Caroline Heldman. Yes, she considers herself very elite. Said during the 2008 elections that Palin was unqualified because she did not have an ivy league education and had not traveled abroad. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xccbZubTbpM

The USS Liberty statement did go by me. I was responding to the initial question of what is owed to China. On whether Tony is actually insane or not, I will have to reserve judgment.

Quite right! The numbers have become so mind-numbingly large and oft repeated that they have lost meaning. When I was a kid, we only used the word "trillion" when discussing astronomy.

$800 Billion or $1.4 Trillion, it's kind of all the same anymore to the American ear.

Longer terms allow for voting records to be established.

I would remind you that Obama only served one term in the Senate.

Do we truly want to limit representation by folks like Ron Paul, Michele Bachmann or Paul Ryan?

Term limits seem like such a popular notion here, and Glenn Beck advocates them as well, but the sword cuts both ways. Just saying...