Art,

Jimbo is one of those specialized rubes that lives in the alternative universe of Obamonomics - with its own specialized Orwellian Krugman lingo. The deficit is being reduced when it only goes up $950 billion instead of $1,000 billion, taxes are revenue, a 50% influx of new food stamp recipients stimulates the economy fastest, and debt is irrelevant because we have an unlimited supply of money which can be printed.

I read where Roger Ailes said Joe Biden is as dumb as an ashtray. Jimbo Harrison is the stale butt sitting in the ashtray.

I don't know what planet you were on between 2000 and the communist, excuse me, Democrat, takeover of the Congress in 2006 and the Presidency in 2008. Even with the insult to the economy that resulted from 9-11-2001, the economy was at full employment by 2004 and by 2005 employers were searching desperately for employees; unemployment in the 4% range means anybody who wants a job and who can fog a mirror can find one. Of course, the communist, excuse me, Democrat, media was screaming that what was probably the best economy in all human civilization was the "worst since the Great Depression," and fools like you either believed it or were willing to parrot the Party line. The DJIA record set yesterday broke the record set in 2007 before the communists, excuse me, Democrats had had time to begin wrecking the economy. Oh, and don't adjust it to a real dollar value because, first that would indicate that there is really considerable inflation in the economy and Comrade Obama's Junta denies that, and second, it would no longer be a record and we can't have anything done under the Eeeeeevul Bush be better than what's happin' under the Obamessiah. It's easy to say about you mind-numbed lefties ....

cfbleachers is of course quoting Orwell, but I don't think that anyone seeks power for its own sake. There is either a personal reason (see Freud) or a political reason. I wrote that here: http://clarespark.com/2012/10/15/orwell-power-and-the-totalitarian-state/.