If conservatives can't drive the liberals from the Republican leadership, the party will self-destruct and become irrelevant in another cycle, or two. Too many of us are tired of having a choice forced upon us between a "R", who would have been classed as a liberal Democrat forty years ago and a "D", nearer to communist. This practice of the party elite anointing their own as candidates and failing to give party support to conservative Republicans is precisely why the "R"s lost the last two presidential elections and control of the Senate. People won't continue to support a political party that doesn't represent them.

All these politicians are intentionally lying. I don't doubt that most of them know nothing at all about guns, but there have to be people involved in this that do and would set them straight, if any of them were interested in being accurate. The truth just wouldn't be helpful in stirring up the uninformed in favor of gun control.

No, Obama hasn't massacred his opponents by the millions, yet. He hasn't consolidated his power to the level that Mao, Stalin, Hitler, or Pol Pot had, yet. But, if he were to achieve his goals of absolute power and disarming the public, I have no doubt that he would deal with the tens of millions of us who despise him and his Marxist dreams in the same way. Eliminating the identifiable opposition and terrorizing the general public is how total power is gained and maintained. You show your ignorance of history.

"To prohibit a citizen from wearing or carrying a war arm . . . is an unwarranted restriction upon the constitutional right to keep and bear arms. If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." -- Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878- Wilson v. State, 33 Ark. 557, 560

Amen. There shouldn't be such a law, but since there is, Gregory ought to be doing a year in the DC jail. And not house arrest, or the "rich man's jail", but with the gangbangers, crack dealers, murderers, etc.

Inouye may have been a brave man and a good soldier, but he was a 50+ year disaster as a politician; he did a great deal more damage to the country in Congress than good in the Army.

Neither the possible elimination of tax deductions for charitable contributions, or constant "tax the rich" nonsense have anything to do with raising revenue. Taxing the wealthy is more about class warfare and giving the public a villain (other than the morons running the government) to blame for the country's problems; reducing the income of private charity will make people more dependent on government and give them even more control over people's lives.

What is being called a "fiscal cliff" is a negligible part of a much larger problem, really just an opportunity to demogogue the "evil rich" and blame Republicans for coming disasters. The only remedy for the problem (which the major players don't even mention) is to reduce government until it can function on incoming revenue and then reduce it some more, so that there is a surplus to put toward retiring the debt. No one in Washington is interested in this because it would destroy their ability to bribe, threaten, manipulate, reward their supporters and punish their enemies; the legal preferences, regulations, taxes, handouts, subsidies, etc., that we can't afford, are the power base of the politicians who control the federal government.

What about the survivor's benefits to their homosexual partners?

The social workers are more useless scum, living at public expense. They should be included in the "scum villages" as inmates, rather than overseers.

It's time to start de-funding public education, universities in particular. An educational system funded and administered by politicians, teaching false theories of history, science and economics to support their political ideas is destroying the country. A nation of misinformed, maleducated people (certain that they're right, because this is what they've been taught all their lives), will make the wrong decisions about nearly everything. Freedom and prosperity cannot survive without diversity of thought and questioning of accepted dogma. Uniformity of thought would not be good, even if it were accurate.