Mitch McConnell Lays It On the Line at CPAC
These are challenging times for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. His forces in the Senate have dropped from 49 to 41. Big government is all the fashion in Washington. And Republicans are losing market share. But at this week’s CPAC he showed little pessimism and plenty of the steely strategic skills which have been his trademark.
His remarks before a packed house on Friday morning offered a heavy dose of tough love. He recounted the damage done by two election wipeouts — no senators on the west coast, no New England congressman, and huge sections of America now under a Democratic governor. His message: Republicans need to seek out voters who were Republicans and “get them to take a second look.” He noted that the very wealthy, the very poor, and minorities have been lost, and he repeated Ronald Reagan’s admonition: “Many Hispanics are Republicans — they just don’t know it.”
The heart of his speech, however, was policy rather than pure politics. On Guantanamo, he mocked Attorney General Eric Holder who recently visited the facility, pronounced it professionally run, and then repeated the Obama policy that it must be closed and all the detainees moved. The administration, McConnell said, must answer a key question: “Where exactly do you expect to send these guys?” After the audience offered some suggestions (Alcatraz, for example) he answered his own query: “They ought to be right there in jail in Guantanamo.”
Most of his ire was reserved for the Democrats’ renewed infatuation with big government, 1970s style liberalism — which, he said, needs to take its place “next to bell bottoms and leisure suits.” He reiterated that in a single month Obama has spent more than George W. Bush did in seven years on two wars and Katrina. He showed nothing but disdain for the proposed budget, pointing out that it “double dipped” on 122 programs already in the stimulus bill. His central theme: we should not expand government and hand the bill to our children.
McConnell is best known for his legislative prowess but the crowd ate it up, and the fiery determination to oppose card check, Guantanamo closing, and a huge expansion of the federal government, was greeted enthusiastically.
In a question and answer session with a small group of bloggers following his speech, McConnell did not shy away from painful truths. “Forty-one is not as much as 49,” he explained in response to a query about how to keep wayward senators in the fold after three defected to support the stimulus plan. “Elections have consequences. We are paying the price for the second bad election in a row.” He explained that he has a “diverse conference” and no longer has the luxury of losing several senators in order to maintain a filibuster.
CPAC. Isn’t that some sort of convention for right-wing nerds?
Finally some good news. Obama has done more to set back the country in 5 weeks than any other president has in a whole 4-year term. It may be tough, but I hope the Republican troops can stick together to prevent the next 47 months from being as disastrous as the first month.
To Senator McConnell: Please keep it up! Please don’t waver!You have support in much greater numbers than you may think. Politics is not a one shot war!
“Republicans need to seek out voters who were Republicans and “get them to take a second look.”
Nope, this is a secondary need. There is something far more important: the GOP should be taking out ads blasting the MSM! We are royally screwed if the typical American is getting their news from the legacy media. We are effectively shot down before even opening our mouths. Why doesn’t the GOP leadership make more of this? Why be so reticent?
If republicans in Washington wish to show their new conviction then remove all of your pork from the 410 B. Show America you act as you speak.
The republicans don’t have much to loose. Obama and his comrades will have everything sooner or later.
Have a tea party in Washington. Republicans get some _ _ _ _ _ .
I agree with #4. This morning on the vanpool ride to work, I was talking with another rider, a retired Command Seargent Major, and self-identified life-long Republican. This life-long Republican voted for Obama, because of the “eight years of Bush, and we needed a change”. The subject of ‘global warming’ came up, and he said, “what about the melting polar ice” and oil, “we are running out of oil”.
It was clear to me that he gets his news from the MSM, as are an awful lot of people who are not as well traveled as this person, and who have actually met Ronald Reagan, as he had. The MSM is entirely too effective at shaping opinion when it can convince a Reagan Republican to vote for a Marxist.
I did email my friend a list of sites to read, including PJM, and I plan to have more discussions along these lines.
Whatever the GOP can do to bypass the MSM or reduce their influence, it needs to do, if we are going to have any chance at keeping the America we all know and love.
With all due respect, Senator McConnell is part of the problem. He allowed the hordes of Huns to descend on the House and take a long hard fought victory away in a heartbeat because of our politics of corruption. He then allowed this same horde to run rough shod over the Constitution for the last two years. And maybe most importantly, he allowed this same horde to put forth a lightweight candidate for the White House, overtake the Senate, completely ignor their culture of corruption and then allow last year’s financial debacle to happen right before our very eyes and not point one single figure. And now, he intends to support the Benedict Arnold who just betrayed us when they are up for re-election next year.
If this is what he calls leadership, we are done for. No ifs, ands or buts about it.
Platitudes like “bell bottoms and leisure suits doesn’t cut it, Senator. Time to move along.
“Republicans need to seek out voters who were Republicans and “get them to take a second look.”
First, I’d suggest that elected Republicans should start acting like Republicans and hope they deserve a second chance. I knew the elected Repubicans had lost their way a few years ago when their most important goal for the year (I think it was 2005) was passing a massively porked up transportation bill. They had become as big spenders and as corrupt as the Democrats and they lost power, first losing control of Congress in the 2006 election and then control of everything in 2008.
In 1999 I moved to Israel and saw Fox News for the first time. (Fox has only been allowed in Canada since 2005)It was a turning point in my life. I stopped viewing and reading all of the MSM completely. I started perusing alternative news sites on the internet and now I listen to American talk radio daily. (talk radio is not allowed in Canada) The knowledge that I have gained in the past 10 years since I have disavowed the MSM is more than in the past 20 years of my life. I will never go back to being one of the sheeple again.
Butters Dad: Just how exactly did Mitch McConnell “allow” all of this to happen? If I recall, after the debacle of 2006 he was one of the guys holding the door shut on the barbarians now ravaging the country. Just what could he have done personally to prevent this? The Republicans have repeated the disaster that ed them to ruin in 1976: Me Too big government spending and a discredited executive led to Jimmy C and an overwhelmingly liberal Congress. Just like then, these liberal idiots are running headlong to Socialism and the inevitable wreck. To recover, the Republicans must do what they did back then: be the party of individual and fiscal responsibility and free market growth and take every opportunity to discredit the current liberal Congress and Administration. Hell, the Democrats recovered HUGE in just a few years by only following the last part of my advice (discredit the other party).
1. Pat J:
CPAC. Isn’t that some sort of convention for right-wing nerds? Feb 27, 2009 – 10:51 am
Paaaaaat (male or female): your confusing this with CPAP a breathing device for fat gov’t dependent liberals. Sorry
Is there a website where you can get the proceedings of the CPAC conference?
McConnell is part of the problem. He won’t attack the RINOs. He needs to call a caucus and remove McCain,Graham,Specter,Snowe, and Collins from every important committee seat.
He also needs to prod Steele to cut off all support for these traitors.
If the Republican party cleaned out the vermin the people would rise up and follow them to a majority in the next election.
Instead, they will fight like girls to try to gain a few seats, probably in vain.
We need to replace McConnell with DeMint, at least he has a pair.
Hi all. Just wanted to drop a note regarding a comment on Talk Radio in Canada. Laura, you mentioned in your note that Talk Radio wasn’t allowed in Canada. It actually is and is a thriving industry. You can check out CFRB in Toronto, CFRA in Ottawa, CJOB in Winnipeg just to name a few. The views of the hosts run the gamut of the political spectrum from left to right as well as the centre. Also note that just as in the States the content is driven by the listeners. If a host cannot gain an audience (and advertisers) then the station will replace them. There is no Fairness Doctrine in Canadian radio.
Canadian Talk Radio tends to be far more regional then the US counterparts. That’s probably the primary reason that Rush is not on Canadian channels (and the fact that most of southern Canada can pick him up on the border stations or through the web as we do).
Canadian radio stations do have some US commentators/shows through syndication so there are not any rules against it.
Anyway, just thought I’d drop my 2 cents in.
I’ve watched Republicans mange their decline and disappearance from Northern cities, northern states and now on the Federal level.
Pretty much seems the same process. The non fighting, financial elite, big government GOP is just trying to manage it’s decline gracefully.
70s style liberalism? hardly! this is 30′s style leftism! we are not doomed to repeat the biggest move to the left in the history of this country because we didn’t know the history; rather, we’re doomed to repeat the biggest move to the left exactly because O knows that the playbook from FDR worked. That is, it worked to move the country toward the socialist, and yes even communist, model. some of those who voted for him know this too and have declared it a good thing.
“He noted that while he — along with the Wall Street Journal, National Review and both presidential candidates — supported the original TARP because of the threat of a financial meltdown, it is “now being used as precedent for unlimited infusions of cash” into financial institutions”
well DUH! Helen Keller could have seen THAT coming.
“1. Pat J:
CPAC. Isn’t that some sort of convention for right-wing nerds?”
As my Aussie friends would say…. .”Piss off you lieberal ( unt”
16. Kirly
“well DUH! Helen Keller could have seen THAT coming.”
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‘PC’: That was really mean. You didn’t need to bring up a person who had a disability to make your point.
Non-’PC’: Bwahahahahahahah! HILARIOUS!
There. Hope I pleased everyone today. ;p
Why aren’t we identifying and encouraging bright young, fiscally sound and electable Congressional candidates TODAY? No RINOs, no relatives, no liberals, no McCains, no religious whackos, just good solid Americans to run in 2010 in EVERY Congressional district? We have enough video tape of every commie leftist that the dems have elected over the years to weave into video messages and enough probable cause of criminal activity on each one to create solid messages; why aren’t we working on it?
Let’s get out of the ID silliness, let’s get out of all the other fringe issues and focus on frugal, honest Republicans.
McConnell is part of the problem. He had more than thousands of chances, when the GOP was in power, to honor liberty and the
#9 – “talk radio is not allowed in Canada”
That’s not true at all. I lived in Canada for 25 years and there is plenty of talk radio. It’s boring, but they have it. There are no Rush Limbaugh type personalities like down here but it’s all over the radio. There are also American shows in syndication up there.
I first heard the Tom Leykis show (based in L.A.) on a Canadian station.
I too believe that McConnell is part of the problem. He had more than thousands of chances, when the GOP was in power, to honor liberty, establish greater freedom, and to honor the US Constitution, instead he chose to blow it like the rest of them on the hill. Now he’s talking tough?-what a joke. I’d sack nearly all of them out of office and get some more real leaders in there like DeMint.
Senator McConnell: The Republican Party has been dealt a winning hand for the 2010 mid-term elections if they play their cards right. The arrogant, big spending, big taxing Marxist lightweight residing on Pennylvania Avenue is starting to wear real thin real fast in “fly-over” country. As long as Republicans don’t play the “go-along-get along game”, the same thing that happened to Bill Clinton in the 1996 mid-terms will happen to “his fullness of you know what” in 2010. By the way, the first time I visited your great state of Kentucky was 1963, basic training, Fort Knox, and believe me, those NCO’s kicked my young rear end enough times that they actually made a man out of me. Since then I’ve made many trips to Kentucky, and on several occasions I’ve bought yearlings at Keeneland. I have a 3 year-old filly now, getting ready for her first race down in Florida at Gulfsream. I love her, and let’s hope she wins a race or two so she can start paying for her upkeep. That’s a lesson everyone should learn; pay your own bills.
Good to see him fighting for the short term, but regaining voters should be the long term focus. We must do anything to make sure Obama fails. 2010 and 2012 may be the last chances we get to take our country back! After that, certain things need to be done to make sure this doesn’t happen again. Control the media and the internet, put a cap on what comes out of hollywood, restrict travel abroad by Americans, and most importantly, get rid of the illegal aliens.
We need more real conservatives,not RINO’S.
Hate to say it but until we hit 15-20% unemployment and the Dow is at 2000…the masses will not give a damn…principles don’t matter to them
2. Bob:
Finally som”e good news. Obama has done more to set back the country in 5 weeks than any other president ”
Bush set it back BEFORE he got elected, by cheating on the election. Now you see the results.
What is a conservative these days anyway?
6. Fairbanks99:
“Whatever the GOP can do to bypass the MSM ”
Meaning ‘stay in your cave’.
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We have plenty of oil in the world, but technically we are depleting it, you didn’t know that??
I am a DEMOCRAT, and it’s time for REPUBLICAN’S, to face the fact that, your party is DIVISIVE, and that’s not good, AMERICA, as well as the WORLD watched your CONVENTION during the CAMPAIGN, and it was SCARY, it’s as if you live in a WORLD of your own, you have set your self off from, oh shall I say MAIN STREAM AMERICAN’S.
The truth is you do not want MAJORITY’S in your little world, and for the life of me, I cannot understand, why any AFRICAN AMERICAN would want to be a REPUBLICAN! DEMOCRAT’S have their issue’s, but, GOD, look at what, the REPUBLICAN’S have tried to do to the PRESIDENT! MONKEY being KILLED, WATERMELON PATCH’S, and the list go’s on and on, deep rooted RACISM, covered up with the word CONSERVATISM!
The word CONSERVATIVE mean’s OLD way’s and old IDEA’S, the PRESIDENT is trying to feed the hungry, and yet, he is being ATTACKED on a daily basis, the PRESIDENT has a kind NATURE, he is INCLUSIVE, and that’s why he is PRESIDENT, and no matter what the REPUBLICAN’S try to do, it will not WORK, GOD see’s your deed’s and they are not good, you have SOWN WICKEDNESS, and now you are being DISMANTLED, and GOD is doing it a day by day!
I am a CHRISTIAN, and that word should carry a lot of weight, but, what I have seen of the REPUBLICAN PARTY thus far, I see no sign of THE ATTRIBUTE’S of CHRIST, but, yet I see them in the DEMOCRATIC PARTY, the question is? “are we our BROTHER’S KEEPER? well from what I have heard, as well as seen, REPUBLICAN’S fight hard against their fellow brother in need! and you call yourself CHRISTIAN’S, YOU REPRESENT CHRIST in a very dishonest way, CHRIST feed the people, CHRIST healed the PEOPLE, and these are thing’s the REPUBLICAN’S fight against, but, yet, the PRESIDENT, will come forth and attempt to follow the lead of JESUS, and that’s why the people, reach out to him, and they turn away from the REPUBLICAN PARTY, your party show’s no COMPASSION for the people of GOD!
#31 mattie – Sorry, but you misunderstand what teh Bible tells you. I know this, because you misuse the phrase “my brother’s keeper”. Cain said this to God after he slew Abel. He was being very snotty. In today’s vernacular, it translates as, “Why the eff are you asking me? It’s not my day to watch him!” He was demonstrating his resentment of God. So try not to tell us how we are imcompassionate and not very Christian.
In case you missed it, Republicans give four times as much as Democrats to charities that actually help people in need. These charities are not to be confused with political-agenda charities. We help the poor. We just don’t steal from others to do it. Legislating the help, using someone else’s money to help, is stealing. Thou shalt not steal! Get it? Just because we say government shouldn’t mandate the help, doesn’t mean we’re against helping. Charity isn’t charity if coerced.
As to the article, I’ll believe the Pubs in Congress mean business as soon as the leaders acknowledge their failure and step down. They won’t, because they want to hold onto their power. When Boehner steps down in favor of Kantor, then I’ll believe. When McConnell steps down in favor of DeMint, then I’ll believe. When the Pubs in Congress decide to defer some choices to the party, and refuse to support Spectre, Snow, Collins,and the media-whore McCain in their reelection bids, then I’ll believe. Until then, bite me!
This is a welcome show of fire from McConnell. Conservatives seem to keep chasing their tails over philosophical purity and irrelevancies like what someone’s religion is, while Liberals are making off with the stuff that really matters, seats in Congress and the Presidency.
The only good thing about the last two elections will be if they taught Republicans something about staying together in enemy territory. They saw Bush’s polls and scattered like chickens instead of being willing to stand up and fight. They had control in both houses of Congress and gave it away by alienating their base by spending like Democrats. Now the Democrats are back in charge and they’re trying to win back the big spending crown!
I don’t know if Republicans will figure this out, but if they don’t start winning, we’re in for another “Era of Good Feeling” which is libspeak for free rein. But they’d better remember too that playing the pork barrel polka makes it a lot harder to tell them from the Democrats.
PS. If I might, can I suggest that PJM establish a rule against using the comments space for addressing other commenters instead of the main article? This squabbles between various parties in the comments section, make the whole thing unreadable and detract from the article. I know it’s expensive to have administrators, but I be willing put comments to a vote as to relevance, and remove them if they can’t meet some criterion of being responsive to the main article.
And when did Christ say, “The people need, take from the rich, take from the workers, take from all who have and give unto them.”?
Oh that’s right, he didn’t. He did it himself. Giving of your own will and volition is charity and Christian, demanding that others be coerced to give so you can feel good that you demanded that is not.
30. mattie:
“it’s as if you live in a WORLD of your own, you have set your self off from, oh shall I say MAIN STREAM AMERICAN’S.”
All conservatives care about is MONEY. People to them are just accessories. They hide behind religion, just another tool. Their brains become a one-way street. Lots of them are nice people, but they are lost in their own world. Put them in a different social environment and they fly as fast as they can. They can’t stand “lesser” humans. Democrats are more gregarious, but as all human beings, they also make mistakes. But they believe in the ideal of a compassionate society. They will turn around this country this time because the majority wants a better country and a better world. Smart Republicans are realizing that and are joining the ranks. Welcome!
Talk of the Republicans’ demise is just silly. Democrats conveniently ignore the McCain voters. It’s highly unlikely that they are supporting Obama’s policies.
Republican-bashing is in full throttle now, if for no other reason, than that it conveniently deflect criticism of Obama’s policies. Eventually, his policies will be evaluated on their own merit and not in relation to the “past 8 years.”
If the Republicans would use the same gut-fighting tactics as the Democrats, they would surely win! Notice, for instance, how the Democrats use the internet. Also, and I firmly believe this, I read somewhere that not only should the Republicans have a great message, they should also have a great messenger, one that people actually liked! Remember this past election??
Where was this guy when Bush could not bring out a VETO pen? Where was this guy and the rest of the Republican leadership when the Bush Administration trid to rein in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac eleven times so the we did not come to the economic place we are in right now.
Lastly, where was this guy when we needed him the most … why could he have just locked up three lousy Senators during this last monsterious expansion of Government spending … where was his leadership then?
Sweep them all away and go out and get some real “First Principle” constitution guided leadership that will restore the Government back to being a tool of the people … NOT the other way around!
I am just feed up with this Insider’s Club leadership crowd.
I agree with McConnell that the card check bill is a top priority.
I will pray for president Obama. He is America’s last best hope.
Sen. McConnell and RNC. You do need help in the Senate but you better put up some top notch candidates, i.e., Specter is toast in PA but you will need someone strong to overcome the PA machine abetted by the muckrackers the DNC can dredge out of the gutter. If you think you have seen lies and hate from the left now, wait until 2010.
CPAC is where you go to lick your wounds and realize you have conceded way too many times to the Democrats. The reason
RNC conceded way too many times, the reason was because they were playing defensive rather than offensive and that started in 2003!
An add on to Marc Malone 33, Mattie 31, You do err greatly. Jesus told the CHURCH to help the poor, feed the hungry, etc… NOT the GOVERNMENT!!!
Washington power ebbs & flows. This time, it flowed against Republicans. However, that tide will once again change as the public realizes their best interests do not lie with those who sell compulsory anything.
McConnell did not do a good job before & that cost us. McConnell bought Arlen Specter’s crying jag when Arlen thought he would lose his Senate committee seats. McConnell & others gave in & what they got was the exact same result they had before. Arlen sold out for a pork project “he” wanted. Cancer research is a good thing. But selling out the party when we were positioned to negotiate a better deal if all stuck together, was another Specter let down.
The MSM line Republicans don’t care is pure propaganda & those who buy it are mindless drones. Can’t accuse us of taking over government because we want less of it, not more. Obama & company want more government & more control of your daily life. No thanks.
I doubt the public realizes this change they bought & the stimulus (just like all the previous stimulus packages), will not produce the result the Democrats are hoping for. The public will go apoplectic when they get the bill for this & that bill will be enormous. The top 2% or 5% do not make enough to pay for the additional taxes that will be required to pay for these spending programs that really are special interest paybacks. The inflation to come will hurt every American & drive down our living standard dramatically. Obama cannot tax his way out of that situation, just as he cannot & should not have tried to spend out of this economic crisis.
BTW… even the New York Times, the liberal rag of record, after reviewing & doing their own recounts in Florida, admitted that Bush won BOTH times in Florida. Plus, the Supreme Court only ruled that Democrats had to count all votes the same way & not just count those votes or counties that benefited Democrats. Franken is trying the same thing in Minn. & will end up in that same court, obtaining the same ruling.
You cannot count only Democrat votes in one county, then refuse Republican votes to be counted in another county under the same circumstances, in the same election. Either you count all of the votes everywhere as Democrats have espoused but not lived up to, or you count none of them. Lets face it folks, Democrats already have an edge with ACORN out there doing their thing & creatively conjuring up votes from the dead, counting votes from others twice, & coming up with more voters (all Democrats I might add), in some counties than there are human beings!
The truth is, with outfits like ACORN doing the dirty work, with the alphabet TV networks doing the smooth talking & cheer-leading, & with Rino’s confusing Republican voters who want the party to represent them based on principles but see Rino’s doing exactly opposite, its no wonder we lost in 2006 & 2008, and face a tough battle in 2010. We can win if we go directly to the people & if we stand up for what we believe & stop compromising so much we have to become socialists to get along with Democrats! Our party voters see that & they become disenchanted. Those are the Republican voters who stayed at home in 2008 & who we must get back out voting in 2010.
McConnell cannot have it both ways. Either dump Specter, Snowe, & Collins, or you leave & let competent leadership step in. Its inappropriate for Specter to run as a Republican, when he is really a blue dog Democrat, at best!
Republican voters do not want Democrat-lite, they want actual Republicans with actual values that really match up to the majority of Americans. That is how we win elections.
McConnell practiced his speech this time & looked decisive. His responses to other speeches, etc. were as milquetoast-y as they get. That is also why he needs to give up the leadership. DeMint overshadows McConnell by miles & miles.
The “Obama will save us crowd” will sooner or later have to face the reality he got the job only because the media sold him to many who had not paid real attention to the details. Now, buyers remorse is truly setting in, & it will only get worse from here!
#31 mattie . . . There you go using their beliefs against them. It’s not about Jesus. At least not until tomorrow morning from 10:00 to 10:45. Drop a dollar in the brass plate. Nod off once. Go back to Pajamas Media and spread the word . . . gloryhole.
Republicans talk tough when they are out of power and spend like drunken liberals when in power.
I believe they enjoy being in 2nd place…….
I almost gave up on the GOP during the primaries, when they selected Chris Matthews(!) as the moderator for one of the Republican debates. Which moron (at the RNC?)made that choice? I could be more supportive of Republicans if they stopped acting like Democrats (e.g., Arnold). If the only way Republicans can win is to attune their policies to a liberal agenda, then there is no reason to support the GOP.
Screw tough love…we need tough nuckles. McConnel is the problem. He is pure politician…not an ounce of statesman. The remocrats stand for nothing but self preservation and have no stomach for the coming fight.
I don’t trust McConnell. This guy talks tough, but when it counts he waffles. He is another one of the insiders that has lost touch with the people. If the Conservative Republicans want to win we will need a Conserative that is Conservative all the time not just during election years or when they are in front of other Conservatives.
Ah, what great fortune:
Mattie (#30/31),What’s That (#46), and the omnipresent Vivo (#36) – the proverbial unholy trinity of mis-quotation and mis-representation of values, religion and truth! Where do we find such Americans!!
Never do they answer the challenges – why is it that Christ asked his church and its people to provide charity for the weak and impovershed; when all evidently he had to do was dictate the Romans and the government to fund it all?
Does it ever amaze you how our rich “I got mine (money, land deals, and largesse) Dems give so little – willingly – to ‘Christian’ charity; but are ready to legislate charity, patriotism and giving from others…hmmmmm. How long/close are these three loudmouth to the daily adjusted magic income cut-off, I wonder?
Yes, my “upper case” abusers, as your sainted Prez has said, “Those pesky Republicans would call my sharing my jelly sandwich in kindergarten, socialism (one of my favorite OB metaphors, incidently).” But he forgot to add,he never really did share his unless the Principal makes him do it. Can you imagine the hue and cry when his daughter’s principal comes in and take his child’s sandwich (of courst, that won’t happen – their meals are catered, I’m sure; no public education for my precious ones’ – oh, yeah, but its good enough for the rest of you), and gives it ‘equally of course’ to the rest of the children who ate theirs at snack time? Wonder if our Democrats would smile and approve… with nary a word? Charity, of course, begins at home, you know
Some day I hope to enter a serious discussion with a ObManiac who is willing to engage in the considerable challenges that lie ahead; to find one that will use adult language and measured reason – here is to hoping to find one that have read another book besides “Audacity of Hope” or his other self-aggrandizing tome….
GF
51. gunfighter:
“the proverbial unholy trinity of mis-quotation and mis-representation of values, religion and truth! Where do we find such Americans!!”
Unfortunately for you, my opinion represents clarity and truth. You think your viewpoint is the rule. Not anymore. The world is shrinking and there are billions who don’t think like you. Your world is shrinking even more. I think Democrats are far from perfect, but Cons are even farther. What lies ahead is very difficult to solve. The financial crisis was generated by greed and the solutions are not eliminating greed. It’s not a partisan situation. The real heroes will be the bankers that take responsibility and face reality. They don’t need the government to tell them that: it’s an ethical principle.