At the local this is called, "Fire the firemen first."

When Obama and the left start scaring people with dire threats about how sequestration will gut government services, it is a perfect opportunity to point out what sorry managers Obama and the Democrats are. For any decent manager, cutting 10% from the budget of an enterprise as bloated as our government should not be a big problem. Cutting an amount as paltry as what sequestration demands should be a piece of cake.

If the people managing the various government agencies are unable to come up with the paltry cuts that the sequestration demands, they are totally incompetent managers and need to be replaced. In the private sector, lean times often force managers to find areas to trim in order to survive and, for any competent manager, sequestration-sized cuts of less than 2% are a piece of cake.

I wonder how large a government grant I could get to open a clinic to teach women how to induce themselves to vomit.

A big problem is that for those with a pro-private-sector bent, the best and brightest do not look first to government as a career. As a consequence, most Republican politicians are generally either not very sharp, or even worse, they are RINOs. Our party is now so thoroughly infected with second-rate intellects and RINOs that I fear it is hopeless. Our leadership can't even tell the difference between compromise and slow-motion capitulation (what you get when every compromise is in the direction of the other side's objectives and farther from your own). I'm ready to start over. The Republican Party hasn't done a thing to reverse the growth of government in 65 years and it is foolish to expect they ever will.

You state that libertarians are the swing vote. It seems to me that social conservatives are at least as much of a swing vote. Many of them can't abandon their socially conservative principles fast enough when the democrats promise them free stuff.

Of course Vinny Castaldo want to get rid of the 2nd amendment and see guns banned. Heaven forbid that when he and his thug pals need to apply some persuasion that the victim is armed.

Respect for this president equals contempt for our Constitution.

I say forget the RINO party and start over. So many of us have voted republican over and over again with nothing to show for it. We want smaller, less intrusive government, but all we get is compromise on how much larger the government will be. And when the republicans were in the majority, did they ever insist that the democrats compromise in the other direction and actually shrink the government a little bit? What our republican party has actually given us is slow-motion capitulation, not compromise. I'm done with them!

I don't care about the "What is a true conservative?" argument. First of all, there is very little about our government that I want to conserve. Let's just keep the constitution and start over. My dream is to one day be able to honestly say that government is smaller than it was a year earlier. I will never again vote for a politician who isn't trying to make that happen. That is why I didn't vote for Mitt Romney and why I hold in contempt those you call "kept cons". If I want to go in one direct and you want to go in the opposite direction, compromise is impossible. Agreeing to ago in your direction, just more slowly than you would prefer, is capitulation, not compromise. Republicans have been doing this all my life and I have had it.

What rot! So the interests of the employees should come before those of the owners of the company? Are you really that stupid?