Next thing you know, they'll let the clergy wear polyester, patronize Red Lobster, and eat bacon! Oh wait....... I guess they decided to skip over THOSE parts of Leviticus. Convenient, eh?

And for the record, and for the last bloody time, homosexuality is not the same thing as pedophilia. It's 2010. Grow up.

You people are clueless. Do you even understand that the only thing that "obamacare" has done is re-entrench the private health insurance companies for another generation, giving them 30 million forced new clients in the process? Look what the stock prices of drug and health insurance companies did the day after the bill was signed. They skyrocketed. Stop watching Fox news and start thinking for yourself. Obama is no more a Socialist than Bush was a Fascist. They are both corporate-owned drones who will continue to stick it to the middle and working class while the rich get richer... all the fancy talk and fancy labels and scare tactics and tea parties in the world won't change the fact that none of our politicians... whether a D or an R, work for US anymore.

And for the record, it's "sources."

Obama's tax cuts are a tiny bandaid to a much bigger problem. As usual, he's taking no real stance at all and trying to play nice with everyone. Until we return to the pre-Reagan income tax structure, and close the loopholes that allow two-thirds of corporations to weasel out of paying U.S. taxes, we will continue to see a continued exponential wealth stratification towards plutocracy. And that never ends well....

I owned my own business for 10 years. Sold it. Now I'm getting my doctorate. Next I'm going to poison young minds with my lunatic commie rantings and ravings. *cackle cackle*

Oh god... I've tortured myself through every page she's ever written. I've concluded that the purpose of her main 2 works is to turn otherwise unsuspecting 19 year old boys into raging, selfish d*ckheads. I'm not dismissing bits and pieces of her philosophies, but her fatal flaw is a fundamental misunderstanding of the true nature of the human species. We're not nearly as good as she'd have us believe.

My ideology is anything but confused. That's why I stopped voting for Democrats. The confused ones are the "liberals" who keep voting for centrists. And don't think I don't understand what the Tea Party is all about. A populist movement that decries big government and big government spending, advocating for smaller government and more fiscal responsibility (despite the fact that the original tea party was actually about taxation without representation). That's the party line. Unfortunately, the "leadership" of the party is made up of anti-intellectual hypocrites who use an underlying tone of religiously-based "us vs. them" divisiveness to prod and provoke a demographic made up almost exclusively of conservative, white middle class libertarians who have guns, and this clearly is the point at which a party can very easily become a mob. I'll give them one thing though. They have scared the heck out of the Republicans, who are now making a Usain Bolt style dash to the right, and this is exactly what the left lacks; they need a similar movement to scare the Dems back to the left, which is what Nader has been trying to do for 30 years. Never mind that the t.p. is an astroturfed invention... it's essentially serving it's purpose. But it won't make much of a difference by November. 15 minutes of fame, and all that.

And as far as bleak futures go, I think we are both going to experience it. The duopoly that has an iron grasp over the electoral process will ensure for the next generation that we get none of the truly progressive or truly conservative reforms that both you and I favor, respectively. Instead, we are doomed to see corporate money dictate public policy, with our "elected" officials beholden to USA, Inc, instead of the needs and wants of WE, the people. In this frustration, despite our differences, I think we can find some common ground.

If you don't care about me, then why do you keep responding to my posts?

See above......

Oh right.... the census is a liberal tool used to turn us into a socialist state. I forgot. And you wonder why the mainstream doesn't take the tea party seriously.......