[vbmoneyspender]

Walter Russell Meade, one of our most brilliant thinkers, has written quite perceptively about the collapse of what he calls "the blue model." These are states that have been firmly in the hands of the Democratic Party and their allies (unions-especially public employee unions; special interest groups -- environmentalists among them).

What a world we live in. It is now considered a brilliant insight to recognize that big gov't ends up strangling the economy.

[Twinkie]

The “Democratic” party calls us what it likes. - So, I decided a long time ago that I will call it the “DEMOCRAT” party. - May be a rather small issue; but many people tend to equate the Republican Party with the “publicans and sinners” in the Bible, and the DEMOCRAT party with being “democratic and more for the poor people”, and also as heroes of the civil rights and women’s movement . . with the Republican Party being demonized and cast as rich thugs.