[Defiant]

Believe me, I know. I worked in the Senate and House in the 80s, under Reagan. Republicans at first were scared to oppose Reagan, and then, by the mid 80s or so, as the conservative movement lost some steam, they were actually happy not to have to do what he wanted anymore. They were as big a problem as Tip O'Neill. They liked the way things ran in DC, and the crumbs the Dems gave them.

That's why what Newt did was so great. Like Reagan saying he wanted to defeat the Soviets, not live with them, Newt said he wanted to be in the majority. Everyone laughed, but he did it, with some help from Reagan's legacy and Clinton's over reaching. It could have been a lasting base for several generations of conservative rule, if they had stayed principled.

Bush II (compassionate conservatism?...No child....New Tone?)and some old-style RINO GOP leaders killed off those hopes, and gave us Nancy Pelosi and now, perhaps, Lord Obama. Heaven help us indeed.

[imintrouble]

Obama can’t know that much about taxation - he refuses to disclose the contributors of the millions he is taking in - will he ignore his taxation obligation too? I wonder how many tax reports he has honestly and accurately submitted in his own name since he became a wage earner.

No doubt the ‘ghost monies’ will never be accounted for.

He seems to have rules for all of us but exempts himself from them.