The American Spectator

drudge ette obama| 6.28.11 @ 6:40AM

Soros makes mistakes.

He is no judge of people. He attracts the underbelly. Weiner was one of those.

Soros is sloppy. His Secretary of State Project is grade-school.

His formula has been discovered. Now it can be ridiculed and exposed. We see more and more exposures, like your wonderful article here.

Once the head of the serpent is hacked off, it will be fabulous to see the rest of the Soros-body wiggle in misdirection. He's an old man with angry ideas. He can be handled, but it will take many people with no fear and an understanding of Soros' modus operandi to consistently pick away at the Soros machine.

It's fun. I am doing it right now.

Purpleguy| 6.28.11 @ 8:05AM

This is a man, Soros, who lived under Nazi Germany and knows the horrors a fascist corporate takeover of government can bring. Now, we'll never be Nazi Germany mind you, but if you think the Koch bros don't benefit from starving the beast and killing unions, you're nuts. Principles my a* - they are in for the money. Same with Soros. So are the Dems and Reps. With one difference. Soros and the Dems believe in using the government to enhance and protect our lives, while Reps and Kochs believe in using the government to keep the "little people" in their place professing "Individual liberty and responsibility" - unfortunately many believe that hook line and sinker. Just ask yourself "When have the Republicans supported anything other than defense to help people in their daily lives? ". Running up huge deficits since Reagan's time? Trying to privatized social security? Axing Medicare and Medicaid? Slashing college Pell grants? Cutting Head Start and the "Cops" program? Enhancing our freedoms like the Patriot Act and Wireless Wiretapping?

Redstateboy| 6.28.11 @ 8:38AM

Purpleguy is obviously on the Soros' payroll.. and he should be Canned for incompetence!! Those here - with more time than I - can systematically slice and dice your silly, moronic positions sentence but allow me to slam you with one little piece of Reality (A realm where Liber-uls do not dwell)
"Dems believe in using the government to enhance and protect our lives," Like Welfare? Food Stamps? High Taxes? No Jobs? Oppressive Fed. Gov't bureacracies? That's Your basic Slave Party... Keep em' ignorant and dependent.
"When have the Republicans supported anything other than defense to help people in their daily lives? "
It was called................ The "Civil War"!! and it was Republicans, led by a Republican President (Abraham Lincoln) that freed the Slaves from the Democrats - who have Not changed One Iota...!
They were and Still Are.. the Party of Slaves,

Purpleguy| 6.28.11 @ 9:54AM

I would change your diatribe a little and turn it back on Republicans - "Keep em' ignorant and make them believe they are independent, while we keep gaining power and money until they can no longer do anything about it ... shhh, don't tell anyone".

The "Civil War"? OMG, the Republicans of the today are so far from the Republicans of then, just as the Democratic Party evolved to a better place, the Republicans have devolved into a worse one, centered in the Old South, former slave territory. Abraham Lincoln believed in "small government"? Really? Ever hear of the Transcontinental Railroad? Guess who forced that through? Guess who is the only President besides Bush II to suspend habeas corpus?
Really, you should bone up on history before you start spouting Glenn Beck's version.

Redstateboy| 6.28.11 @ 10:39AM

OMG is right! Go to Any inner city schitt-hole where your beloved Slave Party and their Teachers Union Toadies have reigned supreme for Decades - tell me about the HS Graduation rates in Detroit, Killa-delphia, Buffalo, Los Angeles, Miami, Chicago and then come back and Enlighten us all as to which Party needs to keep people ignorant and dependent.
The Slave Party says: We'll Pay your Rent, your HVAC, your Food, your Healthcare, Hell! we'll even provide your Cable, Computer and Cell Phone... just Remember at voting time... just stumble on down to that Voting Booth and Press "D" not once.. but as many times as ya can and there'll be plenty of room down on the Good ole' Democrat Plantation.

Purpleguy| 6.28.11 @ 10:49AM

Hahahaha ... Go take a look at the Texas school system - the entire state is failing. Take a look at their healthcare system - 25% have no healthcare insurance at all. Try Mississippi or Alabama or Georgia for that matter ... entire states are failing, not just inner cities ... if that is your point, the South is far worse off then either coast, West, or Midwest. Wonder why, Bubba?

Pete| 6.28.11 @ 11:26AM

And yet people are moving to Texas and out of sewers like MI and CA in droves. Odd.

big bob| 6.28.11 @ 12:52PM

"Entire states are failing.." Says who? And by what standard? the only numbers I see are the budget deficits run up by democrats in the gimme states: California, New York, Illinois. Maybe you are reading your reports in Spanish?? Not sure. But you have no basis for evaluating anything in this discussion if you think Soros wants to "protect" us. You told me everything I need to know about you in that ignorant statement. Soros is pathological and only cares about himself, (I know I'm redundant!!). I dont' know what your background is, but it did not include assessing facts. Are you a government school teacher???

Purpleguy| 6.28.11 @ 4:26PM

No I'm a Republican committeeman

Redstateboy| 6.28.11 @ 2:43PM

I've observed the Liber-ul mind (EeeUuuu) and I've concluded whenever a Liber-ul (that'd be you Purpleguy) is presented a salient point; ie: the failure of Liber-ul infested education systems in the above noted cities run by Liber-uls for DECADES - Liber-uls will obfuscate, mis-direct and run from the truth. The crux of it all is this? Accepting personal responsibility is not, Can not be a part of what it means to be Liber-ul. I Liberaland.. there is No personal responsibility; all are - as Curly would say: "victims of soy-cum-stance."

voted against carter| 6.28.11 @ 4:02PM

Your continued attempt at you LEFTWING NUT LIBRATARD ideology is LOL!!!

Silly libratard SOROS TROLL.

You are an idiot. STOP proving it with every statement you make.

voted against carter| 6.28.11 @ 4:01PM

Your continued attempt at you LEFTWING NUT LIBRATARD ideology is LOL!!!

Silly libratard SOROS TROLL.

You are an idiot. STOP proving it with every statement you make.

George S| 6.28.11 @ 8:51AM

You liberals have got to get over this "corporate" nonsense. Corporate takeover? Good Lord, do you realize corporations only exist at the pleasure of the IRS?

Purpleguy| 6.28.11 @ 9:56AM

When 2 corporations control 95% of the milk production in this country - do you not see a problem? And, there are dozens of examples of corporate takeover ... wake up and smell the disaster coming. You will become a corporate automaton doing what you are told and you won't be able to do a thing about it cause all the politicians will be bought.

Sherman rides again!| 6.28.11 @ 11:49AM

Purple guy your lying or stupid. I am from a running dairy farms and most milk production comes form small farms in co-ops!

Purpleguy| 6.28.11 @ 5:10PM

Nope, sorry, your product price and distribution is controlled by 2 corporations primarily ... if you don't know that, you don't even know your own industry. Good luck getting around them.

TrueBlue| 6.29.11 @ 12:23PM

And you know why so few corporations control so many industries (and not just the milk industry)? Because your friendly government keeps making laws that are nigh impossible for smaller businesses to deal with financially. True conservatives (and I'm not talking the "Republicans" of years past) do not interfere with business, yet we have the Dems very own Tim Geithner saying we should raise taxes on small businesses (specifically!) to counter the current deficit. Yup, there's your protection of the people party for you.

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/ar.....-must-rise

As for becoming a corporate automaton, what about a union automaton? Seeing as how several of the really important "industries" in this country are totally union controlled, making it impossible to work in those fields without being a member, and those same unions support the Dems because they increase their power, how is that better than a corporation? Those would be the Teachers' Union, Autoworkers Union, and the SEIU. All of them are essentially monopolies of the fields in question, and there are no laws against it. Yet you have laws against a corporation being a monopoly...

And before you say unions fight for workers rights, no, they don't. Not anymore anyway. Unions used to have a place in this society, but now their sole purpose is to exist and put money into the pockets of the people that run them. They don't care if their members are out of a job because the company that employed them went out of business (or had to massively downsize) due to unsustainable paychecks and benefits. The unions only care that they get paid, just like your Democrat buddies.

Purpleguy| 6.29.11 @ 9:45PM

So what say you to the FACT that the Auto Unions were the only groups that offered concessions to help save the auto companies? Yeah, unions are bad, aren't they? No investor, no creditor, nobody stepped up to help, except the unions, the government, oh and 1 CEO who took $1 in pay (he didn't mention his stock options, of course) Stop spouting Republican talking points. Sure there is abuse on all sides - but you don't throw everyone under the bus for some bad apples - or do YOU?

Foxfier| 6.30.11 @ 11:42AM

You mean the small offers they made when it became clear that the companies could declare bankruptcy and entirely void the contracts? The big offer of accepting a delay in funds-- even to the program where those who are laid off get paid anyways?

Stop spouting union talking points.

Redstateboy| 6.28.11 @ 10:07AM

I'm not really in to conspiracy theories but does anyone who reads and posts here regularly at TAS find it odd that Purpleguy (whom I do not recall seeing post here previously) should magically appear to post a screed to a piece critical of George Soros?

Drunken Sailor| 6.28.11 @ 10:19AM

Unfortunately, he has been around for awhile. He loves the "Big goverment is the shining knight in armour" theory. His kind of like that crazy old aunt with all the cats that every family just tolerates.

Redstateboy| 6.28.11 @ 10:41AM

Now I laughed out loud on that one Sailor

Purpleguy| 6.28.11 @ 10:51AM

Voice of America here boys in your little corner of Reddom ... why are you the color Red like the Commies? Are you secretly wishing for Fidel?

Drunken Sailor| 6.28.11 @ 11:37AM

That would be Marine Corps Red, Teletubbie. Unlike the current Democrats in charge that are Environmentally green on the outside and commie red on the inside.

Willis| 6.28.11 @ 1:08PM

The drinks are on me, sailor.

Drunken Sailor| 6.28.11 @ 1:34PM

Semper Fi, Willis. This is one "Doc" that enjoyed his time with USMC.

voted against carter| 6.28.11 @ 4:02PM

Your continued attempt at you LEFTWING NUT LIBRATARD ideology is LOL!!!

Silly libratard SOROS TROLL.

You are an idiot. STOP proving it with every statement you make.

tj| 6.28.11 @ 9:11AM

You lie....Voted em all out 2012

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Thank you Mr. Lord, this lack of integrity & probity of the Soros Left must be continuously addressed.

Steve A| 6.28.11 @ 9:24AM

Purple, It's difficult for me to respond with your hand so far down in my pocket, reaching for my wallet.

Purpleguy| 6.28.11 @ 10:52AM

That might be funny, except you ain't got nuttin' in those pockets 'xceptin' yo' hand massaging, well ya know.

Wayne | 6.28.11 @ 1:27PM

You ought to know. The TSA must be an attractive job for you.

Purpleguy| 6.28.11 @ 5:16PM

Oh, you like what the TSA does do ya?

W| 6.28.11 @ 9:37AM

The Dems gave us Vietnam, Korea, WW I, the income tax, the Ku Klax Klan, segregation, Wiener, Blago, Spitzer, Jimmy Carter and the Iran fiasco, Bill Clinton who ignored the Islam terrorist threat after the 1993 WTC attack-Khobar towers attack- Kenya embassy attackk- the USS Cole attack, Obama with 10% unemployment and trillion dollar deficits, and much more that really enhanced our lives.

Purpleguy| 6.28.11 @ 10:52AM

Care to list what the Replicons gave us?

Sherman rides again!| 6.28.11 @ 11:50AM

What is wrong with you? Have you no common sense?

W| 6.28.11 @ 12:26PM

Purp, Eisenhower got us out of Korea, Nixon got us out of Vietnam, Reagan cut the tax rates imposed by your Dems and revived the economy ruined by Carter, Iran released the hostages because they were afraid of Reagan, Reagan won the Cold War, Lincoln freed the slaves and won the Civil War, Bush had to clean up Clinton's mess on terrorism and in general. I am getting tired of writing.

Purpleguy| 6.28.11 @ 6:18PM

Interesting list ... except that Ford ended Viet Nam, Reagan raised taxes 6 times, Iran made a deal with Ronnie which led to the Iran/Contra affair, Reagan did not win the Cold War but inherited the end of the Soviet Union which was collapsing already, Lincoln did win the Civil War and did free the slaves (but he wouldn't even be a Republican today, he's too moderate), and Bush squandered the Clinton 5 Trillion dollar surplus.

W| 6.28.11 @ 6:34PM

The Paris peace accords were in 1973. The troops were out before Nixon resigned. Your Dems cut off funding to South Vietnam when North Vietnam invaded in January 1975 and led to the Cambodia killing fields and the slaughter in South Vietnam. If you beleive the Soviet Union was collapsing in 1980, at end of Carter, then you are deluded.
Did you ever read any American history aside from listening to NPR?

Purpleguy| 6.28.11 @ 7:28PM

you apparently don't know what the CIA said about the Soviet Union, but it's not my job to educate you - go find out for yourself. Reagan did his part, but no more than 40 years of Presidents before him.

W| 6.29.11 @ 9:48AM

Purp, tell us what your contacts in the CIA told you.

Purpleguy| 6.29.11 @ 9:46PM

Look it up - you can Google it - you know how to do that, right?

Dave| 6.29.11 @ 9:49AM

...by decimating the military!!

Fredrick Ward| 6.30.11 @ 12:26PM

Purp, the Cold War ended in Jan. of 1989, and the Soviet Union did not fall until 1991. Therefore, your statement about the collapse and the end of the war is totally wrong. Go back to history class, bub. At the very least use Google to research your responses before you blabbler all over the web.

Second, the so-called Clinton surplus did not happen.

"Time and time again, anyone reading the mainstream news or reading articles on the Internet will read the claim that President Clinton not only balanced the budget, but had a surplus. This is then used as an argument to further highlight the fiscal irresponsibility of the federal government under the Bush administration.

The claim is generally made that Clinton had a surplus of $69 billion in FY1998, $123 billion in FY1999 and $230 billion in FY2000 . In that same link, Clinton claimed that the national debt had been reduced by $360 billion in the last three years, presumably FY1998, FY1999, and FY2000--though, interestingly, $360 billion is not the sum of the alleged surpluses of the three years in question ($69B + $123B + $230B = $422B, not $360B).

While not defending the increase of the federal debt under President Bush, it's curious to see Clinton's record promoted as having generated a surplus. It never happened. There was never a surplus and the facts support that position. In fact, far from a $360 billion reduction in the national debt in FY1998-FY2000, there was an increase of $281 billion."

You can view the full findings of such legitimate research here ---> http://www.craigsteiner.us/articles/16

Occam's Tool| 6.28.11 @ 1:39PM

Lowered taxes and a growth in the Dow of 1000 percent in 20 years of Reaganesque growth. Defeat of the Soviet Union without severe military conflict in Reagan's eight years. Restoration of American confidence.

A few Republican gifts.

Albert| 6.28.11 @ 11:38AM

"Soros and the Dems believe in using the government to enhance and protect our lives..." This is the most ludicrous statement any could possible make. Soros and his puppet Democrat politicians are in it FOR THEMSELVES, and only for themselves. These leeches in government use government to acquire power, prestige, and money, and Mr. Soros is only too willing to buy them. Grow up.

Purpleguy| 6.28.11 @ 7:30PM

All politicians are in it for themselves, and they can all be bought. You grow up - the difference is the Dems pass legislation to help the middle class and Reps pass legislation to kill it. If you don't know that, you know nothing.

Albert| 6.29.11 @ 2:49PM

That is the stupidest comment I've seen on these pages. Dems pass NOTHING to help anyone but themselves. The Middle Class SUFFERS under Democrat legislation. And Reps pass tax cuts which HELP middle class. You suffer from a government-centric mindset and are incapable of critical thought. Grow up.

Purpleguy| 6.29.11 @ 9:48PM

So who uses Social Security, Medicare, Pell Grants, Food Stamps? Who does the EPA and FDA protect? I could go on, but you think my comment was stupid? Good grief you are ...

Con Chef (NB)| 6.28.11 @ 12:46PM

Yeah. He sure suffered by selling out his fellow Jews to the Nazis. And I wonder why he won't go to France or Israel. Hmmmm.

But please, keep telling us what a great man this Nazi collaborating douchebag is. I hope the Mossad stamps "paid" on his account REAL soon.

Purpleguy| 6.28.11 @ 7:31PM

Wow, the obsession with Soros is amazing. Do you not like Warren Buffet or Bill Gates - other billionaires that support middle class causes and Dems ? just in case you didn't know who THEY were.

Occam's Tool| 6.28.11 @ 1:36PM

This is a guy, Soros, who called his time stealing from his fellow Jews and sending them to gas chambers "the best time of my life."

Nuff said.

W| 6.28.11 @ 2:16PM

There are many stories about Soros being a Nazi collaborator.

Purpleguy| 6.28.11 @ 7:32PM

Who cares? Reagan was a Democrat - and?

W| 6.29.11 @ 9:50AM

Purp,
You do not care that Soros was a Nazi collaborator? And you equate being a Nazi collaborator with Reagan being a Dem? You are nuttier that i thought

Purpleguy| 6.29.11 @ 9:50PM

First of all, I don't believe it and second if it were true, that was over 60 years ago .. that was my comparison - the number of years ago. If I was under Nazi occupation I'm not sure what I would do - do you? That isn't nutty at all, it's reflective and a good question. Hell, you can't even have an argument without waa, waa - ing....

Gladius| 6.30.11 @ 12:35AM

Purp
Soros was a Nazi collatorator. He was about 14/15 yrs old. In answer to your question "am not sure what I would do-do you." Yes, I know what I would do and it would not be to collaborate. In any occupied country there are those who actively resist, those who just try to live there lives and those that actively collaborate. What bothers me about Soros is he dosen't have any guilt...his comment was" if he didn't do it someone else would". With that kind of attitude do you really believe that Tiger can change it's stripes?

NV| 6.28.11 @ 1:59PM

@Purpleguy: You must be living with your eyes closed if you think that “ Soros and the Dems believe in using the government to enhance and protect our lives". The Dems policies mimic Marxist philosophy and we have clear cut evidence of how Marxist governments intent to “protect the little people” results in intimidation, starvation and slaughter. If you love Marxism, then please go move to Cuba. The Marxist loving big-government progressives like Soros, Pelosi, Reid, Hillary Clinton, and practically the entire Democratic party push legislation that makes citizens dependent upon the government for what should be personal responsibility. These programs have always cost more than estimated resulting in massive deficits. In just three short years, Obama and the Democrats have racked up a whopping $4.5 Trillion in debt.  That is more than double the $2.1 Trillion in debt added during the entire eight years of the Bush administration.  It's an astronomical increase in deficit spending of roughly 571%; that's nearly six (6) times faster than previous administrations. In addition, the current unfunded liabilities total (social programs like Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security which the US government has promised to pay to its citizens) is rapidly approaching $113 Trillion, about $1 million per taxpayer.  That will grow to a disastrous $144 Trillion by 2015 if nothing changes. Regardless of this debt, Obama/Dems want more government spending and pushed through Obamacare that will further strain this bloated and unsustainable entitlement system. Obama and his Democratic supporters response to such debt is to spend/print more money for programs that have not worked but rather will enslave me, my children, and future generations to service this unconstitutional debt. Much of this money ended up helping Obama's biggest financial supporters...GE, Goldman Sachs, Fannie and Freddie...to name just a few. In case you didn't know, Obama was the largest recipient of campaign money from these organizations and many former employees of these companies now work for the Obama administration. How's that hope and change for the little guy? In addition , Obama has extended and expanded Bush's Patriot Act.  Furthermore, President Obama wants to silence his opponents by attempting to regulate the Internet and expanding the national security state (TSA unconstitutional searches of US citizens). Obama doubled down in Afghanistan, where, under his leadership, more U.S. soldiers have been killed than during the near-decade under George W. Bush's presidency.  President Obama has also launched an unconstitutional military operation in Libya. Despite Obama opposing executive signing statements done under Bush, Obama has actually issued/signed more in his first 2 years than Bush signed in eight. Obama also has more Czars than Bush had in eight. Obama/Dems disregard of the US Constitution is clear. If Obama/Dems are allowed to succeed, we will not be a free people... allowed to succeed or fail by our own efforts. Rather, we will be wards of the state where no one fails or succeeds but everyone is miserable...except for the ruling class. This is where Marxism always ends: misery for the little guy. When presented with facts, your statements shows your ignorance.

Purpleguy| 6.28.11 @ 7:36PM

That is so loaded with factual mistakes, it's not worth the time to correct you. But - You forgot Obama created cancer, hurricanes autism and world hunger. You can always succeed or fail on your own in America, which you clearly have here shown how to fail.

NV| 6.29.11 @ 8:35AM

@purpleguy, Typical progressive tactic, claim something is full of mistakes but not provide any real facts to back up your opinions. Please show me one Marxist government that actually was successful without killing its people? You can find my facts at several reliable sources not being funded by Soros. BTW, I actually worked for a high ranking Democrat before the progressives corrupted the party. The problems we face as a nation are many and there is enough blame to go around...however, the Marxist policies of this administration are making things worse. You cannot spend your way out of debt. My numbers on our nation's debt are spot on. You're the fool to believe otherwise. Keep calling me names without providing real facts...another progressive tactic. BTW, I believe it's progressives like you who blame everyone else for their problems instead of looking in the mirror...but then again you would have to face reality if you looked in the mirror.

voted against carter| 6.28.11 @ 4:00PM

Your continued attempt at you LEFTWING NUT LIBRATARD ideology is LOL!!!

Silly libratard SOROS TROLL.

You are an idiot. STOP proving it with every statement you make.

Colin| 6.28.11 @ 10:47AM

Well of course the Soros Klan demands that Justice Thomas recuse himself from ruling on anything regarding Obamacare. Fair enough. Tell 'ya what. We'll see about getting Clarence to take that week off ... IF George will ask his buddy Butch Kagan to do the same. So what do you think?

chirp-chirp-chirp ...

Is that crickets I hear? Hello?!

Purpleguy| 6.28.11 @ 7:37PM

Recuse - no, he should be impeached as the worst excuse for a Supreme Court Justice in over a 100 years.

Fredrick Ward| 6.30.11 @ 1:31PM

I would love to see you back that statement up with actual factual evidence. Please try,

Appleby| 6.28.11 @ 7:05AM

All you have to do to get Americans mobilized is to tell them something cannot be done.

George Soros and lots of European inspired elitists have no idea of the unique character of Americans in this respect.

Westie| 6.28.11 @ 7:40AM

Thank you Mr. Lord, this lack of integrity & probity of the Soros Left must be continuously addressed. These MEMEs, once exposed will lose most of their legitimacy. I recommend another Site that is constantly exposing the Globalist Memes, the Daily Bell.

Melvin| 6.28.11 @ 8:02AM

A great many years our enemies have underestimated the spirit and the conviction of the American.
Many have gambled and many have lost. There are those that wish to denigrate this Country and those that truly believe the American Spirit.
We're called Stupid, ignorant flakes, who have brought nothing but misery upon the native peoples, and imposed an American Imperialism upon those less fortunate.
I have seen with my own eyes row upon row to numerous to count before the tears well up in my eyes of thousands of gravestones of those American so called Imperialists who gave their lives in defense of freedom in a Pacific War Cemetery in the Philippines.
The enormity of this sacrifice doesn't hit until you realize how alone you are in this graveyard of heroes. As far as I could see nothing but neat white crosses of Americans who were unable to go home.
I sincerely hope that drudge ette obama's and Appleby's visions come to pass, because it is so unlike Americans just to roll over and surrender without a fight.

drudge ette obama| 6.28.11 @ 8:23AM

Melvin, we are many shoulders ready to bear the weight of the work that needs to be done. Unlike the purpleguy-types, I don't look to government to do things for me. My Social Contract is to give a little money from my income in exchange for a defense, transportation systems and a basic government system that can manage the courts. The rest is best left to private individuals and companies.

You just keep reminding us of those Americans who are buried under those crosses. Those Americans are the fathers of American children never born.

Teaghan| 6.28.11 @ 8:36AM

Well said Drudgette and thank you.

Purpleguy| 6.28.11 @ 8:48AM

"Unlike the purpleguy-types, I don't look to government to do things for me. " - and then you start listing what you want the government to do for you ... amazing that what you want the government to help you with is ok, but if anyone wants anything else, well, that's to be denied? " My Social Contract is to give a little money from my income in exchange for a defense, transportation systems and a basic government system that can manage the courts. " - You have completely ignored dozens of areas the government helps you with everyday. So you don't want Fire, Police, Sanitation? You don't want schools, universities and libraries? Do you not want clean water, clean air and safe food and drugs? Would you not support the National Park system or the Space program? You don't want the FBI, CIA or NSA? Are you in favor of hundreds of naval, air and army bases around the world? Would you not support the Treasury, State and Agriculture Departments?
Of course, all of these things have been created by men and are prone to error - but to do without them all would surely make our country a sadder place to live and raise children.
In your simplistic view, the world would be oh so much easier to manage - but it's not that simple. If only it was. When you're ready to leave lala then we can have a real conversation.

George S| 6.28.11 @ 9:04AM

Only thirty cents of every tax dollar goes to operate the federal government per its constitutional obligations. The other seventy cents goes to fulfill obligations from political favors bestowed by congressmen now long dead and the expanded bureaucracy to implement.

The average taxpayer shells out an additional 15 grand a year to pay those obligations. You mean to tell me that an extra 15 grand a year in our pockets would make our country a sadder place to live and raise children?

Purpleguy| 6.28.11 @ 9:39AM

Spoken from the ultimate source - that's such baloney. Yes, it would - name one of the items on that list that you would pay for out of that 15 grand in your pocket?
Interesting that the average income is 60 thousand - and by your calculations of 60 thousand you pay 15 thousand for the 70% and 4,500 for the other 30%. A grand total of 19,500 out of 60,000? Seriously, you believe that horsepockey?
BTW - if you really pay that much in taxes, you need a new tax accountant.

Drunken Sailor| 6.28.11 @ 10:23AM

Why does he need a new accountant. I thought you liberals said paying higher taxes is our patriotic duty?

Purpleguy| 6.28.11 @ 10:54AM

Duh, really? 19,500 of 60,000 income paid in taxes - and you believe that? Maybe you need to go back to grammar school and learn arithmetic.

Drunken Sailor| 6.28.11 @ 11:35AM

Never said I believed it Emily Post, simply pointed out that is the liberals that say paying more in taxes in the right thing to do, yet here you are telling someone they are paying to much.

tj| 6.28.11 @ 9:16AM

Oh please...it's for the children meme again. Get over yourself.. You lost 2010 and will lose 2012. We are no longer taking any of your BS and will be putting you back under your rocks from whench ye came Purpleguy (PurpEvil)

Purpleguy| 6.28.11 @ 9:40AM

How dense can you be? All of the items I listed are for the children? Really? Wanna read that list again, Chuckie? Maybe try starting brain before engaging fingers to type.

Redstateboy| 6.28.11 @ 11:39AM

Hey Purp.... is it Perp? Explain to me the Rise of America between say... 1875 and 1910?? We rose to - under the radar - to be the worlds economic powerhouse.. we didn't have pansy-ass bicycle helmet requirements, No Welfare, No SS, Medicaid, Medicare, EPA, No HEW, HUD, no dysfunctional Teachers Unions.. So explain the rise of America? How did we Even survive with-out Liber-uls like you? But Now... have 80 Years of Your Liber-ul Slave Party Socialism.. We're facing imminent bankruptcy and turning in to just another Bananahead Liber-ul European Socialist Republic.. Thanks Alot .... Liber-ul.

Purpleguy| 6.28.11 @ 6:30PM

We didn't even approach this bankruptcy problem (which is total horsepockey, btw) until Republicans were president and had Republican Congresses to help pass deficit spending got us to this point. Add to that the lack of regulation or lax regulation under Republicans, and the result has been financial meltdown and the housing crash along with high unemployment. And, now you have the b* to blame the Democrats because they care about the seniors, the children and the poor?
Your babble is boring and wrong-headed, and luckily your boy, Glenn Beck is being kicked off of even Fixed News. If you really knew what life was like back in the late 1800's with life expectancy under 60, with child labor, without modern medicine, horse and buggy transportation, and back alley abortions ... if you want to go back there, by all means go ahead. I'd prefer progress forward thank you. Have a nice day.

Albert| 6.28.11 @ 11:44AM

"...and then you start listing what you want the government to do for you ... amazing that what you want the government to help you with is ok, but if anyone wants anything else, well, that's to be denied..."

Hey dummy, the items listed by drudge-ette obama are actually CONSTITUTIONAL powers delegated to the United States government by the several States. The freebee list YOU want from the feds is a collection of flatly unconstitutional redistributionist schemes intended solely to take money from people who earn it and then give it to people to whom it does not belong, thus buying their votes. See the difference?

Purpleguy| 6.28.11 @ 7:43PM

That is always your problem on the right isn't it? "The government takes my money and gives it to do- nothings, waa, waa" - that is such a canard. I doubt you pay enuf tax to bother with.

Name the transportation system the Constitution delegates the power to the government to create?

Albert| 6.29.11 @ 2:50PM

So what's your point? That just because it's unconstitutional, that doesn't mean the government can't do it? Are you capable of thinking at all?

Purpleguy| 6.29.11 @ 9:53PM

Are you incapable to follow your own line of argument? You bring up the constitutional powers of the US and then you deny that my point has any merit discussing it. Did you go to school?

Occam's Tool| 6.28.11 @ 1:43PM

The space program has been eviscerated by Obama. We now have no recoverable launch capacity, Purpleguy.

Purpleguy| 6.28.11 @ 7:44PM

Then let the House pass a budget raising the budget for NASA - it's not up to the President alone.

squalis| 6.28.11 @ 8:38AM

My hope would be that Justice Kennedy would be so disgusted with these tactics of intimidation of the Court that it will make it easier for him to see the this law as blatantly unconstitutional. I presume we will see calls by Common Cause and CPI for Justice Sotomayor to recuse herself.

albert constantine jr.| 6.28.11 @ 8:46AM

If you want to know what the Left is up to, watch what they are accusing the Right of doing. They are classic examples of projection. When Soros witnessed the totalitarian tactics of the Nazis, he adopted them, first as a collaborator, and today as the financier of a Goebbels-like propaganda machine for international (as opposed to national) socialism.

Louis Jenkins| 6.28.11 @ 8:48AM

Soros was a Jew in Nazi Germany, and he learned their tactics well. Next to Obama he's the most influential man in DC. As mention above, do not under estimate the American citizen. When pushed we will die for what we believe in. Will the liberals ?

Purpleguy| 6.28.11 @ 8:51AM

Wow, the focus on Soros is amazing. Must be eating at y'all that a billionaire believes the opposite of y'all. Too bad you all are on the wrong side supporting those that have theirs and plan to keep it by keeping you in your place, and removing any and all government impediments that protect you to allow them to run amok - evidence the 2007 begin of the Great Recession and financial meltdown when regulations were relaxed.

MM| 6.28.11 @ 9:35AM

"Purple" get off here. Once people see who you are they don't read your comments.

Click "Lydia"s sex ad and the two of you go post somewhere else.

Purpleguy| 6.28.11 @ 9:42AM

Hahaha .. Voice of America here, baby, broadcasting behind the iron curtain ... Soviets couldn't get rid of the American truth and neither can you.

Albert| 6.28.11 @ 11:45AM

That you consider yourself the protector of "American truth" is proof of your delusion and dementia. You would know "truth" if you had it for breakfast.

Albert| 6.28.11 @ 12:37PM

That you consider yourself the protector of "American truth" is proof of your delusion and dementia. You wouldn't know "truth" if you had it for breakfast.

Purpleguy| 6.28.11 @ 6:31PM

Thank you for a useless retort.

Drunken Sailor| 6.28.11 @ 10:25AM

"evidence the 2007 begin of the Great Recession and financial meltdown when Democrats took over Congress"

Fixed it for you. Your welcome!

Purpleguy| 6.28.11 @ 10:55AM

Yeah, like Bush baby let the Congress pass laws without him. Good Grief - don't you know how a bill gets to be law?

Drunken Sailor| 6.28.11 @ 11:39AM

And haven't you ever heard of a Lame Duck President? Never said Bush was a fisical conservative but your guy took his deficit, put it all on black, only to see the economy come up red. You blame Bush but then praise Obama for continuing the same path only faster. Make up your mind.

Purpleguy| 6.28.11 @ 6:35PM

Hmmm, let's see - when Bush left office, 780,000 jobs were being lost per month! No jobs program, nothing but TARP was his answer. Since Obama took over more than 2,000,000 jobs have returned. So yeah, I criticize Bush, and praise Obama for NOT doing the same things Bush did and of those few things he did do the same he has done much better than Bush - the Auto companies were saved and Obama got Osama and Bush could not.

Drunken Sailor| 6.29.11 @ 9:20AM

And your guy has steadily lost jobs. Lets use a fairly conservative average number of jobs per month lost since Obama has been in office.350,000. To keep it neat will will round off his time in office to 2 years. 350,000 x 24 months is 8.4 million lost. even if I believed he created 2mil jobs he is still 6.4 mil in the negative. yep, great job.

Fredrick Ward| 6.30.11 @ 2:25PM

2 million jobs have returned? Liar. Even Politifact.com doesn't go along with your little BS story. Not only that, but he claimed that the stimulus would keep the unemployment rate below 8 percent. Gee... we have been hovering at 9.1 percent for a while now.

Nunya| 6.28.11 @ 11:29AM

Soros is a friggin' Socialist/Communist/Nazi (they're pretty much all the same when it comes to government totalitarianism--and don't come back to me with "The Nazi's are a far-right group", because it's a lie.) I'm glad I oppose this snake, and frankly you should be ashamed that you don't. If you support totalitarian government, you're in the same boat and Mao, Pol Pot, and Stalin. Sorry, I can't get in that boat, and frankly, I can't imagine why anyone would.

Read "The Road to Serfdom" (which should be required reading in every high school in America) and you will understand why increasing government control will lead to totalitarianism and murder, unless the country changes course. That's what the country is trying to do now, and this is exactly what the Nazi sympathizer Soros is trying to avoid. Just remember, there are ALWAYS some more equal than others in a totalitarian society, and that's where Soros is positioning himself.

big bob| 6.28.11 @ 1:00PM

Actually you sound like Chamberlain talking about Hitler in the 40's. "Wow, the focus on Soros is amazing." Is it really?? You sure? I don't think it's amazing. I think is woefully underreported. This guy is betting on the collapse of countries, not companies. His money is funding so many left wing nut job pacs that I am guessing we don't know about all of them. And they are all dedicated to crushing our current way of life. Did you ever study WW II? I suggest you might review what the attitude was toward Hitler just before he invaded Poland. Human nature is very predictable. So anyone "amazed" by our focus on Soros is clearly ignorant, naive or brain dead....dealer's choice!!!

Occam's Tool| 6.28.11 @ 1:41PM

A billionaire who nmade his money by seriously damaging economies, and started his career by collaborating with Nazis. Compare him to another Jewish Billionare, one purely American grown---Michael Dell.

You're a peon, Purpleguy?

Kishego| 6.28.11 @ 3:27PM

I have no problem with a billionare believing the opposite of what I believe in. My problem with him and all of you progrssive rat bastards is your unwillingness to have an open and honest debate. As an example, take good ol AlGore and his latest rendition of the abortion debate. The new term is "fertility management". If we don't fund abortions with taxpayer dollars we are killing women and seizing controll of thier wombs. That is an example of the sleazy dishonesty you libs thrive on. The ability you progressives have for NEWSPEAK would make G Orwell proud. And another point, it's interesting that you bring up 2007 as the start of our recession. That is precisely when the democrats took control of the Congress. Thanks for confirming that for us. During the the last year of Republican control under G.W. Bush, the budget deficit was only 150 billion. You can find that info on the GAO website.

hardcard| 6.28.11 @ 9:04AM

soros is this WH !!!!

R Martin| 6.28.11 @ 9:10AM

"That's what Common Cause and their Soros-funded demands to the Justice Department are really all about."

Thomas Paine said, "A bad cause will ever be supported by bad means and bad men..."

Holder's Justice Department is the essence of warped ethics, equally indifferent to justice and equally eager for revenge. Removing him and his ilk from their pereches would be one of the great benefits of defeating Obama in 2012.

Nunya| 6.28.11 @ 11:30AM

Amen to that.

Wes in MT| 6.28.11 @ 10:04AM

Why does the left hate liberty so much???
I think it is because they are, at the heart of it, lazy and jealous of those who manage to accumulate any amount of wealth. True marxists.
Of course we all want clean air and clean water. But somehow the left manages to assume the self-righteous sanctimonious mantle that they alone "care". Well, just observe the mess lefties leave behind at any function that they have. And those damn conservatives - they always clean up the mess and leave the place better than they found it. As I did the other day by calling in and calling out the MT democratic party chairman, we must expose the left and their lies directly. Just as they have attacked our values and ideals and our candidates, we now must learn from and adopt their tactics and turn it back at them. Speak the truth boldly. Repeat it over and over again. Repetition does work. There is no where else to go if America fails. Fight as if our very existence and freedom depends on it. Because it does.

Anthony| 6.28.11 @ 10:04AM

This is a perfect example of how the hard left operates with their scorched earth approach. The ends always justify the means.
The reprehensible, Anthony's Weiner, before his disgraceful fall, led the lefty charge of conflict against Justice Thomas because Obozo and the left knew they had a problem with a real ethical dilemma, Justice Kagen, who served as Obozo's Solicitor General.
Kagen must disqualify and recuse herself from hearing Obamacare; the conflict is so obvious, even lefty law professsors can't put a spin on it.
Enter Weiner, Soros & the hard left to engage in the next best thing, get a conservative justice to recuse himself, hence leveling the field, so Kennedy will once again be the deciding vote.
This is a perfect example of how the left is so bereft of any morality and decency. Any ploy, no matter how specious or bankrupt will be employed to secure victory.
The trolls in the LSM will be used to buttress the attacks on Thomas, as the left employs all the instrumentalities of our culture under their control.
We are indeed in the midst of a civil and cultural war, the 2012 election will go a long way to determine who is winning the battle for America.

Purpleguy| 6.28.11 @ 11:20AM

Thomas is guilty of accepting bribes, conflict of interest, and influence peddling and you're comparing that to what for Kagan? Are you really defending Thomas?
Would you defend Wis Supreme Court Justice Prosser too who just physically assaulted another justice by strangling her?

Pecos Pete| 6.28.11 @ 11:35AM

Prosser didn't do it, Bush did! Or maybe it was Reagan? Or Ford? Or Nixon?

Purpleguy only knows one thing: Black is white and white is black. OOPS, now I'll be attacked for non PC commentary.

Purpleguy is the epitome of ignorance.

Now, Purpleguy, come on back and call me some sort of name or change the subject to show us how intelligent you are. It will be worth a laugh.

Purpleguy| 6.28.11 @ 6:39PM

You have said nothing of value to respond to ... except for your childish rantings which neither refute my arguments or impress me.

Anthony| 6.28.11 @ 12:12PM

You are a complete and total ass and have proved my point better than I could possibly have. Justice Thomas has taken ZERO bribes, has NO conflict of interest, and certainly has not engaged in influence peddling.
You have absolutely no shame, no decency, and certainly no honesty, as you cannot document a single one of your scurrilious charges.
Kagen was an Obama acolyte and up to her eyeballs on Obamacare.
Go away troll and hope we don't find you after the revolution!!!

Purpleguy| 6.28.11 @ 6:40PM

Wait for it ... the indictments of Thomas and Prosser are coming ... justice moves slowly but surely.

Fredrick Ward| 6.30.11 @ 2:34PM

The very fact that you cannot produce facts to support your charges is clear enough to show how biased and ignorant you truly are, Purp. A significant number of claims you have made here are all based on poor research or just plain falsehoods. You have learned your lessons well.

davelnaf| 6.28.11 @ 1:03PM

Purpleguy,
Your word spasms are entertaining for their delusional content only. But, being a compassionate person, I suggest you seek out a good mental health provider before Obamacare trashes the entire healthcare sector and types like you end up in some snake pit of a mental ward where they set you to keeping the inmates enthralled with your genius while they play dominoes with their toes.

NV| 6.28.11 @ 2:34PM

What evidence do you have about Thomas? Clearly none except your lies based upon others lies. In fact, you even have your story about Prosser wrong as well. So far, no one has been convicted in the Prosser story. In fact, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "some sources say that it was Bradly who attacked Prosser, and that any physical response by Prosser was an act of self-defense". I guess in your little mind, the facts don't matter...just like your progressive friend Soros. Silly me, I always thought someone was innocent until proven guilty...isn't that what you progressives always say and yet fail to really believe? Yes, in the progressive world, everyone is equal, it's just that some people are more equal than others. It must suck to be you...always caught with your pants down as a hypocrite.

Kishego| 6.28.11 @ 3:35PM

I'll defend him. It has been confirmed that it was the nutbag liberal who attacked him, when he tried to defend himself, he touched her neck. Of course, to you, that would be trying to strangle her. After all you liberal proggresives are so tolerant right? I mean, come on, we've all seen the videos of the unions attacking .....ooops, guess those aren't conservatives, my bad.

voted against carter| 6.28.11 @ 4:07PM

Purpleguy,...

You are an idiot. STOP proving it with every statement you make.

ejp| 6.28.11 @ 12:04PM

If Anthony Weiner is of the view that any decision by Thomas on Obamacare would not be "credible" then I would submit that Roe vs. Wade is not credible simply by the presence of William O. Douglas in the majority.

Anthony| 6.28.11 @ 2:02PM

....Or Justice Brennan, the Walter Mitty, elfish, leftist activist judge, who was influenced by his wife, who implored his clerks to keep working on him, as she was, to uphold Roe v. Wade.
He was quite proud of himself after that decision; for once, the little man stood tall, with his pals on the left.

davelnaf| 6.28.11 @ 12:49PM

Good article, juxtaposes a lot of information well. Soros is indeed some kind of a political dead man walking; only he doesn’t know any better because he references only the incestuous liberal media. Maybe his collaboration with the Nazis warped him in some way and he's acting out a similarly warped redemption fantasy.

Seattle Plumber| 9.18.11 @ 12:28PM

If Anthony Weiner is of the view that any decision by Thomas on Obamacare would not be "credible" then I would submit that Roe vs. Wade is not credible simply by the presence of William O. Douglas in the majority.

Wayne | 6.28.11 @ 1:29PM

The pitch to remove Thomas is a play to keep the Obama appointees in. They had a hand in creating the law in the first place.

Purpleguy| 6.28.11 @ 8:14PM

What laws? The federal bribery laws? Influencing peddling laws? He's guilty of both...

voted against carter| 6.28.11 @ 4:05PM

Hey Purpleguy,...

Your continued attempt at your
LEFTWING NUT LIBRATARD ideology is LOL!!!

Silly libratard SOROS TROLL.

You are an idiot. STOP proving it with every statement you make.

Slacker| 6.28.11 @ 5:11PM

Given the financial state of the USA, how relevant is Obamacare? O’s economic policies are very likely to kill his domestic agenda (even the stuff which is already law).

Obama was way too late to the party. Past politicians already overextended on promises. Current entitlement obligations cannot be met. Obamacare is just another empty promise which saner people will eventually deal with.

Its amazing Obamacare supporters were gullible enough to fall it. Sophisticated thinkers on both sides pretend Obamacare is actually durable. This is one slightly less nuts than that idiot woman who thought Obama was going to pay her mortgage out of his “stash.”

Hopefully the courts kill O’care. Either way it is hopeless, along with all the other entitlements. We will either repeal Obamacare, privatize SS, and voucher medicare…or we become Greece and the programs are curtailed that way.

When some form of austerity comes, which now appears almost inevitable, promises will be broken and the current feud over Obamacare will seem a quaint memory from better times.

Mark MacDonald| 6.29.11 @ 12:44AM

Hmmm. Sounds like a 'high tech lynching to me.' So what. Thomas has been taking this crap for 20 years. And, as long as we are talking about the partiality of judges, shouldn't Sotomayor and Kagan recuse themselves? Afterall, were they not Obama appointees? How can they pass judgement on the constitutionality of a bill passed by their primary benefactor to whom they owe their guaranteed lifetime employment with full medical benefits?

Peter in Newport| 6.29.11 @ 2:09AM

A great article. Unfortunately, I read it in here. ...You guys don't have to change my mind, or sway me to the real facts. This article needs to be where a 'fence standing' liberal will read it. THERE MUST BE A SUCCESSFUL WAY TO GET AHEAD OF THE LIBERAL MEDIA.

weddingdresses| 6.29.11 @ 5:25AM

A great article. Unfortunately, I read it in here. ...You guys don't have to change my mind, or sway me to the real facts. This article needs to be where a 'fence standing' liberal will read it. THERE MUST BE A SUCCESSFUL WAY TO GET AHEAD OF THE LIBERAL MEDIA.

LindaF| 6.29.11 @ 12:21PM

Notice the tactics - quite "McCarthyite", aren't they?

Question: which side always accuses the other of "McCarthyism"?

Freud would have a field day with their pathology.

CalMark| 6.29.11 @ 2:51PM

Lots of troll activity around here lately.

Looks like the Obama/Facebook "fake people by committee" conspiracy to flood the conservative blogosphere with leftist propaganda is in full swing.

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