You need to learn your history. Not a single one of those boys back in 1776 were advocating the impossible -- or the stupid. Boortz's Fair Tax is both. It is impossible because it depends on the clowns in Washington to voluntarily give up their power. It is stupid because it doesn't go far enough. With the fair tax, people still fill out forms for the government & still report their income. It doesn't cut the tax burden. In short, it's half-assed.

Scripture tells us to be hot or cold, but not lukewarm. The Fair Tax is lukewarm. It give the people no relief from their tax burden, so there is no reason on earth for the people to get excited about it. People still have to file paperwork with the government. Again, why get excited about that? And it requires the politicians to forswear their power to reward contributors & attack enemies through the tax code.

In short there is no reason at all that ANYBODY would expect that this would ever be enacted. It is a pipe dream.

In 1776, they were practical people. They knew that it would be difficult to achieve their goal, but they knew it was a goal that they could get people excited about. That made it a goal that was achievable. They also knew that it could not be achieved within the existing system.

Since no one is willing to take up arms to get the fair tax, it will never be enacted.

I think the Conservatives in the Republican Party will finally get a chance to lead. 50+ million voted for McCain because of Palin. Because we are not anti-gay we are pro marriage (it's already broke let’s not add another problem to it) we are pro-rights for the unborn not trying to control the women’s rights, they have that right when they choose a mate.
We are for free speech (even though no one is speaking for Savage) even when it hurts our party. We are not for corrupt corporations’ government but we are for free corporations. The Conservative Party has the right ideas we just never pander to those who will sell their votes for free stuff.
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You mean the government controlled internet access to our blogs???? Mine might land me in jail.

i am wondering what we all will be blogging about in 6 months when the economy and the U.S. Dollar has hit the bottom of the ocean. Any takers?

Let's also remember that some soldiers go in as atheists and come out believers.

There is a greater likelihood that the law of gravity will be repealed than the Fair Tax will be enacted. It's time for Boortz to just let it go. He has milked this thing for all it is worth. We're tired of hearing about his pipe dream.

Steele's afraid to call Obama a socialist and I think he should resign for it. Republicans don't simply need to decide which pejorative to use when describing Obozo and his programs, they needs to EDUCATE. Yes, fools that actually believed Obama would pay their mortgage and fill their cars are Socialists. But we must remember that they are fools and not the productive class. And what we are seeing is the systematic descruction of the productive class by the american socialist party (previously known as democrats).

This is not a time for rebranding and sound bites and poll-tested pejoratives, it’s a time for education and a call to freedom on a scale our nation has not seen in decades.

Socialism has failed EVERYWHERE it has been implemented--without exception. The only problem I can see with capitalism is the unequal distribution of success. One of many problems with socialism is the equal distribution of misery.

What is they are right? Have you done any research into the Federal Reserve and Bilderberg?

but we can all look forward to a Democrat led government for at least several years if not a good decade and a half. Right now too many issues (like debt) can still be attributed (and with some justification) to previous years under the GOP leadership. I know the vast majority of people have a serious case of ADD when it comes to the history of government on the particulars but the emotional element dies away a lot slower than factual memory.

I'd buy into the Libertarian Party, but their isolationism is impractical in the face of the threat from Islamoterroism (or any other terrorism for that matter). Also, it seems to be the last refuge of the tinfoil hat crowd. I had a Libertarian campaign worker visit my house and after urging me to vote for Ron Paul, and then went off on a rant about the Federal Reserve and the Trilateral Commission.

As far as the Intelligence Updates go, it's true there are no athiests in foxholes, I bet the guys in the pictures pray every day. Besides, better there be quotes from the bible than from Mein Kampf or Mao's Little Red Book, eh?

Let's reinstate the DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.

"Party of No Ideas"

Umm...how about:
1. Implement the Fair Tax. Take home 100% of your paycheck (including the OTHER 7.5% of social security you never saw in the first place). No longer spend billions of dollars to file forms and do compliance.

2. Stop bailing out the auto industry, banks, insurance agencies, restoring the idea that good companies succeed and bad ones fail.

3. Stop Card Check, allowing people to secretly decide if they support unions. If a business goes union, let it succeed or fail by profitably, not government cover.

4. Stop spending so much money on welfare. Going along with Fair Tax, consider donations to charities as tax-free purchases.

5. Institute federal level line item veto by constitutional amendment. By reducing spending, quickly pull government spending under control, and eliminate political antics used to push through spending. Check the states which have line item veto, and see how they have better management of spending (Alaska/Palin comes to mind)

6. Eliminate all congressional services, like health clubs, separate savings, separate health care plans. Instead, make them use the same we do, such as social security.

7. Implement instant runoffs for all elections. Basically, pick your #1, #2, etc. candidate. If you candidate loses, your vote is readjusted to #2 choice and so forth, without expensive re-casting of votes. Encourages you to vote your conscience, and have a fallback plan. Given that, McCain would never have been the Republican choice. For me, I would have had Ron Paul -> Mike Huckabee -> Mitt Romney. What about you?

How is that for a handful of ideas?

yes, Copy, the contortions are funny.
did he get Rush's permission? good question! LOL.

Avoid confronting individuals, such as Obama. This is mudslinging and can be viewed poorly, especially if you try to sling mud at such a popular figure as Obama.

What I suggest is stressing the abuse and waste of the government. Stress the deficit and how much larger it was in the Democratic Congress (last 2 years of President Bush) and how much larger it has grown under this year.

I see the GOP leadership is yet to get a clue. By the time they do, there won't be much left of the country to take back.

This guy is the best representative the Republicans could find? I tried to watch the speech but couldn't get over how terribly he delivered it....had his eyes on his notes for about 90% of it. Brutal. I can see the think tank that put his name up for this position...."hey we need a black guy too!!!" By the way....where are the Libertarians? This is a perfect time for the party to build interest and you don't hear a word from them. Time to hire a new PR/Marketing department. Here we set spiralling into Socialism due to the ineptitude of the Democrats opposition.......

House Majority Leader yesterday said that Nancy Pelosi should present her case or apologize. APOLOGIZE?@#! That's really changing course. How about resigning, face charges for making a false claim. Why is a crime for someone to lie to Congress but not a crime for Congress to lie to us?

Go for the throat John. Syop being such a wuss!

A viable third party has been a non-existent pipe dream for as long as I can remember.Maybe this will be the era that a third party will actually become a REAL political force instead of just hanging in there,getting scraps off the big dogs table for not being a spoiler for one party or the other.A genuine independent party would appeal to voters who are sick of both parties antics. If independents are elected in the 2010 elections in place of incumbents of both parties then that would be a great start toward a serious challenge for 2012."Obama & Co." will have pissed off enough democrates to have them jump ship and the GOP will still have its head up its ass with no leadership with out baggage. Disgruntals from both parties combined with existing independents could sweep a "real new deal" into power.

I was going to make comment about that silly "Fair" Tax, but then I saw this:

"Cristina Gonzalez and Laura Nunemaker assist in the daily preparation of Nealz Nuze!"

Did Belinda quit? Was she fired? Is she pregnant again? Enquiring minds want to know!

One party offers social freedom but not economic freedom.

Another party wants seeks an Islamist/ Talibanesque approach to social freedom and perhaps in the past offered economic freedom.

So, today, on the freedom scoreboard, the democrats are 1 out of 2, and the republicans are 0 out of 2.

I'll take 50% freedom over 0% freedom any time.

So instead of "but, but, but Clinton!" it will be "but, but, but Obama!"

Dont address the issues. Dont bring forward a leader. Just stand around and point fingers.

We have the Dems with the cult of the personality and the GOP with, uh..., nothing! No wonder this country is going straight h-e double hockey sticks!

This country needs a leader. The last true leader we had Reagan. Since then, it has been a selection of the least worst candidate. You did not have an option of voting for a leader, you only got to select a politician.

We need somebody that can stand up and tell the truth, no matter how ugly it looks. A person with backbone that can say "No - that is wrong!" We dont need anyone that has "experience" in Washington. What is experience in Washington anyway? The ability to make slimeball deals that shaft the working man and get you re-elected. It is time for a clear speaking, eloquent, level headed person to step forward, be it reluctantly, and lead (not rule!) the country out of this mess. The best leader many times is someone who has the responsibility thrust upon him. After all, who would you rather follow? Someone who spends $$$$$ and slimes everyone around them so they can rule or someone who knows the direction to go to get us away from the edge of this abyss we are standing on? There are enough people here that are wise enough to know a true leader when they see one and they would vote for him.

Does anyone know where we could find an eloquent, clear speaking, educated person, who would know how to lead this country forward - one who would be reluctant to take on the role, but would realize it is time for him to pick up the responsibility because his country needs him?

I apologize for this long and maybe off-discussion letter. Yesterday, butt neckid wrote about needing action. It’s something every single one of us realizes. We have an unqualified president and a corrupt congress that is systematically and unabashedly tearing this country to pieces. butt asked for a solution and I offered an idea. This idea is based on a “First Step” premise that the MSM is the root of our problems. I contend that before anything else, we must voice our dissent with the MSM in a way they will notice. The tea parties (TP’s) proved that the spirit of Conservative and Libertarian protest is alive and well. So I appeal to you to consider the following string of questions/comments and tell me why I’ve either finally lost it or maybe am on to something.
1. Why wouldn’t thousands upon thousands of people (Conservs and Liberts) canceling newspaper and news magazine subscriptions, as an organized protest of liberal media bias, be significant and real to the MSM and DC? (I canceled mine and you would have thought from their followup calls (4 over a two week period) that I was their only subscriber!) Would they laugh at us like they did with the TP’s? 2. We have protested the govt, should we maybe focus on the real villains for a change? 3. Would it hurt the MSM financially? - don’t know – don’t care - does it matter? - they’ll just get a govt bailout if it did, and we’re used to those by now, right? 4. Does the MSM control who wins elections and how the masses regard politics? (I think they do). 5. I don’t know how or when the TP’s actually sprang into being, but why can’t something like that start here? 6. Could this hurt local talk radio markets? – the little guys in every town who provide the appetizer talk in the morning until the big guns come on the air. This could be a downside. 7. We’ll need someone with a mic and public access to maybe start seeding this idea – hmmm, who could that be? 8. How about a name, like “Hey, it’s us again!” 9. Would this turn out to be nothing more than an empty protest with no real effects? Good possibility, but will it hurt? Can we risk a little humiliation in light of all the other abuses being heaped on this country?
I’m going to stop here for now – let me know if you think I’m crediting the MSM with too much clout. Oh, and if it’s time for me to get on some meds.
Respectfully,
shuttin down

Elvis has left the building...Michael Steele is a great guy, glad to have him around. This Party is not only 'off the chain', it's 'off the charts'! You know, as in flatliner, DOA. I'm afraid the 'brand' is stale, the likelihood of a comeback is remote unless the Democrats just give it away. Even if they do, who would vote Republican knowing how fractured the Party is and not knowing what the Party really means anymore? A mere 'makeover' won't get it. Slick ads and clever slogans are not going to get serious minded people pumped up. This maybe a a 'rebuilding decade'. Ron Paul, you still wanna run, buddy?

The only "productive idea" should be to pull the flush handle on this administration.
The stink is unbearable.

Let's see... Obama was elected based on voter ignorance and wealth envy. I say double the extra $14 Obama gave them, promise them a choice of an xbox or playstation 3 for every welfare recipient and we'll have a Republican majority in no time.
Why bother on issues when these voters don't know what the US Constitution says... much less understand what the heck it means.

More importantly, the entire discussion of whom to oppose is way off base.

The Republicans should be standing for and against various POLICIES, not people.

How about letting people know that what made America great is that it IS the "Land of Opportunity." But we will surely kill that aspect of Americanism if we make this just another Land of Entitlement.

How about letting people know that rationing of health care is coming?