ah, at long last a comment from Charles that is practical.

thank you.

insightful always. meaningful/approachable? rarely.

This is what happens when Joe Six Pack gets behind the wheel.

Sarah is the only hope against Barack Hussein Osama consolidating Marxist power in America.

She is the most brilliant woman in American politics, vand if the pro-Osama leftist media were honest - knowing of course that there is no such thing as an honest leftist - they would admit that.

I only wish it were possible to flip the Republican ticket and put Palin on top.

She'd get 60% of the vote because Americans would wake up and realize she is the only hope against the terrorist loving Marxist homosexual Barack Hussein Osama.

@3 - laff.

Basil, ol' bean....

Sherry in the morning is a vice.

Sherry by the gallon in the morning only makes you more....honest...about who you are.

Fair warning.

The hope that this might happen was about the only thing that cheered me up in 2004 after the election. I just knew that the hatred being pushed by the Republicans would one day backfire.

What about the future of the North American politics, Harper was able to secure a larger Minority Government in the Canadian elections yesterday. What does that mean for our future home in the even of a Palin presidency?

don't forget Haider was the Natzi lovin guy that was threatening to take his party over and such back in 98-2000 or so. It caught a lot of press back then and if I remember right, he was even a holocaust denier. He was very nationalistic and anti-socialism.

I'm not quite seeing the connection to the future of American politics here except that
he was an embarressment for many Austrians - sorta like Palin.

This sums up nicely how I've come to view this countries problems and the only real solution, I wish I wrote it because I've long thought it.

By Charlie Reese

[Charlie Reese is a former columnist of the Orlando
Sentinel Newspaper]

Politicians are the only people in the world who create
problems and then campaign against them.

Have you ever wondered why, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits?

Have you ever wondered why, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, WHY do we have inflation and high taxes?

You and I don't propose a federal budget.

The president does.

You and I don't have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations.

The House of Representatives does.

You and I don't write the tax code,Congress does.

You and I don't set fiscal policy, Congress does.

You and I don't control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank does.

One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one president, and nine Supreme Court justices 545 human beings out of the 300 million are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.

I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress
delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered, but private, central bank.

I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason. They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman, or a president to do one cotton-picking thing. I don't care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it. No matter
what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator's responsibility to determine how he votes.

Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party.

What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of gall. No normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker, who stood up and criticized the President for creating deficits. The president can only propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to accept it.

The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and approving appropriations and taxes. Who is the speaker of the House?

She is the leader of the majority party.

She and fellow House members, not the
president, can approve any budget they want. If the president vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto if they agree to.

It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million cannot replace 545 people who stand convicted -- by present facts -- of incompetence and irresponsibility. I can't think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 people. When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist.

If the tax code is unfair, it's because they want it unfair.

If the budget is in the red, it's because they want it in the red.

If the Army & Marines are in IRAQ , it's because they want them in IRAQ .

If they do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement plan not available to the people, it's because they want it that way.

They vote their own pay raises for themselves because they want it that way.

There are no unsolvable government problems.

Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to
regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take this power. Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exists disembodied mystical forces like 'the economy,' 'inflation,' or 'politics' that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do.

Those 545 people, and they alone, are responsible.

They, and they alone, have the power.

They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses provided the voters have the
gumption to manage their own employees.

We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess!

The Palinites (Palinians?) can simply flock to Alaska, secede, live off the oil money and wait for their expected "Rapture" when Christ returns.

How about we trade Alaska for Puerto Rico, and the flag can stay the same?

Two right-wing parties = joy for the left-wing party. Two left-wing parties = joy for the right-wing party (as Canadians keep discovering over and over, the shitheads).

Canada can just give Palin Canadian citizenship and let her run for office in the Conservative party.

As Jews we will flourish in a Marxist America. I can't wait. Seattle millioniaires will be taxed into oblivion.

Obama has the balls to tax some blue collar plumber in Ohio, so just wait to see him take down these rich Seattle assholes.

Marxism has finally arrived, it's going to be beautiful.

@11 Sorry fnarf, I think you are wrong, while that statement has generally been true for the US, the Liberal have consistently been able to create large majorities despite the continued and steady existence of the NDP since the early/mid twentieth century.

The real source of political power for Canadian national governments is in Quebec, and in Quebec the distinction between left and right economics is not the most important yardstick by which political parties are measured.

In Quebec the division parties are divided on is on sovereignty vs. federalist

the Liberals are the strongest federalist party and the Bloc Quebecois are the strongest sovereignist part. The Conservatives have staked out a shaky unprincipled middle ground (though weighted more heavily towards federalist).

The good 'ole USA, head'in for Civil War #2.

So the US will be ruled by the center-right, the far-right, and the wingtard lunatic fringe?

That should work out well.

Comparing Harper to Palin doesn't work. We may have elected a conservative minority, but this stems more from the collapse of the liberal party and voter apathy than any type of fervor. Only 20% of the country voted for Harper, the rest either voted left, bloc (duceppe is a farking rockstar) or stayed home. We have had 3 elections in 4 years, so people are pretty burned out. and our conservative governments are still further left than the american democrats.