Mr. K., I fear it is too late to worry about whether Mr. Geithner is listening, whether The Bernank is listening, whether Congress is listening, whether Obama is listening. The political class is completely unprepared to address the monetary crisis heading our way. With few exceptions, the politicos will gladly embrace insolvency rather than give up power. We do not have time for the political class to come to its senses before external forces impose basic changes in U.S. government spending. We may have time to mitigate the damage to a degree, but we cannot avoid extreme pain. Mr. Ryan is to be lauded for his attempt, but it is woefully inadequate, and we both know why. The scale of the actions required to get a handle on the...

That, Brad, is one of the most statistically ignorant comments I've seen in a long time. Either hone your thoughts to avoid being thought ignorant, or educate yourself. Probability and Statistics 101 beckons .. If this is an inarticulate attempt to promote class warfare, also consider studying some real economics, not the Keynesian fantasy flavor. Thomas Sowell has an imminently readable treatment in print.

Any guy who writes about "holistic facials" and knows that "Karen Scott" makes ladies' blouses has got to be a metrosexual, likely a card-carrying member of the New Castrati. It would be less than helpful to have this wuss around when the chips are down .. just sayin'.

We could rent a hall with a capacity of at least 536 + 1 and have a much larger crew read the Constitution. Not that it would do any good for most of the ingrates.

Some wag coined the phrase "Manic Progressives". It fits.

One can hope. I would approve of his resignation, tendered COB this week.

Bingo! Look at the historical record, paying particular attention to the letters of Civil War era infantrymen wrote home. They are generally expressive, grammatically correct, and artfully constructed. Compare with what today's high school student can produce. For details of how we got to this awful place in public education, see John Taylor Gatto's book, _The Underground History of American Education_. You will be outraged and will discover that the seeds of educational destruction were initially sown in the latter 19th century.

All things considered, teachers unions and the educrats who've intentionally dumbed down curriculum and cut our children off from their history and heritage have jointly done orders of magnitude more damage to the United States than Al Queda, Three Mile Island, Katrina, and the BP oil spill combined.

"If ye love comfort better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, [then] go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands of your master. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!" -- Samuel Adams

It is absolutely unsurprising that Obama would make a comment that squares pretty well with those made in writing by Thomas Friedman of the New York Slimes. Anyone who doubts that Obama is a collectivist authoritarian is in deep denial.