Mark Morton - July 24, 2012

Absolutely – period!

Charles Dewald - July 24, 2012

Yes, the liberals (progressives) in this country are to blaame for the debt that has been incurred. Their mantra is to spend us into recovery, a theory that is preposterously stupid, the average fifth grader knows better. Pres. Obama wants as many dem. voters as possible for his re-election bid and he found the method. Just give them free money and they will vote for him. The country will run out of taxpayers very soon.

Robert Wedge - July 24, 2012

Progressives have taken over the demoratic party…just ask Joe Lieberman. We need to have a nat’l dialogue about oabamas marxist policies. Why is this discussion taboo? How well did this mindset serve John McCain? Establishment republicans like John McCain, who I voted for, are a part of the problem. The power hungry need to be replaced. Our founding fathers knew that once a political position became a position of profit, corruption would ensue. We need to deconstruct saleries, benefits and terms.

Paul Phillips - July 24, 2012

Liberals are indeed the cause of nearly all the problems we face. But that doesn’t just mean Democrats. A lot of leftist actions the government has taken have been blessed by Republicans also. The Republican party MUST get back to our founders intentions if we are to survive.

michele - July 24, 2012

I believe it comes down to morals and ethics….I do believe that liberals are 90% less likely to even understand those 2 words whereas conservatives understand but lack the courage needed. All our leaders need to emulate the courage of the Wisconsin Governor and understand the tenacity and HIGH morals of our founders

Jerry Festa - July 24, 2012

Call it what it really is, socialist leaning communism. Unfortunately, we have Marxist-style Republicans in office as well. What are we doing in this country? Love the founder’s intent or leave.

Arlin R. Johnson, Jr. - July 24, 2012

Communism, fascism, socialism has yet a positive success story to tell the world. That we have folks in Washington following along with socialist/communist thinking is beyond me. The Federal Government is in deed both broke and broken. The Democrats have yet to put forth a budget. That alone should put them all in a bread line somewhere. They are not doing their job and are therefor fired as of today!
God help us all if Obama is not impeached before the end of October 2012, and Holder and all czars given their walking papers. Enough is enough!

Michael King - July 24, 2012

Both sides aisle are culpable. It took decades to get where we are. Democrats and Reoublicans have been holding hands.

ronald schmidt - July 24, 2012

YES!!!

Joseph Violette - July 24, 2012

We’re never going to reduce the deficit if we keep on spending more than we take in. Individuals can do so what makes the Government that they are any different.

It’s time to let someone else try running our Government. President Obama has shown that he doesn’t know how!

Don - July 24, 2012

Of course, liberals are the problem in Washington. When we have Harry Reid block every attempt to solve the budget crisis by either not having the Senate produce a budget or preventing voting on the House’s bill on Obamacare and the budget, I definitely think that the liberals are center of the crisis. They won’t talk or compromise with the Republicans; it is their way or the highway.

Lowell Moore - July 24, 2012

This nation is now bankrupt, and this administration is not doing anything about it.

Jeff - July 24, 2012

Yes, I’m certain that liberals are to blame for our financial crisis. I also have reluctantly come to the conclusion that the Republican leadership is equally to blame and that — speaking strictly of the leadership — they are okay with the status quo. Why else would they continue to derail conservatives? Their argument that they don’t believe that conservatives would win in the general election is just a straw man, a diversion. Why would Karl Rove have gone on Fox News, after Christine O’Donnell had won the Delaware senate primary, and stated how she was “nutty” and had a “checkered past”? He could have waited until after the election to say that. His action showed me that he preferred a Democrat in the seat — and he got it. How do we benefit if the establishment guy they put in the office votes and acts like a liberal? I’ll take my chances with the true conservative, thank you. Republicans, of which I am one, have much to atone for during the Bush years too. They spent like crazy.

Robert E. Black - July 24, 2012

Liberals have dominated our Federal Government for the past three and one-half years and will continue to do so for at least the next five-plus months. It is simply an irrefutable fact to conclude that the mess this country is in right now lies squarely in the laps of liberals and the bad judgment of a few conservatives. What has happened to plain old “common sense” when it comes to federal government management? May the Good Lord help us to do the right thing come November 6, 2012!

Charles Baker - July 24, 2012

I think all the politicians are responsible for the financial mess we are in. They have helped each other vote for these programs that are so costly we can’t sustain them as the currently function. The politicians seem more concerned about feathering their own nest, than doing what is best for the country.

To get out of debt we all have to cut spending, pay cash for what we do, and use the remainder to reduce the debt, unit we are paid up.

Our politicians don’t have the courage to do that. We the people need to force them to do that, or get out of office.

Charles Baker
Denver, CO

Kathleen Hall - July 24, 2012

Very well put, and simple enough for most everyone to understand if they are looking for the truth.

KEEP THIS MESSAGE OUT THERE NON STOP.

Thank you!

Janet Yoder - July 24, 2012

Liberals in both parties – those who either refuse to make the tough decisions or waffle on their conservative position are to blame.

Victress Jenkins - July 24, 2012

Yes!!! Cancel the president & first lady’s credit cards and let them live like ordinary Americans who struggle just to put food on the table for their families.

Dewey Switzer - July 24, 2012

In a word yes. All they know is tax and spend.
Hundreds of Government bodies doing the same function is the most glaring example
Worse, a President that enforces the laws he likes and ignores the others, ignores the Constitution he took an oath to uphold. Will not prosecute flagrant law-breakers (Black Panthers, Acorn, SEIU,etc.)

Mary Jane Casablanca - July 24, 2012

yes, Liberals are to blame – in both parties! It’s time to elect true conservatives who believe in cutting spending, taxes, and balancing the budget.

Russ Morgan - July 24, 2012

Liberalism is largely a broken philosophy and by its nature creates crises. One main point for me is that conservatives HAVE BEEN compromising for the past 30 or so years. The pendulum has swung way far to the left. If anything, it’s time for liberals to begin compromising.

Lee Burns - July 24, 2012

Everyone is entitled to their opinion, ergo, if I do not believe an initiative is reasonable or not in my best interest I should say “no”. I won’t jump off a cliff because you say it will make your friends happy. Yet liberal democrats continue to call me an obstructionist.
Is this really difficult to understand?

Nelson Whipple - July 24, 2012

Beginning with the New Deal and greatly advanced by the Great Society and nurtured by the Husein O. disaster.

john uhrhammer - July 24, 2012

YES!
They are deliberately bankrupting this nation for their own agenda. This president has thrown integrity out the window.
If people expect and receive unearned lively hood there will be no incentive to work or produce anything and we will all be poorer. If we do nothing to add to our worth, we will become of less worth. Something not earned is of zero value!

Barry Beverage - July 24, 2012

Liberal policies are to blame; but equally to blame are conservatives too cowardly to stand up for what they know is truth and right. We elect people to DC to guide the nation, not to watch their own political backsides, to make sure they are elected again. It is time for a new breed of courageous conservatives, willing to stand for what is right, to take the heat and not worry about reelection.

Marilyn Flowers - July 24, 2012

Obama’s goal to “fundamentally transform America” is being done by a president who knows exactly what he is doing and he’s using the Democrat & Republican liberals to do so as quickly as he can-illegally and unconstitutionally!!

Jeff Yetter - July 24, 2012

The current scenario is certainly owing to the leftist socialist progressive agenda and makeup, but not exclusively so. There has been a severe dearth of leadership in this country since the departure of Ronald Reagan. To once again have a true executive in the Executive Office… what a wonderful thought….

Robby Johans - July 24, 2012

The New Deal enacted by Democrats, Great Society Democrats, Obamacare Democrats. All central authority programs that get America closer and closer to Socialism. The so called Progressives are actually Regressives, because central authority governing was all the world knew until the founding fathers laid down their lives and fortunes to create America. “Regressive is a term that should become common usage.

Steve Bouthillette - July 24, 2012

Liberals and the media that doesn’t even pretend to be objective. Moderates who “compromise” by agreeing with liberals…….. There’s plenty of blame to go around, but the media aids and abets the whole DAMN problem!

Robert H. Davidson - July 24, 2012

Hell no!

Mike VandeVelde - July 24, 2012

In 2000:
US deficit – $17 billion
In 2008: after 8 years of Republican President and mostly Republican controlled Congress
US deficit – $1,800 billion or $1.8 trillion
In 2011:
US deficit – $1,200 billion or $1.2 trillion

As an independent I’m having trouble with your blame game!

Herman J. Cornils - July 24, 2012

Liberal’s social engineered Fanny and Freddy to cause a housing boom that was doomed to failure. They engineered the now 48% who pay no taxes and get all the Government welfare so as to get re-elected. They engineered the illegal imigration problem that was not to be repeated after the Reagan Administration (both parties). To compromise with a socialist system of dependence is to go further down the path to destruction. There can be no compromise in the future if we are determined to correct the problem. Liberal socialists have been leading the debate for 50 years or more and Republicans have been compromising over that same period and pounding their chests as if they did something great when Democrats didn’t get all they wanted. When Republicans were given the power, they failed during the Bush Administration by continuing where liberals left off with spending. When Republicans call my phone asking for donations I do not answer because 40 years of support has lead us to this point of failure. You either stand for something or you stand for nothing! I support only individuals with a truly conservative stand.

Oscar Brown - July 24, 2012

Since liberalism is an ideology built on falsehoods and lies, of course it is.

Edward Schilling - July 24, 2012

While we stand around dithering and accomplishing nothing, we leave an opening for elements like Lenin & Trotsky or Hitler and his Brown shirts to take outrageous steps and take over. Obama and his people have laid the groundwork for just such a takeover with many czars already in place. Unless we have people ready to be as tough and brutal and murderous to prevent a takeover as Lenin and Hitler were to accomplish their takeovers, we will find ourselves lost and captive forever as were the Russians and later the Germans!

Harry Birmingham - July 24, 2012

In high school in 1949 I debated on the negative side of the question; “Should we have a welfare state?” I never lost because I always argued that we are Kentuckians and we have always worked for a living…I pointed out that the government was in the process of growing, taxing, and taking our taxes for their own evil needs. I also reasoned that if citizens could depend on the government for their welfare…that in fact the government was buying their vote…and that some day more people would be on welfare than were working and paying taxes…am I a prophet? Every day is simply an evolvement of God’s plan. All our free will acts as creatures of God has brought us to this day. When we realize we are the spirit of God and seek Divine Love..then will we see our lives change. No egotistical politician will ever get us off the road to demise. Only we as individuals can return our nation to its peak,

Francis Schwartz - July 24, 2012

The progressive liberal Democratic Party is mainly to blame for our current crisis. The Republican Party is also to blame. The Federal Government is too large. Term limits should be initiated. Two term limit for the House of Representatives and one term limit for the Senate. No elected member of the Executive Branch or Legislative branch should receive a pension. The Judicial Branch of the government should retire at age 65.

Our country should not go into debt over 70 % of our Gross National Product.

All three branches of the government should follow the Constitution, the Bill Of Rights, and the rule of law.

Jim Bratten, Evansville, IN - July 24, 2012

George Soros bought the Democrat Party in 2004, publicly stating so. The Democrats took control of Congress (spending arm of the gov’t) in January, 2007.
G. W. Bush was weak, and in his last two years lost his veto pen. The Democrat Party is now controlled by Utopian Statists who detest the Constitution and the country as founded… and we have GOP leadership that is comfortable with the “status quo”. Spending and debt will not be controlled until things get painful, and we aren’t far away from that scenario. More incumbents will have to be broomed before things start to improve. Country MUST trump party… or this slide will accelerate.

Alberto Rodriguez - July 24, 2012

A resounding YES. Washington definitely needs an overhaul of gigantic proportions…when will the lunacy stop???

Kathleen - July 25, 2012

Yes, I agree that the far left progressive part of the Democrate Party is the primary reason for the messes our country is in now . . . but I do not let the Republican party off the hook! There is lots of blame to go around! I do think the conservative and Tea Party movements are having an important and valuable influence on the Republicans and have forced an expanded dialogue on important issues. I just pray we can change the direction of our country before those ‘depending on but not deserving of government handouts’ out numbers those paying for them! It’s going to take exceptional leadership, excellent communication skills and something long missing from our elected . . . honesty, heartfelt conviction and determination to do the right thing for our country and future generations not the benefactors!

Donald Greene - July 25, 2012

Liberals regularly accuse Republicans for Washington “gridlock,” “obstructionism,” and “unwillingness to compromise.” The simple fact is that since January 2011 when the democrats lost their stranglehold in the House and their commanding plurality in the Senate, those charges are more appropriately lodged at Barack Obama and Majority “Leader” Harry Reid. Reid has tabled EVERY bill passed by the House to prevent them from even coming up for a vote in the Senate. The blame for our country’s crises and failure of competent leadership lies squarely on the backs of liberals, and the solution is to elect a Republican President, and Republican majority in both Senate and House. And then to hold the elected officials’ collective feet to the fire to support truly conservative principles in every aspect of federal government.

carl eckardt - July 25, 2012

I cannot understand how our Republican Legislators cannot inpeach obama. You all know he has committed those types crimes againest the our Constitution. Where is Ronald Regan. I agree with the above article and hope we have men who will be coming into office that will bring us back to the GREAT COUNTRY we used to be. Take a clue from Ronald Regan and get some balls.

Emilie Dale Porterie - July 25, 2012

Although the Bush administration and the Congress on his watch spent with deficits, the Pelosi/Reid Congress in the early years of the Obama Administration created deficits of such proportions as to significantly harm generations to come. The ideology underlying this reckless spending is the progressive/liberal view that Government is the solution. However Government does not produce wealth, it smiply redistributes profits which came from the productivity of the private sector. The view that Government can solve the economic problems of this Country is a liberal progressive view and is a great influence still blocking attempts by conservatives and realists to rein in Government spending. The current Senate has blocked attempts by the House to curtail the amount of Government deficit spending. The Obama Presidency ignored the recommendations of its own deficit commission: Simpson/Bowles. The Obama pPesidency has not even submitted (as required by law) a Budget to Congress; instead the Administration spends its energy either 1) pandering to liberal wealthy persons and groups for campaign contributions, to get re-elected and hold onto power, or 2) distorting by demonization with their rhetoric criticizing business efforts in the private sector and/or blaming the previous administration, and the financial capital markets for all the economic problems of this Country.

Government is a monopoly which is encroaching on the freedoms of the citizens, and because of deficit spending, is growing like a cancer. Although there are many places where government deficit spending can be cut without hurting the quality of life in this country, starting with targeted cuts where there is waste “programmed” automatically in government spending from year to year, this Administration and its liberal allies refuse to take any steps in that direction and instead “scapegoat’ conservatives.

There is no real leadership coming from this Presidency toward solving this Country’s real problems, only opportunism in its singular focus to concentrate the Administration’s power, failing to lead the Congress or the Country in a direction to save itself. The liberals rather focus on the bureaucrats’ spending more than the government takes in with revenue, which is in essence spending other people’s money. The liberals want to advance central planning by a bloated federal bureaucracy.

Emilie Dale Porterie - July 25, 2012

The progressives want to whip up the all too common human habit of envy by their class warfare rhetoric, which distracts people from starting the personal initiative of solving their economic problems by doing something productive, on an individual level, instead spreading the misinformation that it is the rich people’s fault or the government is the solution .

Lorraine Smith - July 25, 2012

My plea to all Christians and Jews.
Think hard when you vote!
Think VERY HARD !
Our country needs you!
If you value your freedom, religion, and the military who are fighting for us and the country:
THINK and Make sure you VOTE !!

rowley - July 25, 2012

RINOS and mushy compromiser middle of the roaders aided and abetted. Also the sloppy lazy, useless, Bureaucrat Agencies who were partying and wasting our taxes while writing regulations and watching Porn on Gov. Computers.
Add Voters who will vote for anyone to keep their handouts.

Elizabeth Clark - July 25, 2012

everyone needs to call this numberand demand information about Obama, 1-800-617-7709, He is as illegal as can be and the democrats need to replace him with someone else on the ballot

Bryan Butler - July 25, 2012

Not entirely. We all grew up with easier credit offered to us incessantly, so we bought more than we could afford and so did our politicians. The political differences argued so hotly today are really differences over who should pay for these collective credit excesses and whether we really need to pull back on our spending habits. Our leaders need to just tell us the truth : Grow Up, suck it up, and let’s rebuild on honesty, living with less, and get on with building value into America.

LOP - July 25, 2012

I don’t think liberals are to blame for the ENTIRE crisis our country faces. I think there is plenty of blame to go around whether liberal or conservative, Democrat or Republican. I don’t think the American people can be entirely excused either. We are facing issues that are the result of irresponsible action for months and in some cases years. If we don’t find a way to instill personal responsibility and integrity in Washington and in the population, we can expect more of the same. Now, this is not a slam on America at all. I believe we are a great country, but are not living up to our potential. Too many are expecting that someone else is to blame for their problems and are looking to Washington for the solution. Look in the mirror. Of course, that is not all Americans at all, but surely, too many of us.

Glenda James - July 25, 2012

Yes, the president has had several opportunities to improve unemployment (Keystone; drilling, etc.) but has refused. His policies are obstructing economic improvement.

patrick - July 25, 2012

Of course liberals are to blame for the countries problems. Every policy they embrace is based on getting more power for themselves by creating more and more dependency on government, while giving more power and money to government at the expense of increasing tax burdens on citizens and decreased freedoms.

J E Houser - July 25, 2012

History has yelled to us that growth only occurs when government is limited; therefor, we are losing because our government is sticking its nose in EVERYTHING!

Roberta Peterson - July 25, 2012

Yes, liberal philosophies and decisions are to blame for the financial condition of the U.S. The underlying economic principle: “We have limited resources and unlimited wants” is totally ignored; and the truth of TANSTAAFL (there ain’t no such thing as a free lunch) is seemingly foreign to many–even Republicans! You may get it free, but someone has to pay for it! The only truth about socialism is that there will be no rich people except those in power!!

BJ Bustance - July 25, 2012

I believe the liberals are to blame for our current debt crisis, however, both parties have contributed to this problem by continuely “kicking the can down the road”. I am disillisioned in our government – both sides of the aisle. We need to return to conservative principals and get rid of career politicians. “Power corrupts – absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

James Mullins - July 25, 2012

There is no question that Liberals (Progressives) are the primary root of our country’s debt problem. All the way back to the most Liberal of all,Woodrow Wilson. They are all after more Power for Govt.& whatever tax level it takes to support it. They have taken our Country to the level of One person who pays tax to keep up the One person who recieves the handout. 50% taxpayers 50% dependent on Govt.(50% Taxpayers) No other vway to look at it…..

Edwin Jones - July 25, 2012

Yes. The liberals always blame the conservatives for being unwilling to compromise, yet they themselves are obdurate and unwilling to even let issues be brought to a vote in the senate. There is no snake lower than Harry Reid.

Perry Lindberg - July 25, 2012

Yes. The deficit was decreasing in 2005 and 2006. Then the liberals took over the Congress and the deficit has increased every year since then, 2007 through 2012!
They don’t understand economics and sure don’t appreciate a simple argument like Art Laffer proposed to Ronald Reagan that said, “Lower tax rates will bring higher tax revenues.” By golly, that worked, and it can work again!

Granus - July 25, 2012

I hope you’ve noted the common thread in posted responses; The Government IS Broken. Only someone with his head stuck in the sand would say otherwise. Liberals, progressives, Democrats-whatever one wishes to call them-are the source of the problem; Republicans, conservatives-whatever one wishes to call them-have been their enablers. As with anything that falls into disrepair from years of neglect, the fix will be difficult and the end item is never what it was. The reapir is the task before all future Congresses and administrations, Democrat and Republican. Healthy, in my late sixties, I doubt I’ll live long enough to see government reduced to its proper role, its size and cost reduced accordingly, and the deeply entrenched rot cleaned out.

cemal adli - July 25, 2012

I blame conservatives,moderates and liberals(I call them socialists)for being where we are now.They are habitant of a swampCongress) and called ;Politicians;.Of course some of them are Patriots and try hard to help the country.The Socilists sunk down to their chins,The moderates to their waists and conservatives to their knees.We The Public are not very carefull in selecting our reps.among patriots.First thing,we should be voteing.Second.we should know who we are voteing for.Third,we should follow them closely and throw the lazy and useless ones out.These are my thoughts to clean the Swamp and bring theCountry back to prosperity.Thank you for the chance to express my opinion.

Barbara E. Taylor - July 25, 2012

As for the comments that I have read: AMEN brother – AMEN!!!!!

William E. Corey - July 25, 2012

Liberals most definitely are the cause of most of the countries problems. Unfortunately, there are liberals in both Republican and Democrat parties that are to blame. It is just a matter of degree, Most of the Democrat party is infected while the establishment Republicans, currently in control of the party, must share the blame. It appears that the Democrats have thrown themselves over the cliff, as this next election will attest. We must then stay alert and weed the RINOS out of office in order to complete the job.

Tina Bogani - July 25, 2012

Yes indeed! The liberal/progressive ideology is morally bankrupt. It survives by promising to take from “oppressors” to give to “victims”. Our system of safety nets has been perverted by these income-redistribution-ists into a very comfy hammock for lots of slackers. I am tired of watching misguided (aka, stupid) liberal policies drive us into bankruptcy! THREE MORE MONTHS!!!

Tina Bogani - July 25, 2012

@Robby Johans – “Progressives” should be called the “Regressives” – Brilliant – I love it!!!

Realist Everyday - July 25, 2012

Let’s stop spending on:
1. Medicare
2. Social security
3. Defence

How many GOP voters are for it?

E. King - July 25, 2012

Having read all the comments, they have all made great comments which really hit to the problem of what our country is facing. It seems like we are coming to an end with the two parties, when our entire governmental system is on the brink of collapse and nothing seems to bring them together for some solutions to these very serious problems. When the taxpayers revolt and demand some honest answers, maybe then we will find the answers from our “government officals”, lets vote all the liberals, socialist out of office!!!!! Please help us God.

Steve Wickstrom - July 25, 2012

Of course the liberals are to blame for our crises.
Bigger government is their agenda. Full blown socialism is what they want,tax and spend ,tax and spend us into a utopian nightmare that will kill any incentive the heretofore was the American way of life.
Pride in ones self to better themselves without gov,t interferance. No constitution for them either “because it limits what gov,t can do” aka.more dependence on gov,t and more control over “THE PEOPLE”.
Of course they are to blame. Life ,liberty and the persuit of happiness is anathema to the liberal way of thinking.
A crisis for them is “HOPE AND CHANGE”.

Janeen Schneider - July 25, 2012

I see or hear very few people today who truly understand conservatism, self reliance, and freedom. They say they are conservative in one breath, and then promote one government program or another in the next. Republicans and Democrats alike. I believe that time is running out and pray that people will wake up and clean house in Washington this November before it’s too late.

John - July 25, 2012

Yes but I also blame those who are willing to compromise which only gives the socialists another rung up on their ladder.

Steve Carter - July 26, 2012

I sent this article to a liberal friend when it was published on POLITICO earlier this week. His response was so inane that it didn’t deserve a response. There are really people who buy into the Obama propoganda. Fortunately, I believe they are few and far between.

joseph - July 26, 2012

Blaming the country’s problems on conservatives is a very effective strategy and campaign that has worked for years. The reason why it works is because the US Media backs and advertises this campaign relentlessly. While the campaign of blame effectively immobilizes conservatives, it permits liberals to do anything they want with impunity. In fact, liberals and non-conservatives don’t have to do ANYTHING and they can ride to victory. Just look at the US Senate and the failure to enact a budget for three (3) years. And that is the reason the government and society are in the state they are. Conservatives fight the campaign of blame by trying to show the opposite. They try to show that are moral, good, not biased, etc….. but it is not enough to counter the incessant messages that are constantly released out by the left and the media. In some cases… out right lies are made by the left and those lies and messages never get retracted. Those messages are only released in the first place with the intention the lies and messages can become effective sound bites throughout the USA and the world. The existence of conservatives is on the line. If conservatives and republicans do not come up with an effective strategy to counter this stategy of blame, the Republican Party will ultimately cease to exist as a viable alternative. And then the nation will officially be similar to the California political system…. Republicans and conservatives must stop patronizing liberal media (i.e. newspapers, television and radio news, etc.) and develop their own media. Thier own newspapers, erc. If not.. they are toast.

Ann McLean - July 26, 2012

Yes, it is “progressive” thought, or socialist thinking, that is to blame. Why do we take this lying down? Let’s re-name “progressives” regressive. The minute a word which sounds positive but really IS NOT is let loose upon America, good people need to quash it like an ember in a forest in need of rain. We need to get on offense…not be defensive. Let’s be pro-active in our dialogue. Question, point out hypocrisy and call a spade a spade. Let’s frame the debate and hold them high for all to see their true colors. I love Heritage Foundation, but let’s get back to first principles.

James Davis - July 26, 2012

ABSOLUTLY!!! The progressives have been at this since woodie wilson. It is how the are getting more and more control of the American people, and how they (liberals- progressives) are destroying the Constitution (progressively, little by little, poco a poco) As for McCain and his ilk they desperatly need replacing. I could agree with him, but then we would both be wrong. We DO NOT compromise with evil, ever.

Fraine Zeitler - July 26, 2012

The Democrats are perhaps the biggest offenders but they are not alone. The GOP politicians in Congress have gone along with the deficit budgets for years–just look at the budget forecast data from OMB on the web. The deficit delta has been growing exponentially for at least 8 years and no action has been taken to stop that growing delta. Also, functions have been added to the federal government that are not in the Constitution and ought to be removed and then allow the States to determine what will be funded. It is impossible to get rid of the HUGE deficits without significantly eliminating certain functions of government AND trying the remaining spending and even considering some temporary tax increases to pay down the deficit delta . . . the US is not any better off than the folks in Europe right now. Our politicians on both sides of the aisle have LIED to the American voters for years. Term limits seem to be in order.

Joseph McKennan - July 26, 2012

I agree wholeheartedly with Michelle — about morals and ethics. The democratic party is demonstrating its affinity to altruism and decency through the leaders of their party.
Obama is allegedly a community organizer but his henchmen are the likes of Hoffa the strong-arm union boss– ‘ do it his way or else.’ That is not American freedom in action.
Pelosi and Reid with their Obamacare- ‘ embrace this and accept it- or face the penalty for it.’
Clinton with all his sweeties in the closet at the White House and elsewhere, but remember– he didn’t inhale.
Gore with his environmental catastrophes– who burns more carbon fuels in just one trip of his private jet to another Save the Earth meeting– than I do going to work for a year in my car.
Barney Frank- who enabled sleaze of the rankest sort to infiltrate the highest levels of government and is partially responsible for the housing debacle.
Soros- who wants to disarm Americans so he can work his will.
John Edwards- who sired a child with another woman while his WIFE was dying of cancer- self control is not necessary if you are in congress.
It is sure a fine example and I understand that it is okay if they do it because they are so much more equal than the rest of us but…..
I will NEVER vote for a democrat again. One more thing-
I voted for Palin in 2008- not McCain.

Linda Barber - July 26, 2012

Absolutely X 2!

James Bowen - July 28, 2012

Of course the liberal leadership is to blame for our country’s crises. But they have been helped by the major media covering up all of the bad news by lying and twisting the facts, or just not reporting them at all. Pandering to all of the special interest groups in the country is a road to disaster. You can’t play favorites with any one group without hurting some other group, or the country in general. The Democrats focus on groups of people or ideas without any thought of the consequences to the whole. While the Conservatives focus on what is best for the country based on the principles found in the Constitution and Declaration of Independence. Historically the Republicans have been compromising these basic principles to the detriment of the country and the Republican party.

Susan Woellhart - July 28, 2012

Certainly liberal leadership is to blame, but also weak conservative leadership, along with ignorance, complacency, and apathy are even more of a problem. I see it in taxpayers who are not living on the government dole, and who see nothing beyond mindless television, movies and music! What will it take to wake them up?

Al Kohn - July 31, 2012

Yes. I have never seen such divisiveness in our government. Instead of bringing both political parties together as he pledged to do in his election campaign, President Obama has embarked on a legislative agenda for the sole purpose of furthering his own radical ideology for political gain. If members of Congress disagree with his policies, he is quick to domonize them, making it virtually impossible to work together for the common good.