Lemon should be fired.

Some newsman .

Don Lemon is prolly just upset that he became a internet meme this week and can’t be taken seriously anymore.

Don Lemon…what a ___________________ (British slang name for a cigarette)

baggers cant stand it, when they have to get off their kochroach bros talking points. like the lemmings you bagger are……. answer the question, but thats too hard for you baggers.   now go back to bagging the kochroach bros balls…….

Is your IQ or age 12?

Fact: Translation to English needed please. Liberals
are the educated ones!

Fact: Translation to English needed please. Liberals
are the educated ones!

Well, at least the Tea Party can put into writing what they are for and stand behind it…

BO can write can’t he? Or just make speeches?

Well, at least the Tea Party can put into writing what they are for and stand behind it…

BO can write can’t he? Or just make speeches?

Fact: LSM are just as clueless to a balanced budget
as the anointed ones party of NO!

Fact: LSM are just as clueless to a balanced budget
as the anointed ones party of NO!

Don Lemon was fair and tough.
Paul acted reasonable too.

Just because a guest filibusters a question and a host tries to zero in on his question does not make a bad interview.
On the contrary, it makes a good interview.
Don was the interviewer and he made sure he got what he wanted.

Don’t see what the fuss is about.
Good job to both men.

Don Lemon is the most condescending host in all of cable news. Watching his interviews makes my skin crawl.

Don Lemon is the most condescending host in all of cable news. Watching his interviews makes my skin crawl.

Yeah, why can’t he be more like O’Reilly interviewing the President!

You are only allowed to be rude and interrupt politicians as an anchor when you  Bret Baier or Bill O’Reilly. Then it is good journalism.

There is your “down the middle” CNN host attacking a conservative.  What a joke CNN is.  Is there a single CNN host that votes Republican?

What a rude dickhead.  Who does he think he is – a hack.

Isn’t Lemon that guy who wrote some sort of a book that failed to sell? That could be why he is hostile to other people’s success.

The Tea Party has created an unavoidable challenge to Obama that he wanted to avoid.

Senator Kerry !

Lemon didn’t want any answers.  He was just looking for a confrontation.

Good job by Don Lemon though the question were too human interest for my taste. So, Ron Paul wants a balanced budget. Who doesn´t? A reasonable approach is too increase revenues and cut spending. Btw, a balanced budget amendment could easily lead to the situation that Congress is forced to raise taxes. So much for the soundness of that idea.  Not to mention unexpected things like wars, natural disasters or bank bailouts happen.

Or

Or Chris Matthews interviewing anybody .

The “Ingraham Factor” works for me .

I feel terrible that I’ve never given Lemon credit for being such a huge douchebag. I thought he was just your run of the mill, left wing bomb throwing moron. I had no idea he was such a multi-tasker.

lol…If it ain’t a Fox softball love-in interview it is “attacking a conservative”.

This fruit outghta be the big hit on fire island this weekend.  I wonder if anyone can point us to a link of this limp wrist questioning a democrat this aggressively.. . . . . . . chirp . . chirp.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naf6J1FhR1k

Does Lemon act like such a drama queen when he’s questioning a liberal ?

Lemon was sticking to his “talking point” which was to dismiss whatever Rand Paul was saying as a “talking point”.  Paul made Lemon look like an idiot.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEJL2Uuv-oQ&feature=related

Nice job Donny, you sure showed that bad man who can talk louder.

This is why I am more credible than most on this issue.
I am one of the few who will often and repeatedly criticize Matthews, Big Ed, Lawrence O’Donnell, Cenk and Rachel when they go to far.
I don’t play sides like you guys do, I want the best cable news I can get and be proud of.
The day I ever see you criticize your own side I will shit in my hat.

Don Lemon did not go to far.
Not even close.

Now the rest of you can go back to whoring for your respective sides.

kinda knew that was coming..:)

That is worse than foolish,” McCain added, “That is deceiving many of
our constituents by telling them that just because the Majority Leader
tabled the balanced budget amendment legislation that somehow through
‘amending and debate’ we could somehow convince the majority on the
other side of the aisle to go along with a balanced budget amendment to
the Constitution. That is not fair! That is not fair to the American
people to hold out and say, ‘we won’t agree to raising the debt limit
until we pass a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution. It’s
unfair. It’s bizarro.”

The debt ceiling has NEVER before been tied to any other budget negotiations.   It’s always been a clean up or down vote.

The Republicans have been saying for MONTHS that they planned to hold the debt limit vote hostage if they didn’t get massive cuts. This has not been a secret.

There is no mystery about who is to blame for this manufactured crisis.

If you can’t see that this interview was hostile towards Rand Paul then you blinded by your own partisan politics.

 I’m not a Rand Paul fan, but Lemon was rude and condescending…Inept and unskilled interviewing….This is an anchor???

Why not negotiate the cuts separately?   They have to negotiate the budget every year anyway…and there’s always the possibility of shutting down the government then.

So, why not??   Because the Republicans KNEW they would manufacture a crisis so they could blackmail the  Democrats into accepting something they would never accept otherwise.

Mr. Condescension = Don Lemon. 

Sorry he didn’t pay appropriate deference to Sen. Paul.  

The media doesn’t exist to pay deference to elected office holders.  They’re there to ask questions.

The whole point of the interview seemed to be for Lemon to express his hatred and contempt for Rand Paul and the Tea Party.  That is not the job of a supposed objective journalist.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZO9KaSrj1sM

I commend Sen. Paul for having the courage to try and educated mindless nitwits like sour lemon on the realities of big government spending – however hopeless that task might be. Patriots don’t shy away from battling for what is best for our country.

Yeah, he actually tried to get Rand to give an answer.  What is wrong with that?

Whats wrong with not spending more then you bring in? I come from a long line of democrats, what am i missing?

Perhaps, you look like…oh, you get the picture.

Why didn’t Don Lemon agree with everything that Rand Paul said like you’re supposed to?

The Ford years, the Reagan years, the Bush I years, the Bush II years…

If you think the Libs are screaming now, when they are being offered the opportunity to increase the debt ceiling (which is added to the incredible spending binge of the Obama presidency), wait until there is a change in administration and Senate in 2013. The cuts that a new president will have to make are going to be as serious and as massive as Governors Christie, Cuomo, Walker, and Kasich have had to make. 

I used to think that Ron Paul, Rand’s father, was too extreme. Now, I think he’s the only person running for president who really has a grasp of the extent of our financial problems.

How is that again?

Lemon is one of the biggest jerks at CNN.  He thinks he is king or something; oh wait, he is gay so of course he is is entitled to be treated as a king at CNN.

Unless they’re talking to Democrats, in which case such questions are rude and probably racist.

You need to go away.

Lemon is what you get when you hire a guy that thinks his sexuality (homosexual) is the number one item that makes than job performance secondary.

If the tables were turned, and this was Bill O’Reilly interviewing any Democrat, you’d be complaining the other way.  You know it, and I know it.

See @B_F_D:disqus ?

How did you arrive at that conclusion?

I was a young boy when Kennedy was president. At that time he was my hero. Of course he was murdered. He was not pushing heavy taxation or large government. I do not think it is a Democrat or Republican issue. The government has gotten to big spending too much money. Can we not all agree on that. And should we not do something about it. If not now then when?

It didn’t seem like all that big a dust up  to me but Lemon definitely set the tone as contentious. I think Paul felt that he had answered the question as he moved on to explain further. Paul reacted naturally and bristled at Lemon’s attitude.

Be afraid, be very afraid, he might attack marriage at some point.

That was so weird. Strangely parental? That was inappropriate no matter which “side” you support.

the meme was that cnn couldn’t be taken seriously, jeez can you follow along or do people need to explain things?

Myself and many other Americans are tired of politicians on both sides talking around the questions. That is all they do, most people don’t understand the debt ceiling issue, and Paul flatly refused to answer Don Lemon’s questions. I wish more interviewers would do what Don Lemon did and interrupt them and urge them to answer the question. You may like the David Gregory method of just letting them answer whatever questions they want anyway they want even when they don’t answer them at all. I want real answers from the people we put in to do the people’s business.

You don’t like gay people either? Besides Muslims? Who’d have thunk.. lol.

Nothings wrong with that. I want them to cut down on spending. The problem is, and the reason I don’t take the Tea Party seriously is that they won’t dare touch Defense Spending and the bush tax cuts. After all, they’re only two of the largest drains on the economy.

Homophobic much?

Maybe because the Dems don’t think that budgets are necessary as in where is the Senate side of the budget?, since they have not bothered to write one in over a two year period what makes you think that they are going to get around to it anytime soon?  Besides that the dems hardly behaved differently during the 09-10 sessions as they actually closed and physically locked doors to keep the republicans out of debates, they actually posted security guards to keep the republicans out…  You guys are crying over your own tactics the republicans are just playing the game better in the democratic mud puddle..  remember as the president said elections have results…  The voters not only gave the republicans control of the House, but they also saw fit to take away the legislative majority in the Senate..  Harry may have the gavel, but he does not have the votes to pass legislation without republican support.  Live with it…  we had to.

Yeah, where does this homo get off?  Why should this queer be in a “curt mood”? Booty hurt?  If he’s a journalist with no BIAS why would he not merely report the “goings on”? Why would he have a “mood”? Why would he be angry with the republicans? Did his butt ranger boyfriend not propose of something? Death to Smoochie beyotches!

“I don’t like Lemon” *12 people agree

Unfortunately, that doesn’t persuade open-minded people from wondering if Lemon might be right, even if you shut your brain off to criticism.

no one politically can answer a question with a yes or no answer……….if they dont get this done..who is gonna take blame for increasing the burden we already have…..where can you go and pick and chose what bills you have to pay???….you still have to pay them…with the consquences of late fees and higher interest rates….

TeaPartyNation huh? Unpatriotic, unamerican, anti-constitutional. Good to know you rather belong to the TeaPartyNation than the greatest nation in the world. We wont miss you.

Oh grow up. Biggest jerks… He asks questions. I don’t care if he is partisan the fact that he asks questions is fine by me. At least he’s not like Mr. status quo never ask a hard question Tim Russert and his idiot son (nepotism). 

How’d West do with the Tea Party?
http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/pulp/2011/07/allen_west_tea_party_traitor_schizophrenia_boehner.php
LOL!!!

Let’s stop and think about WHY the Senate Democrats have not put out a full year budget in a while…

Could it be because Republicans filibuster everything except the naming of post offices??

DAVE I really don’t think the tea party is everybody who was on the same mind. Let’s get rid of government waste where ever it leads. A missionary one said you can give the fish to a hungry person! Or you can teach a hungry person how to fish, and that they will be fed for life! Too many takers on government programs. Absolutely some do need help, and should be supported. But many have simply learned how to use the system. Republicans and Democrats!

That’s because the Tea Party has been hijacked by neocon douchebags who worship Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin.

It didn’t start out that way ;/

Let’s be clear about the Senate.  The Republicans had the chance to take over the Senate altogether in 2010.  

There were enough competitive seats in play…..but they LOST too many key races.   Simply put, the American people did not choose to give them control of the Senate.

People looked at kooks like Christine O’Donnell, Sharron Angle and Ken Buck and said “Thanks, but no thanks on that bridge to nowhere”

Why?  Because that’s what happens when the Tea Party has to run statewide.   They get defeated once you get them out of the comfort of their gerrymandered house districts.

Must REALLY suck living in your parent’s basement

That is a seperate issue from debt limit.  The time to do something about it was the Bush II years.  The GOPers hide their heads in the sand about that one.  Blame the Dem POTUS, that is the GOPers only answer to a situtation they created.
When they admit their failure, that is the time!

DOC, they do have platform and a caucus. They vote identically. They choose not to touch Defense because they don’t have the nerve to go after it (Ron Paul being the exception). 
This is why I can’t take them seriously. 

How would Lemon be “right”? He didn’t have a point to make other than to ask if Paul knew that Americans want “compromise”. But every instance of that compromise that Paul offered, was pooh-pooed by the homo! And if I was Paul I’dve told this queer where to stick it, not that he doesn’t know!

Mikey the CBO is reporting that the interest rates are likely to rise regardless of the outcome of this fight, based on our revenue to debt ratio, CBO says that it would take a deal to cut the deficit three times greater than what these guys are talking about..  Don’t get me wrong these guys need to get something done and something will get done because the Dems can not come out of this clear cut winners as they did in the 90′s based on outside reporting as to the financial challanges facing the country…  both sides are drastically trying to get the deal done, I am sure that they will find a way to bring the Tea Party congressmen along, they are just trying to figure out what they can politically afford to give them. This is only the beginning, if they think that they can put this issue down anytime soon, they are just wrong becaause the credit markets will not allow it… 

Just another “heads I win, tails you lose” story.  The Republicans gained a lot of power in the 2010 election, but for some ideologically driven hacks, even a win is still a loss for “the other guy.”  Amazing the kind of excuses and spin they’re forced to come up with.

No.

Has there ever been a situation where you allowed the Democrats any part of the repsonsibility?  Or do you ALWAYS make excuses?

No, It started off as almost sane. You did have some who wanted to go after Defense. You even has Libertarian Economists who argued the tax cuts drain more money than it they create. All of that got silenced when they started getting funding. They sold out for cash. They sacrificed their philosophy for donations.

…except when Bill O’Reilly does it, and they’re interviewing a Democrat…

You mean questions like

Mr. President, why do you think it’s okay to bomb Libyan hospitals and water facilities?

What ever happened to “the troops will be home by next year, you can take that to the bank”?

How come you haven’t kept a single campaign promise?

How come you’ve spent millions of dollars trying to cover up your past?

How come you voted against raising the debt limit under Bush (who’s no better) if it’s so important?

How come our foreign policy revolves around Israel?

How come your buddies at General Electric don’t have to pay carbon taxes?

McCain must be hanging out with Lieberman again… 

No.  I’ll give your side credit for winning a good number of seats and taking over the House.  Fair enough.

But the fact that Tea Party candidates were rejected in a number of high-profile races (with dollars flowing in from all over the country) suggests that the 2010 elections were NOT the giant rightward mandate that the Republicans are interpreting it as.  

Again, it’s much easier to get a Tea Partier elected when they are running in already Republican-leaning districts. Some of them were able to prevail in swing districts because of a general discontent with the economy, etc.  

So, yes, the Republicans made gains….but they didn’t do quite as well in the the statewide races.

Well, while we’re at war, why should we cut defense spending?  Remember when the left was all up in arms about soldiers not getting enough equipment, or having to make good with poor materials?  Well guys, where do you think that stuff comes from?  Why do you think that kind of thing happens?  Cut programs and spending that doesn’t make sense, from ALL parts of the government… but don’t cut defense spending just as on principle, cut it for real and tangible reasons.

As for the tax cuts… how are they a “drain” on the economy?  They’re not the government’s money in the first place!  Again, I can’t stand this mentality… the idea that “all money is the government’s, they’re just letting you keep some of it.”  And to believe that tax cuts are a “drain on society,” you have to see things that way.

okay, agreed upon we have two sides at each others throat’s. But what is the answer? The government has become a monster! Not just the federal government. But state government. And local government.I’ve been to other countries throughout the world. And we are becoming a banana republic! I really do not think we know what we are heading into.

The Republicans say that Bush overspent all the time!  Where are you living?

But really, what’s the point?  He overspent then, so Obama is allowed to do it now?  How does that logic work?

The Democrats have some of the responsibility, to be sure.   

I think the larger issue is the highly polarized environment where neither side is willing to compromise.

I think both sides of the issue have completely flipped their minds. It is like fighting over what we’re going to eat for supper as the Titanic sinks. Remember? That was the ship that even God could not sink!

If he wanted an answer so badly, perhaps he should’ve kept his mouth shut rather than interrupting every three seconds.

I’m not really a fan of Rand (though his father is okay), but Lemon’s just a dick.

Wow another voice of reason. While you wrote that which gay porn site were you on? I know between the self-loathing and the marinara stains on your handy moist toilets you might have not noticed. 

Act like a civilized man. Use reason and logic to make your points. 

Sure.  I think those questions are fair game.  

The problem these days is that politicians on both sides just refuse to go on any shows where they might be asked a tough question.

Rand and Ron Paul supporters criticize their own side all the time start take your hat off and start shitting.

Also I don’t think he went too far either. I think he wanted to catch or outwit Rand in some way in the discussion but just looked like an angry guy with no real argument to give. He also tells him to do his job the people put him there to do, Rand won his Senate seat handily by promising to reign in government and government spending so I would say he is doing his job.

The only question I take issue with is the unkept promises question.

He’s kept a number of promises:
-Don’t Ask Don’t Tell = Gone
-Healthcare Bill = Done
-Stimulus Bill = Done

Those are all things he said he would do while he was campaigning…and he did them.

IMO, the “high profile” status of those races are why they lost.  The Democrats and Liberals have a very good system of getting money and votes to certain areas.  The Tea Party put pressure on a number of races in the Senate, and were able to spread the left-wing machine pretty thin.  In the lower profile races, the TP candidates more often won, than in the high profile ones.  There’s nothing wrong with this, of course, it’s all legal… but do note the amount of effort it took to bring those candidates (and again, IMO, someone like Angle and O’Donnell should have been much easier to bring down).

As for the Senate as a whole.  Meh.  I always said it would be best for the Republicans (strategically of course) if they only took over one house.  That way, they could push their agenda, slow or hault Obama and the Democrats, but not necessarily be on the hook if things go sour, as one house of congress does not equal a house and the Presidency.  Strategically, I think what happened was the best possible outcome for them.

IMO, the “high profile” status of those races are why they lost.  The Democrats and Liberals have a very good system of getting money and votes to certain areas.  The Tea Party put pressure on a number of races in the Senate, and were able to spread the left-wing machine pretty thin.  In the lower profile races, the TP candidates more often won, than in the high profile ones.  There’s nothing wrong with this, of course, it’s all legal… but do note the amount of effort it took to bring those candidates (and again, IMO, someone like Angle and O’Donnell should have been much easier to bring down).

As for the Senate as a whole.  Meh.  I always said it would be best for the Republicans (strategically of course) if they only took over one house.  That way, they could push their agenda, slow or hault Obama and the Democrats, but not necessarily be on the hook if things go sour, as one house of congress does not equal a house and the Presidency.  Strategically, I think what happened was the best possible outcome for them.

No, the mentality is “We have asked the government to do certain things…and we should pay for them rather than half-ass them”.

I would argue that the Republican approach to budget cuts is counter productive.

They don’t do anything to make things more efficient.   They just take existing programs and make them limp along with no money….therefore rendering them less effective.  

Ok don’t assume i’m of the left. (i’m a Libertarian). 

Point 1: The wars are POINTLESS. We can do more with drones. Not NATION BUILDING. I opposed the wars under bush as I oppose them now. There’s nothing more tangible than ending nation building in 12th century countries and putting that money into building back up our own country.

POINT 2: WE PAY FOR OUR COUNTRY THROUGH TAXES. roads, bridges, army, navy, cops, schools… The tax cuts are artificial. It is a loss of revenue. Taxes are what pay the bills. When there’s no or little revenue its a DRAIN. 

Hope that wasn’t too much. 

The Obamo breast-feeding media hacks are an incensed lot, aren’t they? Tee Hee! Their little Man-Child Limp-Wrist will get bludgeoned more each week, each month as we move toward November 2012. Can these Leftist media hacks stomach it? Their beloved Little Obamo getting his teeth kicked in? Probably not! Many of them will flee the business, unable to deal with the death of their little Camelot.

Well sadly the answer is not found in the DEMS or the REPS. The people need to wake up. Political parties are the problem. We need to:

 vote for more Independents (and get people to run) who run not on party platforms but on the merits of their own Ideas. You need campaign finance reform to even the playing field. Get money out of politics. Make it easier for small business to get started. Make it harder for Big business to crush competition and form monopolies. End sweetheart no bid government contracts. Cut defense. Tax reform. Invest in R&D. 

Education Reform. Give people a choice (as long as its to schools without religious affiliations, remember sep of church and state) Make the schools compete for our kids and encourage them to think critically (most important part of an education)

I mean those are what come to mind off the top. It’s going to be a lot of work. We are up against a cluster-f*ck of problems. But we have no choice. We either try to fix it or we die as a country. Our choice.

You make some fair points, but I’ll dispute your points about O’Donnell and Angle.

Neither of those races ended up being all that close.  O’Donnell got blown out.  Angle lost by 4 or 5 points (I believe).  Not even a recount.

If anything, a Republican should have won that race because they were so geared up to take out Harry Reid.  Yes, he has his own machine as well….but Sharron Angle raised a boat-load of cash just because she had an “R” next to her name.  

I am not a flambe’ . . . . . . but by the tone of your reply. . .  I must have hit a nerve.

Oh by the way, is having your decending colon invaded by another man . . . . civialized?

P.S.  I ain’t a guinea neither.

“ But every instance of that compromise that Paul offered, was pooh-pooed by the homo!”

Whats wrong with being gay?

I did not say that the repubs took control of the senate, but rather the dems lost the legislative majority and cannot pass legislation without republican support. Also I would not be bragging of losing 7 of the 18 democratic seats in the last election cycles, I guess I had to count Scott Brown in that .. but you still get my drift.

Why?

we might be of different political persuasions but I could not disagree with your suggestions. I do think anyone who runs for office needs to be an open book. All financiers and connections revealed. Granted we would not have near as many people running for office, but we would have a lot more honest government.

So let’s see. If I make $17,000.00 a year I can $1 million ? yippie !!

So you beat a witch up in New York and a loon in Nevada… and Harry had a hard time even doing that, and he is the Senate majority leader…  please forgive the Tea Party for not properly vetting their canidates, they are grass roots you know, I am sure that they have learned their lesson and will do a better job of making those mistakes in ’12.. I am sure that we will do a better job of finding the Marco Rubio’s out there… 

I just heard Bernie Sanders screaming on the senate floor no one will get their checks because of the republicans.
I just went to the mail box and found my $ 2800.00 monthly veterans check for my purple hearts, bronze stars w/clusters and an assortment of other Vietnam awards…

Senator Rand Paul is doing what he promised when he ran for election. Stick to your guns.

I think you and I have more in common than you think. If you get rid of the political labels and all that junk I bet you’d be surprised how much we have in common. And also, I think the American people are not as divided as they think. If you had public servants who obeyed not the party or the donation plates, this country would be given a real debate of Ideas. And because of those Ideas Americans would have a choice and thus feel empowered for the first time in a very long time.

maybe hes upset the idiots his taxes are paying for are more interested in playing political grabass than actually  governing the country?  Lemon is Paul’s boss, not the other way around.

Also your gaybaiting is disgusting and does no credit for your argument or political party

I think your lack of intelligence is profound. I take joy in knowing that people like you will always and forever be confined to the gutter. 

“The Ingraham Factor”

You gotta be f-ing kidding.

Do you know she actually had HER show, for about 3 days, and then she was canned because she pulled out a Billdo about her hairdo not looking “right”?

Sometime after that, Chris Matthews would have her on HIS show until he had to shut her up. Later, she would complain on HER radio show – Call Chris Matthews to see if HE will have me on his show again -

Billdo disdains KKKlownnity as “well, he is a… a… a… Republican”

What do you think Laura Ingraham is?

Idle threats…  West will be just fine, there is a lot of love for him in PBC

? What do you think I’m saying?

I agree, but I think that you should pay for them with your money not your Grandchildrens’…  the only thing holding up this deal is Reids and Obama’s refusal to pass along the Balanced budget amendment to the States.

Well if that was to cut the budget, if he’s sincere, why won’t he or the tea party touch the Defense budget? It’s one of the biggest drains on the economy after all…

AHHHHH…DID YOU GET GANG RAPED IN PRISON?????…YOURE SUCH A MEAN OLE FART….does YOUR booty hurt???…..typical teabagging homophopic racist….all the shit you talk on here i bet ya bitch ass wont say anything like that to a gay persons face….most of you homo-haters are cowards to the bone….id enjoy seeing a man in a dress poppin the snot out ya

Don, like the rest of the CNN hosts, sure does have his democrat talking points down, eh?

So funny to watch these mediodiots…each and everyone of them speaks for Obama and then they think the people should have confidence and trust in them.

All Don did was regurgitate the DNC talking points that Team Obama faxed over to CNN HQ and CNN then disseminated to all their staff.

Same old same old.

CNN is pretty darn useless as a news organ anymore, that is one truth that you can get from this whole debate.  CNN takes the DNC position each and every time.  no balance, no honestly, no truthfulness, just DNC and Team Obama dribble.

tammy bruce would NOT approve of your retoric….niether would The Log Cabin Republicans….better watch ya step

I don’t care if it’s disgusting, I’m not trying to make a political point, I’m trying to make him uncomfortable for saying homo, he should for bringing up sexual stuff in a political debate. I have no problem veering into lurid sexual territory if that’s how Republicans want to debate. You, on the other hand would probably just ignore that comment, I like to take a pro-active approach and since you can’t reason with these people, why not just gross them out based on their own comments? If a Republican in congress called gay sex disgusting, I’d probably ask them if they’d like to be under another man as he enters them… why? So they picture it and realize it has no place here. :D

The Republican majority in the House apparently is willing to risk the economic vitality and welfare of the nation.  It has foolishly embraced the tea party’s economic scorched earth rhetoric and their “my way or the highway” negotiating tactic by threatening to vote against raising the debt limit unless all of their demands are met … or worse, even if they are met.  

The party leaders have dogmatically painted themselves into a corner, and now they are more conserved about saving face than than they are about saving the nation.

The delusional tea party faction of the Republican Party is behaving like a deranged, estranged spouse who — rather than lose the house, investments, and parental control of the kids in a divorce settlement — decides to burn down the house with the spouse and kids inside.

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mc cain is trying to save his legacy….he doesnt want to be remembered in history as the man who because of his ilresponsible actions laid the groundwork for the failure of this great nation

In the last week, Congress has held 4 votes to increase the debt ceiling. In every case, Democrats voted against while Republicans voted to do it.

Who doesn’t want the debt ceiling increased? The people who voted against it. Spin that.

Hillbillies like you don’t like their teabagger breathren to be held accountable, do they?  Go back to watching Fox ‘N Friends… that’s about your level of intellect.

House Republicans have voted to increase the debt ceiling twice in the last week. House Democrats (save 5 of them, on one occasion) voted against it. Who’s risking economic catastrophe? Democrats.

I know it’s tough for all you hillbilly teabaggers to see one of your own be held accountable on a legitimate news network – it’s probably best y’all head back to Fox ‘N Friends so you can get your news diluted down to your level.  If you have cable.  Which I’m guessing most teabaggers don’t.

“This debt ceiling increase is DOA. It will never become law.” – Barack Obama.

I actually wanted to strangle Ali Velshi this afternoon. So I changed the channel. X Games!

republican pundits on TV are starting to freak the fu%k out…they know they will take plenty of heat for being the enablers of these nation destroying teabaggin nuttcases… if the nation goes into default some talking heads on tv news are gonna be in a shitload of trouble i can think of several …i can name at least 10 of em without calling out anybody from FOX….just wait till stock in time werner and comcast starts to tumble…somebody in their newsrooms will bite the bullet bigtime

Oh come on, FedUp.  Marco Rubio is as insider as they come…he only plays a Tea Partier on TV.  He was the Speaker in the FL legislature, for crying out loud.  If Charlie Crist hadn’t been such a centrist, Rubio would have just run as a regular Republican.   He just rode the Tea Party wave.

My point still stands, however.  The Republicans had a fair shot at winning the Senate, but the couldn’t close the deal.   That’s no great shakes for the Democrats either…they did lose seats…but my point is that it shows that the country isn’t necessarily shifting as far Right as the GOP would like to believe.

I think my other point stands as well:  That Tea Partiers do well in districts that are already likely to vote Republican….but when they have to compete *everywhere* they don’t do as well.  

Where did you get the idea that the Tea party won’t touch DOD? It’s nonsense. There’s a ton of bloat and earmark type garbage there. We could easily knock 10% off without impacting our readiness.

But it isn’t a drain on the economy, it’s a driver. Lots of people are employed because of it.

Thanks for your service.

We all knew that the leftists were throwing their last gasp fear card.

The left have a choice, to pay their unions, abortion mills, propaganda centers (PBS, NBC, MSNBC, NPR, etc) , mosque rehab projects, Department of strip search and patdowns (aka homeland security), Department of Re Education, ttc……………or they could pay legitimate expenditures. Social Security, Medicare, Debt payments, Military

They have enough to pay our debts that we should actually pay or pay their socialist agencies.

Let us see what they choose.

Bernie Sanders voted no on a debt ceiling increase twice in the last week. Bernie Sanders doesn’t want you to get your check.

Thank you for your service.

You know why Pablo I have explained it to you before don’t act like you don’t know why.

Why do Democrats keep refusing to increase the debt ceiling, moocher? You know you’re gonna suck some of that borrowed cash up. Why do Democrats want to cancel your EBT card?

The house just voted a 17 billion dollar increase in the defense budget only 7 house republicans voted against it.

wow isn’t that socialism Pablo?

 You are an idiot and the reason why we think conservatives are idiots. I served with homosexuals in the military and they have died for their country. You make me sick

Fedup–

I think we can agree on the need for a balanced budget.  But I think an amendment is the wrong course (unless it’s carefully structured).

Sure, many states have BBA’s, but they’re not the panacea you think they are.  For example, many of these Republican governors bragging about balancing their budgets did so by plugging the hole with stimulus money.

The other problem with a BBA is that it would be very bad during a major economic crisis….if the economy tanks and tax revenues drop, the government would have to lay off thousands of people and raise taxes to make up the difference.   And no, you can’t always balance the budget through cuts alone.

And what about a major natural disaster or terrorist attack?  The government would be powerless to respond without raising taxes or cutting other things.  

A BBA would also prevent any kind of economic stimulus (whether its tax cuts  or govt spending) because anything you do would have to be offset by cuts elsewhere, which negates the effect on the economy.

 I think many of us can agree on the need for a balanced budget.  But I think an amendment is the wrong course (unless it’s carefully structured).Sure, many states have BBA’s, but they’re not the panacea you think they are.  For example, many of these Republican governors bragging about balancing their budgets did so by plugging the hole with stimulus money.The other problem with a BBA is that it would be very bad during a major economic crisis….if the economy tanks and tax revenues drop, the government would have to lay off thousands of people and raise taxes to make up the difference.   And no, you can’t always balance the budget through cuts alone.And what about a major natural disaster or terrorist attack?  The government would be powerless to respond without raising taxes or cutting other things.  A BBA would also prevent any kind of economic stimulus (whether its tax cuts  or govt spending) because anything you do would have to be offset by cuts elsewhere, which negates the effect on the economy.

DESC in Dayton, Ohio should be closed, since after WWII it has existed to employ people.

Another bigot. Just remember this liberals if the conservatives get back in they cannot resist going after social issues its in their DNA. You wait and see what they try.

More GARBAGE from the Commie News Network!!!!!!111  THIS is exactly why Republican politicians feel more comfortable on FOX NEWS (The Most Powerful Name in News) – because they know they won’t be CRUCIFIED and SMEARED by hacks like Don LAMEon!!!!!111 

 No they like FOX news because they wont be asked tough questions.

only 10%???? What about all the no bid sweetheart deals given to contractors? Oh they’re such capitalists… They don’t compete, they want their corporate welfare. It’s people like you who can’t see that this is a huge drain. It gets us nowhere. How about we start creating REAL jobs. You know the ones where it doesn’t require funding for a war to maintain? 

Lemon seems to be implying that the American people want a deal, regardless of the consequences.

I cant wait to hear Obamas address to the Nation on Tuesday night….hes gonna come out and smack the shit out of the republicans , its gonna be ugly…my guess is he’ll let the market drop by 1000 points or so just to get your attention…he sees an oppertunity here…to destroy mitch mcconnell and john boehner with one stroke of his pen…..McConnell is fillibustering the vote….big mistake….republicans in the senate are gonna fillibuster the nation right into default

Well, yeah, if the only alternative is default of course the American people want a deal.   Do you want interest rates to skyrocket?  Do you want your parents to stop receiving their Medicare…or the troops to stop being paid?

Why is it so hard to admit that both men did a good job? It is a reporter’s task to ask questions and make sure that they are answered and it is a politicians job to get his point across, they both did a good job

But the only alternative is NOT default.  It’s a strawman being used as a political football.  NO ONE believes that we’re going to default, not even the stock market.

What this is about is a war about future spending.

No. Would you like to respond to my post, as opposed to changing the subject now?

10% is just my back of the envelope math. You said people like me wouldn’t touch DOD. You’re wrong. Care to respond to that?

Rand Paul looks like a dirty q tip. Don lemon didn’t let him get away with that not answering the question bullshit.

The facts are the facts. Republicans have voted to raise the debt ceiling 4 times in the last week. Democrats have voted against raising the debt ceiling 4 times in the last week. I don’t need an explanation from you. Those are the facts.

Try again, keemosabe.  67% of our budget is entitlements, and 19% is defense. 

But that being said, defense is not a tea party sacred cow, regardless of the blathering of the MSM.  We’re ready to cut across the board.

 So the government giving over a trillion dollars to veterans defense and homeland security isn’t a form of socialism. Providing amazingly cheap healthcare for life to our veterans isn’t socialism? Your tea party guys just freaking voted to increase the defense budget by 17 billion dollars. It is over 700 billion dollars a year now. Now you said its good because it provides jobs. Inside and outside of the military that is socialism on a huge scale no matter how you slice it.

Dude, Obama’s sixth? seventh? speech on the issue is going to be just as pathetic as the others. You may enjoy his partisan bullshit (because you’re an idiot) but the world is watching and they’re deeply unimpressed, as are the ratings agencies.

If he wants a debt ceiling increase, he should stop saying that he’ll veto bills that increase the debt ceiling.

If that’s the case, they should tell Congressional Democrats to stop voting against every bill that raises the debt ceiling, which is exactly what they’ve been doing.

Well my comment was “It’s people like you who can’t see that this is a huge drain”. Not that all people who consider themselves to be affiliated with the Tea Party won’t touch it. 
So in order for me to answer your question fully, I would first need you to answer the question of… Do you view Defense Spending as a huge drain?

 And for your information I was in the first gulf war. I received 20 grand to go to school from  the federal govt. I thank them for it but it was a form of socialism. They gave me something actually you the american public gave me something in return I gave you service. Now I am a police officer and I continue to serve and the tax payers pay me to do so through their taxes. i witnessed first hand all of the waste and fraud in the military and it is no different than any other govt institution. But your tea party members apparently think its ok to not even talk about cutting back the military because it provides jobs. Wow now I would say thats hypocrisy.

 I actually agree with this, and I hope we are right lol

 I actually agree with this, and I hope we are right lol

Looks like momentum is building for the 14th amendment option:

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) may not be pushing the issue publicly, but in private she “clearly” supports President Barack Obama using the Constitution to raise the debt ceiling as a last resort, according to one Democratic member of Congress.

Oh here we go again with the whole “it’s all a liberal conspiracy!” crap.  

Even Ronald Reagan knew we had to raise it or risk default…he even wrote a letter in 1983 about this topic

“This country now possesses the strongest credit in the world,” Reagan wrote. “The full consequences of a default – or even the serious prospect of default – by the United States are impossible to predict and awesome to contemplate. Denigration of the full faith and credit of the United States would have substantial effects on the domestic financial markets and the value of the dollar in exchange markets. The Nation can ill afford to allow such a result. The risks, the costs, the disruptions, and the incalculable damage lead me to but one conclusion: the Senate must pass this legislation before the Congress adjourns.”.   —Ronald Reagan.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2011/jul/22/barack-obama/ronald-reagan-talks-about-debt-ceiling/

You are quite obviously mentally retarded.

Allow me to quote you, ‘A missionary one said you can give the fish to a hungry person’…i actually like that statement…but there may be a small problem with that..simply because one has been taught, and knows how to fish(jobs), doesnt actually mean that they will eat…there may be a shortage of fish!’

 No No don’t quote the demi god he never said anything wrong in conservative eyes!

ah, in your previous post you stated, “But it isn’t a drain on the economy, it’s a driver. Lots of people are employed because of it.”

Its not. If it wasn’t for the funding provided by the government and also the wars themselves these jobs would not exist or have come into existence. 

What this country needs is innovation and the creation of self-sustaining jobs that do not rely on government funding and corporate welfare to keep them in existence. 

We refer to these as REAL JOBS. Ones that do not require the sucking on of the governments tits in order for their existence and profit flow.

Apparently if Barbara Boxer is correct, the use of the filibuster by Senate Republicans to block the Reid bill would be the first time ever in the history of raising the the debt ceiling limit. All other times a simple majority was acceptable.

You’re quite obviously a skilled orator and a talented debater. Your mastery of wordsmith and command of logic is astounding. 
Are you a founding father?

You’re quite obviously a skilled orator and a talented debater. Your mastery of wordsmith and command of logic is astounding. 
Are you a founding father?

Care to respond to that?

Care to respond to that?

One of the poorest excuses for an interviewer ever shown.  This guy needs to learn how to interview after taking a forced, extended assignment covering the expected snowfall in Siberia. Wherever this guy came from, please send him back there.

One of the poorest excuses for an interviewer ever shown.  This guy needs to learn how to interview after taking a forced, extended assignment covering the expected snowfall in Siberia. Wherever this guy came from, please send him back there.

Yes he needs a lesson from Sean Hannity. All those hard hitting, insightful and illuminating questions he asked Sarah Palin. I think all journalists should learn from Sean. Hell lets just have Sean conduct every interview. 

 I love ya BFD, but your first line made me bust out laughing.  Not that I think you are wrong or disagree, but you had the balls to say something like that.

Yer a funny dude. You’ve added absolutely nothing of value, but I guess it must give you a chubby to type what you apparently believe to be be big words in condescension. Here’s a little secret, junior, we all made it past the eighth grade, too.

The guy is an admitted activist. He’s no reporter. Just another Democrat operative posing as a journalist. 

You have the intellect of a teabagger!  Good for you!  Atta boy!  Now go get yer gun and Old Yeller and fire off some shots from yer porch!

apparently its longer than three letters. 

They might as well just raise the debt ceiling with no conditions, or eliminate it altogether.  The plans we are left with from both parties differ only in small details and do nothing to change the trajectory of unsustainable spending and borrowing.  This is all theater and all for nothing.  The Congress has no interest in engaging the American people about the size and scope of our financial problems. Perhaps we ask too much from our representatives.  But the markets will not be so timid when they begin to reject our debt.  Then we’ll have no choice.  Until then, I guess we should just learn to love the debt and go back to the malls while we still can.

Your points are pretty valid and I can tell that you are talking sincerely so I will not push buttons..  actually it will be interesting to see what the tea party does in the upcomming election as they have alot riding on this current debate…  I would like to see them take a different tack on the tax issue as our deficit problem has some structual inadequacies that were put into the system by Bush..  Having said that I still believe that cutting has to be serious and deep but also realize that the federal government is not something that you can just wack at with spending cuts as the future drivers of the deficit is the retirement of the baby boomers.  No matter how much is cut they can not keep up with that growing liability on the balance sheet and keep anywhere near a balanced budget.  So at the risk of the Tea Party casting me aside I can see that need for additional revenues but would not support the expiration of the Bush tax cuts as I think that the time is long overdue for a total overhaul of the tax code and a much more simple tax system be employed that not only grows revenues, but would be no longer allow for the manuplation of special interests and their lobbyists.  They have made reference to it of late, the so called flatter tax system that broadens the base while at the same time lowering the corporate rates making the economy more competitive to international corps…  they need to take this on and not half-ass it..  They need to make it as flat as possible and stop revisions that favor any particular group..  it is kinda a daunting task as there are many so called tax expenditures that are valid that would need to disappear.  Personally I think something like that goes much further in helping the country while cleaning up DC some too than does simply allowing the Bush credits to expire… Read this attachment about a CBO report and it may help you as it did me to understand just how grave this situation really is..

“Even the $4 trillion “grand bargain” on debt reduction hammered out by President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio)—a deal that collapsed nearly as quickly as it came together—would not have gotten the U.S. where it needs to be. A June analysis by the Congressional Budget Office concluded that keeping the U.S.’s ratio of debt to gross domestic product at current levels until the year 2085 (to avoid scaring off investors) would require spending cuts, tax hikes, or a combination of both equal to 8.3 percent of GDP each year for the next 75 years, vs. the most likely (i.e. “alternative”) scenario. That translates to $15 trillion over the next decade—or more than three times what Obama and Boehner were considering.

You start to see why, absent signs of a serious commitment to deficit reduction, the rating services are warning they may downgrade the federal government’s triple-A rating even if Congress does meet the Aug. 2 deadline. Fortunately, our debt hole is escapable. But digging out requires that leaders of both parties come to terms with just how deep it is.”

At anyrate….  I hope that you will consider that exerpt, it came from Bloomberg Businessweek if you care to read more.  Bottom line for me after reading that article this whole fight has been about peeing on a forest fire, if what the CBO says is true they come nowhere close to addressing the real crisis that is looming to close for comfort.

About Rubio..  just coz he was in state politics does not mean that he did not bring principles to that job..  His actions will tell us his story..  I know that Charlie Crisp had no principles and the quickly became evident…  Crisp by the way has become an attorney for the biggest Accident Attorney firm in the state…  I for one have never been a fan of ambulance chasers..   my son did some contracting work for the owners of that firm and hung out with them a bit, He said that they were alot of fun to hang out with but that if he were to be bitten by  a snake that he would perfer to be bitten by 10 rattle snakes than just once by the owner of that firm. 

Your points are pretty valid and I can tell that you are talking sincerely so I will not push buttons..  actually it will be interesting to see what the tea party does in the upcomming election as they have alot riding on this current debate…  I would like to see them take a different tack on the tax issue as our deficit problem has some structual inadequacies that were put into the system by Bush..  Having said that I still believe that cutting has to be serious and deep but also realize that the federal government is not something that you can just wack at with spending cuts as the future drivers of the deficit is the retirement of the baby boomers.  No matter how much is cut they can not keep up with that growing liability on the balance sheet and keep anywhere near a balanced budget.  So at the risk of the Tea Party casting me aside I can see that need for additional revenues but would not support the expiration of the Bush tax cuts as I think that the time is long overdue for a total overhaul of the tax code and a much more simple tax system be employed that not only grows revenues, but would be no longer allow for the manuplation of special interests and their lobbyists.  They have made reference to it of late, the so called flatter tax system that broadens the base while at the same time lowering the corporate rates making the economy more competitive to international corps…  they need to take this on and not half-ass it..  They need to make it as flat as possible and stop revisions that favor any particular group..  it is kinda a daunting task as there are many so called tax expenditures that are valid that would need to disappear.  Personally I think something like that goes much further in helping the country while cleaning up DC some too than does simply allowing the Bush credits to expire… Read this attachment about a CBO report and it may help you as it did me to understand just how grave this situation really is..

“Even the $4 trillion “grand bargain” on debt reduction hammered out by President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio)—a deal that collapsed nearly as quickly as it came together—would not have gotten the U.S. where it needs to be. A June analysis by the Congressional Budget Office concluded that keeping the U.S.’s ratio of debt to gross domestic product at current levels until the year 2085 (to avoid scaring off investors) would require spending cuts, tax hikes, or a combination of both equal to 8.3 percent of GDP each year for the next 75 years, vs. the most likely (i.e. “alternative”) scenario. That translates to $15 trillion over the next decade—or more than three times what Obama and Boehner were considering.

You start to see why, absent signs of a serious commitment to deficit reduction, the rating services are warning they may downgrade the federal government’s triple-A rating even if Congress does meet the Aug. 2 deadline. Fortunately, our debt hole is escapable. But digging out requires that leaders of both parties come to terms with just how deep it is.”

At anyrate….  I hope that you will consider that exerpt, it came from Bloomberg Businessweek if you care to read more.  Bottom line for me after reading that article this whole fight has been about peeing on a forest fire, if what the CBO says is true they come nowhere close to addressing the real crisis that is looming to close for comfort.

About Rubio..  just coz he was in state politics does not mean that he did not bring principles to that job..  His actions will tell us his story..  I know that Charlie Crisp had no principles and the quickly became evident…  Crisp by the way has become an attorney for the biggest Accident Attorney firm in the state…  I for one have never been a fan of ambulance chasers..   my son did some contracting work for the owners of that firm and hung out with them a bit, He said that they were alot of fun to hang out with but that if he were to be bitten by  a snake that he would perfer to be bitten by 10 rattle snakes than just once by the owner of that firm. 

Your sense of humor has gotten old.

Your sense of humor has gotten old.

Bernie Sanders http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmbO_ztr_vU&feature=youtu.be

again i ask, and again you will avoid it, put fact in front of it, then insult me in juvenile form, but name ANY Republican president (since 1935) that had a balanced budget and didn’t add more debt. 

…………….

 have you not watched TV in the last oh 50 years?  They did a sketch on SNL (in the 70′s no less) where they would lampoon the point/counterpoint interview.  If you have seen it, you all should know what line I am thinking of…

And he only raised the debt limit 18 times and taxes 11 times.  Rule #1 IOKIYAR … lest you forget.

 satire!

Ahhhh… baby girl… this is a debate for adults, sweetie.  You should head on back to Facebook where you can chat w/your little friends about who to ask to the next dance.  Don’t you think your Mommy and Daddy would be a little upset if they knew you were playing around on a website for adults?

LAMEon!  Good one!!!!1111

The biggest growth periods of government happened under Reagan, W Bush, and Nixon.   

And more questions for you Mr. President:

Why was the budget that you submitted to the Senate defeated by a vote of 97-0?

When will you release your passport records, your medical records, your educational records, your scholarship records, and your law records? 

Have you quit smoking yet?

Have you scheduled two rounds of golf for next Tuesday, August 2nd, the day that the country is suppose to crumble?

Are you going to invoke the 14th Amendment and unilaterally raise the debt limit?

Prior to playing golf next Tuesday, will you declare martial law/ a national emergency, close the banks, suspend the Constitution, and enforce a curfew?

 When people complain about how divied we are, I bring up 1859-1865.  Then they look at me like I just spoke Chinese.  A republican fought for a strong federal government??  I then laugh.

Or at least hide their assets and dodge paying child support for 9 years.

You’re right… “You are quite obviously mentally retarded” was such an insightful addition to the conversation. I’m such an elitist for thinking that was a crude and stupid comment.

So if the Executive Branch cannot put forth a plan why do Dems get so hot-and-bothered about this weird thing named the “Bush tax cuts”?  Was Bush ever a Senator or Congressman?  So confusing!

MaryMary such unladylike bigotry.

Agree that Hannity is trash also, but of the NeoCon variety.  He likes undeclared wars that never end.  He likes empire building.  He likes to support our troops, but never asks when will the wars be finished and the troops come home.  He works for the DoD, IMO.

The Tea Party is here to stay, you call us haters, terrorists or whatever, but the truth is in 2010 the sweep was because us, and get ready for a sweep in 2012. Get use to us, call us what you want because that just shows that we are being heard. I love it that you libs are threatened by us…We are taking our country back….

Is it a full moon or is it just this thread that brings out the racists/homophobes/xenophobes/bigots?

Blackmail is their stock in trade. 

And let’s not forget all the buyers remorse out there.

Meh.  You’re just hillbillies who don’t know any better.  You’re not taking anything “back” because it was never yours to begin with.. teabaggers will pay the price in 2012.  Your inexperience and lack of intellect has shown through in this debt debate.  The vast majority of real Americans see that.  Anyway, back to yer front porch.

If by that comment you mean that I want a balanced budget, to stop all of the undeclared  wars of aggression, to bring the troops home, to stop foreign aid, to end the Fed, to put the banksters in jail, and to have a non-debt-based currency, then you are right.  Can you intellectually grasp these concepts, and can you realize that they have nothing to do with labeling people as you are attempting to do to me? 

I think the issue here is that every single person who made a homophobic remark just can’t bare to admit that his soft yet warm brown eyes made their hearts melt. I think the outrage comes from the fact that he didn’t please them by flexing his biceps.

And you have the intellect of someone who needs to routinely click on the dem underground tab to see what they want you to say.

Face it junior, you’re a tool. Ever had a real job?

Thank you.  I had not seen this yet.  It is, indeed, time for the 14th Amendment.  The teabaggers have asked for it.

Quote: “Lemon has to remind the senator to “please be respectful here.”

This Lemon character has never interviewed Barney Franks, has he?

Rand Paul is a senator, elected by the people in his state. And Lemon is someone I never heard of, but I’m pretty sure he’s a nobody.

Don Lemon you are a tool. A very dumb one at that. Everyone knows Washington is broken. The tea reps. are the only ones seriously trying to fix our debt problem and your ignaramus ass fueling the hate against them. What an absolute moron. Everyone in America should be applauding the tea party, if it wasn’t for them we wouldn’t even be having this debate. Just business as usual, spending like drunken sailors, all the while the economy is tanking and our national debt skyrocketing. We are a point of almost no return.

STEVE, your causes I like. everything you advocated for I support. It’s just a shame the tea party doesn’t have a strong philosophical foundation. They claim they want to reduce the debt but many of them don’t even want to touch the defense budget (exceptions apply). They also need to drop the social crap. You can’t argue for small government while at the same time insisting that it monitor people’s bedrooms. 

How would you suggest that they get rid of the Debt Ceiling?   just curious.

Part of the debate from the right is that using the 14th may be a impeachable offense.  The other part of the debate is that not using the 14th may also be an impeachable offense if we default.  This should make the Obama haters quite happy if this becomes a damned if he does damned if he doesn’t situation.  We all know by now that the real aim is to destroy Obama even if it means taking down the country and even the world with him.

 Rand Paul has been the biggest supporter of cutting defense spending.  You couldn’t be more wrong.  You need to mix in something with your daily dose of MSNBC.

JUST SOME BLOW HARD: 

Or if you mention how Grover Cleveland was a pro business democrat that not only fought the political corruption of Boss Tweed but also the Robber Barons of the Gilded Age by ending patronage contracts and sweet heart deals. Thus promoting fair competition. 

The debt ceiling is a statutory limit that could simply be voted away by Congress.

Agreed.  However, I think the vast majority of Americans will see his use of the 14th as a last resort to avoid financial catastrophe and anyone or any entity threatening impeachment for his use of the 14th will be subject to harsh rebuke by the electorate.  I invite them to try.

If things continue to go south you’ll see just how happy America and the world will be with the Tea Party.  I’d say bank on it but stuffing it under your mattress is probably a better idea.

Yes when he first got elected he campaigned on it. Then last month when he was on Chris Wallace’s show (Fox not MSNBC) he walked back from it and evaded a question as to what areas in defense need cuts.

His father is the only serious statesman advocating cuts to defense. 

Providing amazingly cheap healthcare for life to our veterans isn’t socialism?

No, when you earn something you were promised if you worked for it by working for it, that’s not socialism. So, are you going to respond to my post, or are you going to scurry into another rabbit hole?

“I think the larger issue is the highly polarized environment where neither side is willing to compromise.”

That sounds pretty much like the comments in here. Most people replying on this site are polarized on one side or the other. If the same people are calling their congressman, I can see why it would be a stalemate. Partisan politics – no bueno.

And for your information I was in the first gulf war. I received 20
grand to go to school from  the federal govt. I thank them for it but it
was a form of socialism.

No, it wasn’t. You weren’t entitled to it just for existing. You earned it by serving. It was part of your contract. You had to sign on the line and perform a service to get that. They didn’t just give it to you because you wanted it.

They don’t care what the American people think.  They ignore the fact that a full 75% of Americans want them to raise taxes on the top % and corporations, as well as cut spending.  And like robots they refuse to listen while they keep talking about how they’re doing the will of the people.  That’s got to really burn the populous. 

So, since people pay into social security all their lives It’s safe to assume you view that as not being a socialist program?

PS. Great job on answering my question above.

But your tea party members apparently think its ok to not even talk about cutting back the military because it provides jobs

Are you a fucking moron? Did you not read what you are responding to, or did you just not understand it? What part of “We could knock 10% off the top, easy.” do you not comprehend?

OK and what would be the consequences of doing that?

Bottom line…. Rand Paul it  a total idiot… probably to many drugs in collage

Yup Dave, agree with you. They like to selectively apply the Constitution, a very dangerous practice, IMO.  On a related subject, I hope that Obama does not use this artificial line drawn in the sand of August 2nd as an excuse to declare martial law calling the debt crisis a national emergency. The suspending of the Constitution, even though most of it has been abridged already, would not go over very well.

Lemon is just another gay that thinks the world revolves around his penis.

Well my comment was “It’s people like you who can’t see that this is a huge drain”.

No, it wasn’t. It was:

Well if that was to cut the budget, if he’s sincere, why won’t he or the
tea party touch the Defense budget? It’s one of the biggest drains on
the economy after all…

It’s right up ^^^there^^^. What is with you people who just rewrite history and create new reality on your every whim? It’s like you’re some Tea Partier or something.

http://tinyurl.com/4xoywrd

Yeah, Lemon’s pretty bad. Note he didn’t even respond to Paul’s balanced budget amendment proposal — as though it were just so extreme it’s not even worth talking about by reasonable people. Balanced budget in 7-8 years sounds perfectly reasonable to me. If we don’t do something to reign in spending we may be getting our SS checks but they won’t be nearly enough to buy anything with.

Very insightful. Another intellect has entered the conversation. 

Somehow I don’t think its going to come to that. AP just sent across the wire both parties are close to deal. 

None.  The debt ceiling has never stopped the US government from borrowing.  Despite the rhetoric being spewed by both parties, nothing will happen except that they will both declare victory and then quickly try to divert our attention to something else.  The debt ceiling will be raised.  The national debt will continue to increase. Deficit spending will continue.  Government will continue to expand.  There will be no meaningful entitlement reform.  This will continue until the rest of the world rejects our debt and our currency.  Then maybe we’ll have a big war.

Its not. If it wasn’t for the funding provided by the government and
also the wars themselves these jobs would not exist or have come into
existence.

Are you arguing that everyone who works for the government is wasting our money? If so, we’ve got plenty to talk about, and we can save America a whole bunch of money. We should talk. But first you should know that my baseline for what government should or shouldn’t be paying people to do can be found in Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution.

Shall we?

Lemon is from Kentucky? If not, then he isn’t Paul’s boss or his constituent.

Your spelling exposes your lack of education and tact.  It’s “is”  and “college.”
Did someone put you up to do this?

You have Lemon’s penis on your mind Mary?

Actually the Kochs don’t like the Pauls.  In fact they donated to his establishment opponent in the Republican primary.

As bad as this interviewer was with Rand Paul, what happens in someone’s bedroom should stay in someone’s bedroom.
Best to leave that alone, IMO.

Too many drugs in college? Like Obama?

You should read his book.

Kitty, the debt ceiling is a statutory limit. The president cannot issue an executive order to override statutory law.

He knows that, his legal advisors know that, and he’s not going to do it. So all the talk about impeachment is hyperbole — there’s not going to be any impeachment. 

There is a lot of BS going around — I guess when political campaigns are sending out hundreds of tweets, they must come up with something to say. I just wish their/your talking points were not so incredibly boring.

Look at my other posts. There are some tea party members who advocate cutting defense. Ron Paul being the most vocal. However, collectively, It’s caucus and the majority of it’s members are not on record stating that defense in one of their top priorities. 

You were the one who stated about defense:  it isn’t a drain on the economy, it’s a driver. Lots of people are employed because of it.

What am I to think when you express an opinion such as that? You consider it a driver in the economy and don’t quite seem to grasp that it’s not a provider of real jobs (ones that are self-sustaining and do not require government funds/wars to exist).

…and this is why people hate America.

This is what journalism has come to.

And you used the wrong “to.”  The word is “too.”
What drugs are YOU taking!

My opinion is that if Industry needs the government for funds… especially ones who actively sought  sweetheart no bid contracts as a way to reduce competition and fair market value… They have no business being in business.

Dave, Senator Paul serves on the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, the Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, and the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee.

He is not an expert on national defense, and appropriations for the DOD are not currently being discussed.

So it would be foolish for him to get in a debate at this time with a journalist regarding which programs should be cut and which ones increased. Was Senator Paul asked about issues that he might have discussed in committee?

So, since people pay into social security all their lives It’s safe to assume you view that as not being a socialist program?

No, that’s not socialism, it’s a Ponzi scheme. It’s straight up theft, but it tries to make sure that the victims don’t turn up until late in the game. We’re here now.

Were Socialists behind that? I think Progressives is a more accurate label.

Satta I was not trying to be rude, I have heard a few people suggest that and have wondered if they know what they are really asking for…  Only the congress has the power to borrow money, and for many years this country had no debt ceiling and each time that the government needed to borrow money congress would vote on borrowing money…  it was pretty simple but things are much more complex now…  back before WWI as the country was preparing itself congress found it easier to simply pass a law that would allow them to establish a limit at which the government could borrow up to before the congress would have to vote again…  this way they only had to vote once instead of several times.. that is the same law that we use today,  If we took away our debt ceiling this would be an ongoing fight with no end.

Jerry… This man is highly educated. He is privy to information that we as ordinary citizens simply do not have or are offered. His father has been on this issue for years. If you believe he is not qualified to answer a question such as that, you have a less opinion of him than i do. And I like Rand when he’s being honest. 

And actually I do like hashing out politics with you. You’ve been the best debater i’ve had lol

Look at my other posts. There are some tea party members who advocate
cutting defense. Ron Paul being the most vocal. However, collectively,
It’s caucus and the majority of it’s members are not on record stating
that defense in one of their top priorities.

So now we’ve gone from “They won’t consider touching it.” to “They haven’t declared it a top priority.” without the slightest inference from you that you may have overstated your case.

You’re full of crap. Stop wasting my time and go suck a nut.

POINT 1: Okay… and that’s fine.  But it’s a moot point.  We simply cannot pull all of our forces out in the middle of something like this.  We can argue whether we should have been there in the first place, but it doesn’t really matter.  We’re there now, and we have to do something about it.  So unreasonably cutting funding, or pulling our men and women out before there is any kind of stability only means we’ll be back there before very long.

POINT 2: Of course taxes are what pay for our social services, what’s your point?  It doesn’t mean that ALL our money belongs to the government, and it doesn’t mean they’re “being nice” to us by letting us keep some more of it.  To say that we don’t have any tax money going into the government is simply foolish.  They have plenty of money, they just don’t know how to spend it properly.  And simply saying, “Yeah, but if we gave them more, they wouldn’t have to figure that out,” isn’t an acceptable answer.

Doing more with less is a find idea… but how are Democrats trying to accomplish that?  Are they trying at all?

We need the government to do certain things, but that’s no excuse for them to consistantly do things incorrectly and wastefully.  By giving them less to play with, they have less room for error.  Why should we keep giving money to an organization which seems to screw things up?  How many times do we have to say, “Okay, I’ll give you a little more, but this time you better get it right,” before we realize it’s OUR fault they’re so wasteful?

I’ll just have to work harder to entertain you I guess.

Yeah. Did you notice one of Lemon’s statements: “.. the public is really frustrated now and they don’t really know what’s going on.”

Then I would suggest he and cnn do a better job reporting the news, rather than waste their time pushing Obama’s scare tactics.

Didn’t anyone see the second half of this interview that Lemon did with a Democratic Senator?  He repeatedly told the Dem. senator to stop the “talking points” and just talk.  He was as equally as tough as he was in the interview  with Rand Paul and he let Paul slide on his statement that “the President should have just taken default off the table.”  As if it’s up to the President who would be paid if we default, Rand Paul, like all tea-partiers is dumber than a bag of hammers.

Wrong the vast majority of them don’t talk about it or make it apart of their platforms. When did the tea party caucus state it’s intentions to cut defense?

Since you like to pick and choose which polls you want to reference, maybe you won’t like this recent Gallup poll.

Q: Which concerns you more: The government would not raise the debt ceiling and a major economic crisis would result? or the government would raise the debt ceiling but without plans for major cuts in future spending?

July 15-17
Govt doesn’t raise debt ceiling? 35%
Govt has no plans for major spending cuts? 55%

random sample of 1016 adults (which means more Democrats than if it was just registered voters or likely voters)
http://www.gallup.com/poll/148562/Americans-Including-Republicans-Debt-Compromise.aspx

So by 55% to 35%, the public is afraid this debt limit debate will result in nothing being done to control spending.

“.. Rand Paul, like all tea-partiers is dumber than a bag of hammers.”

I almost always refrain in pointing out spelling, grammatical, or syntax errors, except when the guy in question is mocking the intelligence of others. :)

Please post the deed of your ownership of this country.

What am I to think when you express an opinion such as that? You
consider it a driver in the economy and don’t quite seem to grasp that
it’s not a provider of real jobs (ones that are self-sustaining and do
not require government funds/wars to exist).

Does that apply to all government jobs? If not, why not? If so, you and I need to grab a couple of machetes and do some pruning.

Again, Article 1, Section 8. It lays out what the government is responsible for. Have you read it?

It was everything else they were asking for that was unacceptable Pablo.  It wasn’t just for increasing the debt ceiling.  Check it to it….  They had other unacceptable provisions added. 

Don’t touch my Social Security or my Medicare.  I have been paying into to them all my life, their my insurance policies.  They are MINE. The government owes me what I have paid into.

Also, they are not a debit on this government and should not be touched.

Now, the  Bush tax cuts…. touch that all you want.

Article 1 section 8 is about the powers and duties of congress. Taxes, debts, regulating commerce, coining money ect. While it does not contain much of what we have today as it’s duties have been expanded for savory and unsavory reasons, if you’re suggesting we limit the size of government to just whats in Art 1 Sec 8 I’ll have to disagree. BUT not on all points. Much of government can be trimmed. Dept. of homeland security, The Fed, and possibly the Dept. Of education. But I’d at least like to try school choice first before we junk it. 

i’m not blue–

do you have any evidence that raising taxes won’t raise any revenue?

because that’s what you’re arguing now.

Very well said!  Brovo

Pablo, did your really listen to any of his speeches in full… for just picks and clips Fox give you before commenting on them?  It sure doesn’t sound like you heard a word he said.

If you asked me which defense programs should be cut, or which should be expanded, I wouldn’t be able to give you a straight answer either. I would have to dedicate considerable time and effort to study the current. No criticism of Rand Paul is intended, but there are only a handful of members in either the House or Senate who are real experts.

Bernie is the best!  Saw it and signed his petition.

Totally agree with you both here.  He has no other option right now.

This better be a good deal!  One were we don’t get screwed. 

Understood. But this is a man who went to Baylor and then on to Duke. His father has made a career out of such opinions. I’m sure Ron taught Rand what he knows or expressed opinions. If your logic is correct that Rand isn’t an expert, why even bother making the statement of cutting the budget. That would make Rand a fake would it not?

I don’t think he’s fake. Rand knows about all the sweetheart no bid contracts that suck up huge portions of the defense depts. budget. All he had to say was he wants all no bid contracts to expire, and what the government can’t handle will go to the best bidder. Thats capitalism. best product at the best price. Fair market value. 

Jerry Baustian 42 minutes ago in reply to progressive_kitty
Since you like to pick and choose which polls you want to reference, maybe you won’t like this recent Gallup poll.Q:
Which concerns you more: The government would not raise the debt
ceiling and a major economic crisis would result? or the government
would raise the debt ceiling but without plans for major cuts in future
spending?July 15-17Govt doesn’t raise debt ceiling? 35%Govt has no plans for major spending cuts? 55%random sample of 1016 adults (which means more Democrats than if it was just registered voters or likely voters)http://www.gallup.com/poll/148…So by 55% to 35%, the public is afraid this debt limit debate will result in nothing being done to control spending.

________________________________________________________________________________________

Which is fine but doesn’t discount what I said.  They’re totally different questions.  Why wouldn’t I like it?  It doesn’t negate the 75% of Americans that want tax increases on the top % and corporations as well as spending cuts.

What the heck are you trying to say Kermit, are currently drawing Social Security?

What a wonderful discussion between DocYeager & Dave. I enjoyed reading what you both had to say. I too feel that we all have more in common with each other. The problem these days seems to be that people get angry much to quickly to defend their side.

Bernie Sanders is simply great. Thanks for the link.

Fact:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuBbA1vGOPo

ABSURD! Obama Says 80% Of Americans Want Tax Increase! We Are Under Psychological ATTACK!  Answer this do you want to pay more taxes? Yes or No?

Lemon did TWO interviews with liberals today that were equally aggressive.

Only difference is the Left didn’t squeal like a bunch of punk-ass biatches.

Conservatives wouldn’t be conservatives unless they were constantly playing the victims, as Jon Stewart 10 minute montage proved this week.

Are you kidding, that is right there on the application/resume slot. Do you ever have the feeling that you should be responsible for your own actions? If you answer in the affirmative you do not get a job at CNN.

That anchor was some thing else he didn’t want to educate his listener and Rand Paul quoted a poll that seventy five percent of the people don’t want the debt ceiling raised and this guy spews the talking points of compromise we wont compromise our children’s future.  

Fact: Rand Paul is again correct on his view on real
need for cuts that outpace the spending increases built into debt formulas vs.
the annual percentage rate increase of 7%. Any spending cut under 7% doesn’t
stop runaway debt and Paul knows it!

lol…yeah, I was going out for the evening and I figured I would leave with that nugget.
I laughed myself when I posted it. :)

No Snowspot, can you inform the rest of us about the meaning of life and everything? Let me guess? 42?

Fact: Hey clown she didn’t post America anywhere in
her statement moron! Bend forward somebody else’s post!

I love Don Lemon. I thought the interview was great.  I hate when anyone is asked a question and they just answer with the talking points.  ANSWER THE QUESTION……

Mr. Lemon should be fired.  I have seen no other interview such as this.  I doubt that any Congressman, Senator or other government official will be willing to be interviewed by Mr. Lemon.  Certainly I don’t expect Senator Paul to come back to Mr. Lemon for another interview.  Just throw the fellow out.  He’ll never get another interview with a Tea Party congressman.

I didn’t even know he is homosexual, as Mary pointed out.  If that’s the problem, then he needs to confront it and deal with it.

Fact: How can the majority in America that’s for
spending cuts to correct out of control debt that in no way conservatives can
be included acting as victims? Jon Stewarts children followers like you don’t
represent adult voters and or more likely to most here be in their parent’s
basement eating cheetos. Always a DNC hack boy right! Grow up!

I can only imagine how many homophobic bigoted comments there are on this article

Fact: Bottom line is all that post here not seeing
debt is a bad thing wants America to be seen as the next Greece in the eyes of
the world. Paul sees it but a minority of flaming morons doesn’t like Kermit!

Fact: Bottom line is all that post here not seeing
debt is a bad thing wants America to be seen as the next Greece in the eyes of
the world. Paul sees it but a minority of flaming morons doesn’t like Kermit!

Fact: Posting of the normal lunatic fringe loony bat
liberal. Pitiful isn’t it? Hahahahahaaha…………

Difference is O’Reilly never claims to be a journo. He is a commentator.

Difference is O’Reilly never claims to be a journo. He is a commentator.

I was out which post would yu like me to respond to. There are a bunch of them. This is what yo don’t comprehend Pablo. I don’t know what you do or how you earn your money im sure you are doing fine. But believe it or not there are many people in this country that cannot take care of themselves. They are disabled or insane or old or sick. They cannot take care of themselves and many people don’t have anyone to help take care of them. They need the government. Before these social contracts they dropped dead in the gutter. If thats what you would like to return to be my guest. But I don’t want to go there. You claim your against socialism but when a drunk father walks out on his family and goes to another state leaving a mother to take care of her three kids who’s going to help her YOU? A charity? The Tea party? No a charity may assist but cannot and will not fully help her. When a guy rolls his car over and is crippled for the rest of his life and he doesn’t have health insurance who’s going to help him? You? Ron Paul? No thats why we have this system because believe it or not there was a time in history where we didn’t. And the american people said wow this isn’t working so lets try something else. Im tired of millionaires and Billonares crying because they have to pay to much in taxes. Im tired of the fact that Bill Gates pays as much into social security as a guy who makes 100,000 a year. All I hear from you guys is that we must cut spending and no mention about raising taxes and closing loopholes. Oh you may say it, you may say hey I wanna cut the military 10% but your tea party maggots aren’t. Maybe a couple but 7 of them voted against the defense budget. Now you can come up with any excuse or fantasy you want about why they did that. Your right I signed a contract and got my benefits . I didn’t stay in long enough to get basically free health care like many of the military retirees do. But social security and medicare and medicaid are contracts with the american people. They singed up for this system years ago by electing representatives who got this for them. Its their responsibility to figure out a way to live up to that contract. If that means having to raise taxes then god damn it thats what needs to be done. But none of these clowns have the balls in congress to do it. Not because its not the right thing to do its because they are pussies and all they care about it trying to get elected again. Thats why neither of these parties represent us. They only represent themselves.

Fact: When I was born I wasn’t shackled with previous
generation’s debt. I could care less to debt occurring in early decades but it
appears to have risen sharpest during WW2. Every family in America are encouraged
to have a small percentage of debt way below 35% of one’s income but as you can
see under Obama’s term it has left Bush’s under 40% debt to earnings ratio to
way up to above 70% and you have democrats wanting it higher as we speak with
LSM backing their call. Rand Paul has brilliantly pointed out that this ratio
needs tweaking in a downward ratio back to a percent below where Bush’s term
started and I don’t see a problem with it do you? That’s the facts and I’m not
intending to cut you down if you don’t see the wisdom in what I’m telling you.

Fact: Another lib swing and a miss.

Fact: Glad to see you left a nugget that proves you post lies just for the fun of it.

Fact: No supreme court will just correct you anuses that again miss apply laws that’s it!

Sorry, my income is under $200,000 a year.  I won’t be paying more taxes.

Fact: I resent you just because you make me have to scroll past you.

There was nothing wrong with his line of questioning what so ever. If Reputards don’t like it then take your ass over to Fox where you’ll see plenty of Republicans getting their cocks sucked on a nightly basis for you!!

There was nothing wrong with his line of questioning what so ever. If Reputards don’t like it then take your ass over to Fox where you’ll see plenty of Republicans getting their cocks sucked on a nightly basis for you!!

There was nothing wrong with his line of questioning what so ever. If Reputards don’t like it then take your ass over to Fox where you’ll see plenty of Republicans getting their cocks sucked on a nightly basis for you!!

There was nothing wrong with his line of questioning what so ever. If Reputards don’t like it then take your ass over to Fox where you’ll see plenty of Republicans getting their cocks sucked on a nightly basis for you!!

There was nothing wrong with his line of questioning what so ever. If Reputards don’t like it then take your ass over to Fox where you’ll see plenty of Republicans getting their cocks sucked on a nightly basis for you!!

There was nothing wrong with his line of questioning what so ever. If Reputards don’t like it then take your ass over to Fox where you’ll see plenty of Republicans getting their cocks sucked on a nightly basis for you!!

There was nothing wrong with his line of questioning what so ever. If Reputards don’t like it then take your ass over to Fox where you’ll see plenty of Republicans getting their cocks sucked on a nightly basis for you!!

There was nothing wrong with his line of questioning what so ever. If Reputards don’t like it then take your ass over to Fox where you’ll see plenty of Republicans getting their cocks sucked on a nightly basis for you!!

There was nothing wrong with his line of questioning what so ever. If Reputards don’t like it then take your ass over to Fox where you’ll see plenty of Republicans getting their cocks sucked on a nightly basis for you!!

There was nothing wrong with his line of questioning what so ever. If Reputards don’t like it then take your ass over to Fox where you’ll see plenty of Republicans getting their cocks sucked on a nightly basis for you!!

There was nothing wrong with his line of questioning what so ever. If Reputards don’t like it then take your ass over to Fox where you’ll see plenty of Republicans getting their cocks sucked on a nightly basis for you!!

There was nothing wrong with his line of questioning what so ever. If Reputards don’t like it then take your ass over to Fox where you’ll see plenty of Republicans getting their cocks sucked on a nightly basis for you!!

There was nothing wrong with his line of questioning what so ever. If Reputards don’t like it then take your ass over to Fox where you’ll see plenty of Republicans getting their cocks sucked on a nightly basis for you!!

There was nothing wrong with his line of questioning what so ever. If Reputards don’t like it then take your ass over to Fox where you’ll see plenty of Republicans getting their cocks sucked on a nightly basis for you!!

There was nothing wrong with his line of questioning what so ever. If Reputards don’t like it then take your ass over to Fox where you’ll see plenty of Republicans getting their cocks sucked on a nightly basis for you!!

There was nothing wrong with his line of questioning what so ever. If Reputards don’t like it then take your ass over to Fox where you’ll see plenty of Republicans getting their cocks sucked on a nightly basis for you!!

There was nothing wrong with his line of questioning what so ever. If Reputards don’t like it then take your ass over to Fox where you’ll see plenty of Republicans getting their cocks sucked on a nightly basis for you!!

There was nothing wrong with his line of questioning what so ever. If Reputards don’t like it then take your ass over to Fox where you’ll see plenty of Republicans getting their cocks sucked on a nightly basis for you!!

There was nothing wrong with his line of questioning what so ever. If Reputards don’t like it then take your ass over to Fox where you’ll see plenty of Republicans getting their cocks sucked on a nightly basis for you!!

There was nothing wrong with his line of questioning what so ever. If Reputards don’t like it then take your ass over to Fox where you’ll see plenty of Republicans getting their cocks sucked on a nightly basis for you!!

There was nothing wrong with his line of questioning what so ever. If Reputards don’t like it then take your ass over to Fox where you’ll see plenty of Republicans getting their cocks sucked on a nightly basis for you!!

There was nothing wrong with his line of questioning what so ever. If Reputards don’t like it then take your ass over to Fox where you’ll see plenty of Republicans getting their cocks sucked on a nightly basis for you!!

Fact: Look lets be real. All will get the extra as always.

You sir are a tw@t

Fact: Reaction to common sense is beyond your means.
I agree just scroll past because I will continue to correct your crap postings.

Fact: Blackmail no, just mathematical facts that you
democrat morons are spending too much under Obama compared to income and we
want it stopped.

The statement “raising the ceiling IS the compromise” was a radial one to me one week ago. Not any more, now that what’s done is done, a downgrade being inevitable and one having a chance to go back and reflect

Rand is right, BO is entirely to blame. And this is from someone who’s on his side or further left on most issues. Leaving things to the very end and operating under the assumption that elected officials would abandon the very principles they were elected to uphold at the drop of a hat, as he would, is mismanagement of the first order.

Are Lemon’s political leanings defined by his homosexuality? I think so!

I think one could safely say, The defense budget is so big, so absolutely huge — there must be billions and billions of dollars that can be saved.

But as I said, there are only a few real experts in the Senate, and in the House,.. guys that the others go to with questions like, That AB668 program isn’t going so well, so shouldn’t it be cancelled? And an expert might say, They know that; they had a problem but it’s been solved; the testing is going better; the potential benefits are worth keeping it going for at least another year. That’s the sort of detail that not all 100 senators can know, especially when many programs are secret and maybe only subcommittee members get the full story. 

In these cases, not only would not be expected to know the details of every line in the DOD budget; but he would be required NOT to know. To even get the details, he’s have to be specially briefed and sign special non-disclosure forms…. So even if he thought AB668 should be defunded, he would not be allowed to mention it to Chris Wallace or any other journalist.

I always get Don Lemon and Rachel Maddow confused with each other.

 I didn’t even know he is homosexual,  If that’s the problem, then he needs to confront it and deal with it said Bill as he was paying off rent boy for a fun filled Saturday night

It is so easy to always ask someone else to foot the bill for you. What happens when taxing the “rich” doesn’t solve the problem….Will you pay YOUR fair share then Kitty….

Lemon started out by saying, “Let’s just do the interview without talking points– let’s just talk to each other,”

This is a perfect example of “Activist Journalism”  CNN and MSNBC at their best!

Thankyou Mr. President for continuing to divide our nation.  You truely have earned the title of “The Great Divider!”

But believe it or not there are many people in this country that cannot
take care of themselves. They are disabled or insane or old or sick.

Sure, but they’re not that big a burden. There’s a lot more who can take care of themselves but don’t, because they don’t have to. We can cut a ton there.

I think one could safely say, The defense budget is so big, so
absolutely huge — there must be billions and billions of dollars that
can be saved.

But as I said, there are only a few real experts in
the Senate, and in the House,.. guys that the others go to with
questions like, That AB668 program isn’t going so well, so shouldn’t it
be cancelled? And an expert might say, The managers know that; there was
a problem but it’s been solved; the testing shows good results; the
potential alone is worth keeping it going for at least another year.

Right, you’d have to have extensive knowledge of the system to know how best to cut it. There are some things that are low hanging fruit, like projects the military doesn’t even want, but they’ve gotten stuck with due to pork barrel spending. But to make all the cuts needed, I would task the Joint Chiefs of Staff with identifying the waste, the unnecessary/outdated programs and recommending the cuts in the desired amount. The last thing I’d want is Congress going at it willy nilly. The people IN the service know what the problems are with it much better than Rand Paul or any other Congresscritter does.

I’d like to see a TP’er propose a bill to raise the ceiling to eleventy kajillion dollars. If we’re going to be absurd, why half-step?

I’ve watched them all, live.

You don’t have to work harder, kitty. You have to think harder.

Possession is nine-tenths of the law.

As if it’s up to the President who would be paid if we default, Rand
Paul, like all tea-partiers is dumber than a bag of hammers

Those decisions would be made at Treasury, which is under the authority and control of POTUS. Do you know who Geithner’s boss is? How does it feel to be dumber than someone who is dumber than a bag of hammers?

Oh, so you’re home from “work” now?

Total idiots do not go on to become eye surgeons.

“ probably to many drugs in collage”
I know he can spell much better than you.

How rude of Don Lemmon.  Clearly playing politics while a U.S. Senator is sincerely trying to answer his questions.  Lemon just does not like the answers.  Tough.  The Tea Party is here to stay, libs.  Get used to it.  Lemon made some silly remark about how the American public doesn’t really understand all the complexities of the issue and just wants Congress to do something about the problem.  He got that right:  American libs on the dole do not understand the issues because they do not apply themselves to understanding.  They hear soundbites and think they are informed, then they return their thinking to weightier issues like reality TV.

Thank you! now we can have a discussion.

I agree with your points, but to quote the old adage, you must learn from the past to see the future. So that’s why you need to learn history. It also helps when trying to filter through the hyperbole and bs.

My main point in all of this is that no politician has been or will be serious about the deficit. They only use it as a campaign promise. We need to scale that ratio down to before Reagan levels. My point to you is, if this is your number one issue, why would you vote for a party that not only has shown they can’t do it but in fact make it much much worse?

Thank you! now we can have a discussion.

I agree with your points, but to quote the old adage, you must learn from the past to see the future. So that’s why you need to learn history. It also helps when trying to filter through the hyperbole and bs.

My main point in all of this is that no politician has been or will be serious about the deficit. They only use it as a campaign promise. We need to scale that ratio down to before Reagan levels. My point to you is, if this is your number one issue, why would you vote for a party that not only has shown they can’t do it but in fact make it much much worse?

To all of you that make well thought out points, yet continue to argue with the ignorant, let them take their respective balls and go home. White trash has started and continues to ruin America. The “mega” advantage for what the Republicans have become is that they needn’t rely on facts science or common sense. If you don’t agree with what they’ve been told to say, get payed to say, or have been hoodwinked into saying then you get the Gods, Guns and Gays diatribe. It’s all about greed and the White trash bunch are doing the bidding. Hee Haw is back with a vengance.

Wow, CNN is has just completely dumped any attempt to play it neutral during the debt crisis.  They are now more left-wing than CNN.  Put this alongside what happened recently on the morning show, Fareed Zakahria’s outright lies on his own show and his rant on Anderson Cooper, Brian Todd’s smear job of several GOP congressmen, etc.  and it’s obvious CNN’s promotion of itself as “straight news” compared to that of Fox and MSNBC is just a complete lie. 

Yeah, you can tell by the way Omaha and Salt Lake City are shitholes while Detroit is like paradise. Damned white trash.

Yeah, wanting to pay down oppressive debt before going on a spending spree is so Neanderthal. We’re the USA, what could possibly happen?

Very well said. I’d add that it’s also extremely craven and cynical. It certainly isn’t Presidential.

This is the problem when you try to pass off a homosexual activist as a journalist. You don’t use “talking points” but I will attack you with DNC talking points. Rand Paul’s constituents voted him into office to do exactly what he is doing. His constituents are not the bathroom stall boys in Bryant Park like Dandy Don Lemon.

When I see someone injecting the word homophobic I’m reminded of the other word….bigot.  It’s the only resort of leftard thinking.  Nothing but dimwits.  Liberalism is a mental disorder.

Maddow is the one that looks like a guy.

No, he wasn’t.

HOWEVER, currently it’s about knowing that they’re not going to default, acting like the other side will (even if they won’t actually do that), but using that as a propaganda tool to support a particular agenda.

It’s a football.  The real issue/fight is about spending and how it’s done. The debt ceiling is just cover, it’s all of the other details that matter.

This “news” person should be hung out to dry as he is dripping and seething with bias and insolence. Rand Paul is probably the mildest most rational person in the Senate. This is an example of why the MSM is taking and nobody watches them anymore. What an idiot.

Don- ask him the question you really want to ask- How many gay friends do you have?

LOL

the left coast is going to eat the rethuglickers for breakfast soon. like the impotent clowns you are, you shot your load too soon… and keep in mind goobers on the right, the left commie socialist have just as many guns and more troops to take you down.  you morbid obese baggers think your so tough, but as soon as the excrement hits the fan, you will not be able to take more than a few steps before you are out of breath, while we here in healthy California, will take you down without a shot fired…..

the baggers, fox and the GOP are the true enemy of the USA…. way worse than the taliban.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/07/30/sen_rubio_save_the_whole_house_or_it_will_all_burn_down.html

Everyone should sit down for fourteen minutes and listen to a man who SHOULD be President.

when Eisenhower and Kennedy were prez, the top rate for the very rich was 91%!… we also had the largest expansion of growth, schools and jobs ever in the world…. yet these morbid obese baggers, sitting in their crapshacks, will believe anything their spokesholes on fox tell them to believe….  all the baggers want is to watch their blond foxettes to get off on, as mrs bagger is way to fat to sploooge on anymore….

the hard core left and socialists will take you baggers down soon. like the impotent fat slugs you are, you shot your load too soon……

Uh, do your parents know that you’re using their computer?

Get a job ya leech.

All media are homosexual or Buy-sexual to some extent..they will all kiss ass for an interview, male or female.. I don’t see that to be an issue.. The lip placement only reflects their current interview. BTW, he did come out and confronted his..now to get O’Reilly and the rest to admit theirs..

I just paid $22.87 for an iPad2-64GB and my girlfriend loves her Panasonic Lumix GF 1 Camera that we got for $38.76 there arriving tomorrow by UPS. I will never pay such expensive retail prices in stores again. Especially when I also sold a 40 inch LED TV to my boss for $675 which only cost me $62.81 to buy. Here is the website we use to get it all from, GrabPenny.com

He didn’t go far enough!

Actually thanks for posting that, I followed the links to that particular groups website and find them to be a little distrubing..  It does make one think a little bit. If they are representative of what the Tea Party is morphing into then they will lose the support of centrist and others without whose support they will no longer they be able to have impact such as they have had on this debate…  They will relagate themselves to being nothing more than the far right of the Repbulican Party and politics will return to business as usual.

Ha ha Keith! Your schoolyard bully insults probably really hurt Don Lemon. That’s the best you can come up with, sitting there in your momma’s basement behind your gummed-up keyboard? What a joke.

Hey Leach,  the only thing you’ve got is a computer, a bigoted/losers mentality, and a tv education.

Hey Leach,  the only thing you’ve got is a computer, a bigoted/losers mentality, and a tv education.

Man, I’m just scared to death of California. Are they coming after us before or after their bankruptcy? I know you said it’s going to be soon, so it could be either.

No, it’s “Your wife is really a beard, right? Are you seeing anyone?”

Wow A link to this site must have been posted on Fox Nation over night.

wowow…mediaite really knows what you wild bunch of crossburnin, racist, homophobic, dirty rotten moronic hobbits like to talk about dont they??…this story has been on top for 2 days…a new record…you get to trash black folks, gays and dems at the same time…heeeee hawwwww….KKK membership is at a all time high…and finally, thank gwad, the closet door has come flying open, and what came marching out???…YOU FREAKS  in your full pointy hat and sheet wearing glory….i myself am pleased that youre unable to restrain your racism….its good that we know who to look out for….and homeland security agrees…i didnt like the patriot act at first but now i love it…so when you morons grow ya balls as big as david koresh’s the ATF will be there with the tanks and matches to respond to your bullshit

I pay my fair share now.  No one is footing my bill.  It’s the millionaires, billionaires and large corporations that don’t.  If you like corporate welfare so much why don’t you pick up their slack.

I pay my fair share now.  No one is footing my bill.  It’s the millionaires, billionaires and large corporations that don’t.  If you like corporate welfare so much why don’t you pick up their slack.

I pay my fair share now.  No one is footing my bill.  It’s the millionaires, billionaires and large corporations that don’t.  If you like corporate welfare so much why don’t you pick up their slack.

What a thoughtful Democrat reply. No wonder public opinion is so high for the “tolerant” left. 

Americans and the world will blame the GOP/TP.  Don’t you read the news?

There a whole new group this morning. 

What I have is principles. I don’t ask for the entire nation to pay for my shit like you leeching morons do. You are beggars and bleeders, you suck the life out of society and the majority of this nation is starting to realize it finally. Gravy train is over losers, time for you to pay your way.

Just plug your fingers in your ears and keep repeating “Conservatives do not exist!  Conservatives do not exist! Conservatives do not ……………!!!!”.

Your screed is another fine example of the public school system. 

Speaking on the floor of the Senate Saturday, Marco Rubio (R-Fl.) said,
“If we had a billion dollars for every time I heard the words ‘Tea Party
extremist,’ we could solve this debt problem.”Nuff said.

It’s “Yeeeeehaawww” dumbass

That is a great video, he smacks the crap outta john “Heinz” Kerry.

86% of all federal income taxes are paid by the top 25% of income earners.
The top 50% pay 97% of all income taxes
The top 1% pay 39% of the income taxes (which rose 2% after the Bush tax cuts)
(IRS Data)

Our corporate tax rate is one of the highest in the world.

At what point can we say they have paid their fair share, and stop spending so much. Tell me at what point that will happen.

I too do not make over 200k. But I still don’t want to see ANY of my fellow citizens have to foot the entire bill. I am a grown up who understands that there are people who are successful and those who are not. Guess what…That’s life. Welcome to it. Stop worrying about how much someone else has and get off your ass and get to earning.

Think about this for a second….When we raise the taxes on the rich, what will it really do for you. Will it change your life? Do you really think Obama is going to take care of you (or anyone other than his union buddies)? Then why do want someone else to pay for all this spending you deem necessary. If you and your ilk really think the level of spending we have today is really necessary than start forking over some more cash, because if we tax everyone who makes 200k or more this year at 100% (take EVERYTHING they earn) we still don’t cover our spending. So guess what, Kitty, at that point you won’t be paying your fair share.

I grew up in Oshpit (Oshkosh)  I am very aware of the LaFollette legacy.  However, I am now a Tea Party proponent, meaning I desire tax reform in the shape of a flat tax as that would be “equal protection.”

Purveyor of Rhetoric

Wow, that 3rd paragraph is pretty difficult to read.

Wow, that 3rd paragraph is pretty difficult to read.

Sadly, but realistically, I see this time in America as not one of “compromise.”  In fact, this era in our Nation’s history is beginning to look more and more like the 1820′s to the 1860′s, i.e., “a house divided cannot stand.” Speaking only for myself, I am not willing to compromise with an ideology that seeks my demise.  Why would anyone do such?

Very simply I view this as a time of philosophical civil war, given the rhetoric, could turn violent at any provocation.  The metaphoric warring parties are antithetical in that one side seeks to maintain, repair, restore, improve the philosophical legacy that was handed down to us by our forefathers.  Perhaps, some of the greatest men in  human history.

The opposing philosophy seeks to dismantle, while at the same time disparage America’s Social-Political Birthright.  Their desires, goals and methods are Socialist, by definition, yet they seem determined to deny that fact.  Perhaps the American Socialist’s are less than proud of their legacy, but, hope to get it right this time. (meaning they won’t “liquidate,” quite so many people)?  

I am a Constitutional, free enterprise, capitalist.  I accept that there are disturbances which accompany our form of Governance and liberty.  However, I also know that if we can restore personal honor and character to the citizenry and Government, our Nation can deal with the aforementioned “disturbances” without the need for “Gulags.”

NO Compromise with Tyrants, should be our call…

Purveyor

lol…my bad….YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHAAAAAAAWWWWWWW

i never attended a day of school in my life….in fact massa dont knows i’s can read..sir

Unless Lemon is from Kentucky I don’t get where he is Paul’s Boss.  Am I Obama;s boss?  If so, why is he hell-bent on destroying the middle class and humbling America?

wow…thats the greatest LETS BRING SLAVERY BACK, CALL TOO ARMS, MANIFESTO EVER POSTED HERE…to bad these morons are too fuckin stupid to understand a word you just farted out

dont matter how flowery you write it it still says the same thing….IM A RACIST PIECE OF SHIT WITH THE MINDSET OF A HALF DEAD CONFEDERATE SOLDIER

The idea that process trumps the real circumstances is idiotic.  I bet you would counsel a women who’s husband was having affairs constatntly and spending all the family’s money of drugs to split the difference.  When it comes to stopping our massive risky debt growth, you assumption that there is some sort of moral equivalence between the Dem and Republican positions is a non-starter.  But keep arguing about process if you like…

Commenting to Lurch is not a useful action.  It wastes your time and annoys the pig.

I think that I saw a movie about you… 

Sorry timzank,  post was meant for Lurch. My bad! ………So sorry. :)

For Rand, another “Come-To-Jesus” moment.

I would applaud anyone who wipes that arrogant, smug, self-satisfied attitude off this teabagger’s face.

That explains it.

Can I have fries with that while your at it.

Compromise, the dirtiest word in politics. Compromise got us here. The only good thing about all this compromise talk is I now despise liberals rather than being merely annoyed by them. The progs try to trick the neutrals that they just—blah blah. Aside from Paul, DeMint and a couple of new guys we don’t have anybody who isn’t a squish like compromise king McCain. Fix the roads, fund the military and get the hell out of my life.
Liberals are sub human creatures who can’t survive on their own.

This post needs to be removed. You are a homo phobic idiot. It doesn’t matter who he dates; he gets paid to ask the hard questions that the American people have the right to answers. He did a great job keeping Paul on track and not straying off the subject. 

This post needs to be removed. You are a homo phobic idiot. It doesn’t matter who he dates; he gets paid to ask the hard questions that the American people have the right to answers. He did a great job keeping Paul on track and not straying off the subject. 

No Randy Paul should be recalled or however you get rid of voting mistakes in his state.
If he’s not gay tell him to take the costume off. 

O’Reilly was joking with Obama,about “Do you know people hate you”? He went on to say”Everyone who’s a celebrity has folks that hate them,including myself,you can’t take it personally.”

Foul mouthed jerk.

you’re a L L L L L iberal….so?

Oh, still using the intellectually lazy, incorrect and  ill-informed “teabagger” pejorative? After all this time? After TEA Partiers helped Republicans retake the House and will help them retake the Senate and probably the White House in 2012? How, shall we say, ummmmm, super smart of you. Makes me want to hear all sorts of other opinions of yours.

That’s sarcasm, in case you can’t tell. 

I wonder if massa also doesn’t know you can’t spell or properly punctuate, either.

Remember the old addage: Don’t count your chickens until the eggs have hatched. I’m betting the TEA party will practically disappear after Nov 2012. Betting, not counting.

After, or course. That is when we need to loot your treasure trove.

You could be right, that is about the TEA Party as a grassroots phenomenon which has already changed  ”business as usual” in Washington. But, by 2012, it won’t matter because it (the TEA Party) will by then have already helped return control of the Congress and White House to Republicans and gotten rid of some RINOs in the process.

What are you going to use to fix the roads?

You are probably unaware that you have made my point, nicely, for me? How could/would I or anyone enter into negotiations, with the outcome being “compromise,” with someone such as yourself? Tragically, you are representative of a plurality of American’s who have suffered the dismal fate of self loathing coupled with misattribution of fault.
Case in point: My Post had nothing to do with race. Unfortunately for you, everything has to do with race, which blinds you and condemns you a bitter existence. If only Martin Luther King had survived his wounds, you and many others would not bear this awful burden and anger.
I wish I could help, but, I can’t.

All Lemon wanted to hear was, “Oh, we should cave in and give the government a blank check without balancing the budget.” I am an American, and I agree with Rand Paul and those who want to make sure the budget is balanced. I want to see some real change. 

I have heard Rand say some crazy “ship”. but he sounded very lucid and rational, in this interview. I like what he said..And if the Conservatives back off the inane “Balanced Budget Amendment” I could see Democrats going along with a plan similar to Rand’s 7 to 8 year balanced budget. Where the rub lies is what gets cut, how much gets cut and how do you raise more revenues. If you don’t consider more revenues then obviously there is no compromise. But always keep in mind, this is my opinion only. And just like your opinion, it carries no weight at all.

Well next time you wake up next to one of them, put on your glasses silly :)

Oh is that why she’s your favorite?

Is your comment defined by your lack of intellect? I think so!

Haven’t learned a thing, have you?  You still espouse the same tired rhetoric you did a month ago.  
Yet, in that time, you were exposed to a whole new world of thought and wisdom but, are incapable of assimilating even the smallest portion?  Too bad.Have you ever read the Tea Party Platform?  Simply Google such and there is a basic ten point platform,  yet, it must be easier for you to remain angry and deny, then actually cogitate on new and applicable ideas.  Have an Ordinary DayPurveyor of Rhetoric

Yes, he needs to learn from Rush Limbaugh. Why I remember what a terrific job Rush did in 2008 when George W called into his program… All those hard hitting and insightful questions he asked about the war, the spending, the expansion in the size of government…
It was journalistic excellence at its finest.

Idiots like you shouldn’t be allowed to be on a comment page. Your sexuality has nothing to do with politics unless you are one and want to make a point. If your going to answer to these news items at least be respectful to all people. Making someone say a certain word is childish and uncalled for. Grow up! This story is about a news announcer and a senator…that’s the subject.

I think Snowspot has a very dirty and foul mouth, not needed here in this discussion

“Liberalism is a mental disorder”. 
Great job parroting Michael Savage. Does that make conservatism a form of hypnosis? Or are you just incapable of forming independent thoughts. 

The tea party were smart enough to gather together and protest how they felt about Obama’s running of the government. They were a  combination of dems and repub. but to listen to people it was only republicans who “gathered” together. Even the president tried to make it look like the tea party people were trouble makers. Funny how that works huh! Maybe the democrats should have gathered up their own party and protested. You could call yourselves bush-wackers because your stuck on believing that everything economical is Bushes fault.  But we didn’t see that did we??  The Tea Party is accomplishing something in congress. Because they have made their point and are trying hard to hold to what people want from them.  Therefore, it’s a very smart idea that all congressmen have only 2 terms to run because it’s obvious that the “old” ones in there are so stuck in their ways and trying so hard to make the people who supported them happy. If their were held to 2 terms alot of that crap would not be happening. 

Unfortunately, the news announcers tend to thing they are far above anyone else. Anyone who won’t allow an answer to be given should not be asking them.

..Big Ed, are you crazy?  Kerry????

That didn’t strike me as so contentious by today’s standards.

I’m no fan of Rand Paul, but I did think that Lemon was a bit pushy in trying to drag Paul back to yes or no answers when Paul was trying to frame his answer with some context. I’d actually say that Paul was more directly responsive than is usual in such interviews.

A “?” belongs at the end of my final sentence.

And my income is over $200,000 a year and I’m perfectly willing to pay more — as long as others in a similar or better position do so too. It’s the price we pay for civilization.

My response to all the people who say it’s too contentious is this:
TOUGH SH*T. The man is a public servant for crying out loud. Who cares if Don has obvious political bias. As long as he’s asking questions thats all that matters. If you disagree with Don’s viewpoints terrific! Let Rand explain his viewpoints and whoever’s make the most sense will win the hearts and minds of the American? A mindless Sean Hannity asking Palin about her children’s fun times at band camp? Or the late but not great Tim Russert never asking a single hard hitting question of those in power?
Grow the hell up already. If these people can’t answer pointed questions get the hell out. And that goes for dems and reps.

1st post contained too many errors. Here’s the revised post:My response to all the people who say it’s too contentious is this:TOUGH SH*T. The man is a public servant for crying out loud. Who cares if Don has obvious political bias. As long as he’s asking questions thats all that matters. If you disagree with Don’s viewpoints terrific! Let Rand explain his viewpoints and whoever’s make the most sense will win the hearts and minds of the American people? What do people want?  A mindless Sean Hannity asking Palin about her children’s fun times at band camp? Or the late but not great Tim Russert never asking a single hard hitting question of those in power?Grow the hell up already. If these people can’t answer pointed questions get the hell out. And that goes for dems and reps.

No, but you sound like a fool!!!

The useless corpses of starved Marxists to fill the holes, for cash I’ll sell the minnows The California cretins used close the farms. Sink California and sell tickets, rename it Paradise Lost Again!!.

I agree with the sense of your question.

My only point was that I found Paul surprisingly responsive. He did try to expand on the questions Lemon asked, but I didn’t get the impression that he was ducking the question with the usual political bafflegab. And given that I don’t think much of the guy, I was pleasantly surprised. 

Just as we have a right to straight answers, those being questioned have a right to insert a little nuance into their responses. Just sayin’.

Could you clarify your position on a “Balanced Budget Amendment”?  I can’t tell by your wording if you are pro or con.  

Agreed. There was an instance where it did seem like Don was talking over him. I won’t make excuses for anybody. 

Gee, another swallower!

Doesn’t matter….you’re still a packer and lame at that!!!

Doesn’t matter….you’re still a packer and lame at that!!!

That’s why the left embraces homosexuality.  Those boys will do their bidding.  I say back in the …….where they belong.

Keith you hit a homer each time.  Keep up the truthful postings.

Don Lemon is an arrogant bigoted prick. He’s an insulting egotistical boring biased bonehead. Phew! He is disgusting!

Why should Paul be recalled?  He’s voting as HIS CONSTITUENTS directed him by virtue of sending him to Washington on the platform on which he ran.

He’s absolutely correct that balancing the budget within the next decade is a reasonable expectation.

Lemon is being obnoxious here.

I have no problem with hard questioning during a media interview. I am just sick of seeing Republicans savaged and Democrats tossed softballs. 

I would bet serious $$$ that you are wrong.

People like you should not be allowed to have an internet connection.

Is progressive_kitty an Obamabot or an actual person?

Right on!

 The most disgusting biased racist and nasty politicians in America are 95% Democrats. I used to be a democrat; know many personally. but realized the lack of depth and fairness  and true compassion in the modern democratic party; the flagrant sopping to victimhood of every minority  group they can find; Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid. Weiner, Kerry. , etc. My God, how can you listen to these people and not conclude that the Democratic Party isn’t replete with character assassinating bufoons who have disdain for the publics ability to think on their own..  and sickeningly have made the correct conclusions in many cases.

Barack Obama is Americas worst enemy; a race baiting compulsive liar stretching over the past three years, whose ultimate goal is the demise of America on as many fronts as possible. ( Read his auto-biography  ) It’s been his goal all along and he, most of all, has disdain for the citizens because he so easily conned, and lied without being challenged, and became President. An insincere angry destroyer of Americas security where-ever and on as many fronts as possible.

Thank God for the Tea Party/s civic involvement and willingness to get into the fray and stand up for America and stay the course.

Common sense has to be earned through experience..You seem to lack that credential as you run about claiming ” the sky is falling “  anyway, so just do nothing??

What a Dick! Lemmon says be respectful than tells Paul to get back to work….what a Dick!

That is true Paul was in unusual form in trying to answer just a guess but maybe Lemon may have been expecting the same Paul that was interviewed by Maddow, in general I dislike Lemon’s reporting style. For opinion news as much as she is hated by the right Maddow may be my favorite opinion TV host, O’donnel is to argumentative with guests he doesn’t agree with, Schultz yells to much, Mathews is OK though I don’t watch fox they are wrong way to often. Hard news I believe Cooper owns it, just my opinion.

Figment of your imagination.

I don’t call them teabaggers anymore I call them Pee Party Patriots, Pissing on the United States Of America since 2009.

Lemon ought put a disclaimer before the interview And say “I’m an ideological democratic liberal and I hate the tea party but I have to do this Interview”…… And maybe then the viewer will get a better understanding of why he is an angry man who can’t stand when anyone insults his POTUS

CNN is really showing it’s liberal bias with Lemmon and his partner Anderson……what liberal bias they have….could they be any more transparent….just like Katie Couric and her interviews….maybe Katie should get a job here with the liberal boys of CNN

I’m a real Maddow fan, too. Sort of a steel-hand-in-a-velvet-glove approach to snark. It helps that she’s unashamedly smart and well spoken. I’ve never seen her bloviate or spew, which seems to be the norm across the political spectrum.

The other opinion journalists — all the way from bombastic Shultz to creepy and bombastic Hannity — don’t really do it for me, except for the occasional clip which I can down in a single bite.

I am “con”. I feel that Congress should be able to do it’s job without a Constitutional Amendment. I oppose haphazardly changing, amending or altering the Constitution. The Tea Party has been successful in bringing the U.S. to it’s knees to get what it wants, so obviously there is no need for a Constitutional Amendment.

Considering the state of our national finances, I believe Rand Paul and his cronies are still being way too nice. It’s time we the people insist that our public servants on the side of responsibility bring a howitzer to this knife fight. Connie Mack proposes that we start at 2011 level, and cut spending 1% per year, and balance our budget in 8 years. A one sentence plan that any 4th grader can grasp, that actually solves the problem- Obviously a non-starter in DC…  Boehner’s “deal”: “he got 98% of what he wanted.” He must be the political version of a suicide bomber, if you ask me. IF THIS IS SUCH A DEAL, WHY DOES IT PRESERVE THE STATUS QUO UNTIL AFTER THE ELECTION? DUH, folks… We need to crash and burn these fools in 2012, and elect folks who will use common sense in our behalf. Period.

“The government that would take 10% would be excedingly oppressive.”- Ben Franklin

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Thanks. Are you aware that the Founding Fathers wrestled with such a need? Even Jefferson saw a problem with human temptation to borrow and spend. (Then again, Jefferson purchased the Louisiana territory on credit) Ouch! Not to convince, rather just to piece of knowledge, Google–”Balanced Budget Amendment, Wikipedia” Near the top is a nice summary on how this has been an issue for a long time.
A couple points: “haphazardly”? I don’t want such either, But, I do want a BBA. Also, “Tea Party–bringing the US to its knees”? The Tea Party did not form out of thin air as a “naked power organ.” I assure you, all I/we desire is to keep Washington honest, not usurp power. Have you ever Googled the Tea Party Platform? I think you’d be surprised.
Purveyor

Then watch Fox if you want Republicans handled with velvet gloves. I’m just sick period of politicians not answering questions or not even being asked questions. Anybody who worries about things like respect needs to graduate from the 4th grade mentally. These people serve us. Not the other way around.

Wonderful response. Knuckle dragger… Should’t you be collecting my garbage?

Who is this Don Lemon ass?  He asks a question, wants to dictate the answer and then when he gets it, he’s too stupid to realize he’s already gotten the answer?

I know most politicians wander all over the place to avoid straight answers – but Rand Paul was pretty straight in this interview and Lemon… well, Lemon just had his ass-hat on. Lemon seems to think the American People want compromise for compromise’s sake, which is just… asinine.

At this point, the Republicans should just say “No”.  The August 2 deadline is a fake.  It’s a “crisis” manufactured by the Democrats.  The REAL crisis is that the debt keeps going up, and in a few years, we’ll be in the same situation as Greece, triple-FFF bond rating and all.

“Who is this Don Lemmon ass?”  LOL  

Even the News Analysts I watch and like, have quirks that seem to be getting worse.  O’Reilly acts objective and reasonable, until something he is personally attached too is threatened, (his Ox is gored) and he comes unglued, so to speak.Hannity, will stir up the group and then let them all talk at once without moderating, hence, I don’t hear anything of substance.As you’ve noted,  the Left is the most, ——?—– we need a new word to describe their tactics and techniques, or, lack thereof?  LOL  Anyway, I refer to Mathews, Maddow, and the usual suspects and they seem to be legion!  Ouch! So, in conclusion, I am in agreement with your main point, while at the same time becoming increasingly dissatisfied with various News shows.  (Oh yeah: grumbling, bumbling, grouchy, curmudgeon Bob Beckal, need I say more?)Purveyor

An “Eagle, Globe and Anchor? Isn’t that a bit incongruous considering your political proclivities? Then again, Oswald was a Marine. Ouch!

That response by PROOBAMAAGENDA, was a caricature of African American, separatist nonsense.  I have always maintained the death of MLK allowed  for the rise and perpetuation of the Sharptons , Farakhans and Jacksons, etc.

Anyway, I just ran across that series of Posts and started thinking.  You know what I mean: the curse of an active mind!  LOL

Thanks

Sorry Tanz….Lemon is not Pauls boss.  You need to go take middle school history over again.  Unless he lives in the state of Kentucky which i doubt.  Otherwise, call his own senator and give him a half-assed attempt at an interview.  I bet lemon would treat a dem just in the same way, but then again when did a democrat ever use talking points.

Why? He just wanted straight answers and none of the nonsense the Senator and his cohorts espouse. 

Your lack of civility destroys your own arguments. Please clean up your language so you don’t drag the whole debate even lower. I really do want to support you, but I cannot support your choice of words.

I realize that for a lot of people that it is difficult to accept and understand how complicated humans actually are. I have been a patriot all my life. Most likely longer than many people who post here. I knew from an early age, and I mean 7 or 8 years old, that I owed 6 years of my life, in service, to my country. So when I grew older I volunteered for the Marine Corps. I have also known from an early age that I favored an ideology that favored the least of humanity. Primarily poor and people inflicted with some sort of malady. I credit this ideology to my Christian up bringing. Jesus was always more concerned about those who did not have than those who did have. So I have been a Liberal all my life and I have been a Patriot all my life. Many see this as a contridiction I have always called myself an “Idealist-Realist”, and this is how I believe many humans are. You can’t simply pigeon hole them into some neat little category and expect them to toe an ideological line 100%.

With the GOP’s main goal is for Obama to be a 1 term president if the economy goes well they will fail in their main goal so they MUST tank the economy screw seniors and basically due everything they can to under cut his Presidency Now that’s what I call Patriotism

A most disgraceful display of professional journalism. No wonder CNN ratings are dropping. Blame game, Lame game. Who started all the blaming??? Oh that’s right, Fareed’s Dictator, Mein Obamler.

Exactly,  He admits that ” the American people don’t understand what’s going on”, is that not an admission that he is failing to truthfully inform America!!!!!!   S&P and Moody “will downgrade” which will make the dollar drop like a rock, if we don’t resolve our long term debt!!!  The debt ceiling is irrelevant compared to our mounting debt ratio.  Most politicians and media appear to be suffering from a divine form of blindness.  They are rendered unable to see the true disaster that they have created.

Lemon is a jerk and should be fired. He was rude and obnoxious toward Paul. He would never treat or talk to his liberal party as he did. I think since Lemon came out and reported his sexual preferences, he feels entitled to say and speak whatever he wants without repercussions and that everyone in CNN and others would accept him no MATTER WHAT. He needs to go and find another station to vent his liberalism and hate and BULLYING.

Does that mean everyone at Fox should be fired after all the idiot brigade always attacks literals including when O’Dumb*ss interviewed the President.

Considering Paul NEVER strays off the subject. He was clearly answering the questions. When Lemon wasn’t getting what he wanted he started getting angry. I love the intro too about the “talking points” anyone who follows Rand knows that he says exactly what he means and is not ownder by the left or the right. It was a clear attempt at a smear job from the beginning.

Lemon is a sodomite, so of course he’s a liberal.

Don Lemon has the appropriate name, because he is a lemon at his job.  He needs to find other employment.

Don Lemon has the appropriate name, because he is a lemon at his job.  He needs to find other employment.

Regardless of any imminent crisis as an investor, you can safely protect your assets, is still profitable, despite the predicted dollar collapse. you must reduce your risk in today’s weakest currencies – the dollar. You should buy and hold physical gold and silver, and keep the world outside the banking system.