Wow! "Freedom" and "Constitution" are now Tea Party themes? You must have not have had your coffee before you typed that. Those are American ideals, not particular to any group or party. However, the particulars of the meaning of those two words may differ based upon who you talk to. They shouldn't, but in this day and age, sadly, they do. We live in an age where "reality" is different from person to person. Sad.

Actually, I would claim that "liberty" more than "freedom" is what is important. See if your viewers know the difference.

Cicero

Who cares about loser Tiny Tim Pawlenty, he'll find out soon enough that the repugnant ones aren't interested in him. Tiny Tim tries so hard to remake himself into a radical subversive tea bagging prancing pansy but he'll never shed his wimpy pansy label!

What needs to be dealt with is reality otherwise it will just knock you down. With the Republicans today the reality is that it is simply all about politics for them. Their total focus is on politics; literally just on their political ambitions at any cost and without conscience. Everything they say and do demonstrates that they are constantly campaigning, maneuvering, manipulating, conning and conniving without any responsible concern. Some will say that is just politics and that both sides do the same but there really is no comparison. The Republicans clearly aggressively concentrate on maintaining the overt and covert support of Special Interests and the influential, powerful and extremely wealthy few who they are really ‘puppets’ for. Without fail they use every opportunity to fault and block the Democrats, while never offering bipartisan cooperation to affect responsible results, only just criticizing and obstructing. The reality is that they offer the people nothing, only subterfuge as they obnoxiously and arrogantly use scare tactics and creative appeals to biases, prejudices and emotional attachments aimed to rationalize, deceive and manipulate. Since 2000 all of it couldn’t be more clear and the drastic costs should be even more apparent. John Dean (a self-proclaimed Goldwater conservative), in his book ‘Broken Government’, states that it is impossible for the Republicans to responsibly govern with their current mentality.

The Democrats and Obama are far from perfect but it really isn’t Socialism that they are trying to achieve, as accused, but rather resolutions to the problems they inherited. Some progress is being made and more is going to take time but doing nothing or going back to ‘more of the same’ isn’t any real answer as that only serves the interests of the few and is a deceptive con the Republicans and their supporters are trying to sell. The ‘trickle down’ theory should be seen as thoroughly debunked by Bush-Cheney who spent eight years placating and patronizing the few while giving the majority only apathy, the costs and an abundance of subterfuge – that clearly just doesn’t work. The problems aren’t because the Democrats are spending but rather the Democrats are spending because of the problems and without the spending the problems will absolutely only get worse. The deficit and inflation are serious concerns but to curtail governments’ spending and concentration on addressing the problems before the economy is stabilized would only result in debilitating deflation and a real depression. Jobs and the economy are the current real needed government focus and to be conned into accepting what has caused the problems will now solve the problems is ludicrous and self-defeating.

With GWBush you could tell when he was lying by just checking to see if he was moving his lips. Now with Boehner, McConnell, Kyl, other representatives and the likes of Limbaugh, Beck, Palin and others, including sponsored 3^rd party groups like the Tea Party, their offensive arrogant and stubborn demeanor, that says ‘up yours’, is their completely insulting effort to disguise their subterfuge. If some see that as strength, instead of recognizing it as a defensive posture and likely as close as you will ever get to seeing them admit guilt, that is a shame because the manipulation then has found victims. We should definitely want the return of the honest and conscientious Grand Ole Party and the only way to get that is to firmly and completely reject what they have become.

Thus far I like Tim. He seems to be more socially moderate and fiscally conservative. Becoming a true social moderate is difficult in the Republican Party. You need to at least pay lip service to the issue. But at least thus far he is not patronizing to that element of the party. We'll have to see how he prgresses, and I hope he doesn't implode.

I think the current leadership of the Legislative and Executive branches is helping to form our positions. Winning in the future will depend upon a strict adherence to fiscal issues, with social issues simply a backdrop. We lost in 2006 and 2008 because the social issues were on the front burner, with the fiscal issues on the back burner. This needs to be reversed.

Our current leadership at the Federal level beliefs in growth of the public sector. A fair argument. Yet, we need to focus on expanding the private sector. Expanding private property rights also wins points with me.

Cicero