How I wish there was a “rec” button. Well said.

As someone who survived the imposition of tuition at CCNY in the middle 70s, I wish these students the best. If it hadn’t been free to begin with I don’t know that my parents would have let me register. My Appalachian raised dad was of the opinion that not every sex should go to college.

My daughter graduates from college this year. It has cost about 1/3 of the mortgage on my house (not that the house is worth that much), and come the end of the year we’ll both be writing checks. I graduated from CCNY dead even on tuition and was able to pay for grad school on my own. But for the dead even part I wouldn’t have gone any farther. I don’t know what I would have become with that kind of financial pressure to work ANYWHERE, but I know it wouldn’t have been who I am.

Which is the point of student loans.

When my youngest son registered to vote last year, I re-registered myself as independent. I haven’t heard from anybody. But then, there hasn’t been a whole election cycle since.

It’s just as well – it seems like the Dems in my state are as bound and determined to re-elect Christie as his own party is.

Can someone explain to me what Jong-un’s problem is, exactly? What’s his justification for the
saber rattling?

Hey, democracy isn’t what it used to be. When the people vote for something unacceptable, to the extent that’s ever possible, it’s just overruled. Look at what happened in Cyprus: the troika imposed a haircut to ordinary depositors so utterly unacceptable even to the (no doubt already compromised on everything but back to the wall moments) legislature that not one single vote was cast in favor, and…the banking law was changed late on the next Friday night and the next deal cut after all-nighters usually associated with college papers and bachelor parties, which was deadly instead of merely catastrophic, didn’t require legislative approval. Nevermind the riots in Grece.

There is no majority in this country that would have voted to cut Social Security if it had been presented in plain English. (What was said in plain English was that Obama didn’t disagree with Romney on entitlement cuts, though I can’t find the quote.) Three months into the second term, Obama thumbs his nose at the suckers who voted for him because they filled in all his blanks with their own desperation.

And we used to think it was the Republicans who voted for their own misery.

You know, when I got to law school, expecting to be sandbagged at every opportunity by professors eager to bring us smartass 1L’s down a peg, they kept asking questions so stunningly obvious I was sure I had missed the point. (Which I hadn’t.) This was Big Stuff. It just couldn’t be that simple. Well, it was.

Jon, your question is one such.

Is Obama trying to prevent Democrats from taking the House? Of course. He’s also trying to prevent them from holding on in the Senate and ever being elected President again.

The man said he is a 1980′s moderate Republican. Unfortunately, the fucker did not say that until after November 2012, but he did say it.

Actually I thought he said it when he was making his victory speech on Election Day in 2008. He was a Regan Republican, or some such. It was late here at the Jersey shore. I went to bed.

And he made that speech at Grant Park. Grant. Park. My god.

Either way, he held back until after he was elected, and then never mentioned it during the reelection campaign. I didn’t vote for Reagan and I wasn’t voting for a “Reagan Democrat” (a/k/a Republican) in 2012.

I’m not saying Hillary was a raging liberal. Part of the problem with the Dem Party is that the left of the Dem Party is to the right of where the liberal Republicans were when I was young. I’m just saying at least he could have said it before he got elected, and had he said it in the primaries, maybe we would have had the discussion we still haven’t had: how different IS the 2000s Democratic Party from the 1980′s Reagan Republicans.

An income cap to Social Security makes it means tested. Welfare. The cap could be $100,000 now.

Inflation – not tracked by the government of course – will take care of THAT cap eventually.

They’re in it for the long game.

That video clip is such a nauseating spew of self righteous crap.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but doesn’t the first amendment protect the individual’s right to practice the religion of her choice, or not? These guys read it to protect the church as an institution, and thus as a guarantee of the institution’s right to practice politics. That’s about exactly backwards.

It’s Toms River, no apostrophe. Those people are my neighbors. None of us know who the hell Tom was.

It’s just horrible no matter how you spell it.