Gaffney's history as a paid stooge of defense contractors should impeach anything he says, but his work for the secretive "Islamophobia" lobby shows something much worse - a fearmonger who strings together snippets of propaganda to try to convince the US to attack much less powerful countries. Thanks to Gaffney's previous work, ushering us into war with Iraq, our kids have to pay enormous debts. This is the man Eisenhower warned us about - those that would fake wars because they sell weapons. Do not fear Iran or China - we spend more than all countries combined on defense. Fear Gaffney, the men who make millions selling arms in an age where profits have no limits and debt is already crushing budgets.

I think the electorate recognizes that everyone in the GOP is still in favor of Reaganomics and that Reaganomics crashed the economy. Ron Paul, who has even more support from the military than Obama and all the others combined, still wants to go back to the Bush tax cuts which create no jobs. I would vote for Paul if he ended the Bush tax cuts and reformed SS/Medicaid without dismantling them. If not, there really is no one to vote for so I have to get active in issues-based campaigns.

Buffett already did! He pledged $37 billion dollars in 2006 to the largest international charity in the world, the Gates Foundation. Bill Gates himself pledged over $25 billion to the fund. So this guy put his money where his mouth is years ago - Christie is still funding tax breaks for millionaires in NJ at the expense of the middle class - teachers benefits and education budgets.

There is no expiration date to the ruins of Reaganomics. Obama has been a friend to the rich, bailing out the banks, loaning free money from the Treasury to any rich person with a pen, refusing to prosecute Wall Street crimes, extending the Bush tax cuts for the rich and finally only claiming to be a middle class class warrior after protests flared up in the streets over thousands of US cities and the world. When the Bush cuts were enacted in 2001, citing special cuts for the wealthy because they are job creators, it was a theory we might have believed, but by the collapse of the US economy in 2008 and no jobs anywhere in sight, anyone with eyes could see it was a disproven theory at best and a calculated lie at worst.

I hope this will be the end of the Obama administration but I don't think the GOP has been any better with firms like Halliburton showing they play the lobbying, waste and fraud game the same way except they get away with it. For my fellow fiscal conservatives I have a serious question with this story the way it's being reported - if the company was making working solar panels for box stores and ended up with too many panels and not enough box store customers, why didn't they sell the panels to local governments for official buildings, schools and prisons to protect the taxpayer's investment? The most successful solar businesses in states like NJ specialize in institutional buildings like schools, so this would seem to be a no-brainer...

Bachmann is so awesome and inspiring. I think she's shining the light of conservatism in the eyes of the other 70% of the country. She can convert them by sticking to her rigidly held principles. And Marcus Bachmann is like an onion, there are layers there we have not even begun to peel yet. But the good thing is, she only has to convert about 50% of the country to put her over the top in the primaries. I agree she is like Reagan, an extremist in a good way. People count her out but if we donate to her campaign, volunteer and blog for her, it will happen. Remember, things can change overnight nowadays.

Kevin, do you honestly think that the US should have attacked Iran during the Green protests in Tehran? Might that not have given the Mullahs the perfect excuse for martial law and mass retribution? Do you consider casualty counts when you type this unmitigated imbecility? How would that have gotten Congressional approval if airstrikes in Libya couldn't? What in the budget would you cut to appropriate this action, taking on tanks in urban settings? Obama did the right thing then, supporting the Green uprising and waited calmly. This was the inspiration for Tunisia, Tahrir and the whole Arab Spring - if it looked like the US orchestrates it, is it really democracy? Do we want two more wars paid for by our unborn granddaughters?

You mean the vote-for-me-in-the-air-conditioned-tent-and-get-a-free-NRA-baseball-cap poll? Very scientific poll...take away the merch and Paul won it.

Hooray for Bachmann and Paul, the leaders of the pack. I love Bachmann for these reasons: she is a fiscal conservative, she wants to end the Dept. of Education, she believes in intelligent design. I love Ron Paul because he broke the truth bubble about the wars, right in Giuliani's face - the intel was all wrong about Iraq, all of it and you cannot borrow for war.

Sowell thinks you're dumb. It's more like Debt Ceiling Ostrich than Chicken. We know the Republicans spend as much as the Democrats, we saw through the Bush years and if we're old enough, the Reagan years. It's like farting and blaming it on the dog. Now this turkey is going to cry over "Obama's reckless spending" as if the Republicans balanced a budget? Ever? The last Republican to balance a budget was Eisenhower. They don't know how to do it . Well maybe Ron Paul. They literally give away taxpayer money - oil subsidies, paying full retail for prescriptions, defense contract fraud - why? The Bush tax cuts added $700 billion to the deficit and created no jobs, crashed the economy. Hey Sowell, whoever smelt it dealt it.