I’ve seen “Middle East Peace Talks” as a headline for as long as I can remember. The goal of Israel is not, and has never been, peace.
You will either prostrate yourself before them, while begging for forgiveness, or they will kill you and steal your land. And maybe will anyway.

Often overlooked is the fact that positions such as Levins’ are treasonous.
These guys swore an oath to defend the Constitution. What am I missing here?

And this is suprising because…..?

Simpson and his ilk are simply cover for Obama.
Make no mistake, they are going to cut S.S. benefits in 2013.
It doesn’t matter who is president, and it doesn’t matter who’s in Congress. We have to feed the giant, bloated war machine. Nothing else is of any interests to our despotic rulers.

Yes, a little schadenfreude goes a long way.

Flowery speech and the use of obscure vocabulary have little or nothing to do with great writing. I’d rather read Hemingway anyday than Cormac McCarthy, but both are great writers.
I agree with sixgill that what they have to say is largely bullshit.

On the other hand, if all my Soc. Sec. deductions were invested in Microsoft, I’d be a millionaire, many time over.

Which is why Single Payer was, and is, the best option.

Thanks, I needed that. Tee hee.

That last paragraph hints at the central problem.
“Trying to muddy the waters” is what these people DO. Obfuscation is a job requirement. Does anyone remember the speeches of Greenspan? They were convoluted and impenetrable, not because he was a genius, but because complexity is necessary to their business model. How else to convince everyone that it’s possible to make billions of dollars a day, pressing buttons on a computer?
(Oh, I forgot, they provide liquidity)

What’s the big problem with “getting used to a nuclear Iran”?
Pakistan has had nukes for quite some time, and Israel has at least 200.
Maybe we should help them develop some old-school A-bombs, bring back their national pride and self-confidence.
The answer is what’s really troubling.
(They hate us for our freedom?)

I wonder where the Germans buy their panels? They got serious about solar and wind years ago, while we never have.
Since our government seems to blunder through most of our problems, it might be smart to look for answers elsewhere.

Oh, and how exactly, are they going to prove that you left the country “simply to avoid taxes”?
The really rich are laughing up their sleeves at this brouhaha.
They are thoroughly insulated from negative effects by tax attorneys.

I find it interesting that they’re reaching down to the ex-pats with 148,000 in tax liabilities over 5 years. That’s under 30 grand a year, not a poor person, but likely to be a retiree, soaking up the sun in Belize.
Just opened a Tiki bar on the beach, caters to the tourists and fellow ex-pats. Lives on investment income, works on his small boat. Laughs a lot.
Poor bastard.

Point taken.I really don’t know how these people sleep at night.
All of them took an oath to “protect and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic”. Their support of these laws is intellectually indefensible.

Why is FDL so late with this? It’s the biggest news in the country as far as I’m concerned. Hooray for the good guys!

Just before the Christmas recess, we’ll see these stooges do the Chinese fire-drill around the emptied clown-car.
The one tax proposal that really had teeth, the financial transaction tax, has disappeared off the radar. This is because tax lawyers saw that a transaction tax could not be finagled as the income tax is.
Therefor it must be marginalized.

Agreed. I don’t believe for a second that a majority of Americans want a corporate raider for President.
On second thought, if it’s true, then I’m flabbergasted.

The Obamabots should worry about those Independent numbers.
Though Romney is such a caricature of a Republican, there seems little to stand in the way of an Obama victory.