He no longer takes responsibility for the office he holds...but he'll sure take all the golf he can get out of his office. What's he up to, 116 rounds now? Fore!

They'll tolerate it for either the rest of Dear Leader's term, or until the gravy train runs dry. Frankly, I think the entire house of cards is going to collapse on Dear Leader's watch, at which point his legacy of being a failed president will become both obvious and permanent. Once Fedzilla's credit card gets cut off, the welfare payments stop, and the sheeple finally realize they've twice elected a con man, it's going to get very, very ugly.

Except the problem with a flat tax is, what about those who have no reportable income? What about those who live in the underground economy? Do they get to pay zero taxes while those who are working honest jobs send their money to Washington? The FairTax would affect all citizens equally. If you don't earn any income--say you're living off an inheritance or you've got a lot of money saved up--then you beat the flat tax. And isn't one of the big problems of our current tax system that not every citizen pays? Every person in the country buys things. There are ways you can avoid paying a flat tax, but you can't avoid shopping. With the FairTax, EVERYONE pays their taxes. Only fair, right?

If they go for confiscation by executive fiat, I'd bet that a shooting civil war would start within a week. There are 70 million legal gun owners in the US. So if just 1 out of 70 descended on Washington with insurrection on their minds, it would be a million-strong army which could only be put down with heavy weapons and massive, massive bloodshed. And if that number went up to ten percent, you'd be looking at an army almost the size of New York City descending on a city of perhaps one million. It would be a slaughter.

Meh. If he does go, good riddance to bad rubbish. And since when do leftist apostles recognize and respect contrary opinions? Heck, they'd put every single conservative in a leper colony if they could get away with it.

And that multi-bazillion dollar lakefront mansion of his is in one of the whitest ZIP codes in the entire state of Michigan, if memory serves. Mr. Moore, here's a challenge for you: ditch your security detail, and spend Devil's Night, from sundown to sunup, on the streets of inner-city Detroit, unarmed. If you can spend the entire night out there without ever wishing you had a gun, then by all means, feel free to drone on. Until then, shut your oversized pie hole.

I was heading over to Ballston Common Mall in Arlington right as the rally was letting out, and the crowd on Metro's Orange Line was HUGE. It looked like rush hour. Sure didn't sound like it, though--nobody talks on the "Orange Crush" during rush hour, but this crowd was chatting up a storm, and happier than Capitals fans after an Alexander Ovechkin hat trick. This is one Washingtonian who wouldn't mind seeing Beck holding rallies here every week. His crowd left our city better than they found it. Beats the heck out of the rat infestation we got out of the Occutards.,,

"We simply will not let ourselves to become the fall guys for this president's irresponsibility. "Your taxes are going to go up next year, in some cases by thousands of dollars. Some of you who have gotten used to getting refunds are going to find out that you owe. More money is going to be coming out of your paychecks in the New Year, and those higher deductions are here to stay. "America, you voted to re-elect this demagogue, and elections have consequences. You're about to find out firsthand everything we warned you about in the fall campaign. "So don't come crying to us. This is Obama's economy, and he now owns it, in its entirety. "Enjoy the double-digit unemployment next Christmas, and God bless America."

"My colleague in the Senate, Mitch McConnell, tried to bring Mr. Obama's plan, such as it is, to the floor of the Senate for a vote. The Democratic leader of the Senate refused to allow a vote on it, because he knows that Mr. Obama's proposal is either so unserious, or so disastrous, that it can't even pass a Democratic Senate. "We have tried to reach out in these negotiations. Some would argue we have reached too far. Yet Mr. Obama continues to demand more and more money that this country simply does not have. Obama is being an inflexible demagogue, and he is not negotiating in good faith. "As a result, the Republicans in the House are walking away from these negotiations. [more]

"As an aside, I must say that that is a fool's errand. The problem is not that Washington doesn't take too much money out of the pockets of the American people. The problem is that we spend too much money, and have promised to spend a lot more money, debts which will shackle posterity for generations. To be blunt, it's the spending, stupid. "And yet the president refuses to consider the only real solution to our fiscal problem, which is cutting spending. He wants you to believe that taxing the successful will be enough to pay for all this spending. It won't. Simply put, the rich in America aren't rich enough to afford all the spending Mr. Obama demands. [more]