Very well stated, Sean. The number of persons directly or indirectly dependent on gov't is growing. The dividing line will be between those who work for the gov't and those who pay for it.

The kid should have had a silencer on his pencil.

You can bet your house there will be a push to get BO's likeness on some piece of currency as quickly as possible. His statement sounds to me like another attempt to invoke white guilt. If anything, he does deserve to have his picture on the SNAP cards that are becoming as common as dollars.

The power hungry POS known as Hillary has been and will remain the political Teflon Don. This New Age carpetbagger has secured her position as prime candidate for POTUS the same way J. Edgar Hoover ran the FBI, she knows where the bodies are buried. The media presents a personna that the low info voter bites on hook, line, and sinker. She will run in '16 and she will win because there is no opposition to the political machine she represents. Republicans don't have the stones to stand up to her and the living, breathing farce that is Hillary Clinton will land on top.

I can't imagine the machinations of a mind that would not consider the product of a botched abortion is a patient or a person. I suppose when YOUR livelihood depends on the volume and success rate of abortions the odd chance that a child might refuse to die is not much of a consideration. If this lobbyist finds herself thrown under the bus by Planned Parenthood, I'm sure she could get a job working for the "lab rat" suppliers.

Haven't we seen this movie before? The ending never changes.

It is a sad commentary when those most qualified are forsaken for those most deserving. Even worse, there will be no meaningful opposition to this appointment.

There is talk of closing the Congressional barber shop. That's a start to what should never have happened in the first place. They have graced themselves with a handsome salary then give themselves perks so they don't have to spend it. They pass laws that cost us taxpayers and exempt themselves. They profit from insider information and leave Congress with a feathered nest egg and a golden parachute. We should demand their perks and stipends be gone over, not with a scalpel or cleaver but with a splitting maul.

The governor of Md. uses what is called StateStat. A tremendous amount of time that could be spent dealing with the "numbers served" is now being taken up to feed the StateStat monster. Our databases are now coupled with programs that make the collection of information more streamlined. As a result, unless we have entered the required info into the database, we haven't done it. The time spent at the keyboard is time deducted from the time we used to spend with the "numbers served". As you said, it's not about the outcome, it's about the political facade.

We are a capitalist society. You won't find anybody, even politicians, who will destroy our way of life for nothing.