[PapaBear3625]

Yet even "Tonight" host Jay Leno broke from full flattery to reveal his qualms about the meaning of the bonus tax. "Here's something that kind of scared me," he said. "If the government decides they don't like a guy, all of a sudden, hey, we're going to tax you and then, boom, and it passes."

Leno is starting to get it. As Barry Goldwater put it "A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have."

The French Revolution showed what happens when you have a government unconstrained by a Constitution, traditions, or law. It was not pretty.

[RedMonqey]

Leno is starting to get it.

I do too.

He's still an democrat but now that's there's no real GOP to protect rich liberals like himself. He has to somehow draw into question Obama's plans of class warfare without seeming to be "disloyal"

He was in LA during the King riots. If the same mobs that looted and torched businesses of their own kind, he knows the next time they won't be limited to "their neighborhoods ",and they won't see Leno's family's as one of the "good white liberals." Just a fat juicy mansion full of goodies with plenty of targets for "racial justice" to be judicated.

I bet he has lots of guns for "personal protection".

Charlton Heston ain't around to save their bacon this time.

[lentulusgracchus]

The French Revolution showed what happens when you have a government unconstrained by a Constitution, traditions, or law. It was not pretty.

Yes, and it finally -- at long last -- ended in the snow, on the retreat from Moscow in 1812.

Disorderly Republic begat Napoleon and Empire, and Empire's wars. The failure of the French First Republic was the doom of an entire generation that came of age between 1785 and 1810.

Napoleon's grandeur bled France white.