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I'm pulling a direct quote from another board I frequent. I think it represents the general opinion of the tea party. I am not including the name to protect the innocent. Plus, I like this poster in spite of his opinions. "does anyone really think he is doing this country a service? He is a blatent racist, IMHO. It may have been a good idea in theory to elct him, but it has turned into...

Congressman Alan Grayson explaining what is becoming known as Foreclosuregate. And if you think it just affects people who aren't making their mortgage payments, think again. It concerns everyone:            "We are approaching a point where the easiest way to make a buck is to steal it."No, we're already there. We have been and we will be until the perpetrators and those who aid and abet this "factory of fraud" (including our elected representatives) are...

On the day that marked the beginning of the 10th year of the Afghani-Nam cluster(bleep) the Senate Armed Services Committee, chaired by Carl Levin (D-MI), released the results of an investigation which found that private security forces hired by the Pentagon to protect our military bases there include Taliban warlords and people with ties to Iran."Afghan private security forces with ties to the Taliban, criminal networks and Iranian intelligence have been hired to guard American...

On the domestic front:For this we needed a poll?:"...half of those who consider themselves part of the tea party movement also identify as part of the religious right..."From the party of smaller government:"DeMint said if someone is openly homosexual, they shouldn't be teaching in the classroom and he holds the same position on an unmarried woman who's sleeping with her boyfriend -- she shouldn't be in the classroom."The chief economist at Goldman Sachs says the...

I concur with the 6 in 10 Americans in a recent NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll who believe the country is on the wrong track and nearly two-thirds who said that the country is in a state of decline. And my pessimism has nothing to do with which of our two parties is in control or which one has the best prospects of either retaining or gaining control in Washington, D.C.I've never been one to...

"I met a girl who sang the blues, and I asked her for some happy news. She just smiled and turned away."Our political system is broken. On one side, Republicans block everything up to and including marine mammals rescue assistance and shark conservation acts. On the other side, Sir Robin and his minstrels, tails tucked firmly between legs, can't run away from D.C. fast enough to avoid a vote on whether or not to extend...

Note: This piece is very philosophical in nature, so please excuse my ramblings.I was having a discussion the other day on another site when another poster decided to throw out the old "you're a socialist" line. As much as I love labels it saddened me in another way. Sure, polite discourse would seem to have gone by the wayside and the fact that socialist was misspelled also was disconcerting. More disconcerting was the fact that...

... but there is truth in fiction. I had the chance to "pleasure read" for the first time in a while, and was encouraged to read a book by an author I had never read before. It was a good, suspenseful book, but I came across a particular passage that really resonated. In this passage, a media personality was interviewing a journalist and made a statement alleging that the Swedish economy was headed for...

Gutless. Spineless. Cowards."Senate Democrats said Thursday that they had abandoned plans for a pre-election showdown with Republicans over taxes, postponing any vote on extending Bush administration tax cuts until after the November midterms.Democrats discussed the issue during a caucus luncheon but left the final decision to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.)"That was your first mistake, leaving it up to Sir Robin. "Late Thursday, Reid spokesman Jim Manley said, "We will come back in...

In 33 of the 36 midterm elections held since the end of the Civil War, the party in the White House has lost seats in the United States House of Representatives.We need to recall this as the 2010 midterm elections approach. There are underlying patterns in all things. This historical fact and pattern of midterm losses for the party holding the Presidency  is one that has impacted both major parties over many years.Beginning with 1866,...