You can forget a balanced budget anytime before the Chinese cut us off because the Establishment RINOS sold us out once again. Just like they always do and just like they always will do as long as we leave the them in office. Time for a clean sweep in 2012.

Yet another establishment Republican feeding us the usual RINO song and dance. This does nothing to solve the national debt crisis or impending national insolvency. Only the original house Balanced Budget Amendment had any hope of doing that. The RINO answer seems to be that it's good thing that they fell into yet another spending trap and burned their last shred of credibility by agreeing to more phony cuts and a massive addition to the national debt. Dance RINO dance but come 2012 real conservatives are going to clean house of Boehner (as speaker) and the rest of TEAM RINO.

"Democrats are at an advantage in the "should the U.S. go bankrupt or not?" debate because, based on their economic policies so far, they obviously favor bankruptcy." They favor national bankruptcy because many are Cloward-Priven followers. National bankruptcy would be followed by national unrest giving them an excuse to declare a state of emergency. That would "force" them to collect guns, rule by decree and put off the next election for the duration of the emergency - about 1000 years.

This is the most insightful analysis that I've every seen on this site. This is exactly how the Democratic party works.

Huckabee is just another big spending Progressive social statist and if elected will be the 2nd coming of George Bush. Another big spending fiscal liberal that wants more than anything to spend money and run peoples personal lives his way. There are no perfect candidates yet but Michelle Bachman probably comes closest. A fiscal conservative and social moderate - not quite libertarian but almost. Her problem is she supported the freedom crushing and poorly named Patriot Act. Ron Paul would be great but I disagree with his wide open borders position and he's unelectable. The rest of the field is a joke. Newt is an amnesty supporter and has a big mouth and is another social statist. He will repel libertarian leabing TEA Party people....

Newt can't win because he cannot be trusted on illegal immigration due to his support for amnesty. To him politics is a game and it's all about gamesmanship and power and not about repairing the damage that 70 years of socialism and big labor have done. What I do agree with the writer about is that Newt's worst enemy is his own big mouth. Like Obama he shoots from the hip way too often and like Obama he usually winds up with his foot in his mouth when he does. Really all that Newt has going for him is his debating and oratory skills. Put him in a fair debate with Obama and he'll leave The One looking like the village idiot.

I don't like Hewlett but he's dead on right this time. If the RINOs rule and we don't see AT LEAST Rand Paul level cuts this year I'm voting 3rd party in 2012. John Stossel proved that the budget can be balanced in one year so let's do it! Bottom line - if the Republicans wimp they not only will be out in 2012, they will be little more than a memory as the voters move in mass to a 3rd party leaving what's left to fold itself into a moderate wing of the big spending Progressive status-quo Republicrat party.

Only 4 of the 9 are leftist driven statists, 4 more conservative and middle of the road statists. The fact that they refuse to enforce the 10th and POI clause of the 14th Amendment earns them the label of statists. Only Thomas is a consistent friend of the Constitution.

I could not agree more, especially with this statement "He has always exhibited a smarmy smartest-boy-in-the-class attitude to any caller who disagrees with him, sometimes belittling them for their lack of knowledge, and by extension, their education." That's why I don't listen to Medved anymore. He's as arrogant and dismissive of those that disagree with him about anything including his desire for a theocracy as Obama is of those that disagree with his faith in social-democracy and big government. Medved loves to get a caller on and let them utter one line then cut off their mic before it can be placed in context and then rip them apart while they cannot finish or respond.

I loved Palin's comments on Charles Krauthammer's comments. I love listening to Krauthammer's analysis of Washington politics because his area of expertise is inside the beltway political gamesmanship and and how political insiders think and he's very-very good at it. The weakness of Charles Krauthammer as a political analyst is he has no more understanding of the attitudes and beliefs of the great mass of the American people than a political commentator from Mars. He simply cannot relate to the public at large anymore than the average American can relate to the Manhattan and DC cocktail party sets which is why he is so often wrong these days. The TEA Party changed the rules of the game and he's uncomfortable with that change and unable...