What is wrong with attacking people who are "dissenting?" Isn't that freedom of speech too? There is nothing wrong with attacking the reasons why someone is doing something as fundamentally unsound.
Why did we never see these protests during the Reagan years (the one who started massive deficit spending), or the Bush W. years (the prince of deficit spending)?
I don't think that the people who are protesting actually care about this stuff as much as they claim. They only care when a Democrat is doing it. Its a political charade. Maybe it just bothers them that Obama is being honest about it while Bush W. did a lot of creative bookkeeping to make the problem seem a lot smaller than it actually was. I think anyone who complains about what Obama is doing and isn't willing to take on Reagan, Bush Sr. (least culpable, he tried to raise taxes in the name of fiscal responsibility and his party hated him for it), and Bush W. as well are blatant hypocrites.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
