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Those Shutdown Blues

April 9, 2011 by  

Ben Crystal

is a 1993 graduate of Davidson College and has burned the better part of the last two decades getting over the damage done by modern-day higher education. He now lives in Savannah, Ga., where he has hosted an award-winning radio talk show and been featured as a political analyst for television. Currently a principal at Saltymoss Productions—a media company specializing in concept television and campaign production, speechwriting and media strategy—Ben has written numerous articles on the subjects of municipal authoritarianism, the economic fallacy of sin taxes and analyses of congressional abuses of power.

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  • chuckb

    patty, we have been down this road before with the republicans, big talk before election, when elected run and hide. lets face it the repubs are a bunch of wimps, boehner is a joke and mcconnell is the same. the revolution should start now, the tea party should run their candidates for president and congress. we know what the bolshevik party is and we have seen what they do so it’s time we either defeat the party of minorities and illegals or give up the country, if we wait any longer it is all over for sure. this alien called president is so arrogant he refuses to show a legitimate birth certificate! how do you compute that when the law requires a natural born citizen, is he?

    • patty

      Chuckb – I know and realize that. I am not a republican thumper, believe me. I just think that we have been too complacent in the past and we will have to bear that responsibility. To start a 3rd party would only split the voters more. I think that Palin/Bachman have the right idea. Beat them both at their own game and take over the repub party just as liberals and progressives took over the democratic party. Dump the social issues and leave them where they belong, to the states. Get back to the constitution and what our federal gov’t. was set up to do. I think we can accomplish this faster if we can find and put on the ballot tea partiers under republican delegation.

  • big jack

    Well I had high hopes with the past election and the mandate I thought was given to the house but once again the republicans have some how lost their masculinity. Time for a third party, no way getting around it. With all the hype about what dire straights the country is in and all they could do was 39 billon, tells me neither party is serious about solving the situation because they are more worried about staying in office, what a joke. We all might consider getting on the government dole, at least we’ll have some fun until the ship goes down. That’s what I see are political leaders doing. And we pay big bucks for this kind of leadership. I would be embarrassed
    to take a paycheck for this kind of effort.

    • Patty

      Black Jack – You are forgetting that as historic as Nov 2010 was, it only got us 1/3 of what we needed. 2/3′s is still screwed up including those rino repubs that need tossed out. It was more historic for your local and state gov’t. We need to keep pushing and putting people in who do not want to be career polititians and really want to make the changes needed. Do not give up, and whatever you do, research and VOTE. There was something like 37-39 billion in pork spending alone in that bill.

      • bob wire

        historic? ~ 2008 was historic, 2010 was just a comeback from the dead! after a two year demonizing campaign blitz sponsored by corporate interest ~ you know the people that helped create this fall for grace to start with? by the party that solicits the brain dead type A personality, finding them more acceptable to programing of any “hate” message.

        You know? People that don’t really need to think! They just KNOW!

  • Tharon

    Well I do not know if any one is going to read this but here are a few ideas in cutting the budget.
    1. Stop all aid going to other countries except Israel.
    2. All the people getting welfare have them clean up all the trash along the roadways and beaches no trash no welfare check.
    3. Give illegals 7 days to leave our country and if still here after 7 days fine them $5,000.00.
    4. Any one coming across our borders without a green card get a warning shot to go back if they keep coming shoot them. You may ask how can we do this I am sure that their are a lot of americans that would be more than happy to help at the borders.
    5. The price for a barrel of oil is the price of a bushel of wheat if they do not like that let them eat their oil.
    6. When the government does not pass a budget on time all of representives including the President and vice president are fined $5,000 per day until a real budget is approved and that is by an election of the people.
    7. Get rid of Obamacare entirely.
    8. Do not fund unions.
    9. Do not fund abortions baby killing is not legal.
    10. A company who hires a illegal should be fined per each one.
    11. Stop printing things is all languages use only ENGLISH if they do not want to learn ENGLISH then they can go home.
    Right now this country is at war but not with guns but with a government who wants to tell the people how to live. Maybe some people like that because they do not know how to think so it makes their life easy.

    WAKE UP PEOPLE THIS IS A GOD FEARING COUNTRY AND IF YOU DO NOT LIKE LEAVE.

    • Patty

      Tharon – could not agree with you more. We just all have to stick together when the tough gets going and beat them at their own game. Couple of things on your post:
      1-Isreal would be just fine without our aid. So we can cut that also. If they get attacked, we can just help them bomb the hell out of whomever if they need help.
      2-That is what convicted people get to do for community service. In MN I see them out all of the time. What we should do is have mandatory education for those moms 5 days a week, 8 hours a day for 18 months with piss tests until they are trained in something and then make them work full-time. Turn their checks over to the state where they get their benefits. Piss tests continue until they are off the benefits.
      3-Illegals do not have $5k. One way ticket back to their country, family included. Bring our troops home and put them on the border. If they try to cross, Shoot them as enemy combatants.

  • TombstoneLizard

    Oh, boy, it just keeps getting better and better, doesn’t it? I hope our military does a full-force walk out and leave the Middle East in the dust where it belongs! Oh, and all you libs want to give so much entitlement to illegal aliens, why don’t you just call for the US to take over Mexico and Cuba? That way, we get an even number of stars to add to the flag, and businesses will be forced to pay them minimum wage! Oh, and we can finally tax those pesky drug cartels-or blow them off the face of the Earth. Either or.

  • Ridge Runner

    If the conservatives in congress both demos and repub fail to stop this bunch of out laws in the white house the we need to be given a good hill billy ass whiping, For any one that don’t know what that is it is a whiping with a green hickory stick a bout 3 to 4 ft. long and about 1 inch at the big end. You don’t want to kill them just make them think you are going to. just get the point over to them and make a beliver out of them. We also needmore true conservatives elected to both houses of our government. It desn’t matter if they are demos or repub as long as they are reasonable honest, Just look and pay attention to what their belief are and don’t get in a hurry to elect any one with 0ut checking their credentals.

    • Patty

      “Nothing like a good piece of hickory” Clint Eastwood in Pale Rider. My hero!

  • http://personallibertydigest Buck crosby

    This is the best forum ever , Ben covers enough satyrical ground to open everything up , however I am tickled to death we got by another financial crises without murdering any more women or elderly people but retained the right to murder unborn infants . It is obvious we are going to have to work on replacing John Boehner as speaker and get someone up there with guts . My pick would be Michelle Bachmann . Now I would like to pick a new scab ,I am really getting tired of the lamestream media and the political cowards declaring that we do not have a muslim problem because only ten percent are terrorists . In truth ,I think it is more like fifty percent because they are responsible for ninety-nine percent of all terrorism world wide for at least the last forty years . While the nation of Islam accounts for most of the evil perpetuated in the world today and should be recognized for it we have an even bigger fight here in the United States with the corrupt destroyers of our nation , the progressives , the unions , and the socialist elites . They must be faced down and subdued before we will be able to fight The Islamists effectively . The best way to do this is to get rid of political correctness and return ” tolerance ” to the level of Christian reason and sanity it belongs . Remember , Everything in moderation , this would include tolerance because as we are seeing , it too can be abused .

  • Tharon

    I am sorry to say that the real problem is with the people who voted for our elected officials. It really does not matter that much who gets elected whether it is a Republican, Democrat or Liberal so far I have not see any real difference between any of them. I feel that almost everyone of them have been selling out the people who had elected them for all the special interest groups and they have forgot all about the people they are suppose to be representing and have sold us all out for the special interest groups and lobbyists. It looks like they are just there to see how much money they can make off of the american taxpayers. It does not look like any of them are standing up for the constitution any more. This great country became great because of what we stood for and now it seems to be going down the toilet because of several things:
    1. This country is a Christian Nation.
    2. God has stood with us though all of this and that has made us great.
    3. The government is not suppose to run the people but the people are suppose to rule the government.
    4. The supereme court is suppose to rule by using the constitution as a guide not interpet it to think what it says.
    5. The people need to demand from the congressmen and women for our President to produce a valid birth certificate.
    6. The way things are being handled by our Government the people need to rise up and demand from our congress the truth no one should be exempt from providing real proof on who they are.
    7. This country is a God fearing country no matter who says something else.
    8. Majority rules which does not seem to be the case any longer so the majority better wake up real fast because if they have not all ready woke up by now our country is going down the toilet.
    9. If your congressmen or women do not listen to the majority then kick them out of office and diffinitely do not reelect them.
    10. Whether you want to believe this or not I really have my doubts if their is even one person in all branches of elected officials that are really honest and doing what we have elected them to do.
    Well I think I went on long enough.
    SORRY ABOUT ANY SPELLING MISTAKES I MAY HAVE MADE BUT SORRY TO SAY I AM NOT A GREAT SPELLER.

    God bless every one.

  • http://larryandmiki@sbcglobal.net Larry Carter

    Edddie47d, how would you describe the voter reversal because of a miscount that happen in Waukeshaw county Wisconsin in this weeks Wisconsin Supreme court election? I am sure their is mischif on the part of those nasty Republicans in a county that is a strong hold and run by Democrats. Don’t take your eyes of those Republicans.

    • libertytrain

      Waukesha.

  • chuckb

    good one ben, as always.

    it’s time for the american people to put a stop to these political clowns. we are at a point it may not be possible to pay off our debt and these jokers are doing nothing to stop it, pull our troops out of iraq, afghanistan and stop this circus in libya. shut down the government and clean house while we may have a chance. the only thing most of these political hacks want is re-election. the only people making sense is palin and bachman and trump. the bolsheviks would love to see romney or huckabee run, what a laugh. too bad gingrich was such a coward when he served in congress. remove this throw back from kenya, he doesn’t have the smarts to run a lemonade stand. if i were black he would be an insult to me. take a look at africa for some reason they have the same problem with all their leaders, it must run in the family. show me one that isn’t corrupt.

  • David

    Fact: Republican leadership is an absolute failure. They Caved.
    Fact: We need either a third party or enough votes to totally dominate the republican party with tea party people.

    • Patty

      David, keep following the tea party. That is exactly what they are trying to do. Get into the republican party. Replace the rinos. It will take a shorter time to get them out and fly under that designation than to get a third party elected. We have a lot of other parties that hardly ever get in starting with independents, communists, socialist, libertarian, etc, etc. We need to clean up the republican party. Help find good candidates at every level locally, state, federal levels. That is what the hi-jacked democratic party did.

  • don

    Race baiting sexist Crystal, keep your day job. You are not funny.

    • http://naver samurai

      Too much kool aid. FOR GOD AND COUNTRY!

  • Bert Cundle

    Well… O’Bomba, Announced his Canadacy for Next ELECTION; of corse he huggs Al. He knows the Black People put him in office… But, How will he bail out Anyone, with the economy in the Microscope?

    • Patty

      When did he stop campaigning?

  • Kel R

    Accurate and factual. libs just can’t stand the truth. theres a reason the democrat’s haven’t passed a budget in 2 years and won’t submit one for next year either. keep up the good work Ben.

    • patty

      That is because they didn’t want their prints all over it. Now they can play the blame game and finger point it back to the repubs. Only, what the demo’s don’t get, is that we are awake know and watching. And we will point out every lie and deceit they throw out. Just like I do with Eddie47, Jovianus and the like. You prove it to them and instead of them standing up for what they believe, they just go away. I have made it my personal responisbility to point out these lies and inaccuracies, and I don’t care which side it is coming from.

  • father24girls

    Just disgusted. Is there no one left that can stick to their word? This was the opportunity of a life time for the Republican party to return to their roots and get our financial house in order and they conceded to the likes of Harry Reid!Pathetic, just pathetic.

    • patty

      Very pathetic. This is why we need to get more tea partiers running under the republican designation. That will be the only way we can get them in is to take over that party and get rid of the RINO’s

  • Earl, QUEENS, NY

    So they averted a shut down?? It sounds more like a cave in or sell out to me!! These budget cuts are like petty cash compared to the debt generated by BHO and his democraps over the past few years!! It would be far more rational to get deficits down to the levels of GW Bush’s tenure, which would mean cutting over a trillion per year!! Mark Levin is right!! It would be far better to shut down the government!! Likewise, I hear so many people say that Mark Levin is crazy or mean spirited because of his ranting on the radio. I DISAGREE!! He’s just concerned about the trend of this country with leftwing liberals in power. The Great One’s rants are constructive, on the right side of the issues, and legitimate when one considers the lies told by Democraps and their allies in the leftwing media. E.g., we can see that BHO and his democraps obviously care more about the non-productive drones, welfare moochers, and their other special interest constituencies than they care about the paychecks of our military personnel who risk their lives to protect our nation!! Likewise, the democraps constantly lie about Tea Parties and the GOP to the point of absurdity!! Republicans (on all levels of government) should not only refute the leftwing democraps’ lies, but also tell the truth about the democraps’ real agenda, and how detrimental it is to our nation, economy and future. Instead of being RINOs and wimps who cower to democraps, IMHO, they should emulate Mark Levin with the same bold outspokenness!! Sadly, a large % of voters seem to fall for the democraps’ lies and misinformation, because the GOP lacks the courage to stand firm and fight back against the leftwing statists!! Thus the GOP should get its act together, even if it means ranting in ‘The Great One’ style!!…..And don’t stop after 2012 when/if we (hopefully) put the democraps out of power. Even if we succeed in 2012, DON’T GET TOO COMFORTABLE, because the democraps will desperately try to reclaim their power with campaigns of lies and deceit. CONTINUE THE FIGHT AGAINST THE LEFT!!!!!

    • Bud Tugly

      Lies and deceptions spew forth plenty from both sides. Republicans have once again gone all in for voodoo economics. Paul Ryan’s squirrely math is as ridiculous as Pelosi’s. It’s time to get serious about the realities of our economic situation. A good start to savings is to get most of our troops home and start protecting our own borders. Why do we have to foot the bill for defending the rest of the world?

      While we borrow money from China to pay to defend Europe the Chinese are building a state-of-the-art infrastructure that we can only dream about. Now we are even thinking of using them to design high speed rails in California. Americans are not capable of doping this ourselves? This would employ many people here.

      • Patty

        Bud T – I agree with bringing our troops home but it ends there. We have to start somewhere and starting to eliminate entitlements has to start. It is not sustainable. What part of that don’t you get? They cut 2%. That is NOTHING! Put it into numbers we can understand. If you gross 3k/mo. that is a mere $60.00 per month to you personally. What is that, one night out for a cheap dinner for you and another? Filling your gas tank once? Ridiculous. And we should not get into high speed light rail. It is another one of those black holes. There is not one in this nation that is self sufficient. If you want it to work, turn it over to the private sector. If they can make it work, they would be doing it. Here is one out of more than a dozen that I found that state that it is not manageable. http://jacksonville.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2011/01/high-speed-train-to-insolvency/ Exactly, who is making the money off of installing these light rails? They are the only ones benefiting from them and we all get to subsidize them going forward. Something we cannot afford.

  • marshelk

    Republicans folded like an old lawn chair!

    • TIME

      Marshelk,

      How bloody sad is that.

      • Thamera

        VERY!

  • Eddie47d

    Ben enjoys bashing unions but then again that is what you all do best.Some attacks are warranted for corruption and back room deals should be weeded out of all organizations or companies.In the Wisconsin Supreme Court vote the race was tight with Prosser (the Gov’s guy) originally expected to win big. This was before Gov Walker went on an anti-union tangent.Kloppenburg was coming out ahead in the race when miracle upon miracle Prosser bolted ahead by a few thousand vote. This was a day after the voting when a County Clerk “discovered” 14,000 votes in favor of Prosser. Now low and behold this Country Clerk worked for Prosser when he was a Republican Legislator. No hanky panky there,right? Could be an honest mistake yet when it come to Democrats you jump on candidates like white on rice. How many times have we heard that Harry Reid stole the vote even though he got 53% of the vote. You say he cheated,lied,fixed the ballot box,hired union thugs to fix the election and is a disgusting human being. There is no proof of that then and not now.Neither one of us knows whether the Republicans got desperate in Wisconsin and pulled a fast one. Yet there is no proof of shenanigans at the ballot box in Nevada either. Some of you live for this political dance and could care less for the truth. If someone says it then it must be true.Do we secretly desire corruption if our side wins? Acorn got busted for just that and paid a big price so can the other side take their lumps when we smell a rat?

    • JUKEBOX

      To begin with, my Grandfather,as an election official, over 80 years ago, had to steal the ballot box to keep Democrat bosses from stufing it. The biggest election fraud in the US is Barak Hussein Soetoro Obama winning the Presidency. Election fraud has been ingrained in the American election process for well over 150 years. When Democrats discover 10,000 uncounted votes, it is called an OVERSIGHT, but when it favors a Republican, it is automatically branded FRAUD.

      • Eddie47d

        You hear it both ways.That was my point.

      • Thamera

        Exactly Jukebox

      • http://naver samurai

        100% agree. FOR GOD AND COUNTRY!

    • patty

      Eddie47 – ACORN pleaded guilty to voter fraud this week. http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/nation/7510402.html
      So, do you think NV should have a recall or recount? Or should everyone sign a petition to have a new election? This is proven, convicted fraud. Unlike them trying to recall and unseat senators in WI where voter fraud is not an issue.

      • Patty

        Come on Eddie47 – I really want to know. You are all for recalling WI senators just because you don’t agree with what the PEOPLE of WI voted for. A Change. I proved to you that there WAS voter fraud in NV. Recall or recount or do nothing? What say ye?

      • Patty

        Eddie47-PS I eat brown rice thank you.

    • libertytrain

      Re your: “In the Wisconsin Supreme Court vote the race was tight with Prosser (the Gov’s guy) originally expected to win big. This was before Gov Walker went on an anti-union tangent.Kloppenburg was coming out ahead in the race when miracle upon miracle Prosser bolted ahead by a few thousand vote. This was a day after the voting when a County Clerk “discovered” 14,000 votes in favor of Prosser.”

      You need to have a gander at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel online and read some of the articles to get some accuracy on this. This is not a conservative paper – I’ll agree this woman is not the sharpest tack if she’s had two errors this year; but this was not “discovered” – it was her failure to transfer votes from spreadsheet to the computer. She realized her error when the city in question “Brookfield” showed up with “0″ votes on her preliminary reports. Which is not possible -

    • Wild Bill

      Eddie
      There were no “found” votes.The wrong numbers were posted by API and taken as gospel by Kloppenbergs camp.You also might have mistakenly omitted the FACT that there was a democrat watchdog at the side of the clerk tallying the votes who publicly stated that there was no “hanky panky” as you put it.An honest mistake of omission on your part or?.

      Wild Bill
      Alaska

      • TIME

        LT & WB,
        Man the Truth just sucks when your eddieeeO.

        You two did a Great job with your post.
        Thanks.

      • Thamera

        Yes, thanks. This issue was brought up on another post and as usual there is always “more to the story” than one article can provide.

    • Patty

      that vote wasn’t even close. 92k to 33k? You jest. Why can’t you let the system do it’s job. WI people overwhelmingly are endorsing Gov. Walker. Because if the judge had lost, you have said that it was a reject of Walker and his policies in previous posts. So, opposite, right?
      http://www.waukeshacounty.gov/uploadedFiles/Media/PDF/Elected_Officials/County_Clerk/Election_Results/20110215_unofficial_results_summary.pdf

  • http://aol Bill

    Your disclaimer is rediculous, I see profanity, lies, and insults against Democrats all the time, but one tiny negative, even if true about a republican and poof, there goes the censor! Proof that the republican party is trully a Fascist party waiting to happen.

    • Cawmun Cents

      Do you mean doing something like taking a “right”(healthcare)and making it mandatory,and then fining you if you do not comply?That kind of fascism?

      • http://msn.com Sweetie

        Tell like it is…Cause I heard that one!!!

    • libertytrain

      Bill if you think this site censors the left – you need to start actually reading the comments. :)

      • libertytrain

        and it’s not a republican site – you really need to read more.

      • TIME

        LT,
        That would require that Bill can read, let alone comprehend it.
        By his post its obvious that Bill’s a massive lacking of deep brain tissue.

    • Wild Bill

      Bill
      Your point being?.The democrat party is the epitome of LIES,an INSULT to the concept of common sense and a PROFANITY in and of itself.Ronald Reagan had it right when he stated “liberals know so much that just isn’t so”.No matter how hard,no matter how many times you liberal/progressive types try to twist the truth to fit your agenda the FACT remains that you and your party are so full of BULLS**T that all your eyes are turning brown.

      In the rough times ahead you elitist types are going to come to the realization that it takes hard work to put food on the table,not failed Keynesian monetary policies and socialist centralized big government.Even with liberal doses of salt and garlic you are going to find the results of your failed progressive policies will leave a bad taste in your mouth and be very hard to digest.

      As a great American once stated;

      “A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.”
      Thomas Jefferson

      Think about it

      Wild Bill
      Alaska

  • Stephen G.

    In the words of Pogo,”We have met the enemy and he is us.” The apathy of the American people is the reason we now have in Washington, what we have. We elected these bozos; we believed them even as they lied to us, and we act surprised that politicians that we supported lied!
    It is time for another revolution; we need to sweep all of them from office that have committed a crime by placing their hand on God’s Word and vowing to support and defend the Constitution when in fact they have not done so. Many in Washington have even committed the act of treason and we yawn and go, “ho, hum.”
    ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!

    • Padda Spaans

      Absolutely right Stephen. My beloved husband, an American Infantry Officer was KIA in the Hurtgen Forest massacre in WW11. Obama’s America is NOT the America my husband and hundreds of thousands of other men and women died for. They died, among other things to protect the most perfect constitution in the world. Now Obama and his “we hate America” gang of thugs are hell bent on destroying it.
      I ask myself WHY? is a man who openly denigrates everything good about America,who won’t put his hand on his heart when the national anthem is played, who bows to Muslim leaders but won’t salute our flag, and who claims that this beloved country, founded by great men of great faith in God is NOT a Christian country. HE WISHES!!! Why has he not been thrown out bag and baggage from the Whitehouse, where he shows his disrespect by putting his feet on the oval office table from where great men he is too ignorant to begin to understand have guided this country to greatness. A greatness he resents because he knows in his heart he is an inferior being, a puppet in the grip of his handlers who he has to OBEY. That must be truly galling for someone so obsessed with presenting himself as powerful. Powerful my Aunt Fanny!!! He is nothing but a tool in the hands of those who want to destroy America.America IS NOT AND NEVER WILL BE the MUSLIM country he longs for. When we pray every night “GOD BLESS AMERICA” we pray to our CHRISTIAN GOD and HE WILL bless America as soon as the American people do their part, open their eyes and ACT. God helps those who help themselves. Get off the sidelines HOPING that he will go. Ask what YOU can do to make it happen…then DO IT…NOW.

      • Patty

        Unless we are all ready to take it to the next step, we can only continue to find new people that we can put into congress and eliminate all of the old same as usual people with no real leadership.

  • http://com i41

    Where was C-Span for the transparency, some more behind lock doors BS of keeping things hidden from the citizens. Michelle Backman held her ground and sure didn’t vote for it. We will see what happens when this bill ever gets signed. The biggest f–k up, is not defunding Onumnutt’s Nocare. This is what we get when idoits that have been in Washington since Mody Dick was a guppy, always give in. We will see if the bill is really finuished for the 3 day rule. So here comes the of Tuesday see if it is there to read!

  • Bruce Vogel

    So tell me again why the Republicans are different then the Democraps? (I’m a conservative tea party Just trying to fix America!) I want to believe in the Republicans…. But they desperately need a LEADER with swingers between the legs…

    • Bob

      Unfortunately, it seems like the only ones with any stones in the Republican party are females like Palin and Bachmann. What a sad commentary on men today.

    • Patty

      What we need to do is to continue to find tea party candidates to infiltrate and get rid of the quasi republicans. If you look at the vote, the tea parties were not in step with the rino repubs on this vote. They stood their ground. Give them credit for that. Majority still rules.

  • http://radiodynamo.com/ Haggard

    Ah yes, once again I see we have the government we deserve. Why should they treat our national budget any different than their own. Most of them bounce checks, beat their wives and steal from their taxpayers. Just like the rest of most of us. I am glad to see I was not disappointed, again, with the open display of lunacy by those who claim to be so much more than the rest of us.

    All they have to do to show how inept they are is to open their mouths and they have been doing that for how many days now?

    Apparently even the new Tea Party members have found their price, as well.

    May God bless America. No one else will.

  • Bob

    Once again the Republican “leadership” has betrayed its constituents by compromising with the party of Satan (aka the democrats). I guess you really can’t fix stupid. It is time for a third party, a party that has no other agenda but to save America from the spiritual AIDs of lieberalism.

    • Cawmun Cents

      I have said it before,”Brand A is Brand A,Brand B is Brand A.”You get a placebo and act like the effects are the same.Your mind is totally controlled,it has been stuffed into their mold,and you will do as you are told,until the rights to you are sold.Thats right folks dont touch that dial.!

    • http://msn.com Sweetie

      By chance would his name be ” Obummer ” the ‘ Chicken Manitch ‘?!?!

      He gave ” Stupidity ” a New Meaning…LOL!!!

  • Lawrence Ekdahl

    Again, we have avoided facing the solution to our problems and passed a phony budget instead of forcing the government to adress the problem. We needed to shut it down and start from scratch.

    • Syl

      I suspect the conversation behind closed doors went like this: “How can we both pretend to pander to our base without really doing anything? I know–we’ll stage a big fight over 3 cents and in the end we will agree on 2 cents. I will lament that I would not have signed on if circumstances were different and you can say see what we made him do!?. O.K That’s settled. Let’s order some drinks and kick back until the last hour so everyone will think we really care about this.”

      • Jay

        That was funny Syl, and no doubt accurate!

      • Patty

        Very accurate.

    • UncleRancid

      All problems have been created by the government. There are no problems the government can not fix.

  • Barb

    Right on Ben!!

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