The most biased media outlet in the US is Fox "News" and it serves its purpose very well every day as the propaganda arm of the GOP. What would they need a caucus for when they have Fox?

Neal,
You always talk about the "the rule of man vs. the rule of law" like they're separate entities. Who do you think makes up the rules of law? Man of course.

Perhaps we weren't FOUNDED as a democracy, but--regrettably--we have become one.

Congress doesn't have the Constitutional authority to spend the obscene amounts they've been spending, yet they do it.

The 16th Amendment was not properly ratified, yet we are stuck with it. Neal refuses to even discuss the issue any more.

Here are two questions for you "Fair" tax minions:

(1) Do you really think that the enormity of government could be funded by the "Fair" tax?

(2) If you see the absurdity of the elimination of the 16th Amendment on Constitutional grounds, why do you go a ridiculous step further & discuss REPLACING the 16th Amendment?

The most immediate solution to the problem is on the SPENDING side--NOT the REVENUE side.

Folks, the answer is NOT in a "NEW" party. The 2-Party system (& the legislation to protect it) is what put us in the mess we're in.

The most SAGACIOUS solution would be to dismantle the two major parties & return to the days when people ran as individuals. Winner is President, runner up is Veep. States appoint Senators.

BUT: It isn't going to happen.

T = 48 seconds & counting... & our country's "pilot" & his "flight crew" have absolutely no understanding of our country's republican (note the lower-case "R") underpinnings--nor do they care.

If the GOP went "moonbat crazy like the leftists," it wouldn't be as bad as their current dp lite, bark, then roll over and play dead routine. It would fail, the msm won't cover for them like they do for the left, but it does beat what they are doing now all to hades. Better to go down swingin' than to be led meekly to the slaughter. I'd have more respect for them than I do now, though that isn't saying much.

Changing the GOP from within rather than b*tching from the sidelines, or sitting at home, is what dissatisfied Republicans should have been doing all along. What they did suited the dp fine. They will tell the pouters what they've lost in their own good time, as someone said. By the time a third or fourth party could get airborne(the LP is more like a ground effect craft), there won't be real elctions. It's like turning your back or letting someone get behind you in a life and death scrap, it's almost always fatal.

Absurd as they were and are, the moonbat left cleaned house in the last two elections and has as unassailable a majority as they've probably had since carter or FDR. I never thought America would be dumb enough to fall for it, but we did.

People are coming up with ideas to save the Republican party. Heck people are even talking about joining it to try to change it.

No, I love hearing this. Republican's should try and go moonbat crazy like the leftists. With the media bias and the ADD attention span of today's society of Jon Stewart newswatchers, they will continue to be a laughing stock.

And then it will be time for a new party. It happens every so often. It would be nice to be a part of the new one, and even nicer if it's a libertarian (small L) one.

I have never, ever, never been a doom and gloomer, but I can't see how we are not going to be locked into an EU style social government due to the locked in expenditures.

- Gov't ownership of GM? UAW will never let it quite go down or up because now their power and pay is guaranteed by the gov't.
- New extremely bloated healthcare plans are assured to come, and they will never go away once here.
- Stop gap funding choices will eventually have to be made, and from where? The military, of course, since Obama's making the world safe. (This might actually be kind of cool so we can get out of the world police business as long as we don't get out of the being-able-to-kick-everyone's-butt business.)
- Spambal Warming green policy will have us so deep into restrictions and obstacles to true innovation that it will take forever to recover. (At least we can hope the Global Warming trend continues as it has for the past 8 years so that we might have some cooler summers also. As a kid, the summers were just so hot in the south.

It's an interesting time to be alive.

Guys don't forget to support Ron Paul's son, Rand Paul. He's running for the Senate in Kentucky.

http://www.randpaul2010.com/

Thanks for the Kudos man. I consider myself a traditional conservative in the vein of people like Ron Paul,Thomas Jefferson, and Calvin Coolidge and I reject anything that I believe has to do with neo-conservatism, as I truly believe that neo-cons have hijacked large chunks of both the Republican and Democrat parties. To me Obama and Bush are pretty much the same, its just what method if inflation and spending they will take. Im a consistant Libertarian voter, even in the face of victims of mainstream media soundbytism telling me my vote does not count because the magic box in living room says so. There needs to be more people like us challenging this entire failed system which has strayed from the constitution. I intend to fight this new American fascism to the very end and will never limit myself to the left/right....democrat/republican paradigm which both sides of the aisle want me to do.

Agree also with what Forrest/Red Leader/Ivan wrote.

However, you guys need to be careful. Libertarians like ourselves will always be called out for being "RINO's" or whatever childish name the wingnuts have come up with.

Ron Paul 2012

Someone give ‘em some salts.

President Reagan spoke over the msm, back when they were just as biased but much more sophisticated and professional about it, and he actually used their bias and fits of outrage to his advantage. He didn’t allow them or the dp to frame the debate, and he didn’t care whether they liked or spoke well of him. When they howl, it’s most often because someone is doing something good. That requires understanding and pride of conservatism, which he had.

What's left of the GOP had better learn quickly how to do that, and quit playing the dp/msm's rigged game, or they will lay there twitching in irrelevancy until they eventually die as a party.

President Reagan understood the fundamentals of freedom that make America exceptional and prosperous, and why socialism is not only disastrous, but evil, better than any American politician in my lifetime. Those fundamentals aren’t complicated, counterintuitive, or immoral, and can be understood by an elementary school kid. They aren’t new, or really innovative in the 21st Century, but they still produce more innovation, progress, prosperity, and upward mobility at all levels of society than any the world has seen, or will ever likely see.

I should work a lot harder myself to live by President Reagan’s dictum, “Thou shall not speak ill of fellow Republicans.” The dp/msm will spend enough time doing that. I should try to give them more advice and ideas, rather than just bust on them, so here’s some more advise that wouldn’t hurt me, or Neal. He often has good ideas himself, I’d like to hear/see more of them, I’m sure he can walk and chew FairTax at the same time.

Once they figure out who they are, and who the enemies of liberty are, they should keep to a basic formula when speaking or writing. They should spend the two minutes it takes to point out why the dp/msm premise is false (frame the argument themselves), and/or why the socialist policy being debated is counterproductive and immoral, then spend the next eight minutes telling what their policy is, and why it is both more just and effective towards the goal being debated, if it’s a valid goal or job of government. A GOP plan to do the same stupid thing the dp proposes a little less stupidly will get nowhere, and neither will meaningless gimmicks.

I’ve no doubt the dp/msm socialist policies will be disastrous to our economy and national security. That will make some vote against the dp, but that doesn’t equate to votes FOR the GOP, and that’s not how a proud and open conservative like Ronald Reagan won landslides.

Well said, Corbett! Especially about their (lack of) credibility.

@Carlos -- Are you playing stupid or are you really that way?

The GOP had ideas.

For instance, the GOP had the idea of invading countries who had never done anything hostile to the US & that posed absolutely no threat of ever doing anything hostile to the US. To top it off, they used as their justification for invading Iraq the fact that Iraq had not obeyed the UN -- an organization that 85% of Americans believe should be abolished. (Boortz supported this idea heart & soul.)

They had the idea of outspending the Democrats & growing government at a faster pace than any previous administration.

They had the idea of opening our borders & giving amnesty to illegal aliens.

They had the idea of buying the votes of the elderly with the prescription drug give away.

They had the idea of turning America into a surveillance state where the government routinely spies on its citizenry. (Another policy Boortz supports.)

They had the idea of bailing out the Wall Street fat cats.

They had the idea of abandoning their socially conservative base. (Another idea that Boortz is wild about.)

The GOP is full of ideas. Their idea is to be as much like the Democrats as possible on social issues, to be worse than the Democrats (until this administration) fiscally, and to keep the nation in a perpetual state of war. In short, ALL of their ideas are bad ideas.

We don't need the GOP to reform. We've seen what they do when they get into power based on their promises to reform & they have no credibility. We need the GOP to dissolve.

Both the Republican and the Democrat parties have no identity anymore. They're pretty much the same. The only difference is that they follow polling data, each respective of their dumb mass constituents.

Democrats have always been hopeless, predictable morons, but at times I've had higher hopes for Republicans. In recent history, Ronald Reagan and Newt Gingrich have been the only real leaders. Without a focused, dynamic guru, who is able to get his/her message across to the dumb masses, they're done. The "feel good/hate the rich/turn off your brain" Democrat ideology is too easy of a choice. It requires no effort, no hard choices, and you adopt an angelic pride in yourself.

Any halfway intelligent person knows there is bias and the MSM will not change anyway until they are bankrupt.

If you have a Republican Conrgressperson, let them know what a waste this is.

W O W

many of the items FORREST listed today I have been beating my friends with for years. when I first read it I said to myself "when did I write this?"

I was worried that I had taken too much or not enough medicine at some point of the day.

thank you Forrest.

there are a bunch of good ideas here today, where the hell have ya'll been? some days it's like a kindergarten class here and yes I don't play well with others all the times.

not that it matters to anyone but WELL DONE CLASS! now get out there and recruit good people with good ideas like those posted here today and SPREAD THE WORD!

today after reading these gems I may have to change my thinking ......again, 'cuz I've been down lately my thoughts have been doom and gloom. it happens when your bizniss goes bust.

thanks for the lift and well done class
don't fixate on only one item!

Wow Neal, you used to agree with my positions nearly 80% of the time,but lately,I find you have changed.I actually agree with this idea.Sounds good to me. I think your hatred for the Republicans past actions and inactions has clouded your thinking.Media bias is the number one problem with this country getting the true facts.Schools indoctrinate,sure,but once out of school and fed the real truth,people can learn to think for themselves before they become voters.Finally,the repubs are doing SOMETHING.

1. we are a mediaocracy. those who control if a political guy gets his image on tv, controls whose elected. who ever heard of obama two years before before the election? he was, as joe biden said, he was clean enough to run. do you think an african with dark skin and a wide nose would be elected? he's just "white" enough looking, sorta of like Halle Berry.

2. the greatest threat to our "republic" today is the federal reserve bank. but you won't hear that on the news, or neal's web blog. cause the mediaocrats are ones who own the tv stations, the radio stations and the newpapers. they are so rich, only a few of them are in exitstance. the federal reserve who own the cabal of bankers are so rich, only a few of them are in exitstance. the belong to the same club.

3. the media bias. i've gone to left leaning websites and gone to right leaning websites and both if them are railing about the media biased against them. i won't go into the leftist media bias, you don't have to go further than the 2nd amendment for that one. what do the leftist say about the right wing media bias? well, for one the bush/gore election. another is the whole networked news media behind bush's war in iraq. remember phil donahue? he was against the iraq war. he was pulled from msnbc.
there is no left wing or right wing news bias. but their is a bias. its the rich biased, who want the people disarmed and wanted our young people to go fight our corporate wars for them.

the media research center is a right wing site. you can tell that from the first page. go here: http://www.publicintegrity.org/

if you want to learn about the mediaocracy watch this: http://video.aol.com/video-detail/orwell-rolls-in-his-grave/3033937675

"Let the liberals scream whatever about republicans...."

Are you one of those throwbacks who still believes liberals and Republicans are two distinct groups? Where you been for the last nine years? Let me guess, you've been detained in GITMO and to get information out of you they made you to listen to nothing but Limbaugh and Hannity? Is that why you make such outdated, inaccurate comparisons?

BTW, anyone know the latest on Hannity's promise to be waterboarded for the families of the troops? The families of the troops must be getting hungry, Sean. Mancow did it. Ventura says he can get you to say Obama is the greatest President ever just by tossing a little water in his face....I mean torturing him.

I vote for Ivan or Red Leader!!!

1. Overturn the Patriot Act
2. Push for sound commodity based money
3. Abolish the income tax for the Fair Tax
4. Leave abortion and gay marriage to the states
5. Pull all troops out of all areas where Congress has not voted to declare war on a tangible enemy...this includes Iraq and Afghanistan
6. Get the federal govt out of education
7. Get the federal govt out of healthcare
8. Secure the boarder and encourage ALL illegal aliens to head home
9. Cut corporate tax by 75%
10. Abolish America's wasteful drug war addiction
11. Cut all govt programs in half and start paying off the debt
12. Emphasize less gun control



If the Republicans push for these things and make them a priority they will move forward. Do it not and traditional conservatives will not vote for them. The GOP needs to stop rejecting traditional conservatism and causing many republicans to look for another party.

Here is a list of things that I, a citizen and tax payer of the United States of America would like to see done (in no particular order):

- Senate and House term limits
- Secure our borders (active and/ or National Guard personnel)
- Smaller Federal Government (A LOT SMALLER)
- More States Rights (I believe this covered under the 10TH Amendment)
- CLEAN UP THE CORUPTION IN THE CAPITOL
- THE FAIR TAX (need I say more)

Also, to the AMERICAN CITEZENS and TAX PAYERS, let’s vote these clown’s out of office, both Democrats and Republicans. I, for one am sick of all of the childish bickering in Washington D.C. I don’t want to hear talk, I want to see ACTION. I want my children to have a bright future and those in D.C. are making that future look bleak. I, a citizen and tax payer, have no qualms of exercising my right of sticking my foot up the politicians A$$ to motivate and remind them that “WE THE PEOPLE” are in charge.

I believe that the republicans should do their job which is to stand in the way of everything that the democrats send down the pike.The democrats plan is to send so much crap so quickly that it doesn't get even read let alone really studied.Let the liberals scream whatever about republicans obstructing passage.THATS THEIR JOB AND ITS TIME THAT THEY DO SOMETHING BESIDES SIT ON THEIR ASSES AND "GET ALONG".I use to wonder what our gov.would be like if one party controled all the branchs and I thought that gridlock was a bad thing that should be done away with.Now I realize only gridlock can save us from government controls gone wild.

Media bias is so blatant that it might be interesting to observe the talking heads attempt to defend their biases with a senator pointing it out. People will pay attention to a senator. Representatives of the Media Research Center don't impress the great unwashed.

The Republican party is bankrupt. I believe that the religious right will end up being the deciding factor in what is biased and what is not. Until the Republicans kick out ALL of the evangelicals from power positions the Republican party will be bankrupt. The Conservative movement is also tainted by the religious right. Neither Conservatives nor Republicans will ever be taken seriously until they completely separate themselves from the kooks.