Maybe I’m wrong, but it seems the right thing to do is let ALL the Bush tax cuts expire. Also, it’s a more achievable goal. The median annual household income in America is less than $50K – not $250K.

“Armed gunman (or gunmen).” As opposed to what other kind?

I think that too much wealth in the hands of the top 1 Percent is a big factor in financial crises. Because the middle class can’t spend, investors run out of good opportunities in the real economy. Then they put money into derivatives. I wish there were more economic studies on this.

I wish I could believe a re-elected President Obama would not approve Keystone. Also, I wish Obama would let all the Bush Tax Cuts expire, but he won’t – or if he does, he’ll immediately propose the Obama Tax Cuts. You know, “middle class” is $50K a year, not $250K.

Ann Romney won’t take meds for MS – maybe now?

Hey, future CEO. Put that kid on the fast track to success.

The irony is that right-wingers who scream that President Obama is violating the Constitution are correct. But the violations began during the Bush administration with the support of these very same right-wingers.

“Evolving” clearly does not mean changing. Maybe it means waffling.

Our politicians keep coming up with plans that do nothing to control costs, but preserve everyone’s “freedom to choose” among unaffordable health care options. The ACA is no exception.

I changed the channel, but not before Stahl made the point that Rodriguez came to his position of power without any counterintelligence or Mideast credentials. Makes me wonder how many qualified experts refused the job because they knew torture was wrong, illegal, and not effective in gathering intelligence.

So, we have a choice between an incumbent President whose administration has done the bare minimum to re-start the economy, and a presumptive GOP nominee who has committed himself to policies that would crash the economy again, perhaps all the way into a new Great Depression.

I’m voting for Rocky Anderson.

I guess we can forget about Herman Cain and his electric fence.

When President Obama signed the extension of the Bush Tax Cuts For The Rich into law, that was real. When the GOP voted on the so-called Ryan budgets – not really budgets because of the lack of specifics – it was all theoretical.

I’m not voting for Obama because I suspect he’ll sign another extension after the election.

I was actually hoping the Buffett Rule was kabuki theater, because I don’t want anything to pass that can be used as an excuse to extend the Bush-Obama Tax Cuts For The Rich a second time.

I’ve never read the book, but in the film version I wondered why Rue didn’t yell, “It’s a trap!” OTOH the fact she was in that net alive indicated it was obviously a trap.

If we could get the Obama administration folks to stop calling $250,000 incomes “middle class,” we could restore reality to this debate. ALL the Bush-Obama Tax Cuts For The Rich need to expire, or else nobody in Washington is justified complaining about deficits.

Too bad the two-party system doesn’t have a Reality Party.

The Ryan 2.0 plan proposes two things without a doubt. (1) It would eliminate Medicare, and (2) permanently shut down the entire federal government by 2050, except for the Pentagon.

Giant oil & gas companies are people, too. We must stop robbing them of dignity by giving them taxpayer subsidies! Only moral thing to do.

In 2008 candidate Obama knew everybody hated the individual private insurance mandate. He even mocked it, saying it was like trying to solve the problem of homelessness by mandating everyone to buy a house. What happened to that guy?

Karzai-to-English translation: “Get out of here but keep sending me billions of dollars.”