@Chibi_Son_Gokou - It is nice that you can make up your own definition of what a right-wing extremist group is and can even find people to agree with your view.  I can find people who still believe the earth is flat and find others who agree with them also.  One political party generally accepted as being right-wing extremist is the American Nazi Party, go figure.

As far as the wet teabag protest, it is amusing that you believe that this was a bottom-up effort.  Even more amusing is that most of the people there could not agree on what they were protesting.  Laughably, unless there were people there making over $250,000 a year, they all got tax cuts this year, proving once again that people who don't think for themselves can be made to do anything.

@Chibi_Son_Gokou - Yes, of course, everyone who is young and charismatic is Adolph Hitler in disguise and we need to kill them now.  (Please check for HEAVY sarcasm.) 

Apparently you are just like the rest of your kind, you don't care WHAT you complain about as long as you are pointing out what you consider a fault.  If you wanted your tax refund last year, you had to file then also, it was SUCH a hardship.  On top of that, you are talking about the 600,000 people a month who are losing this jobs thanks to your parties policies.  Thanks for letting me point that out.

As usual, you don't pay attention, who do you think runs Americans for Prosperity and Freedom Works?  And do you know what roll these organizations played?  Probably not, if Rush didn't tell you, you don't know about  it.  If you check carefully, the article in the WSJ is NOT an article, it is a column, columnists print opinions.  What's even funnier is that Glenn Reynolds is a pro-gay marriage, pro-abortion, conservative libertarian.  He is quoted as saying "I'd be delighted to live in a country where happily married gay couples had closets full of assault weapons."  I love your source.  I'd even vote for him as my senator were he ever to run outside of Tennessee.

@Chibi_Son_Gokou - Yes - everyone is going to pay more because the GOP ran up a HUGE debt by spending money like water and not balancing that spending with something a lot like taxes to offset it.  Everyone is going to pay more beacuse the GOP decided to retaliate against the Taliban for 911 - and then to invade a sovereign country without cause or provocation, then they decided to place their resources mainly on the invasion instead of fighting the real war against terrorists.  They decided to fund this war outside of the budget so that people like you did not see how much of your money they were spending.  They cut taxes for the rich in a stupid ploy to "stimulate the economy" while for the first time in the history of America the children of Americans could no long look forward to living better than their parents and the median income for Americans dropped, their policies have pushed higher paying jobs out of this country and they have replaced them with minimum wage service sector jobs, their policies have resulted in millions of Americans living without even basic health insurance and they have denied insurance benefits to children because a few people might get benefits who did not need them.  So, the policies and actions of the GOP during the 6 years when they had TOTAL control of our government have resulted only in disaster for the majority of Americans.  I won't even start on things like how deregulation and lack of enforcement in the financial sector allowed this economic meltdown to happen and to what the world thinks of America after the actions taken while the GOP was in control.

Now, after everything they have done, THEY believe that only they have the solution to the problems, and that solution is to do EXACTLY what they did to screw everything up.  Pardon me, but no way in hell am I going to agree to that.

As to the fallacy of FDR and the great depression, you can say anything you want about things that didn't happen, but unless you happen to have a time machine in your back pocket and can go back and do it BOTH ways and see which one was better you can make no statements, and conjecture on the economy coming from the GOP just strikes me as propaganda.

Finally, if you have a fully loaded freight train going downhill and it has been building speed for 8 years, you are not going to stop it, or even slow it down much for a good while.  The largest economy in the world is not going to stop and turn on a dime.  Only people with no grasp of reality, or ones who just want to complain for the sake of it are going to expect things to change rapidly, but then - we have had that conversation just above - haven't we?

@Chibi_Son_Gokou - I create nothing.  I RELATE history because people seem to be in the process of twisting the events of the past into fantasies.

It was not the Bush administration that spent like liberals, it was the (GOP controlled) Congress and the Senate, the president can spend very little without their approval.

How can we POSSIBLY have a future if we forget about the past?  And why was it OK for the GOP to double the deficit?  And do you know WHERE the various income groups lie on the Laffer Curve?  Please, don't try to throw in random economic elements without data, you cannot begin to change my mind with empty economic curves.  If we don't forget the past for the moment, we know that a return to the Clinton era tax rules, which is all that they have proposed to date, did not put the rich over the top on the Laffer Curve.

The war is Afghanistan is actually the only valid war we are involved in, nice job of twisting tough.  I actually approve of the retaliation, if you take the sentence in context, (if that is possible), you will see that it is a feeder into the next to show that they then diverted their attention to Iraq.

"Sovereignty is the right to exercise, within a territory, the functions of a state, exclusive of any other state, or Kingdom and subject to no other authority. A sovereign is a supreme lawmaking authority."  I know - I shouldn't confuse you with facts.  How about ignoring Korea and allowing them to become EXACTLY what they were saying Iraq was, a country with weapons of mass destruction capable of delivering them to remote locations in minutes.

You tout the UN resolution and yet we invaded Iraq without their approval after totally ignoring what their inspectors were saying.  Just stop yourself, you are trying to change history yet again.

You must live in some fantasy land, and I tire of constantly having to remind you of the truth, not the truth of the "liberal media" but the truth of the government facts and figures regarding income, housing, poverty, education, and other "quality of life" components.  I could tell you that based on that data, the Amreican Dream died in 2001.  Since you seem to doubt anything I can show you, you will have to go do the research yourself, if you are capable of doing so, from the government information available.  The data is there if you look, try www census.gov, but then I am sure that you believe all government data has been skewed by  liberals.  At any rate, I find it so enlightening that you still believe that all those years of abuse and neglect could be undone is 3 months, that I am actually lowering my estimation of your grip on reality, if that is at all possible.

Finally, the polls are showing that apparently more that half of the people in the US are for raising taxes on the rich, so apparently you have managed to turn more than half the country into "liberal democrats on welfare".  Good job!