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Comparing the fund raising of the Democrats vs. the Republicans at this point is meaningless. There is a real contest for the Republican nomination while everybody knows who the Democratic candidate will be. So even if I was a rich Democrat I'd be in no great hurry to contribute to the Obama...

Oh yes, that lying graph that equates the political party of the president with the political party that controls congress (and also leaves out the breathtaking deficits of the Obama administration, which had a Democratic majority in both houses of congress for its first two years).

Liar. I was never happy with the Reagan or Bush 1/Bush 2 deficits. I do recall that some Democrats complained about those $100 - $400 billion deficits but are happy with the $1.5 trillion deficits now. In any case, regardless about what politicians in either party <i>said</i>, what they...

I didn't see that Pelosi speech but I'd guess the explanation is that she proposed a tax credit for hiring handicapped transgendered illegal aliens of color and called that a tax cut. That's the kind of "tax cut" we get from Democrats.

2 million jobs will be created. 1.1 million will go to legal immigrants. 0.9 million will go to illegal immigrants. Oh joy.

Well, I don't think there is an easy path to Utopia. But I do know a quick and easy road to hell -- war.

americanhero's country is Israel, not the United States, and Israel hasn't been bankrupted by the Iraq or Afghanistan wars. American warships cruise by Iran all the time. I don't doubt that Israeli submarines do as well. So cry me a river about the Iranian warships.

Israel is much more likely to toast Iran over the near term.

5% find a real edge. Given the high efficiency of markets, no one should be surprised the number is as low as 5%.

Well, I can agree with pspr on something. But who is the only candidate intent on stopping this country from sliding into a police state? That's right, the "kook". The "America hater", according to those who think that loving America means loving war.

Yes Al Qaeda is a real terrorist group that operates in many countries. And we (in particular, our CIA) helped create them in the 80s back when they were the mujahedeen fighting the Soviets. Bin Laden was a CIA asset at the time. They are just a particularly alarming example of the rule that...

How to fight the next war with Iran: Drop americanhero (aka Jake Jones) from 10,000 feet up on top of Ahmadinejad. Kill two birds with one stone.

That he's neither an Iraqi nor an Iranian. Glad I could help.

I have no idea what "Sandbox part II" means. I bought gold because it was cheap, the deficits were already about $400 billion a year, and I figured that with the ongoing wars and the baby boomers retiring the deficits would only go up. I didn't have the prescience to predict the housing...

When did I ever come out in favor of insurance paying for Viagra? People who want to use recreational drugs should have to pay for them themselves.

If cancer is cured we'll just have more cardiac patients, busting health care anyway. If all heart and artery disease is cured then people will live much longer and Social Security will blow up. The doom and gloomers are right.

We are *always* told that a balanced budget is a good idea, just that now is not the right time to do it. An alcoholic never thinks that "now" is the right time to go on the wagon. We got into this mess by living beyond our means. Doing more of the same will not fix the problem. I don't...

I guess the plan was to get Ben Bernanke to buy them.

So it would kill the host to have a deficit about what it was during most of the Bush years? Who knew then that we weren't borrowing enough?

Democrats were just as eager as the Republicans to vote for the Medicare D prescription program, instantly creating trillions in unfunded liabilities and no new taxes to pay for it. Plenty of Democrats also voted for those wars. Yes, Carter had smaller deficits than any president since...