Goodness gracious, didn't you know the Socialist Party in the US is the GOP these days? They do corporate socialism however, so you may not have noticed that most of the wealth the middle class, the creators of our wonderful economy of the 50s, 60s and 70s, earns now is transferred to the top 1% of our citizens. In return, we have been waiting and waiting for them to create the good jobs in the USA they promised us. Still waiting.
Meanwhile the Democratic Party is working to return some balance to the wealth distribution in this country. A look back on our economic history will show you a lot of stuff you might have missed: that the economy performed best when the tax rates on the richest were higher than today's rates (even Reagan found that out when he cut taxes and sent the economy into a downturn, but it recovered when he raised taxes something like 17 times during his two terms); that the middle class has really had no increase in wages and income since 1981, and lost a lot of ground under Bush; and that income inequality is now as high as it was in the 1920s just before the Great Depression.
It's hard to make good decisions about what we want our government to do when we insist on getting our news from the corporate owned GOP misinformation media. Ask a Democrat for the facts, and vote accordingly, and you will find that your life will get better. Even if you are a millionaire or a billionaire, because even they depend on a good economy to keep them rich.

Wow Lucy you really have drank the liberal kool aid lol

The Democrat base are the ones out of touch and not very smart cause they listen to their leaders and blindly follow what they say. If they actually went to a tea party meeting they would discover how their leaders had been lying to them about the movement. Pretty Sad for them

"Progressive" Democrats are the ones killing the middle class. They are socialists, and in order to bring everyone under their handout, Big Brother knows best umbrella, they have to have everyone at or below poverty. Tax everyone into oblivion to pay for those not willing to work, tear down all private owned businesses that don't agree with their policies all the while promoting businesses (LightSquared, carbon credits, "green" energy) that they are heavily invested in.

When will you are learn? Democrats and Republicans both promote more government and that is fact witnessed by results. When will you stop electing and re-electing from these two parties, when your debates proves there is little difference in the two, only who they blame?
The only common sense and logical choice to make on Election Day 2012 is to remove ALL incumbents whose records clearly show they do not represent the best interests of the people. Start with the top of the food chain and work down to the local levels of representation.

Ron Paul for President because he has demonstrated over 12 terms in Congress that he stands by his oath to uphold the Constitution and protect the people he represents from usurpation of it.

I invite you all to read my blog Fix America at http://fixamerica-fredmars/blogspot.com for a completely non-partisan perspective on what is wrong and how to fix it.

A provoative story indeed. However, the same was also said of President Obama regarding the creation of the Tea Party and the Republican base. Rallying the base of either party should be considered a positive event for the cause of Democracry. For through such rallying we will truly see the "Will of the People" represented by the majority of voters for the 2012 Presidential election.

You have people who put into the pot. You have people that take out of the pot. The people who take out of the pot want more government subsidies, programs, give-a-ways., freebees, etc. The people who put into the pot want less taxes and to be left alone. Democrats generally cater to the have-nots. Republicans generally cater to the haves. When the former group wins you end up with Barack Obama. Barack Obama's plan is to redistribute the wealth so that we're all supposedly equal. It's called Marxism/Socialism. It’s been tried many times before and doesn't work. Eventually, the "haves" get tired of paying for the "have-nots" or they themselves end up being have-nots. When you run out of "haves" is when your country goes bankrupt (i.e. - Greece, Spain, Italy, Ireland and even ancient Rome). There is no mystery here other than who you are going to vote for.

Democrats can't do much but name call. Free Staters? Many people move here because of the lower income tax rate. That's what a Free Stater is... John Birch? They are a research group. Koch Brothers? Your NH tea party is not funded by anyone. So right there, Wasserman-Shultz and Buckley have shown they have no idea what is going on or what the facts are about the tea party in NH.

To: For the people
Talk about sleeping through History. I think maybe you should pick up some history books and try reading them instead of just listening to others tell you what its all about. All of europe has been on the system that Obama is rushing us to get into. But All of Europe is now trying to escape it because it finally got to the point of no money to pay for the programs. Now if you dont want it to be called socialism call it whatever you like but the FACTS are that it does not work!! Oh and another thing. You never see a group of Republicans or conservatives show up at Liberal events and try to shoutdown your ideas but your left side sure does it to the right. You and yours cant discuss ideas and anyone that has a different opinion, instead of discussing it you revert to the race card and all kinds of other things to shout that person down. Freedom of speech means nothing to your side unless its your speech. You seem articulate but you have no clue about real life. You need to get out and try working for a living and use what you actually make to live on.

Well, you're wrong Ray - I've been at events where the right was loud, rude, shouted people down. When one woman asked about neighbors losing their jobs, these good citizens shouted BOO HOO. Now, apologize.

ok I have only one thing to say to you Jan and to the people. Look around? Hows that hope and change working out for ya? Anyone who thinks this is the way America should be has to be on drugs or worse. What made America great is capitalism and the majority of Americans want that. There are plenty of countries with the system you 2 want I would say pick one and head out. Obama is a one term like Carter was. Our 2 worst presidents ever. Once we get back to the Norm the jobs will return and we will get out of this recession. The majority of people want to work and pay their own way thank God

I dont mind sharing it with you as long as you dont ruin it. And you and other liberals like to forget that for 2 years the congress was all Democrat control, the republicans couldnt do anything which is why the country went into freefall. Yeah Bush did the first bailoy of what was it 850 billion? Ok what about the trillions the democrats have layed on us and Obama care is going to criple this country for years. You have to quit blaming Bush for everything. Ill admit he was a progressive and part of the problem but whats going on in this administration is insane. Give him 4 more years and they will be telling us what we can and cant eat. And thats just one of many regulations these idiots are putting in place. Where is our freedoms going? You want this?? Sorry but you will be defeated in 2012 get ready for it.

I suspect there are plenty of embezzlers, bribe-takers and America heaters to go around in both parties. I will say, however, that the democratic party has the market cornered hands down on the pot-calling-the-kettle-black, name calling and nasty free-speech only if they agree with them collage students. What other party could justify Acorn voter fraud, Black Panther voter intimidation and still whine about how Al Gore was cheated? Maybe it is in the Kool-Aid. Or maybe it’s just mob mentality from like-minded hooligans who think (feel) alike so must act alike to fit in.

Interesting. This amazing Republican Party that has all the "right" answers for so many of the commenters on this thread is not very popular with the American public: http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/09/no-confidence-men-62-percent-have-little-or-no-confidence-in-gop-leaders-on-debt.php?ref=fpb

Impossible to talk policy with those whose sole "policy" is to transfer our earnings to the wealthiest among us. I used to think that this got by because people were sure that they were going to rich tomorrow, so they didn't want to miss out, but I recently learned that research shows that for most, it is essential that they see others who are further down the economic scale than they are. So we have settled for transferring wealth to the top 1%, while our incomes fade, as long as there are people poorer than us. Sad. No wonder people think we are on the wrong track, but I doubt it has much to do with what the Democrats are trying to do, and a lot more with the fact that the GOP is focused only on making the economy worse so that they can beat Obama next year. Block any progress we might make and make sure there is plenty of hating each other out there to keep us from noticing what they are doing. My poor country.

Anyone with an open mind can honestly monitor the news. All you Fox heaters out need answer only one question; Why is there more diversified coverage on Fox than on CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS? Funny how those channels ALWAYS cover stories favorable to the left and, more often than not, either downplay or simply omit stories like Gunrunner, Fast & Furious, Acorn or the Black Panther voting scandal as if they don’t exist. Perhaps you’re conditioned to believe they MUST be right wing lies Don’t you realize that is censorship? They point out blaringly obvious problems, even outright crimes that should, no, MUST be prosecuted and most of you probably never heard of them, or worse yet, don’t comprehend the significance. Watergate cost a president his job and no one was murdered. Gunrunner has already cost three US agents their lives and probably more than a hundred Mexicans murdered. Exactly how corrupt do we expect your Attorney General, DHS, (and their boss), FBI, BATF and Border Patrol administration to be and still be exempt from prosecution. I suppose some of you feel getting your news from those sources is the same as reading Readers Digest, Time, News Week or the New York Times and expecting honest and complete facts.

I refuse to be spoon-fed leftist or rightist propaganda masquerading as news. Any number of net sites provide, with minimal effort, facts, not party pabulum for deluded worshipers. Have we become a nation of sheep? Are we just willing to go along so we won’t be called racists for daring to disagree? I can’t remember even one story where our local left wing rags covered, in any detail, even one of those career ending stories. I realize they’re privately owned commercial enterprises and disseminate what their owners want you to know but they are still pretending to be sources of information and as such, should exhibit some measure of community responsibility. That means covering both sides , exposing corruption in either party, for to do otherwise is simply dishonest. Speaking of dishonesty, I have trouble finding any left wing speakers shouted down or off the podium by right wingers for expressing their views but have no trouble at all finding right wing speakers not only being shouted down but actually assaulted by left wingers. I suspect this goes back to the Kool-Aid argument so glibly applied by Jan Schmidt, I.E. the pot calling the kettle black thing tactic. Right out of the little red book too.

I'm sure Lucy and Jan know this already, but it's largely pointless to argue with folks that are extremists. I brought up racism because it is a reoccurring theme with the far right. This is the same group that passed around e-mails showing Obama as a monkey. If you go to the Concord Monitor, there are multiple hateful right-wing extremists with images depicting the president as a monkey. Do you remember the tea party rally where they shouted the N-word? Do you remember just last week the news depicting Obama with a black dialect?

This all has nothing to do with economics and jobs. Like I have stated numerous times, these hot button issues get packaged up with rich people politics in order to get ignorant voters to go along with schemes that really don't benefit them. I know I cannot convince you, collectively, ye who opine for Fox news(owned by Rupert Murdoch, whom you may have heard about from the recent phone hacking scandal cover-up).

There is no left wing assault. There is no us against them. That is the language you are using. I am using the language for everyone; I invite everyone to the table to have a fair chance.

Ah yes, "men of color. Quite the PC euphemism to describe the two rather tall black panther brothers, in uniform and armed with clubs, who were using racial epithets to obviously intimidate any voters daring to not vote for Obama. That film, and others, is available on utube for anyone to see. They were as racist as any white supremacist wielding the same weapons. They didn't "peacefully move off" as your faulty memory or revisionist version of history suggests but were arrested. The Attorney General dropped the charges because, as his administration has stated, they will only prosecute white on black and not the other way around. The mere fact you would trivialize such a blatant case of voter intimidation speaks volumes in itself.

One thing I learned over the years is that you cannot argue with a liberal using actual facts. They just look right through them and go on with whatever point they are trying to make. Its useless!!

There are people that are quick to point out the low approval rating of the President (rightfully so) but fail to mention the very low approval rating of Congress. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/congressional_job_approval-903.html
That site states that between 8/11 and 9/15 13.5% approve and 83.3% disapprove. Obama's ratings are between 9/9 and 9/26 are 43.2% approval and 50.8 disapproval. Which looks worse?

Did everyone here forget that for Mr. Obama's first two years he had a complete monopoly- House and Senate- Don't blame the Republican Party for those two years- as they really had no say so in it.

Has everyone Forgotten. Mr. Obama had the House and the Senate for two years- What a mess. The Republican party had no say so in the first two years at all. We really can't blame them.

http://news.yahoo.com/wait-rick-perrys-hunting-camp-called-145810272.html?nc

Oh! Look what we have here…

As I said, racism, pure and simple.