The mystery is why some people think that, regardless of the situation, either increasing or decreasing the size of government is automatically good OR bad. In other words, Mike, your position — that more government is NEVER the answer — is no more responsible than that of someone who thinks increasing goverment is ALWAYS the answer.

That’s all.

The Halliburton comparison was NOT to compare types of organizations — but a comparison of the level of wrongdoing and of the amounts of money involved . Halliburton has been misusing way more Fed funds than ACORN would ever get its hands on and this Congress (and prior Congress’) did not see fit to condemn them, to recind their contracts, to preclude them from getting more contracts (or even to just give them additional oversight), or to get their high dudgeon on lickty split. Even though the Halliburton grievances represent multiple orders of magnitude anything that ACORN has been accused of as well as multiple known risks to soldiers.

But apparently the ACORN lesson is 1) they didn’t go big enough and 2) their constituencies were far too black and far too brown.

Please take your homosexual fears somewhere else. Is this why you like the guns? To protect your back?

So people who fundamentally disagree with Obama’s policies and his approach to governing should just “stop being so selfish,” shut the hell up and just roll over and let he and the liberals in Congress do whatever they want?

Not a chance in hell.

As far as “A nation in crisis”, have you considered that maybe Obama’s policies are part of the PROBLEM not the solution. Oh, and I love how you conveniently ignore that many of Obama’s policies are no different than Bush. As much as I dislike Obama there were some things I was hopeful he’d change from the Bush years and he has not done so.

again, you lost this time…. take a big ol bite out of your shit sandwich

STILL butthurt over Gore losing huh? That’s just sad.

that sums it up. they DONT love their neighbor as their alleged religious teaching might suggest they should. They are afraid of different, and in a very primal reaction hate it. They hate the different looking president, some will never admit WHY, but they hate him. They hatefully call him a “muslim” (as if it is a bad thing) and “socialist” as if it were a bad thing…… Ive said it before and i’ll say it again
are you listening right wing extremists? i WISH obama was a socialist!

They will say whatever they can think of to convince themselves and their ilk that it isnt really happening… He isnt the REAL president, no one really MEANT to vote for him, some underfunded agency who 99% of the time helps the homeless find a roof perpetrated election fraud on a national scale and snuck him in so he could advance a pro mulsim, pro hitler, pro gay agenda….
its over…. you LOST the right wing had their chance to run things…. by stealing an election no less, they even WON a few elections….. but it is over now. they have demonstrated they are totally incapable of running the country unless it is only white people in the south who love jesus and hate everyone else.

“I’m waiting for an adult discussion”

Considering you just attacked RWR in a comment where you complained about him doing it I highly doubt you’re capable of adult discussion.”

Gosh, Mike, I am sorry. I called RWR a “man” and a “Republican”. And, possibly, an “adult.” Those were my attacks.

Perhaps he’s a Democratic teenaged girl, and he felt attacked. My bad, but I was judging from his/her comments.

Of course, it doesn’t matter, because he/she doesn’t take me seriously, so he/she doesn’t particularly care.

But you knew all that — you were just trying to get your shot in. Pun intended, since I read the gun thread.

Can I call you a man and a Republican, or is that too much insulting for you? … insults abound here in this post….. whew!

When there numerous bad/dealing teachers/nurses at the same school/hospital, it may be worthy of a good look.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5inR1M_vhtS2lkl_cEpH5gTRVtPXwD9AQQHT03

The Halliburton analogy was a stretch, but they’re not exactly a small grassroots organization:

“Activist group ACORN started in 1970 to help poor people in Arkansas and by decade’s end went national, expanding into a multimillion-dollar conglomerate with a mission so far-flung that schools now bear its name, two radio stations are affiliates and a man its political arm endorsed is the president.”