Glad to see that, at least in YOUR mind, Obama's election lead to a post-racial society..." (Yeah, right!) Not EVERYTHING is about race. Grow up.

The most ardent backers of the Bible are not USUALLY caught on their backs," they are occasionally caught as you say, followed by giddy screamer headlines in the press. If you think Mr. Brown misrepresented something, perhaps you should point out his misrepresentation, and provide what you feel is a more accurate one?

Exactly so!

I invite them in, and do all I can to keep the discussion going.

That's not the point. Challenged a little when it comes to understanding, Russ?

That was the case in both the Carter and the Reagan administrations.

It doesn't "[beg] the question: 'Will citizens reward this behavior by giving them Walker’s scalp?'" It RAISES the question, ... ¯¯¯¯¯¯ To beg the question is to employ a form of circular resoning, it does not lead to a question, or raise a question.

But those rich have to attract employees. If what they can pay them goes to taxes, the attractiveness of the job goes down. If the rich are taxed higher, that lowers what they can pay employees. If all taxes are higher, that lowers what employees can take home, and thus the attractiveness of the job.

It is not Congress that has not passed a budget, it is specifically the Senate. It is not Congress that has done nothing, it is specifically the Senate. Self-serving is not the issue. Get rid of everyone, replace with new, and you wil have a new self-serving group. I love my family, and so I do things for them, which is self-serving (since I love them). Politicians who love their country, and who understand economics who then serve their self-interests, will therefore serve us.

It is Democrat leaders that attack private citizens for political gain, not the Republican leadership.