Please do that LJ, and be sure to cast that vote for Bachmann in the vain hope that such subterfuge will have an impact upon the likelihood of Obama getting a second term. The way to capitalize on the weakness of the incumbent is to run your strongest ideologue against them, as the Obama victory in 2008 showed, even though the incumbent Obama pitted himself against was ineligible to serve another term. One and done, just like Carter - another hopelessly lost and utterly incapable chief executive elected not on his own merits but due to the prevailing anger of the electorate at a man who also wasn't on the ballot.
LadyJazzer wrote: Only if I were to actually VOTE Republican in the General election... Do you REALLY think I would do that?
Of course not. You miss my point.
If there was a mass defection of registered dem's and the party thought it was a sea tide change, they would become the tea party because they are as politically opportunistic as the worst of what you think of the r's.
When you consider that we are spending 40% more than we are taking in, Boehner's cuts are really quite small as a percentage of the budget. But this is the liberal press where any cuts are "draconian".
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
Yeah, when you go from a surplus, to cutting taxes with no corresponding revenue; starting two unnecessary wars without paying for them; and giving away nearly a trillion dollars for prescription drug benefit that wasn't paid for...and doing it all in just 8 years, one can see where the 40% came from.
Too bad they managed to go from a surplus to $10.4 billion debt in just 8 years.
I'm skeptical of anyone who can't spell skeptical...... (poke @ SS)
There's no such thing as "small" government. Hayek (and Spencer, before him) had it right --- bureaucracies are naturally imperialistic - and eventually fall on their own weight. At this juncture, I think the best thing to do is to approve the new debt ceiling - and let government continue on its course to becoming the galaxy's next black hole.
Meanwhile:
- learn to hunt
- wean yourself of electronic addictions (including silly web sites)
- store up sensible reserves
- get ready - it's coming.
