[hershey]

This is like Waco, Ruby Ridge, Arkancide, Hill's miraculous trade deal, Clinton laughing at Ron Brown's funeral...They do as they please and the public's too busy trying to keep a roof over their heads to pay attention. Abuse of power beyond belief. US sovereignty tossed overboard, illegal prosecution of border agents doing their job. Cozy arrangement with drug dealer, immunity, and now he's suing for 5 million. Mexico integrates with the US. Oh, well, globalization has a few potholes. Nothing to see here. Go back to sleep.

[Obie Wan]

Well said !!!

[hershey]

(That's Hill's legendary stock market prowess I was referring to.)

[reformedliberal]

...the public's too busy trying to keep a roof over their heads to pay attention.

People are paying attention, even though, yes: we all have to keep on working/living. I encounter a lot of cynicism from people usually not that way.

There is a sense of being too small and too powerless to do anything. People are frightened. How much more stress and anxiety can the average individual take upon themselves, especially up here in places where inattention to your own life right now, with severe cold and snow, can result in collapsed roofs, frozen infrastructure,auto accidents?

Our side is so fractured, there is no sense of anyone being on anyone's side. There is no one to vote for who can win. The left is not only going to win the next election, they are going to wreck as much of the economy as possible. Meanwhile, Republicans and conservatives seem bent on helping them do so.

Please lighten up on the American people. No one has forgotten Waco and Ruby Ridge. Those are examples of what happens if the government notices your discontent. Arkancide happens. No one wants to be on that list. Cattle futures weren't something anyone could change. Clinton's thuggery just increases fears about the future.

I think everyone is simply hoping to survive, once again.

[jwparkerjr]

It took me several years of watching the Clintons and their administration but in time it dawned on me just what there MO is. You do what you damn well please. Then when you're called on it you deny having done it. When a credible witness surfaces you admit you did it, but lie about how you did it or to what extent you did it. At the same time you set about destroying the witness with personal attacks. Meanwhile you're doing several other things that you will soon be able to deny and then lie about so that after a while there's just so much denying and lying that your critics need a score card to keep up with everything. On, and you also depend on a press you know won't turn loose any of their investigative reporters to expose you. Meanwhile you do things like steal hundreds and hundreds of FBI files filled with juicy unproved allegations and information that will make it much easier to destroy the credible witnesses.

And you go on doing this for eight years, plus when you leave office you somehow convince your successor not to investigate any of the mess you left behind.

And of course you started by firing every current US Attorney across the nation and filling those spots with those you knew would not move against you.

Just think, how much good could have accomplished if the Clinton had put one-tenth the effort into doing his job and doing it right as put into being the First-Scoundrel.

[thinking]

yes....have an another beer, and continue to watch CNN for breaking news!

[hosepipe]

The Sandy Burgular affair?... What is that?..

[mel]

You nailed it.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Absolutely true!

[Libertina]

Not the people, the media. It reports only on activities, (real or imagined) of Republicans. The people never get a chance to hear what goes on. The people are busy, but I think they'd care about thses issues if they were aware of them.... Well, atleast some of them would ;)

[righteousindignation]

alas you are right on target!! Other than trying to help families of Ramos and Compean with financial aid what are Americans going to do NOW about this loss of our country?

[null and void]

That pretty much covers it.

[Sender]

Will it eventually be Canamerexico or simply Mexamerica? Might as well have one contiguous state from the Panama canal to Alaska.

[NormsRevenge]

globalization has a few potholes

--

potholes? is that a play on words. ;-)

like holes in borders where pot and other stuff can flow freely and unimpeded?

[FrankR]

"...They do as they please and the public's too busy trying to keep a roof over their heads to pay attention."

Why do you think the left is trying so hard do bring down the "rich" (anyone making over minimum wage. Poor people...peons...are much easier to control than the rich.

And it's mostly the filthy rich DEMOCRATS who push this agenda. Brings me back to one of my favorite sayings...

YOU'RE ONLY ENSLAVED TO THE EXTENT OF THE CHARITY YOU RECEIVE!

[Edit35]

They do as they please and the public's too busy trying to keep a roof over their heads to pay attention.

As a conservative who pays attention to exactly what is reported by the mainstream "reporting" news organizations like the AP, Reuters, ABC, CBS, CNN, Knight Ridder, etc. -- I must disagree with your presumption that the public pays no attention.

In fact, the mainstream reporting news people never reported stories (repeatedly) of Ron Brown's funeral, Arkancide, Clinton's constant abuse of power.

Oh yeah, WE saw or heard it on Rush, or in numerous conservative only publications.

As Republicans, as conservatives, we often make the mistake that the bulk of the public hears and sees the same news as us.

But THAT is far from the truth.

Do a test sometime.

Ask someone if they've ever seen the video of Clinton pretending to cry at Brown's funeral, or the story about Mena Airport, or if they've ever heard of Craig Livingstone, etc.

I can assure you they haven't because despite the relative rise of Fox, or CNS News, or talk radio, 85-percent of the public still gets its news from Networks, or at the 'top-of-the-hour' news on hip hop or rock or country radio stations.

And back in the 90s, Fox was not yet that widespread. Heck, Comcast Cable TV (Trenton, NJ) STILL had not put Fox News on its basic cable TV as of 2004.

I'm not sure if it's on there even now.

Bottom line: The liberal media still has this nation in its slimy grip.

Check the ratings numbers if you have doubts.

In order to win, the conservatives must either develop very charasmatic candidates with understandable conservative positions, or they must find a way to break thru the liberal network lies.

It's a tough task, to say the least.