or has not done is basically to dropkick America though the goal posts. Facts are facts. obama is simply a Marxist ready to destroy a country. This country is merely America. The "Gold" prize for Marxist. Game? Set? Match?

Blacque Jacques Shellacque| 11.19.10 @ 3:15AM

The public has no idea what a service it's done by electing Republicans to thwart this president.

The hope now is that they actually do thwart this president.

Yosemeti Sam| 11.19.10 @ 11:03AM

" ...Two years ago, the people craved change. But they didn't want to change their country; they wanted to change their government. They demanded a government that was open, honest, accountable and trustworthy, and which would actually fix broken things and leave everything else alone. Obama seemed to offer all of that. Now, after two years under his governance, America knows better...."

Of course, they responded to BHOs' - DOUBLE CROSS.

So BHO is now feigning for the - TRIPLE CROSS.

Bob From District 9| 11.19.10 @ 11:32AM

It's nice to see some things don't change. The New Hampshire Union Leader is still the same right wing trash heap it has long been.

What this country needs above all is some people in the public arena who will speak the truth, Andrew Cline is not one of those people.

"This November's elections were not merely an expression of frustration with the pace of recovery, as the president claims and apparently believes. They were a rebuttal to Obama's argument that every facet of American life requires "comprehensive reform."

Nothing in Obama's performance suggests every aspect of American life needs reform. Some clearly do, but Obama never suggested the entire culture needed any such thing.

Sales puffery is generally accepted in business, but in a serious discussion of national issues it's a road to disaster.

As a gun owning practicing Catholic with two immigrants in my close family, and a lot more in my extended family, I can say his "bitter clinger" comment was badly worded, but not all that much wrong as an answer to the question he was asked, why do people vote against their own interests.

"Collectively ignorant, their political actions are dictated by irrational fear born of economic hardship."

There is nothing in what he says or does to suggest a belief that the American people are ignorant. After all, the polls show he would win against pretty much any candidate who ran against him in 2012.

That American's are acting in response to fear of economic hardship is absolutely true. That it is irrational is not true. Americans have good reason to fear economic hardship, this country has not yet pulled back from the brink.

The American people have no idea how much they have endangered this country by electing Tea Partiers. Their extremism carries a danger of pushing us over that brink. Thanks to the right wing's mismanagement of the economy over the 8
Bush years, we may not recover this time.

MikeD| 11.19.10 @ 2:29PM

You almost sound like a normal human being who knows how to spell and construct sentences. But, when one reads the sentences in toto, it becomes evident that you are so ignorant you are a serious danger to yourself and our country, especially if, as you say, you are armed. I think not. Bearing arms usually entails more intelligence than your drivel exhibits. Enjoy the 'Evil One' while you can because he will be gone in 2012. If he even manages to get nominated by a Democratic Party that is finally recognizing that Obama and his thugs Pelosi and Reid are tearing the party of Jackson into the dust every day; the collective wisdom of the electorate will not be misled by the lying, complicit media again. There are too many ways to circumvent them now..

Gordon| 11.20.10 @ 6:59AM

Hey Bob, you know that Bush had a left wing Congress for his last two years. You might want to look at the spending in those last two years. The argument that this is a "Bush Thing" is getting old.I don't like Obama, not because he is black nor for his religious beliefs. I don't like Obama for his policys. He and you are socialist if not Communist. If I buy you a one way ticket to France would you please leave this country. I know you libs like free and not Freedom so I am willing to buy a one way tickets for all who want to leave this country and denounce their citizenship to this United States. Check back here everyday and I will tell you what to do, when to get out of bed, when to eat, what to eat, what to watch on TV, (if we have TV) and what time to go to bed. When you get a little older I will tell you if your life is worth saving. Is this what you want? Life in this Country is about individual choice, not some please take care of me government because it's not fair that someone has more than me. In no way shape or form is it fair to take (steal) money from people that work and give it to people that don't work. So again please take your socialist agenda to a country that is more excepting.

I am a Veteran, I love this Country.
The reason you can speak out is because of people just like me. People willing to give their life for the freedoms that you enjoy. I would bet you have never been outside this Country. I have and don't want any part of a new world order.

Gordon | 11.20.10 @ 7:11AM

Time to get up Bob and have wheat toast, an egg beater and a glass of juice. Do it now Bob! After you finish your breakfast I will tell you what to do next.

Gordon | 11.20.10 @ 7:16AM

OK breakfast is over.
Now I want you to run 5 miles in place.
Do 100 push ups.
Do 100 sit ups.
Oh by the way no electricity today.

Gordon| 11.20.10 @ 7:19AM

I have made you your next doctors appointment. It's September 3 2016, that's the earliest I could get for you. You might live till then ( fingers crossed ).

Gordon| 11.20.10 @ 7:59AM

OK fun time is over. You need to go to work now.
The Kremlin ( government ) needs you!
You will not get paid but on the up side I will tell you where to go and pickup your bread, cheese and bathroom tissue ( if supplies last).

Gordon| 11.20.10 @ 8:06AM

Bob you where late for "work"
I am trying to reduce your punishment from prison to just a flogging. I can not get your food ration back so you will have to tuff that out ( you are over weight anyway ).

Gordon | 11.20.10 @ 8:30AM

Bob you are just not getting this. How am I ( the government ) suppose to guide you if you don't understand that you have lost your choice of what you want to do. The new world order has spoken.

Gordon| 11.20.10 @ 10:36AM

Bob I just got word from the death panel. They have reviewed your life's achievements and you are just not worth saving. Sorry Bob, goodbye.

RacerJim| 11.20.10 @ 12:16PM

The trend-line of every major poll indicates that an ever-increasing majority of people who voted for Obama had no idea how hell bent on destroying America he was. Blame that on Bush too.

carnot| 11.20.10 @ 11:27PM

thanks Bob for your empirically well supported argument!

putz.....you're laughable for the fact that you are what you cavil.

dragon6actual| 11.19.10 @ 12:33PM

Can you say FORMER President Barak Obama?

YES WE CAN - November 2012.

WAKE UP| 11.19.10 @ 6:15PM

Or sooner.

Gordon | 11.19.10 @ 6:40PM

Why would Alan or Bob read this trash? Alan,Bob why do you come to the American Spectator? You are of entitlement mentality and quite clearly left of center if not communist. How about getting all your facts straight and read the constitution. You both should go to some left wing blog and waste the time of the American haters on those sites. If you don't like this country and what it stands for please leave and spread your new world order some place else.

Ted R.| 11.20.10 @ 2:53PM

One foaming-at-the-mouth post after another. This site is really nothing but another Con red-meat feeding frenzy. I really am afraid for the future, when there are so many Americans out there who are this delusional.

It's going to get harder, as we all get older. We stand now at the high-water mark of the Con resurgence that began with the Reagan era. Taxes and regulation have been supressed way beyond the point where they served the public interest - and look where we are now. The public desire for more and better services will only continue to decline, as the public ages and chronic health conditions spread. Our politics is just going to end up as a fiercer battle over a shrinking pie; our political system is likely to become more unstable (just look at the wild swings in the fortunes of both parties in the House in the last 4 years).

How will it end? One thing is for sure - unless we can settle on SOME kind of national consensus about what kind of country we want to be, we're only going to continue to weaken...

beebop| 11.20.10 @ 6:10PM

worse than KOS? worse than huffpoop? worse than the NYslimes?

Seriously.

You might want to tell George Soros to buy it and turn it into something that makes you happy. Please leave us ONE FREAKING OUTLET not kowtowing to The One ....

carnot| 11.20.10 @ 11:32PM

public interest? as defined by whom.....Ted?

you are right about one thing.....there are a lot of PO'd people in Con land...and beyond. steer clear little Ted...

Ted R.| 11.21.10 @ 9:04AM

As defined by what the people want - as this is reflected in our budget, and budget priorities. A tax and fiscal policy that routinely turns in deficits almost every year since the beginning of the Reagan era, is proof that we are not taxing enough to support all the services we want. You have to agree, that perpetually running deficits is not in the public interest.

You Cons are in no position to object that it is spending cuts, rather than tax increases, that are needed. From '94 to '06, you had a golden opportunity to make your cuts, and you BLEW it. You proved your hypocrisy then. You can be as PO'd as you like. History is going to look on you people with disgust.

Gordon| 11.21.10 @ 11:13AM

Ted your written words speak loudly as someone that pays no taxes and think BIG Government is the answer. I am very thankful you are in the minority. Have you ever considered moving? If not please do. If I buy you a one way ticket to one of your favorite socialist nations will you denounce your citizenship, hop on a plane ( after your pat down or xray ) and enjoy your new found lack of freedom? I don't want you to feel like there is no way out of this unjust country, I am here to help you get out of the US.
Please get out.

Ted R.| 11.21.10 @ 11:32AM

That's right, like a typical Con, you've got not argument - you just want to silence me. Truth hurts, I guess. Tell you what - why don't YOU get out of MY country?

Gordon| 11.23.10 @ 12:24PM

I said please.
You just sound mad.
Offer still stands, think about it.

carnot| 11.21.10 @ 9:34PM

Ted...Ted...Ted...what are we going to do with you? You're so lost in your own rhetoric you can't see the proverbial spending forest for the taxation trees.

- What are the principle deficit drivers? That's right Ted...Entitlement programs.

- Who...at the State and Federal level have been inexorably driving these since the 1960's to cover an ever expanding set of unfunded mandatory requirements? That's right Ted.....the party currently in power.

And for the record...Ted.......you seem to be laboring under the impression that because a manipulated set of circumstances issues in approved legislation that it ipso facto reflects the "people's will". Like ObamaCare? uh huh. or, say, like endless activist judicial decisions? uh huh.

Yes..there will be spending cuts Ted. but what the ensuing battle is really all about is the terms of negotiation. roll back the socialist agenda that has been in play for the last 100 yrs or so....or let's sink the whole damn system and start over.

Ted R.| 11.22.10 @ 9:24AM

We agree that the government cannot perpetually run large deficits. Keynes would have been the first to acknowledge this.

Our plain, unbrigdeable, philosophical divide is that I believe in the value and worthiness of the Welfare State, and you do not.

Certainly, if we enacted a steep phase-out the entitlements, we could quickly get to a balanced budget, and even begin paying down the debt.

What just stuns me, though, is how blithe all the hard-core Cons are about the human cost of doing this.

It also stuns me, that you actually believe that this radical step would actually be POPULAR - is actually what the "the People" "really" want.

To me, the current economic crisis is the reductio ad absurdum of Reaganomics. Slashing tax rates has not helped the economy (Only modest economic growth followed on the Bush tax cuts, nothing close to covering the massive expansion of the debt under his administration); but the Republicans' tax-cut and spend-anyway version of "fiscal responsibility" has led us to a ruinous pass.

The facts are clear: The People expect a certain set of services from government. SO, they must be expected to PAY for them. THAT is fiscal responsibility. What we should have been doing, since the 80's, is RAISING TAXES successively, to cover government's bills (those bills have NOT been growing as a share of GDP, by the way). IF the People had subsequently decided that that's not what they wanted, THEN they would have had the actual (not just the pretend-rhetoric) motive to cut spending. We could have done all this without being saddled with the huge debt we have now, the debt that is the legacy of Reaganomics - the snake oil you Cons have sold the country.

The Republicans' "recovery" in these mid-terms is really nothing but the death-rattle of the Reagan revolution.

You've already proven that you can't govern. A national health-care plan IS the will of the People; Pelsoi is right - once the People get past Cons demagoguery on the issue, they are going to punish the Cons for having stood in the way.

Gordon | 11.22.10 @ 5:24PM

I am a libiterian. Are you Pelsoi ?
Offer still stands Ted/Pelsoi.

Ted R.| 11.22.10 @ 6:19PM

What do I care that you're a libertarian? The libertarians have been in bed with Republicans all through the last 30 years.

And please, spare me your suspicions that I post under any name but my own. Those complaints just reek of weakness on your part.

Gordon| 11.23.10 @ 7:50AM

Offer still stands Ted/Pelsoi and that's not a weak offer.

rdman| 11.21.10 @ 2:22PM

Just curious about that lower lip... is that a narcissistic pout or a huge chaw of chew?

carnot| 11.21.10 @ 9:41PM

Bubba Shrimp? there's your red shrimp, there's your Marxist shrimp, there's your socialist shrimp, there's your social democrat shrimp, there's your progressive shrimp.....

you know...the Left was better off rewickering the system through judicial fiat. now that the agenda is out in the open.....and the obvious conflicts and contradictions visible to all......the going is bound to be much tougher

Michael-M| 11.24.10 @ 8:53AM

As someone that lives on the other side of the Atlantic, I am horrified at the vitriol that comes through in most of the comments.
Think the US 0f A needs to stop and think about where they are going to be in 10 years if they do no start to get their spending under control, pay the taxes that are needed to sustain it. With the US military using the majority of the worlds fossil fuel each year, soil erosion in the high plains just around the corner with the depletion of ground water, major news providers giving "opinion" rather than news, I think these are all items that would make me stop dead in my tracks and look for consensus and planning for the future.