Fiscal Conservative-In Name Only

If this were an examination you could get partial credit, whether we like it or not, there is NO way to get our fiscal house in order without dealing with the growth of entitlements and without increasing taxes.

Any politician that tells you something else is peeing on your leg and telling you that it is raining.

I am on the first fifty pages of "Choosing our Nation's Fiscal Future" a fantastic analysis and warning of our financial dilemma.

Download it for free at www.nap.org, I bought my copy from Amazon.
I like being able to highlight the good points...and there are a lot of them.

When did extra marital affairs become illegal? The answer is only when asked about them. I realize many christians would like to make all ten of the commandments law but it ain't gonna happen. Henry Hyde was screwing the wife of one his constituents but explained it away during the Clinton impeachment as a "youthful indiscretion". Newt Gingrich is another cheater in a class all by himself. Only angry old white Republicans would try to make a man feel guilty about a BJ.

The fourth rail of American politics, Bill Clinton's indiscretions with his 25 year old intern. Democrats will defend him to their last breath, everyone else thinks he's a lyin', cheatin', dirty old man.

Someone who wants to toally cut out spending and taxes is an idiot, not a fiscal conservative. Fiscal conservatives want to define the functions of government in a logical fashion and fund those objectives as fairly as possible. They also believe that those decisions are best made as close to the people as possible. The local government cannot decide national security issues ( see valp mayor) but the federal government cannot decide what is the best education for our children.

I'm also pretty sure I'd vote against someone who cheated on their spouse. If a politician is amicably divorced due to incompatibility however, it's a non-issue. The whole "family values" thing.. if someone has been married, raised good kids, and stayed faithful, well that's certainly a plus in their favor.

And Republicans will continue with their long history of hipocrisy when it comes to morals. ;-)

Buz - I clicked on your link but it is the Nebraska Aids Project. I'll go to Amazon - thanks for the recommendation.

Only a third of U.S. voters think that most members of Congress deserve to be re-elected this year, according to a new national poll. That's the lowest number ever recorded for that question in a CNN survey.

The CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll, released Tuesday, indicates that only 34 percent feel that current federal lawmakers deserve re-election, with 63 percent saying no.

According to the survey, 51 percent feel their member of Congress should be re-elected - also an all-time low in CNN polling - while 44 percent say their representative doesn't deserve to be returned to office in November.

The numbers on both questions are even lower than in 1994, when an anti-incumbent fever helped Republicans win back control of both the House and the Senate from Democrats. The trend line on those questions goes back to 1991, when they were first asked.

"This is not a good year to be an incumbent, regardless of which party you belong to," said CNN Polling Director Keating Holland. "Voters seem equally angry at both Republicans and Democrats this year."

I cannot see how a single payer healthcare system can ever be fiscally responsible. See social security and medicare for examples.

CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive - CNN Poll: Anti-incumbent fever at record high ? - Blogs from CNN.com

More "change" appears to be on the horizon. People are really p*ssed off.

It wasn't geography as much as people w/ big bucks wanting someone they could buy off.

Whole thing was completely disgraceful good ol' boy tactics and lies. :angry:

I don't know how accurate that accusation is, but I agree the perception is there. That's probably one of the reasons why this current election cycle seems to be anti-incumbent vs. anti-party.