Please elaborate. I haven’t heard anyone, left or right, blame this on low tax rates. I have heard that it is the fault of regulations, though. Considering that the financial maket is quite highly regulated, it seems a stretch to say that “fewer regulations” put us where we are today. Since you feel differently, I’d be interested in hearing what you mean.

Where is the acknowledgement of his extremism and horrible tone and disposition? I wouldnt allow Keith Olberman or Bill Maher to be the figurehead of my party that could not be questionsed or challeged. This isnt someone like Kissinger or Goldwater or Ted Kennedy, old stalwarts who have been in the trenches and deserve to have standing. This is a man whose job it is to create an educational show. How does he have this much unchecked sway?

You talk about extreme liberalism in the White House, but it is not like the Pink Shirt crazies or 9-11 Truthers hold any sway like extremist did in the Bush Administration, and still do in the Republican Party. Dont tell me you really think ACRON is extreme? Obama has governed from the middle (from the center-right on foreign policy) and even my father admits he is doing a good job.

And I am not suggesting that you cowtow to the Democrats just because you lost the election and screwed up the economy and took political discourse lower than its ever been,but that you provide constructive opposition instead of just pointing at the Democrats and sayin, “Wrong”, hoping that it doesnt work so you can be deemed right down the road despite offering nothing substantive to fix one of the worst financial situations in generations.

In fact, the only idea the Republicans are offering is lower taxes and fewer regulations, exactly the same type of policies that got us into this economic disaster in the first place.

You cannot forget the last 8 years never happened like an etch-e-sketch. Like Little Joey getting mad when people go after his family. Selective memory and outrage is not the route to take on this, and all polls indicate that the average American feels the same way too.

Well, I’m glad you pointed out the podcast, but something tells me that their “facts” are a little slanted too.

I’d enjoy laughing at the extremism on the left but the problem is America foolishly put them in charge and once freedom is lost it’s extremely tough to get back. Right now Obama is working on the freedom of achievers to keep what they earn. I wouldn’t mind a “progressive” tax bite so much if it were consumption-based but there’s no sign Obama or any of his economic advisors are considering such a bold idea because they can’t regulate behavior nearly as well with a consumption-based tax.

This summer I didnt have my ipod for a month and very limited radio selections. i started listening to conservative radio. i really did want to learn about John McCain’s positions.

You know what I got instead? Fear mongering and lies about Obama and Liberals!

Not once did I hear something I believe in described as such with intellectual honesty. It was straw man after straw man. Fear mongering after fear mongering.

How come I can read Andrew Sullivan and his links everyday and be intellectually stimulated and provoked to really think about the issue and my stance without being offended as a decent human being? Its one thing to be a principled conservative, its another to be Rove/Coulter/Hannity/Rush/Palin and not even be able to tell the difference.

Fun Fact Thursday- Reagan didnt actually say that the government is the problem and not the solution, he prefaced that comment by stating, “at this time, the….” You know, if you cared about the truth and all that. I never knew that listening to conservative radio and foxnews and I prob never would have bc that takes the extremism out of it and thats where all the fun is!

You act like divorce is an easy thing to go through, too. Trust me, it’s no picnic.

I’ll back up Mike Netherland to some extent – more often than not Rush is proven to be correct.

By the way, I actually looked up the Media Matters post but unfortunately the link to the analysis they cite didn’t work properly. I think that would have been the key to proving the point.

Oh, but that’s the MSM working in cahoots with the liberals of the U.S Census Bureau, right Mike? Yeah, the actuaries at the Census tend to be raving liberals. Please.

And where’s the compassion for the addicted that the Left is so famous for? Yes, Rush had a problem with prescription painkillers and he’s paying a heavy price for it. It seems to me that one of the Kennedy grandchildren had a similar addiction and when he sought treatment we on the right didn’t condemn him so much as we wished him the best on his recovery. But I knew that the drug addiction issue would come up sooner or later in your comments; it always does when the left discusses Limbaugh. If you can’t refute the message, kill the messenger. By the way, I’ll grant that I’m with you on Michael Savage – he is annoying.

In essence though what you’re saying is that you’ll accept the message you believe in regardless of the messenger, even if he or she has a lack of ethics, but moral equivalence is only allowed on the left.