Does this clown ever listen to himself? He’s terrified of the terrorists, so he thinks we should do exactly as they demand, and curtail our freedoms.

Why the fuck is anyone in the United States struggling to get by? You’d think the US was a third world country listening to these clowns. There is plenty of money in the United States. The problem is that most of it is being hoarded by a few people. And it’s not like they produced anything tangible, or earned it in any way for that matter. We can afford to have nice things in the US. We just need some of that hoarded money put back into circulation.

Aren’t these the same people who spit and drool when someone tries to oppress their god given Second Amendment right to a well regulated militia?

The former DEA directors continue to live in a fantasy world where the war on drugs is a resounding success. They have to keep up this charade to validate themselves. they will never admit they were wrong.

Ex-candidate Mitt puts himself firmly in the camp that refuses to understand the problem for republicans is that their message did, in fact, come through loud and clear.

Apparently President Obama wasn’t paying attention to what Americans were voting for last November. The vast majority of Americans don’t want republican policies. We don’t want republicans to be in charge of anything. I thought it was pretty obvious.

The fascist dictators did enjoy the support of many European conservatives. It wasn’t until the dictators took fascism to its next logical steps of overt nationalism, expansionism, and ethnic cleansing that some of the continent’s conservative leaders distanced themselves.

At least painting Karl Rove as a fascist is more accurate than painting President Obama as one. They’re on the right track.

What is it that makes teabaggers and fundamentalists think that being a hate filled bigot makes them smart enough to argue with people who know what they’re talking about? These are people who argue with climate scientists about the climate, educators about education, economists about the economy, historians about history, biologists about biology, etc. They live in a world where scholarship and expertise are meaningless, yet they expect people to listen to them.

Is this another one of Reince Preibus’s brilliant ideas?

“Hey, let’s git a Cuban teabagger to talk at ‘em in Mexican, that should do the trick.”

Why is a group of paranoid fanatics even allowed into this conversation? Do we really need people with obvious violent tendencies making recommendations about how much firepower we should be carrying around? This is a group that thinks no one should be required more than one clip per classroom. And that, by the way, is not an endorsement for smaller class sizes.

All of their arguments and rhetoric are wrapped up in violence:

Obama lit the fuse on a molotov cocktail…

This is going to be the fight of the century…

This is going to start a new revolution… (do they really think that a loose band of paranoid fanatics has any chance against a well regulated militia?)

At least one of them is making a very specific threat to start killing people.

If all that matters is how much money they’re throwing around, they need make no arguments.

Images of survivors are important, and they fill us with grief. They don’t however, make us cringe. I agree that some images of violence desensitized us, but most people understand the difference between fiction and reality. Seeing the eyes of many dead five year old children as they lay in a classroom in pools of their own blood is quite different than seeing a fake shootout on the TV.

There is a reason they don’t show images of the atrocities, and it goes much deeper than respect for the families of the massacred. Our minds’ eyes aren’t geared to focus on this kind of carnage. If people are forced to actually view it, we would have no choice but to take it seriously. If we only know about it in the abstract, we can kind of ignore the brutality and blood. Nothing will happen until we are exposed to the reality in the form of images.

Have Senators McCain, Alexander, Kyl, and Graham offered up any explanation as to why anyone, anywhere should trust a republican senator? These four are part of the problem. How often in the last four years did any one of them offer to break a filibuster? Or, for that matter, offer anything in good faith negotiations?

Why would anyone cut a deal with these charlatans? They’ve already proven themselves.

The same dynamic happened in Wisconsin. The Madison rallies started out as grass roots movements. Then the union leaders and the Democratic Party arrived with their organizational skills, and promptly killed the momentum. They took focus away from bad policy and turned it toward the politics of a recall election.

Walmart could nip this in the bud quickly by offering to pay living wages. It would have a negligible effect on their bottom line, and ingratiate themselves in the communities in which they operate. Or, do they think this is going to end on Saturday?

On the other hand, they do have the retail sector’s driving principle of low wages to think about.

How simple and elegant. There is no need to change their message, or their messengers. Just continue the efforts at voter suppression and, viola, problem solved. I think it’s the only chance they have, and apparently they agree.

I, too, am curious as to why Scott Walker is not yet in jail. Maybe he’s hiding out in California for a reason.