All we know for sure is that it's better to let you speculate than to tell Americans the truth. How awful must the real reason/mission be?

It's only a few deductive steps from TEA Party wanting lower taxes to TEA Party is racist. Unfortunately, anyone who takes those steps IS racist, for (s)he assumes that minorities actually benefit from taking my money and redistributing it to... ? To whom? Obviously, the racist must assume, that money would be redistributed to minorities. (In reality, under this president much of it is redistributed to unions and "green energy" enterprises run by 0's supporters. Maybe the TEA Party is anti-union and anti-"science"?)

Oh yeah, and votes to be garnered by the not-racist party, which has been unable to improve the lot of blacks in 100 years. (And what improvement there has been has been accomplished ONLY with the help of the totally-racist party.)

Sorry, mread, it ain't gonna happen. Not as long as there's money to be made in Big Racism.

On one message board I commented that nothing in the proposed "gun control" legislation that was defeated would have prevented Sandy Hook or any of the other mass shootings we have experienced. Someone complained that that was a "stock answer, repeated from Rush Limbaugh." I responded that if Sandy Hook is to be used as justification for any new "gun control," then there should be some relationship between the legislation and stopping "more Sandy Hooks." It rather seems to me that we're more likely to stop mass shootings by outlawing "gun-free zones."

I am female and I have a permit to carry. My problem with carrying in a purse is that I believe there is more chance that my purse will be snatched than that I will be physically attacked. Usually, if I can't carry somewhere on my person, I don't carry at all. (Yes, I need to buy a holster. If only I didn't hate shopping....)

Agreed. Have you noticed that there's no shortage of lawyers? Law schools pride themselves on growing their enrollment, quite the opposite of medical schools.

Funny, when I read your first comment, I read "insurance" as "care," since using "more health insurance" simply means seeking more health care.

Anyone who stays home and doesn't vote because the Republican on the ticket isn't conservative enough.

Could Larry Elder really win? It doesn't appear that many black voters like intelligent, logical blacks. And I've never hear him use the nasty, vicious language that the current congressional blacks use all the time. Mightn't the black voters adjudge him as "wimpy"?

You could be right. Barney did a great job of preparing the way for the last financial meltdown, but Maxine could probably do better.