i purport to redound my vocabulary

Wait, did I hear that correctly? Chris Matthews said Bill Clinton was the established guy who lost to the nerd?

Personally I think the voted him in because they know it's all a joke and it doesn't matter who wins. Nothing's gonna change. Give us an actor, pro wrestler, stand up comic, male model... it doesn't make any difference. Hell I hope Palin runs in 2012, I'm voting for her just for the humor of it.

What drives me INSANE about any person who complains about our "high taxes" and "the Dems are going to raise the taxes" is these folks are completely out of touch with how low their tax burden is compared to ten years ago, before Bush bushwhacked the tax code.

The American Voter is a child. They won't let military bases be closed even when the Pentagon says they don't want them. They won't let various other military spending programs be cut, even though the Pentagon doesn't want them, because they will lose THEIR jobs. They vote for their Congressperson who brings in all sorts of Federal dollars for street projects, and schools, museums, and what all.

The American Voter wants their goodies.

But god forbid we put the tax rate back to where it was in 2000. That is supposed to be some kind of an abomination.

Grow up, Voters. You get what you pay for. And right now, we are selling ourselves dirt cheap to China with our mounting debt.

I knew we were in trouble when Bush's response to 9/11 was to say to the voters -- keep shopping. I knew we were in trouble when we went to war, and for the first time in American history, cut taxes during wartime.

We are children.