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[HoustonRaven]

Kind of what I have been saying about how the republicans are not playing politics as well as Obama right now...regardless of what the extreme right is trying so desperately to coerce into our view/opinion.

Economics is 2+2 math, not something that is compromised on or political.

Greg was spot on. The left plays politics and rules by popularity polls while the right is trying to do what will actually work.

And as for your Glen Beck comments, I noticed a lot of attacking of a person and not what he said in relation to the economy. I see you've already lost the debate -- his figures for that video clip come directly from the CBO.

[HoustonRaven]

Poor Galen.

Cato is some GOP bastion of thinking? They are strictly libertarian. You ask any of these idiot neocons and they laugh at Cato.

Me, I happen to think they take some good positions. They were very critical of W and the Iraq War and the NCLB.

[Galen Sevinne]

Poor Galen.

Cato is some GOP bastion of thinking? They are strictly libertarian. You ask any of these idiot neocons and they laugh at Cato.

Me, I happen to think they take some good positions. They were very critical of W and the Iraq War and the NCLB.

where did I say "GOP bastion"? I said I take with a grain of salt any organization that has ever had connections to Rupert Murdoch or take direct funding from oil companies. That is you projecting what you want me to say so that you can keep your arguments elementary.

[Galen Sevinne]

Economics is 2+2 math, not something that is compromised on or political.

Oh but then what happens when a bill has to be pushed through a two-party filter? you don't think politics come into it?...compromise?

Greg was spot on. The left plays politics and rules by popularity polls while the right is trying to do what will actually works

Sounds like a comment from someone who is behind in the polls.

And as for your Glen Beck comments, I noticed a lot of attacking of a person and not what he said in relation to the economy. I see you've already lost the debate -- his figures for that video clip come directly from the CBO.

What you missed with your need right away to point out that I attacked Beck as a person was my attack on:

1. His view of Ahmadinejad as The Anti-Christ,

2. His persistence in calling Obama a Fascist AND a communist in the same sentence. Fist off all those are outrageous claims and secondly, it is an impossible claim demonstrating how little he possibly knows. That should concern you.

3. I don't doubt the chart, I am simply suggesting that his chart is not significant enough to be the end all of the debate. Like he is the only one who has seen that graph? People much smarter about the econom have seen that chart and they are not usimg it to rule options. It is a simple way to appeal to emotion without intellectual discourse. Sorry you think he is the savior now. Frankly it reminds me of volcanos.

Now to make you happier...Glenn Beck is an apocalyptic nut case...just like hannity, coulter, Oreilly and the rest of the Murdoch lineup. At least they are getting rich off those read their hate-filled manifestos to support their own rigid and compartmentalized ways of seeing things.