This is interesting. Ron Paul seems to be backing away from the Tea Party, and embracing them at the same time. Congressman Paul wonders how someone like Newt Gingrich can claim a Tea Party link with years of Washington insider experience, and says the Tea Party is all over the place. But, a note for the future, Ron Paul claims the Tea Party started in his campaign.
Speaking of Kochs, they're like a wart that we just can't get rid of....they have now taken to giving all kinds of money to colleges and universities, then telling them who to hire and what curriculum to teach.
Somebody in the media really needs to be investigating what is going on in the higher education field with this money being thrown around. This is a first for Amerika--------they can now buy your mind!!!
As far as your husband voting to be a spoiler I say go for it. Work the system the way the system has been working us for so long. Gingrich's speech tonight was right out of a Twilight Zone script. Completely off the wall. And that was without even mentioning being King of the Moon.
It's a long long time until November. Alot is going to go down between now and then. Like the Wisconsin recalls. Part of me just wants to turn off the election noise completely. I just dont' get riled up by this stuff, I find it tiring, annoying, and a complete waste of valuable time and money.
linda, virginia
1/31/2012 8:44:55 PM
Ron paul is a foolish old man............attempting to ruin the lives of young men and women by becoming a Ayn Rand wanabe........
Pat, Grand Lake Co
1/31/2012 7:41:22 PM
Linda S.. loved that video!
My husband, still a registered republican, says "I think I'll vote for Gingrich. Obama will beat him easily, and he's like having SNL on every day" He keeps his repub registration just to vote in the primaries so he can hopefully pick the candidate most likely to lose in the general election. I think it's kind of weird, but he has a good time. We also heard that one of the trust fund right wing baby boys of the the Coors dynasty is wanting to run for Congress. My husband says "why would someone so rich want to run for Congress?" Why, indeed! The conservative Coors have an anti union, anti worker, anti woman agenda so extreme it will curl your socks. I think the old man Adolph, or at least his son, was one of the founding fathers, along with the Kochs, of the John Birch Society. Ah, the good old 1%, ruling America for the last 200+ fracking years!
Pay attention to your local elections, folks. I found a Credo super pac that is targeting 10 teabag Congressmen and looking for more. We need to get in the game. I deplore the money in politics and the negative ads, but the only way to change it is to play dirty and win the Congress. I sent them $20. I am pledging 20% of my tax refund to the candidates or super pacs that are taking on the radical, power hungry, corrupt conservatives wherever they are running!
TAX THE RICH, bring it on!
Linda S Houston
1/31/2012 3:38:47 PM
Hilarious new video on youtube:
"Occupy DC Places Fox News Van Under Citizens Arrest"
Linda S Houston
1/31/2012 3:18:55 PM
Pat,
Another huge problem Dr. Paul has is his son Rand Paul, like a teenage kid that goes out and embarrasses his parents by saying and doing stupid stuff in public.
I agree with you about policies. Dr. Paul is totally on track about alot of what is wrong with this country. But you don't ever fix anything by throwing the baby out with the bathwater and that is what his proposals would do.
He also assumes way more people actually are in tune to what is going on in government than they actually are. They're not. They've been dumbed down to the point of being like zombies.
He also has backed off when being pressed about the lies told about 9/11 and many other things that mainstream media has continuously not reported or under reported. I don't think you can get many loyal supporters if you are going to deny the very things in public that your supporters are believing in.
There is just too much disconnect between what he is saying and what he is doing. He finally admitted in public one day that you cannot just ditch the social security and medicare systems in this country, it would throw everything into complete chaos.
The reason so many young people support him is because they like that anarchy type rebellion. They like to raise hell. But they don't like to clean up the mess afterward.
Pat, Grand Lake Co
1/31/2012 2:51:51 PM
Oh, Ron Paul, I want to like you because I think you are reasonably honest, probably the most honest person running, including the President, and you totally believe in and defend your positions. The problem is, the majority of your ideas are batshit crazy and would hurt 99% of the American people. We need social security, medicare, medicaid, public schools, and so many other programs that lift average working people out of poverty and despair. These programs work because libertarianism doesn't, and never will. So while your honesty is appealing, Mr. Paul, you are far outside the competence and moderation we need to restore stability to our government and economy. Only one candidate really has these qualities; President Obama, and, while I have had many disappointments in this President, he is the only candidate that is sane and intelligent and a human being all at the same time, and I do trust him to lead us. Just wish he'd whip that Department of Justice into shape and move faster in bringing the military back under civilian command.
And, of course, the one promise I want President Obama to keep: TAX THE RICH!!
Linda S Houston
1/31/2012 1:22:26 PM
Ed,
Are you going to cover the explosive story uncovered by National Public Radio about Freddie Mac???? I want to know why we cannot just disband this crooked criminal organization that we the taxpayers are paying to destroy this country with.
Go to NPR.org and read the latest on Freddie Mac betting against homeowners being able to refinance their mortgages at the new low interest rates.
THIS IS EVERYTHING THAT IS WRONG WITH THIS COUNTRY!!
And Newt Gingrich took money from them and Mitt Romney had money in some of those funds too.
FREDDIE MAC IS A TRAITOR TO THIS COUNTRY'S ECONOMY!!!
Ok, President Obama made it a point to say there needed to be a law against insider trading by members of Congress. He mentioned this in his State of the Union Address.
How about this Mr. President??? An entire organization whose job it is to stabilize the nation's housing market insider trading AGAINST the American homeowners!!
I'd say that is a whole lot worse!! Hello MSNBC, can you stop the campaign trance for a few seconds and start reporting on some of this stuff???
Linda S Houston
1/31/2012 12:16:39 PM
The entire Bush family is a crime syndicate, they all ought to be behind bars for the stuff they have done. It is beyond criminal, it is sadistic and evil.
And I include wives in that. There is no way those women don't know what is going on behind their own closed doors. They know plenty yet they stand by their men smiling while this country goes down in flames.
Check out "The Unauthorized Biography of George HW Bush" to get a real good look at what that man did in the so called name of country.
Rob, Oregon
1/31/2012 11:50:39 AM
Jeb is always a possible. I wouldn't put anything past the GOP at this point. He may have a tough time selling his sthick after 8 years of his moronic brother in the Oval Office, but the pubs are great at denial and sweeping old dirt under the rug. Just think of it folks.......another Bush in the Whitehouse. It's enough to gag a maggot.
Linda S Houston
1/31/2012 11:24:28 AM
I still think this is a grand play at the Globe theater with ole Jeb waiting in the wings. As it stands now, not one candidate will be able to get a majority of the delegates. Oh and the convention is in Florida. Tim Russert-----Florida Florida Florida.
