You know it's people like you that give liberals such a bad name. Nothing of substance to offer, just attack and name call. With people like you running the country I can see why True Americans like Merry Widow are losing hope in this country. God help us all if you get control of our healthcare system.

I appreciate the frustration, but you may have been listening a little to much to the MSM. A little research will shed some truth on the myth about "Reagan Amnesty".

Take the Reagan Amnesty Pop Quiz!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1065553/posts

I agree. I don't understand the "tub-thumping" comment either. Maybe you can provide a valid example Cal?

On the issue of whether Bob McConnell is the "new face" of the Republican party, I was intially intrigued by the victory he pulled off in VA. However, I have to question how much was due just to voter dissactisfaction. The people of VA will have to be the deciding voice on how he governs. I myself will keep a critical eye on how he develops. It encourages me that he has a strong military, and public service background. I'm not ready to be burned again though by getting too excited.

Every conservative should be required to read Reagans autobiography (http://www.amazon.com/American-Life-Ronald-Reagan/dp/0743400259). It...

follow Sarah Palin so vigourously because just like Condalezza Rice, Clarence Thomas, Alberto Gonzales, and so many other conservatives before her, she does not fit the mold they believe all politically active women, or minorities should. Hence they devote enormous time, energy and resources to belittle, minimize and dismiss them. The real joke is how liberals fail to see that for all their efforts, Sarah will come out on top and the media, and liberalism in general will continue to implode on itself and become relics on the dung heap of burnt out, morally corrupt, and crime-ridden liberally run big cities.

...if you don't mind me saying. You hit the nail on the head Joseph. Sarah drives the intellectual elites batty because they fail to understand her appeal to the masses. Even deeper I believe she secretly terrifies many of them who feel a tidal wave of "Reagan-conservatism" behind her, and it's about to hit the beach and wash them back out to sea as in 1994. She may never run for POTUS, but just because of what she represents, she'll have them so pre-occupied that she might that it will keep them up nights with a permanent case of insomnia.

OK, TBTR

Your first point. I don't quite understand what you mean by "interjecting US troops into a civil war..."

Are referring back to Somalia, or Bosnia??? You can't be referring to Afghanistan. We entered that country to disrupt, destroy and eliminate the base of operations held by the Taliban and Al-Queda. Those who attacked us on 9/11. We are still there to ensure they don't return to power and to give the Afgan people a chance to form a government and society that will not be oppressive and totalitarian. There is no civil war. Just disagreements between tribal factions that exist there on how that government and society should look.

tell me again

why this does not apply to he defense department? It is government. And it keeps getting bigger and bigger.

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This is the point of this whole article. Bill, all you have to do is take the time and READ the Constitution:

Preamble:
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, PROVIDE FOR THE COMMON DEFENCE......

Article I, Section 8:
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and PROVIDE FOR THE COMMON DEFENCE....

Come on, I know you're probably a peacenik and can't stand the military, but providing...