The American Spectator

Bil from WV| 4.18.10 @ 10:05AM

Obama given the opportunity to be the "Great Uniter" has instead become the "Great Divider".
No President in American history has done more to promote class warfare and civil unrest in this country!
If there is ever civil unrest in this country, the responsibility should be laid on the Presidential desk!

MRD

gsr| 4.18.10 @ 10:50AM

This is exactly right......yes we all want lower taxes (those of us who actually pay income tax) and most definately we want less government spending; we want a smaller federal government. All of those ideals reflect that we want more individual liberty - freedom from government. Freedom from "rule by the lawyer/politician class".

Leave me alone. Let me sink or swim on my own.

Farmer| 4.19.10 @ 12:30PM

If you sink, who, to continue the analogy, pays to dredge the ocean floor for your "corpse" and dispose of it?

Nobama| 4.19.10 @ 4:06PM

The real 'corpse' is huge, bloated government and it's up to us to dispose of it.

Bob the Engineer| 4.18.10 @ 11:06AM

The total tax burden is what the government spends not what the IRS collects (Milton Friedman). The more the government does to and for you the higher the tax burden becomes. I am not against that government which is described in the US Constitution, but I am opposed to all the government actions not specifically allowed by the Constitution.

Tom Osterman| 4.18.10 @ 12:26PM

I think the smarter Leftists realize that not everyone feels the need for a government handout, but they're betting that enough people do, or will, to put the Left in power forever ("Tax and tax, spend and spend, elect and elect!"). You might also notice that they poo-poo the idea of independence.
The problem is that it's impossible to have a society where everybody gets more value in government services than what they pay in taxes. And the Left knows it, which is why they always talk about making the rich and Big Busines "pay their fair share." Somebody else, a minority of voters as it happens, pays for the party. Free stuff for the rest of us!
But let's not forget that once you accept the free stuff, the government owns you, and at some point will remind you of the fact, but will be careful not to point it out beforehand. Buyee beware!

Pete2| 4.18.10 @ 2:59PM

I see Clinton is comparing tea party people to the likes of Tim McVeigh. Expect that to be the issue in the fall and not economics from the democrats. They expect all these people who aren't paying income tax to swallow that line of thinking. The problem is that there is more to the tax burden than income tax and those who aren't paying that are paying it on something else.

Siegfried X| 4.18.10 @ 4:18PM

The tea partiers MUST be independent because the Republican Party leadership won't listen to them.

Margie| 4.18.10 @ 6:52PM

"Let's hope enough Americans care enough about independence that they will take the country back from the redistributionists and social engineers!"

Agreed. And the ONLY way to do that is to elect conservatives in the Republican party. We keep sending our money to individuals who are running, as we did in NJ, VA, and MA.

Siegfried X| 4.18.10 @ 11:16PM

Scott Brown in MA is not a conservative -- he's an Obama Republican who has already voted with Obama a dozen times.

“As evidenced by what I’ve tried to do, which is to vote with the Democrats and be the 60th vote or be the 41st vote, Washington is broken, people are hurting and they want us to do better. And we should do better,” Brown said.

Margie| 4.19.10 @ 12:39AM

First of all, care to tell us which votes those were?

Secondly~~ so go ahead and do like Alan Brooks said he's going to do. Vote for Obama. Better yet, don't vote at all! What can I tell ya?

Janice| 4.19.10 @ 4:11PM

It doesn't do us any good to pretend that RINOs are reliable Conservatives--because they're not.

We give RINOs a pass at our own peril; John McCain's disastrous 2008 campaign was just the latest case in point.

Margie| 4.20.10 @ 11:22PM

Scott Brown was far better than the alternative!

As for McCain~ he didn't get the nomination because of conservatives. The Democrats got to vote in the Primaries! That's something I wish we could change.

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W.C. Varones| 4.18.10 @ 11:48PM

Susan Roesgen is apparently still employed by CNN:

http://www.wcvarones.com/2010/.....ed-as.html

Janice| 4.19.10 @ 4:14PM

Leftists stick together, unlike stupid republicans.

John McCain is much more vicious toward his fellow republicans than the fascist liberals in congress.

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