Speak for yourself! i am not sick of sensitivity to others and would be much happier if aspiring politicians would at least think before they open their mouths. Having them say something sensible would be a plus!

Lets face this. You have been swindled by FOX. Generalizing pop culture talking points and good legislation are two completly different concepts and if you cant see that your just looking for something to spew at. Go find a site that supports your garbage and leave us alone.

I am lol'ing so hard over this. I just..cannot. WTF Sharron. Between the @!$%# coming out of her mouth, Reid's, Pelosi's and Palin's...I need to get a crazy-quotable calendar for 2011.

Political correctness should be used in what arena.... POLITICS!!!

We have a representative government. You can't talk to and about the people you represent with this sort of bigoted comment. If it wasn't Latinos, and it was whatever ethnic group you belong to, you wouldn't be offended? I guess you look Asian too... It's sad that the Teabaggers want to elect someone "like them" and these are types of people they're finding. So ashamed of the GOP right now. No wonder I switched to an independent.

I have read some really ridiculous things in my life...but I think ltjdangle has hit a new low.

Do they not teach manners in the Tea Party? It isn't that what she said is racist because it isn't, it is that what she said is just plain stupid and insensitive. The filter Clara mentions is simply not in the DNA of Angle and those like her. They lack the common-sense, sensitivity filter most people have.

Harry Reid on Barack Obama: "Lght-skinned African-American no Negro dialect unless he wants one."

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Harry Reid: clear winner in the "eloquence" category

Sharon Angle: clear winner in the "reliable vote against Obama" category

I'm not sure where you live that you order your coffee natural, but everywhere I've ever gotten coffee, it's black. And I am one of those apparently easily upset black people, and I'm oddly completely unoffended by calling coffee what it is when there is no cream or sugar added.. the same as I would not be offended by someone referring to one of my dogs as 'your black dog'.. cause.. his coat is black. Just saying that sweeping statements of how everyone must do (insert action here), as usual, are wrong. ;)

I like to view every person and situation as individual, rather than bleating about an entire group's 'agenda' as if everyone thinks exactly the same on every single issue. Makes you look as silly and blind to truths as you seem to believe the opposing group is.

Tell ya what, dangle, let's go at this another way.

A. Sharron Angle is running for election to the Senate from the State of Nevada.

B. A significant number of voters in Nevada (and elsewhere) are Latino.

C. It is indescribably stupid for someone trying to win an election in Nevada to make an off-hand statement that Latinos may not care for.

Dangle, Sharron Angle has made indescribably stupid remarks before, too. Forget any comments about PC or anything else - she's simply proving repeatedly that she is dumber than a bag of hammers.

to ltjdangle,

It's easy to be thick skinned if the color of your skin happens to be white. I hear the cruelist comments from white people about people of color. I'm not surprised that the Kapitalist Konservative Konvenient-convictions Christians want to return to a time when saying how you really feel was OK. Know you have to pretend that you're not prejudice because being prejudice is simply unattractive. Wasn't it nice when you could wear your white hood and be "in style." Wasn't it better years ago when you could rip "those other people" off or hang them from the nearest tree and get away with it because the politicans and police and preacher down the road was doing it, too? Oh yeah, we all want to go back to a time when everything was politically correct. NOT!!

ltjdangle: It's not about "Political correctness." It's about social intelligence, which apparently neither you, nor Ms. Angle, posess.

Blaming the "liberal agenda" because your candidates are incapable of doing the right thing is really old and worn out. It's all you right-wing throwbacks seem to be able to do. Come up with some solutions for a change and you might actually gain back some of your lost credibility.

In other words, get a life and grow up.

@ltjdangle: I don't know what you're talking about. I order negro coffee all the time, often in the company of my black BFF.

Everyone needs to lighten up. The trivialites in life aren't worth getting worked up over and I find it much better to deconstruct things to reveal their ultimate absurdity.

EDIT: I do get the impression, however, that John, Dutch and Acoustictherapy's heads would explode if they witnessed how my friends and I interact with and speak to one another. Bunch'o ras clots, me bredda. I an' I an' I all real badmen, seen?

Tea Party Candidate Sharron Angle is an angry self-aggrandizing gaffe prone incompetent because every time she has a microphone shoved in her face, she puts her foot in her mouth. Sharron Angle is an amateur who is angry and incompetent whose only message is that "government is evil, let's slash and burn." No positive strategies, no experience in running things, just a lot of discontent.

I hope Nevadans are smart enough when it comes time for the election not to vote for this gaffe prone incompetent.

Keep up the personal attacks MSNBC voter confidence board has dropped to -41 as of today.

The people are not listening to the hateful attacks from the party of tolerence. lol.

The people are focusing on the results of the President and Congress. Which I guess if I were a Dem. I would not want to run on that record either, so, I guess the personal attacks are all you have.

all of you know you're racist(TEA PARTY) but conveniently everybody can always jump around it and tries to turn it around and get defensive. that's the political correctness you adhere to. In my travels, "The new Nazis", I have met up in Idaho good ol boy camps, were at best, a little more honest about who they were and what America they wanted. Face it, A Majority of Americans(white people) did not feel this way 3 years ago(where was the tea party?) when your commander and chief was one of you. In your view, cause I did not grow up with a "May-berry or good old days when we could get away with any thing my dad's the sheriff, kind of past". I am not one of you, because, you are all immigrants, that blame other immigrants for your sick desecration of my ancestral land. Because of this you will never have this land all to yourselves... Enjoy...(2012)

whoa some people don't know what politically correct is and what it does. you feel offended that you can order your coffee because you can't call it black. why don't you get offended by all the other in correct use of language, because it affect your little life and your coffee. people like sharon angle are the ones dumbing down this country with stupid crap like that. face it, she is a moron and struggle to show any common sense at any level.

Gotta love Angle, at least she didn't say, "they all look alike" although it came out the same way.

Keep falling on your sword for her Dangle, Mike, and Madison. Surely you know side made an error in getting her into this race. For anyone else this would be a win. Side effects courtesy of the Tea Party.

Drive-By-Observer to Angel: "you look like you been chasing parked cars".

These tricky hispanics... they CHOOSE to look asian.

If my dog had Sharia Angle's face, I'd shave her butt and teach her to walk backwards!

Who has ever heard of someone being offended by a request for black coffee? Either that was a joke or some right-wing figure made it up to fire up outrage in his conservative audience, and ltjdangle fell for it.

Reading the liberal spew at the First Read Lovefest is always good for a laugh. Usually I just move on but today I'm reading hateful comments one after another about Sharon Angle with only one thought in mind. How bad is your Messiah Harry Reid if Sharon Angle is as bad as you say she is since Obama and the Democratic party are having to throw out all the stops to try and beat her? I have no doubt that you will justify his loss in your own minds to your perceived superiority to the rest of Americans.

I would not say she's in hot water.

I would say that she's COLOR BLIND. Isn't that what we are striving for as a nation?

We want to judge on the content of one's character, or have you forgotten?

Vote for Angle Nevada. Make a difference.

I can't stand people anymore taking offense over EVERYTHING.

I am white , my boyfriend is half Korean half Italian. When I met him I asked if he was Hawaiian. GUESS WHAT! He wasn't offended. Sometimes you can't tell what people are and that's ok.

On a very regular basis I get asked if I am Russian - even to the point people just assume I am and speak to me in Russian. Do I care? No!

Caring insinuates that there is something wrong with the nationality you are referring to. I see nothing wrong with being mistaken for Asian - there is nothing wrong with Asians, Latino's, or reallly any other origin of a person.

The basis for the "first Asian legislator" comment? Ralston writes on his blog: "I have no idea what she is talking about."

Another publication put this point much more succintly, ending their article simply with:

"Ms. Angle is white."

racists crack me up...

Karen - yeah, like seeing that all white people are "americans" - not italian, or french, or german...or mutts, depending on what their ancestory is.

so all latino's, asians and light skinned african-americans are all the same now too! but are they americans? thats the real question, right?

arizona is in for a world of hurt if an influx of asians move there...they wont know WHO the illegals are anymore!

"Angle made the remarks to the Hispanic Student Union at Rancho High School in Las Vegas."

I know you all are trying really hard to make excuses for Angle "just not knowing" because today "its just so hard to tell"...but she was speaking to the HISPANIC STUDENT union...

is she just dumb? or was she asking for paperwork to ensure they were all latino's?

News Flash Jessica: Last time I checked illegal immigrants were here illegally no matter what color or ancestry they happen to be. It is also true that some people are here legally but not Americans so that really isn't the question is it? The only reason they won't be able to tell if somebody is here legally or not is because Obama doesn't want them to.

You left off Jim DeMint.

Well, I see the truth is still out of reach for some on the left. Nearly all native American have Asian ancestry, therefore it is not unusual for them to look Asian.

Obama doesn't look "black." In fact, he is not. He is half white, yet the left wants to ignore this fact too. The race card is all the left has to play with, and most of the rime they can't even get it right. Moslem and hispanic are not races, but don't let the facts get in the way of playing the race card when that is the only one in your hand to play.

Rob i know it was not President Obama rather than most Americans don't really care if anyone is here legally or not.

Us Americans took Jan Brewers stand like Germany wanting to ban Jews by eraticating them from their country. no we dont want to eraticate anyone. I could care less if an undocumented Immigrant stands guard at the gates of hell in afghanistan or takes your job at the piggly wiggly. no real American is threatened by undocumented workers unl;ess you are too stupid to compete in the job market with them. You have to be much smarter than that Rob first of all you have the upper hand because you hopefully should have an education and comprehend the English language so stop hating and join the winning team. The No Haters Team NHT LOL.

Has everyone missed the part where it said she was addressing the Hispanic Students Union. Regardless of what they look like, one would think that the people there are overwhelmingly hispanc. Normally a thinking person would at least find out or ask an aide to find out "So who exaclty am I addressing tonight?" I don't call it racist, I call it stupidity that she wouldn't know who she was talking to.

I would say that she's COLOR BLIND

Is that a joke?

Poor Sharon Angle. To Angle and to many people like her, those who cannot categorize themselves as "non-Hispanic White" simply do not look 'right'. Those people are making others uncomfortable by the very fact that they look 'different'. Angle's only giving voice to what many of her supporters are afraid to say out loud.

Jessica

WHAT did you ask me? I have zero clue. Please try again.

Common Sense

Did you perceive it as a joke?

Taylor

Right on. You are the LEAST prejudiced person on this board. I vote that you get the gold star of the day.

Sharon Angle: "Now, please forgive me if I mistake you Latinos for being Asian sometimes, but I assure you, I still hate you both equally."

Actually she is correct. My Dentist's office manager is of asian decent, but is columbian I believe. There was a flood of refugees form south vietnam that settled in mexico and South America.

I see I have stumbled into yet another cesspool of the left. You simply don't get it. I would vote for a monkey (and yes, I am a Nevada voter) over Harry Reid. You may think Angle is stupid, that's your prerogative, but I assure you, she will be the next Senator from Nevada for one reason only. This is a revolution. I do not care who runs against the multimillionaire poor boy from Searchlight, NV, having made his millions as a government grifter with YOUR tax money.

I applaud the Republican party for making an effort to clean house, nominating Angle instead of a middle-of-the-road "electable" McCain type like Sue Lowden to face the slimeball Reid.

What are you Democrats doing? Nominating criminals like Charlie Rangel. Shame on you. When your kids and grandkids ask where you were and who you supported during the revolution, you had better not lie, tell the truth, look them in the eye and tell them you supported the Wicked Witch Nancy Pelosi, the grifter Harry Reid, and their Marxist enabler Obama.

FreeMPG, Remember the last time we collectively voted for a chimp? Exactly.

I presume you mean Ronald Reagan? His only sin was to compromise with the silver spoon, status quo RINO Republicans which wrought the Bush clan. This election is about destroying that wing of the Republican party once and for all.

What are you Democrats doing? Nothing. Join the revolution! It's too late this cycle, field some decent candidates in 2012. Please not Charlie Rangel, Barney Frank, Maxine Waters, Nancy Pelosi, et al. Take a risk!

My wife is ancestralThai(Isan) or Black Thai as they are called in Thailand. There are Red Thais and White Thais from different parts of Thailand, it is not because of what color their skin appears, but the historical clothing color the locals wear.

If you placed her next to a Cherokee American Indian, you could not tell the difference.

Asians are not just; Black, Brown, Yellow, or White, just like Americans. Most of the Asians I know(I live in Asia) are proud of their heritage and consider it a compliment when someone can identify their heritage by their skin tone, facial features, and manner of dress.

A light skin tone in Asia is a indication of wealth and social standing. That is why you see people working in the sun with everything covered except their eyes. They are amazed when I work in the sun without a shirt and it upsets the wife. Ha! Ha!

I guarantee that I could take a hand-full of TRUE heritage Asians and place them with American Indians, Mexicans, and Latinos, and few people from the USA could pick them out. It is not that the average US Citizen is insensitive, they are just not accustom to being around different World heritages.

The ones stating that Angle is not sensitive are just exhibiting their cultural IGNORANCE.

Let me add to your cogent comments, my wife is a Muslim from Iran. I know many Iranian men. They look Mexican. I agree fully with your comments.

Freempg most Iranians are Europeans in features, what a sad commentary my daughter-in -law or in her world she is my daughter is Pakinstanian - gorgeous has the features with the high cheekbones and black hair of our American Indians well educated articulate and a wonderful addition to my family - my son-in-law who is Scotts - he is an atheist - my other daughter-in-law born again is my daughter How I relish our diversity and why not we all listen we all learn, why would I not want this "{WE ARE FAMILY)

What a total idiot. Surely when it comes time to actually vote, this women will come up empty handed.

Not nearly as bad as odumbo making fun of retards! Or biden saying "you cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent". Is this the best you can come up with, MSNBC. All you are doing is showing your bias!

Hey Rick, bet you voted for both, right?

The very best analysis of the political climate so far...and the msnbc is touting Todd!..PLease---Maddow is so very clear!!!!

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/10/19/911571/-Rachel-Maddow:-The-Best-Summary-By-Far

Maddow nails the political climate but not even this blogg is covering it...Angle is a flash in the pan like palin, mcconnel, mdonnel..etc.

This will clear it up!

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/10/19/911571/-Rachel-Maddow:-The-Best-Summary-By-Far

I don't think sensitivity is the concern. It's more of an awareness issue.

If you're trying to speak Chinese to a group of Mexican-Americans, is that insensitive or ignorant?

Kinda like odumbo speaking to an Austrians audience mentioned their Austrian language and there is not such a language!

"Angle made the remarks to the Hispanic Student Union at Rancho High School in Las Vegas"

She may or may not be racist, but she is about as sharp as a marble. To not know the crowd you are talking to means that you are nothing more then a puppet on a string being lead from crowd to crowd to try and gather voters. I for one will not vote for a person in the shadows, if he/she is in charge let him or her come forward.

I can stop laughing when people from the tea-party talk about revolution. Tell me the order you think this country is controlled in. I think it is something like this.

1. Big Money - They pay for campaigns, politicians get elected.

2. Politicians - Government is controlled by the politicians Big Money put in place.

3. The American people - We have some influence. Government still controls us.

Now, to have a revolution you would have to change that order. Just because you change the politicians doesn't mean you change the order of control. If anything the current government is true party of revolution, trying to set controls on Big Money.

Why do you think the Tea-Party has so much money to spend? Why do you think the Republican Party has been breaking records with how much financing has been spent on their candidates? Big Money, the true leaders of this nation have been backing them.

Tell me that there is no problem with the middle class not growing in wealth over the last economical boom. Last time that happened was right before the Great Depression. If the middle class runs out of money to spend, then production stops and people lose jobs, simple. The rich don't run out of money, but if they have a surplus, which is directly related to when the middle class does not have money; they invest overseas because the industry in the country is dry, simple.

To the tea-party, you anger and frustrations have been redirected against our representatives. This has been done through large investments in News Media, commercial advertising, and paying for rallies. We seriously could have worked for the betterment of this nation, if you would not have been so easily bought.

When your kids and grandkids ask where you were and who you supported during the revolution, you had better not lie, tell the truth.

I will never deny that I stood with the Democrats in a losing battle to help the middle class.

I normally do not believe in Political Party's, I think that every man and woman should go in front of the residents of their district/state on their own merits, acomplishments, and ideas (Sorry, the Tea-Party does not count. They are hardcore republicans, or they are a new Party, but a Party none the less). Though this election is very important and we do not have a system without Party's, so I will make my stand with the Democrats, even if it is a losing battle.

Angle though wiped the floor with Harry at the debate. Harry wanted to make her out to be "extreme", but he never got there. Angle looked as normal as anyone else. Reid OTOH looked befuddled, couldn't find his notes, and was confused by the questions, you know, just like he is when he is on the Senate floor.

Angle is being outspent and outgunned (not that the comedy team of Obama/Clinton has much impact) in Nevada, and still she's tied with the Senate leader. Ties two weeks out, in general, go to the challenger on election day. If Harry hasn't made his case by now, he won't. And maybe it was something Obama said? Like, "Don't go to Vegas!"? Yeah, could be.

She is tied with the Senate leader because she has bobble-headed, dimwits like you to support her. I do not know if you graduated from HS or not, chances are you did not, but all you have to do is listen to what comes out of her mouth and you would know that this Woman is NOT the smartest tool in the shed. The Republican party got us into this mess, not the Dems. The Republicans had been in office for eight years during this melt down. To blame this entire catastrophie on a new president that had NOTHING to do with Bushes policies is complete stupidity. I do notice however that many of you that support the "New" republicans rarely quote or mention Bush in any of your rants. Is that because, although you probably voted for him twice, you want to distance yourselves from your past failures and your inability to make sound decisions. many individuals knew he was making the wrong choices for this Country except you idiots. Geesh, you people need to go back to school or just return to the Country your ancestors came from and get the hell out of this one. If they will take you back that is. hahahahaha

You are correct. Nevada DESERVES Sharon Angle!

Angle is being outspent and outgunned (not that the comedy team of Obama/Clinton has much impact) in Nevada, and still she's tied with the Senate leader.

Conversely - why isnt a washington outsider wiping the floor with Reid? You'd figure with all those horrible things he's done she'd be light years ahead. Your logic is flawed and one sided.

If as JoAnna Smith declares, Angle wiped the floor with Reid during the debate, why is it that it was determined a draw? It was a debate where neither candidate gave a knockout blow to the other.

Because, in Republican speak, if they don't fall flat on their face - the declare victory.

PS. This comment is the mental equivalent of a face plant in the desert sand.

LTJANGLE- Spoken like a TRUE Dittohead "liberal agenda".

Outside of the likes of Collins and Snowe what does the GOP have???

NOTHING, but people that put stupidity ahead of country. Way to go LTJANGLE.

Jimmie - it is a sad statement that we would rather put in another dimwitt than deal with more Dingy Harry.

I would rather elect your despised HS drop outs than deal with more of your elitist crap.

I think it is wonderful, and quite indicative of the mentality of the Nevada voter, that they have Angle tied with Reid. I kind of hope she gets elected and then is able to force her agenda down the throat of state legislators (I know they are not under her charge, but what the heck...) so that they make alcohol, gambling, and all those other terrible, sinful things illegal. Then, when the economy of the state is completely destroyed, they will probably blame Obama anyway, as they were mad at him and that made them vote for Senator Airhead.

I am a resident of Nevada. You have no idea what you are talking about, like most loons here. Harry Reid is a multimillionaire having never held anything but a government job. How can that be? He is a thief of your tax dollars, a grifter advantaged from his position of power, a con. Yet you fully suport this criminal, along with others like Charlie Rangel and Maxine Waters.

The Republicans have had their feet held to the fire, have seen the light for their own survival. We are fed up with the go-along-to-get-elected types; we have dared to nominate those who don't fit the image of the status quo, John McCain types the liberals so love, these reachers across the aisle, those so easily defeated.

Project yourself into the future, have your grand daughter on your lap, sitting there, both of you drugged on opiates in a ramshackle retirement home, maybe both of you being chosen to die for your worthlessness in a dystopian future of a bankrupt America; look her in the eye, tell her when there was a chance for revolution, when there was a chance to stand up against the overreach of an anti-constitutionalist authoritarian government grown out of all proportion envisioned by the founders, that instead you voted for the future she now lives, you voted for those who would oppress her for her own utopian good as she would be too stupid, born of your genes to navigate a future on her own. Look into her dull gray eyes, tell her you had a chance to join the right side of the revolution but chose instead the promise made by those that espoused that freedom from the productive should be limited for the benefit of the so-called poor. It was her you were fighting for because you knew, you could divine her future that she too would be a victim like you. But what if she looks you in the eye and asks why? Why did you not join the revolution? Tell her with a drugged confidence and pride, you supported Reid, Pelosi and their Marxist enabler Obama. You could see the future. You knew what was best for her.

Looks like you may have already gotten into those opiates...

You are seriously troubled, dude. Seriously. Just... wow.

Seriously,

Did you get that straight from Beck? You are two peas in a pod of crazy.

freempg - "reachers across the aisle, those so easily defeated."

yeah, easily defeated...in a Republi-can't primary! You see, stupid things happen, when only stupid people are allowed to participate...

FreedomOfMind: Try and free your mind, see the light, shake the shackles. Vote for freedom, smaller government over some ever expanding state apparatus. Resistance is *not* futile.

Jonbo, when was the last time your beloved leftist shills reached across the aisle? When Republicans had full control the first thing the derelict Bush did was reach across the aisle to the odious Ted Kennedy, so mannerly are these silver spoon Republicans. I can tell you, this new bunch has arisen from the Reagan wing of the party and we will take no prisoners this time, just like your left wing loons tried to ram your big government garbage down our throat, we are going to tear your oppressive, ever expanding, bloated government down to size no matter your whining and crying and lame name calling.

Welcome to the Revolution

Perfect case in point mpeg: Reagan was stupid too. Difference was, at least he was smart enough to win. Revolutions tend to mean alot less when you LOSE. (Angle, Buck, O'Donnell, Fiorina, McMahon, and probably Paul are LOSING; you'd be lucky to take the House - I think we'll just keep that too for good measure!)

But, just like he did a year and a half ago, Obama will most likely be a good winner, and continue to reach across the aisle.

(ps. you do realize you're named after a computer file, right?)

freempg,

You must be one of those Nevadans that doesn't do their research. Harry Reid was already a millionaire when he entered office. He had a successful law practice for a while. Plus the job pays 174,000 a year. You will be a millionaire too after 24 years.

Sharon Angle, on the other hand, has always been a government employee. If she wins the election, then her family stand to make 275,000 per year from salary and pension and full benefits paid for.

Nav:

A successful law practice, LOL! Just like his successful boxing career where Ask.com lists his professional record as one KO after he threw a right hook and hit himself in the head. His record is listed as 0-1 with 1 KO. LOL!

Only a Soros mind-melded zombie would believe that the venerable Harry Reid did not profit handsomely from his seemingly immortal career in the Senate.

Regaring his salary you may be right, he could very well have saved every single penny of it for the perks he enjoyed with the jet set, all expenses paid lifestyle our ruling elite enjoy in Washington DC.

I wasn't talking about his boxing career, I was talking about his law practice and he was a millionaire before he entered.

Why didn't he give a simple answer like that at the debate? That's a rhetorical question...

He did give that answer to the debate. You just weren't paying attention.

I wonder if there's a way to combine the two.

MMM. A cooking challenge for my return home...!

Well, People in this Country are stupid. Why do you think most businesses outsource??? They want intelligent workers, which is increasingly becoming rare in America.

If by stupid you mean worthy of a living wage than yes, were stupid for demanding a living wage where the outsourced jobs are sweat shops. Keep up the good work.

Jimmie, Jimmie, Jimmie.

1. What makes you think that someone who works for $2 an hour is smarter than someone who works for $12? It has nothing to do with intelligence.

2. Most businesses are not outsourcing, only some major corporations. Most businesses are small local companies that have very few employees.

3. If your grammar is a direct reflection of your intelligence then you should include yourself part of your (uncited) statistic.

WRONG AGAIN Tim!

The people to take the outsourced jobs are receiving much less in wages than an American UNION worker would... but they are making D@%$^mn good money in their own country. Their cost of living is much less and although they receive what would be considered a low wage here... they do great where they are.

THAT is the reason foreigners want the outsourced jobs. IT RAISES THEIR STANDARD OF LIVING!

Face it... we price ourselves out of the market. WHY? Because we have to make that high wage so that when the government takes half of it we still have something to pay our bills with.

THANK YOU ENTITLEMENTS PROGRAMS!

We have to make a higher wage than China and Indian workers because the cost of living is so high. If rent / mortgage / energy costs weren't so high we could live on 10$ an hour and not have to apply for food stamps.

Many of the people in China and India don't have to worry about paying a mortgage because they don't have a house - they live in the streets. They don't have an electric bill because there is no electricity. They don't have to apply for food stamps because there is no food. Go ahead Tea Party. Elect those fiscally responsible Tea Party Candidates and you, too, can be free of taxes, bills, tedious well-paying jobs, no more houses to clean, electricity, food, and a decent standard of living in general. What do we need a government for when we have Sharon Angle and Sarah Palin to do all the thinking for us? It's going to be heaven on earth. Let's join the joyous life of Third World Country. You are Brilliant!

People in China making clothes make about 23 cents an hour, it has nothing to do with unions or cost of living or taxes it is greed that's all. The workers in China making I-pads make about 250 dollars a month, and that is not a 40 hour week it is more like 50 hours. They don't hate us for our freedom, they hate us because we use their children as slaves. They hate us because their child walks out of a Nike plant barefoot. Strange how these republicans hate communists, unless and until they are working for them at slave wages, then the communists are OK.

So now we are responsible for China laws? wierd... If you can figure out how to stamp out human vices like greed, let me know. Several greedy companies had a lot to do with the founding of this country - and it went on long before that when they used to use camels and a walking drum...

There was actually a great literary work that dealt with greed and other vices - that got alot of honor in this country for a while - but we've thrown it out.

That Nike plant increases standard of living and improves education etc. etc. Read a book that doesn't agree with your spoon fed politics and see if you don't expand your mind or atleast better your argument.

Per NPR and other sources average China wage is 2 dollars a day, a bit lower tha 23 cents an hour when you consider a typical shift is 10+ hours.

All of those who think Union workers are the problem and China is the answer you obviously missed the news about Chinese Workers at an approprately named facility, FOXCONN, are comitting suicide due to hellish conditions.

According to Liu, the plant makes employees work around the clock, only pausing briefly to eat or sleep. Most of the time the employees are standing, seldom able to sit down and rest their weary legs. This is perfectly legal, as employees are required to sign a special overtime document that override Chinese workplace laws and essentially allows the employer to demand whatever hours they want from you, without additional compensation.

http://www.dailytech.com/Report+Only+Escape+From+Hellish+Apple+iPhone+Factory+Was+Suicide/article18428.htm

If the pay of union workers is reduced, the non-union workers and middle management will see pay cuts, reduced benefits if they get any, and working conditions worsening. When plants are closed and production moved overseas, the office staff gets laid off as well.

Conservatives in the Senate voted to kill proposed anti-outsourcing bill

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/anti-outsourcing-bill-fails-senate-test-vote-2010-09-28-1255330

Seriously, all I know about Nevada is that every so often I go to Vegas and deposit some money to help your economy.

Is it possible that all Nevadans are nuts? Cmon now be real. You are NOT going to elect that misanthrope to be your senator. There must be some semblance of intelligence hidden away in what you call your brain.

Yes, keep her talking and keep Harry Reid from answering the simple question she posed during the debate:

"Senator Reid, how did a poor boy from Searchlight Nevada become a multimillionaire on the government payroll?”

You liberal sychophants are so utterly corrupted and blind and group thinking that you can not see a revolution occuring before your eyes. You really want to tell your grandkids you supported government grifters like Reid, Pelosi and their enabler Obama?

Sad.

You are joking, the tea-party is funded and for the ruling class. Yes, the divide is growingbetween the left and right, but if there is ever a revolution over these divides you will be part of the ruling class against the majority. Being part of the ruling class makes it impossible to revolt, your just enforcing. At least be honest with yourself.

Lol. You have control of the white house, senate, house, wall street (here is money in millions given to dems and repubs, the dems is the most of course:

Goldman Sachs 3.6 (dems) 1.3 (repubs)
Citigroup 2.7 1.5
JP Morgan 2.3 1.7
Bank of America 1.2 1.0

You have corporate @ss lickers like Jeff Imelt, CEO of GE and every other corporation that can suck money from the taxpayer through the utopian world builders of the green economy. You have the unions into whose coffers 800 billion was pumped through "stimulus" designed by wackos at Apollo. And you have the universities and our public school kids held hostage. What else do you want? Wake up my friend.

'EVERYTHING a Republican says is scrutinized but I have yet to see any Democrat done the same way.'

I seem to remember something about '57 states'. Wonder where I picked that up from? Must have dreamed it. But really- Dems don't NEED to pull gaffes, the righties keep tossing out enough made-up nonsense about them to the point no gaffes are needed- and the distraction and misdirection seems to work. So much for the 'liberal' media.

are you serious? about the top comment.

Try the FOX news blog. Plenty of bone heads in there.

Funny, I've seen a number of articles these past couple years ragging on our dear VP Biden for his mouth-'tardations.

IntheMiddle, TX

It is amazing how EVERYTHING a Republican says is scrutinized but I have yet to see any Democrat done the same way.

Democrats aren't immune to gaffes.

Cause Democrats are not dumb enough like this chick to generalise a race of people like she has, Hispanics look like Asians.

this is like the skit on All In the family when Archie tells mike that whites are #1, Blacks are #2 Chinese and Japanese are #3A&3B, because if you had a Japanese and Chinese in the same room you would ask who is the Chinese cause they look alike. mike just looks at him and said that the only way to find out about different people you must talk and get to know them, and archie said yea, i would just ask who is the chinnese.

Mike the classic liberal,

Archie the classic Conserative.

this was fimed back in 1974 and i see we have not changed!!!!

Sharon Angle is a classic example of Archie Bunker, a very ignorant, uneducated bigot!!!! who really thinks the bigoted things she says are OK. the sad part about angle is that archie was not real, she is!!!!!!

That's because EVERYTHING they do is a gaffe! We can't tell where the gaffe ends and the democrat starts.... it's one LONG..... CONSTANT goof!

Jeff: Sharon Angle is a classic example of Archie Bunker, a very ignorant, uneducated bigot!!!!

Wow. Just wow. What gives liberals the right to speak about conservatives this way? Going back to the Year of the Woman, 1992, if a conservative made the number of baseless claims and lies that the liberals do against the conservative women of today, they would have been hounded out of existence. I know you Libs have nothing of substance to offer, any defense for the last two years ObamaNomics. But just where does this hate of yours come from?

Here try this one Jeff - From our VP Joe Biden:

"I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy," Biden said. "I mean, that's a storybook, man."

Biden later apologized. So do you leave Biden off the hook for his bigoted remark Jeff? Or did you never hold him responsible in the first place, you know, because he's a liberal, so therefore he can't be bigoted?

Need another example? Of course N.O.W., when they got wind of Governor candidate Jerry Brown's campaign team appled the "wh*re" term to Republican Meg Whiteman, N.O.W promptly endorsed, Jerry Brown.

The double-standards of the Left are astounding.

I guess you were living in a box with no electricity when Joe Biden dropped the F bombed. It was heard around the world. I love Joe Biden.

JoAnnaSmith1

Honey don't worry for me as a black man i have heard this from white bleeding heart liberals, is that your a credit to my race, its unusual for a black like you to talk so well, this is the best, when i was getting my daughters brithcertificate the lady asked me if i'm on her certificate as her father.
Joanna, you must admitt thearchie Bunker analogy was right on with Sharon Angle!!!!

Could it be that's because when Democrats open their mouths stupidity and ignorance don't spew out on a regular basis? Another reason could be that the Democrats who are running know a bit about politics and what they are talking about in depth, not just in sound bites and slogans.

I love it when the "57 states" thing is brought up. Frankly, it either:
a) Displays how stupid Republicans that quote it are, or
b) Shows that those Republican have no ability to recognize humor.

It is one of the other; you see, Obama was remarking on how tired he was while out campaigning (try actually looking up both the statement and the context). If you actually believe that Obama does not know how many states there are, you must have mistaken him for one of your own candidates or you are just supremely stupid. Obama is, whether you choose to admit it or not, an intelligent person. I'm willing to bet that, if you asked him, he would even be able to tell you what magazines he reads without saying he would "have to get back to ya'" and that he could probably tell you about recent SCOTUS decisions.

Using tactics like this, while you spew nonsense about the "liberal mainstream media" or George Soros or whatever other talking poiints you can come up with does not make you appear knowledgeable; it makes you look like a mindless parrot.

Left Wing Nut Job, you are as your name clearly states.

Obama, the magnificent Marxist, would indeed tell us of the recent SCOTUS decision with which he disagreed, and claim the evil corporations can fund candidates with impunity, conveniently neglecting the fact it is corporations AND his thug unions who can do the same.

Of course, corporations support only Republicans, what a canard. Think Jeff Immelt, the CEO of GE owner (former, thankfully) of this very MSNBC--the government, teat-sucking greeny nursing on manna from Marxist Obama.

You are either ignorant and/or a propagandist.

Marxist...yeah, sure - any bridges you would like to sell the gullible? C'mon, is he a Marxist or a corporate shill? Any idea at all what you are talking about? Talk about ignorant...

Obama is both, a transitional figure. As Engels called Dante the first great poet of the Capitalist age as it emerged from feudalism, so one could look at Obama as the next great poet, pied piper of fools like you, whatever you want to call him, but surely he is transitional figure seeing a utopian, economically level, wealth distributed society and moving us away from a mixed capitalist/socialist society to one that meets this definition:

Marxism: the economic and political theories of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels that hold that human actions and institutions are economically determined and that class struggle is needed to create historical change and that capitalism will ultimately be superseded by communism (Obama-ism).

Fox "News" won't even report on this comment. It is against their policy to report on negative items associated with sponsors (GOP, 3rd party supporting Republicans, Tea Party...) Their "contribution" to the Republican Party and 3rd party groups is a rebate for them buying time on Fox.

Maybe its not really comment worthy

Oh yes it is!!!!!! I'm sure that you and the teabaggers would like for it not to be but, wrong!!

Yes, a blonde bobblehead like Megyn Kelly. Go ahead, hate her because she is beautiful and brilliant.

Drive By: ...have you discovered your purpose yet? XD

And there is the problem, rather than trying to help the United States out, all he has been doing, as Pres. of the Senate is trying to bring home the pork for NV. And break the country while he is at it.

The Dems had thier chance, and they blew it with Stimulus 1 and 2, HCR, Cap and Trade, etc.. come Nov. 2nd the voting public will pass judgement on them.

@George:

Help? You mean more slop from the trough? You think all of us are as greedy as you? You think we are all out to get what we can get from the federal government?

Think again. There is a revolution. Who's side are you on? Go ahead, tell your family and friends you are for the slobbering pigs at the trough, sans lipstick, sucking the lifeblood out of the future for your own selfish benefit.

Again, you can't be part of a revolution if you are funded by the class in power. You are just enforcing their rule.

Recall the Year of the Women, 1992, Senators Murray, Moseley Brown, Mikulski, and the California Nitwits Boxer and Feinstein. Now what is so interesting about those five? Why, they're all Democrats! There was no criticism of their intelligence back in '92.

Murray of course thinks bin Laden is just the neatest guy. Braun was a crook, little tax problem in her past. Feinstein and Boxer, and the rest of the liberal crowd of pols in California, have led that state to where it is today, bankrupt.

But to Liberals, these five woman were intelligent, serious representatives.

Now fast forward to 2010. Fiorina, Angle, O'Donnell, Whitman, and McMahon, are described as nuts, sl*ts, and wh*res by the Left. And what's interesting about these women? Well, of course, they're Republicans, and that makes them fair game for the Leftwing haters.

maybe the reason Boxer, Feinstein, et al., were described as intelligent and serious is that were -- and are -- intelligent and serious.

anyone with an elementary knowledge of government should know that as US Senators, Feinstein and Boxer didn't lead California anywhere. States are led by their governors and state legislatures -- check the record and see who in California has been responsible for choking revenues while costs of services have gone up and you'll find out the Republicans, not Democrats, are the ones who led the state into bankruptcy.

Finally, as to the claim that your Fab Five are "fair game for the Leftwing haters" -- well, I haven't heard anyone on the left describe Fiorina and Whitman as nuts or sluts -- but Fiorina did get bounced out of HP for leading it to the edge of ruin (fact, not opinion) -- and those on the left who call Angle and O'Donnell nuts are in good company -- unless you think that Karl Rove and most of the Republican establishmen are "Leftwing haters," and all of the Nevada Republican leaders -- like Bill Raggio and Sig Rogich -- who formed Republicans for Reid because Sharron Angle is such a wacko and they'd rather have Reid than a nut like her in the Senate, are the same.

Women like Palin, Angle, and O'Donnell, and their male counterparts, appeal to the mass of Republican voters (and Tea Party types) because they find it very comforting to believe that their ignorance is a sign of "common sense" and therefore a weird kind of wisdom. This is identity politics of the worst kind -- "she's just like me -- stupid and totally unqualified -- so I like her."

JoAnna: You forgot to mention one other woman that seems to have a tax problem, and that would be O'Donnell. Or did you conveniently forget about her in your rant?

Tea Party types. Skanks. Other bashing.

What is so ignorant, what is so ignoble, what is ghastly about wanting to change my country because I don't agree with the direction it is going?

I have never been to a TP rally, never subscribed to anything. but I like the ideas I have heard that the tea party is about.

I like the idea of dumping our politicians the way they dumped the tea in the harbor... Telling them I am more than a tax source. I am a citizen, with rights, that allows them to REPRESENT ME.

To me, the only extreme things I have heard out of tea partiers is a constitutionalists view. The constitution sounds extreme now days, but I think we would be better off for it. Some Really SMART guys put that rag together.

Would you speak of Jefferson, or Ben Franklin or any of them the way you do of the "Tea Party Types"? Just because they disagree with you?

To Barrelhouseblues -

Please hear me. I've had the same conversation with others regarding Tea Party claims.

What the Tea Pary is fighting for benefits only the rich. What does it do for the middle class [where we are]? You vote them in and this country will be right back where it was in 2007-2008 where the rich get richer and the middle class loses more jobs, more savings and more security. Saying they want to get back to the Constitution has gained the Tea Party many followers but what are they REALLY saying? Truly I've heard the same language from racist KKK-types all my life -- they want a white America with all others' rights suppressed.

momipapers: are you serious? i am a member of the kkk, i am rich? too bad you suck the teat of the liberal elite and vomit their propaganda like a good soldier. You have come to lampoon your fellow Americans like a good mindless mother of the father government.

Wake up, there is a revolition afoot. When your kids and grandkids ask who you supported during the revolution, I dare you to tell them the truth, tell them you supported the grifter Harry Reid, the wicked witch Nancy Pelosi, and their enabler the Marxist Obama.

Look your offspring closely in their government drug prescribed eyes and tell them you were an obedient soldier for the cause of the left, you knew what was best for them, you knew they would fall victim to the exploitive rich, you knew they were too stupid to fend for themselves in freedom against such overwhelming odds, and it was your moral purpose to consign them to the limited life your government god prescribed.

freempg, why do you hate your country? If it is so awful, why foment revolution? Why not just get the Hell out. Today would be a good day.

Grifter? Wicked witch? Marxist? What are you, 12?

To freempg -

You admit you are KKK and it's not surprising when you spew words like suck, vomit, mindless, grifter, wicked witch and Marxist.

Poor Nathan Bedford Forest. He's rolling in his grave again. He walked away from his own organization because it became contaminated with the likes of you.

KKK = Tea Party = white supremacists = bottom feeders.

momipapers, apparently you can't read either or at least understand i was asking you if you indeed believed someone like me was a member of the kkk and rich. You answered my question in the affirmative. So you do believe people like me, who are over half the voting citizens in this country are white supremacist and members of the kkk. Pathetic.

and you left wing, i had a higher opinion of you. i obviously don't hate my country, i hate what sniveling corrupt sychophants like Harry Reid have done to using trickering for their own self enrichment. you my friend are on his side. at least the republican, the right, the libertarians are trying to clean our own house, what is the left doing? Nothing. Defending the status quo. What a disgrace.

To freempg -

No. The Tea Party speaks for the rich; the KKK speaks for others and both have the same message -- white supremacy and everyone else take a number.

Now THAT'S the disgrace, Jack.

good grief momipants: the rich? you mean leftists like bill gates, warren buffet, george soros, et al. your arguments are silly, tired, comic book trite, and marooned somewhere in propoganda of the 1960's radical fringe for which most of you pine, like Bill Ayers. I wouldn't doubt you were a card carrying member of the SDS (FDS?), Weather Underground, and all the other kindergarten sandboxes in which the children of the elite played.

To freempg -

You admit U R a KKK & U continue to prove U R a 1-dimensional thinker.

I am a life-long Republican w/ the brains not to follow the lead plane into the mountain.

Tea Party = KKK in disguise = white supremacists.

Evidently she likes to say NO. The tea party slogan and the Senate call to destroy the 111 Congress. They both seem to share a common goal that is to undermine the progressive legeslation, demonize the social welfare, and blame their obstruction on the Democratic majority. Pure Rovian politics at its best.

Like How

Paint her yellow and make her a speed bump!

What a stupid comment and a stupid name. And yet you have 23 people giving you a thumbs up. The debasement of liberals knows no bottom.

Well, she is very loud and belligerent so some how the republicans in this state like that. Plus, many people don't like Harry Reid either, so many are just saying get rid of Reid first then we will hire someone else next term.

I'll second that. Watching from Iowa, I wonder how any voters take the likes of Angle, O'Donnell, Rand, seriously. It is beyond me except that the TPers who hear them only hear what they think they want not what they're actually saying; they have packed their personal brains in a shoebox for temporary storage to be unpacked around Thanksgiving.

Tea Party = the Ku Klux Klan in disguise.

Jody,

I know what you mean about people hearing only what they want to hear. I watched the Nevada debate, caught it on Sunday morning on CSpan. I thought that Angle never answered a question. In fact the moderator even pressed her at times for an answer as she prattled on nonsensically. It was funny at times that he even answered some questions for her. "That would be a no."

Reid did an ok job, but nothing spectacular. It is sad that people like her who regurgitate talking points are set to win in November.

Back to the main gist of the article, her comment was not significant, I am more concerned about her extreme issues about Social security and getting rid of the department of education etc. However, how can a pubic official running for Senate not know her comments were stupid and people would take offense. Plain ignorant. Some posters feel that there is absolutely nothing wrong with what she said, again another example of hearing what they want to hear.

I've been in many a meeting when a person starts off with the statement, I am not bigoted, don't think I'm racist now but... Then they go into an off colored joke or comment.

Being an architect, I have the opportunity to do construction site visits on my jobs a lot of comments pass by my ears.

According to the right wing types on this blog apparently one shouldn't get so offended. They lament that people are too politically correct. Why is it a bad thing for people to respect one another?

To be fair, Yellowdog, being PC and giving respect can be two completely separate things depending upon the type of interpersonal relationships two or more people might have with each other.

The concept of PC often gets rolled out merely to be weaponized against any of a number of particular viewpoints. One may either be too PC or not-PC-enough depending on who's making the argument to serve what purpose.

I think in situations where one doesn't know one's company and isn't sure of what rules of ettiquette are in play that one ought to strive to be courteous and respectful. Interactions with close friends, well. That's at the discretion of said friends' groups.

Hopey Change yes we can thing= 16% unemployment, after spending 1 trillion $$ on a stimulus....

The people heard what they wanted to hear 2 years ago, and we will see if they have woken up, and demand what they were promised.

momipapers - I grew up in the south. Nope. Not even close.

To Barrelhouseblues -

I'm white, 57 and grew up in the South too [here now]. The Tea Party unequivalently wants white supremacy and everyone else can take a number [aka the KKK]. It's in everything they say and all they stand for [and against].

Woken up to what, huh Frankusa? Maybe you can tell me what magic the Repubs have in their back pocket that would have fixed everything in 20 months. Or better yet, maybe you have all the answers, like where they'll get money to keep the tax cuts going, or keep fighting the eeeevil muslims. 'Cause I sure as hell haven't heard anything, except 'No' from your party.

Nothing? OK, back to your talking points then. Must be a Glenn Beck rerun on somewhere...

Exodite Dragon

I think in situations where one doesn't know one's company and isn't sure of what rules of ettiquette are in play that one ought to strive to be courteous and respectful. Interactions with close friends, well.

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I hear what you are saying and agree that there is a difference between PC and respect. Also understand the ettiquette point, in this case however, these kids who belonged to the "Hispanic student union" were not her acquantices and she should have surely understood not to say her comment.

Talking about friendly interactions, sometimes when my old college friends visit and we get going ripping on each other, my wife will ask - And you guys are friends because?

I agree with you notbuyingthis, reid is pathetic. his policies of Cap and Trade, stimulus 1 and 2, HCR. TARP. Have been horrible, and we can't trust him anymore. He promises to take care of the little guy, and then does what he wants and leaves the little guy with the bill.

Reid implemented a Cap and Trade policy that is horrible? What Policy? No Cap and Trade legislation has been passed. Only time and effort so far has been invested in TRYING to protect the environment in a way that does not PISS OFF energy companies.

Try reading about Emissions Trading. Sounds like a good idea but I guess only Tree Huggers give a damn

The total number of permits cannot exceed the cap, limiting total emissions to that level. Firms that need to increase their emission permits must buy permits from those who require fewer permits (Stavins 2001, p 4.). The transfer of permits is referred to as a trade. In effect, the buyer is paying a charge for polluting, while the seller is being rewarded for having reduced emissions. Thus, in theory, those who can reduce emissions most cheaply will do so, achieving the pollution reduction at the lowest cost to society.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emissions_trading

Less than a year ago, cap and trade was the policy of choice for tackling climate change.

Environmental groups and their foes in industry joined hands to embrace the approach, a market-driven system that sets a ceiling on global warming pollution while allowing companies to trade permits to meet it...

Today, the concept is in wide disrepute, with opponents effectively branding it "cap and tax" and Tea Party followers using it as a symbol of much of what they say is wrong with Washington.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/26/science/earth/26climate.html

A religious cult? You mean the Godless, lefitist, Marxist government worshipping cult of Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, the enabler Obama and the God-complexed euro-socialist, puppet master George Soros?

Freempg,

You symbolize everything wrong with the tea-party. Thanks for your input, and keep up the good work. I am just glad I don't have anyone like you as a neighbor.

FreedomOfMind: i thought we were having a spirited debate, sorry to here you are taking it so personally.

So far MSNBC has exposed the Real Estate Industry, Wall Street, BP, and now the Chamber of Commerce. Lets not forget all the little people in between who did thier bidding like the SEC, BLM, and OSHA. Maybe we can resurect the intentites our tax payer dollars provided for and see some law suits. Who wouldnt love to see a group of CEO's and their cronies behind bars?

Pat. I am White and Greedy. I started out living out side with 20 bucks and a pack a smokes.

I now make a living wage while my wife stays home and raises our son. The only thing liberals ever did for me was give me a choice between an education or a place to live (must be head of household for HUD housing/must be a dependant to go to high school).

Where is the overwhelming evidence that people really could afford all the loans they took?

What a load of tripe, "Center for American Progress", that's your source, John Podesta? Any halfwit knows Fannie and Freddie are the source of the real estate bust and their enablers Barney Frank, who was love making with Herb Moses, Fannie’s assistant director for product initiatives, and Chris Dodd who was sucking the milky teat for the most contributions of all Senators. But for the record here are the contributions from Fannie and Freddie for the entire careers of politicians:

1. Dodd, Christopher $133,900
2. Kerry, John $111,000
3. Obama, Barack $105,849

This means Obama, with two scant years in the senate (the rest campaigning for president), received as much as Chris Dodd over the course of his entire disgraced career.

Keep on believing you fools. Join the revolution! Be proud to look your offspring in the eye and tell them you were on the right side during the revolution.

Answer the calls from the right to REVOLT! Those who always discount cited sources and references as "biased" no matter how objective, love to inject heated emotions into otherwise logical debates. If this was Iran you would be arrested for incitement.

As for Fannie and Freddie. Perhaps all HALFWITS should read multiple reports from MULTIPLE sources rather than accept email chain letters as fact and then spam the "revelations" contained therein.

During the peak of the housing bubble, Fannie and Freddie basically stopped providing net lending for home purchases, while private securitizers rushed in. Yes, very late in the game FF increased their share of subprime financing, as they tried to play catchup; but that’s really off point.* The real question is, who was financing the bubble — and it wasn’t GSEs.

Rajan asks why the government was boasting about how it was expanding low-income home ownership, if it really wasn’t. Does that really require an answer? Governments always try to take credit for stuff, and remember than in 2004 subprime was considered a good thing.

Finally, why are we so hard on Rajan? Because the central theme of his book is that the financial crisis was caused by government efforts to help low-income families — which he treats as an established, undeniable fact. But it’s by no means an established fact — on the contrary, most non-AEI analyses find government policy mainly innocent here. So his whole thesis is a structure built on foundations of sand.

*In fact, there’s much too much emphasis on subprime. The problem was the housing bubble as a whole — including the bubbles in Europe.

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/21/fannie-freddie-further/

Nevada isn't "under" Harry Reid. He is a US Senator and independently has no effect on the economic condition of that or any other state other than through pork. I don't like him either, but he's only one of about 95 problems in the Senate right now.

How is it a Senator is somehow responsible for all that's bad in Nevada...last I checked, you have two Senators, and what about your Governor and Legislature? You know...the one that Angle is/was part of? Why don't you blame her? After all, the state legislature and governor have more to do with Nevada's ills than its Senior Senator who brings millions back to your state...but for him bringing back federal money to Nevada, your state would be in worse shape. Also, since your state was the epicenter of the housing collapse, blame your fellow Nevadans for buying homes they could not afford.

The governor and the other senator are not running for re-election. Reid is. The last time I checked, US senators write legislation in Washington which affects all states, including Nevada.

First of all it is the House that initiates most bills like taxes which all you teabaggers like to tout, and so you missed your mark again.

Second if you think Angle is going to help Nevada, you are crazier than she is. If I lived in Nevada I would certainly have to hold my nose and vote for Reid OR vote none of the above, but stupid/nuts would not be an option.

I keep hearing this comment that Reid is RESPONSIBLE for outcomes in Nevada, and yet I heard Sharon Angle say with her own mouth (and I presume her own thoughts - although the jury is still out) that Reid's responsibility isn't to create jobs. So which is it?

Seems, from 4 states away that Nevadans want to blame anyone for everything and Reid is a fair game target.

This continues to illustrate how dumb people are and just how little they understand about politics and how their government works (or doesn't, as is the case in Nevada - and most places, for that matter). Once people accepted mediocre and less, they got exactly what they deserved,...and this is bearing out throughout the country.

Road Warrior, Nevada has a REPUBLICAN governor and, mostly a Republican legislature. They are ENTIRELY responsible for the last-place education system which makes undereducated employees and keeps tax paying businesses out of the state. I guess it is that same lack of education that keeps the republicans in power . . .

I totally agree. As an Asian myself, I can tell you that many of my relatives look Latino. After all, Indians came across the Berring Strait from Asia. Later when the Spanish came over, they mated with the Indians and you have the Hispanics. Eskimos have Asian features also.

Its not the statement she made, its the forum she said it in. You don't tell a group of Hispanic union laborers they look Asian like its just a wonderful thing to contribute. Its like she's on medication. Sharon Angles wonderland.

She was adressing a LATINO group.

Sharron: "Are you sure you aren't the Asian group that i was supposed to be talking to? You sure look like it!"

And I'm sure you can always tell the difference? LOL

Oh give us a break. What does this article or your far left PC comments have to do with fixing this economy and getting folks back to work. Reid has said things far more inane than anything you can throw at her, so why don't we see them writing about him?. You far left loons are so blatantly obvious, it's pathetic.

Like the Obama Negro accent comment?

I disagree; however, anyone who doesn't have the common sense to aviod saying something like that has no place running for Senate.

Charles Arlington Heights,IL:

I disagree; however, anyone who doesn't have the common sense to aviod saying something like that has no place running for Senate.

How about these quotes from Harry? Should Harry be running for the Senate? Or does Harry get a pass, you know, because he's a "Compassionate Liberal"?

"My staff tells me not to say this, but I'm going to say it anyway. In the summer because of the heat and high humidity, you could literally smell the tourists coming into the Capitol. It may be descriptive but it's true."

Reid was wowed by Obama's oratorical gifts and believed that the country was ready to embrace a black presidential candidate, especially one such as Obama-- a 'light skinned African American 'with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one,'

That Harry! What a guy.

JoAnnaSmith1

Good point.

Yes, and congratulations it your first I have seen.

patHuntington: You must live in a homogenized white neighborhood judging from your holier-than-thou, ill-informed, pretentious, faux superior, white liberal pronouncement of what an Asian or Latino should look like. I can tell you this, I am married to a near Asian Iranian Muslim woman, and I know many men, from the same region, including her brother, look Latino. Get out of your sheltered existence and experience the world, you exhibit an elitist liberal superiority complex an all too common afflication of self righteous liberals.

The 15% of Nevada residents out of work, do. Also, the 72% that oppose Obama, Reid and Pelosi's "down your throat" health care,do. Need I go on?

Aren't the 15% out of work the ones Angles refers to as lazy?

Reya. I do not believe she will win. We have a lot of hype going on in the media about the Republican Tea Party. But when it gets right down to it, voters are not going to elect someone who wants to make the problems we face, worse. The 15% of the unemployed who she thinks are lazy will not, the elderly who depend on SSwill not, the people who depend on the government to give their children an education will not vote for her, the people with preexisting health conditions will not vote for her, the people who's children depend on being on parents health insurance will not vote for her. Will they?

Well Said Salt Lake City.

Those that have a brain will not vote for her.

I wish Reid had a stronger personality and take no prisoners attitude, but he is what he is.

BUT I agree people of Nevada will come to their senses and realize Angle is not the answer and would reflect very negatively on the State and Country as a US Sentaor.

She will lose.

Birdman. I agree that Reid does not come across as forceful. However a great Bagley cartoon in the Salt Lake Tribune this weekend. It shows a house infested with bedbugs. Two frames. In one Reid is shown trying to explain in detail how to handle the problem, in the other Angle is screaming "burn the house down" It incapsulates this election. I, for the life of me, do not know why any voter thinks "burn the house down" is any kind of a solution.

I guess they believe Burn the house down won BUSH a second term and worked for NERO. Maybe not Rome, but Nero.

Patrick : Rregarding Your post 24.3. Isn't your post a bit overstated? I sense a straw-man-argument to a degree. Basically you're are saying that Angle will disband Education, SS, Healthacre. To Begin with, that's not what she's saying.

1. SS : Her position has been for each individual to have their SS money tied to an individual account using their SS # so that the Govt can't continue to raid the money. Seems like a plausible idea to me.

2. Education : Her stance is to look at the Dept. of Education and consider abolishing it if we're not getting the value for the money it costs to operate it. What makes that crazy? The dept. of education wasn't established until 1979 and it's policies weren't in effect until the early 80's. Most people who post on this site likely we to school in America that didn't have a dept. of education. I can't say at this moment that the money used has improved education in America from that point. It, like other expenditures including the military should be looked at. Again, Whats crazy about that.

Health-care : So she doesn't agree that people shouldn't be on their parents health-care @ 27. I feel the same way. At 26/27, Don't you think it's about time you pay your way in life? Any service provided for this demographic costs money and will get passed along to someone. That "someone" are people like myself who's policies are increasing. Part of that increase is to cover these people. Recently, I was talking to a young women who drove up in one of those cute little V.W. bugs and was holding an i-phone. During the conversation she saidshe had the "right" to health-care. Really! So she thinks Its OK for her to have that car and phone while I'm driving my "94" Volvo with 350,000 miles on it, struggling to pay my own health-care that has a portion of it subsidizing health-care for her. How about she drive a crappy car like I do and give up the phone and go purchase her own health-care!. These are the principles Sharron Angle is talking about.

So Apparently you're are smater than I...and... have some great wisdom that people like myself who weren't lucky enough to garner, scratching your head how "Someone" like Angle can win (And...likely will) the Senate seat representing the people of Nevada.

Reya, let me give you a simple answer. There is a revolution afoot. Harry Reid is the enemy. He has enriched himself in government at the expense of the people, has become a multimillionaire having worked only in government. He is a grifter, a criminal. Nevada and the country is better off without him. I am a Nevada voter, I will never vote for him nor any Democrat this cycle. The Democrats have done nothing to clean their house, at least the Republicans are trying.

To freempg -

Keep drinking that koolaid, Dude.

Darryn, so a young woman has no children, mortgage, etc tying her down; her only bills are rent, car payment, and her 2 year iPhone contract.

Because she has a $200 phone she doesnt "deserve" affordable healthcare? The key word is AFFORDABLE or ACCESSIBLE.

She is 26 years old and is on her parents healthcare? Perhaps she is going to med school and staying with her parents to save money? Did you ask her what her situation was? Obviously not or you would have posted it.

Am sick of people thinking an iPhone is like a BMW 540 or 745. Its NOT. Anyone can get an iPhone for $99.00 with 2 year contract or by piecing together 2 broken iPhones bought on Ebay.

LETS THINK LOGICALLY here everyone. If all HEALTHY Americans like myself, 35 years old and has never had a cavity, acquire Health Insurance.... the INSURANCE Companies will see that OH! INCOMING PREMIUMS are OUTPACING CLAIMS PAID... then they will reduce premiums across the board.

We MUST reduce the amount per dollar spent on Healthcare in the US compared to other developed countries in order to be more competitive globally. We MUST and if people get informed and grow a set, we WILL!

You must be a teacher.

A very good teacher at that!

ALL those teabagging bimbos are a disgrace to bright women everywhere.

I teach my children the same.

Re:"ALL those teabagging bimbos are a disgrace to bright women everywhere.

I teach my children the same."

How illiterate and pathetic! You teach your children that kind of language and hatred?

Clearly you have no idea, beyond your own ideology.

agar, if you really want to preach perhaps you should talk to parents of 13-15 yr old boys on Xbox 360 Online who spew racial epithets, "teabag" your dead body and scream "You got RAAAAAAAAAAAAAPED!".

Parents who allow their kids to play Mature Games is one thing, but to hear and see such vile behavior.... invokes emotions that you appear to share... outrage.