You are right, since liberal/progressive ideology makes no sense, has no basis in reality those who live in Real-ville simply can't comprehend the lib mind. That is a major problem for Cons. Sun Tzu said to know one's enemy (enemy being too strong a word of course for this context); those in charge of the Right simply don't understand that.

libs/progressives

"...people who want to reap the benefits..." unfortunately the benefits they seek are housing, medical care, welfare, disability, not education, safety, freedom, opportunity.

I bet the word UNION comes in to play somewhere. Is "betraying the public's trust" unethical for a Dem?

Amen!

Who puts those "career bureaucrats" in place? Isn't it the senators and congressmen? If there were term limits maybe eventually We The People would begin electing people who would actually work for the betterment of the country and not just their own self aggrandizement.

I wish I were savvy enough with computers to do the search and find out how/where Carl Levin's money is sheltered. jturnig is right "How a person spends his own money speaks volumes about his personal values and integrity."

Absolutely right. Now it is up to We The People to flood congressional phone lines, email in-boxes, twitter accounts etc. with our opinions, with our directions, with our ire. We The People have sat quietly by for decades now allowing our so called "representatives" to govern us. Our power has slowly been usurped by those for whom the adage "power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely" was written. " America will never be destroyed from outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." Abraham Lincoln

Sorry Dread that would be two, well maybe one dude and one not dude, and WE certainly aren't mistaken. I work with the low income, poorly educated, and unassimilated, they feel entitled to the benefits of this nation paid for by the tax payers, they demand i speak spanish, they simply have no concept of taking care of themselves medically. The Conservatives I talk to all agree amnesty will be a bad thing, just like the previous one.

Can always tell when a lib posts, you just have to call names. If you really think about what amnesty for millions of virtually uneducated people dumped on the social welfare net of this country will do to our economy, yeah in a way I can see it as treason. Open your mind dread