The NRA hasn't always been a pawn of the gun lobby. There was a time when hunters and sportsmen filled those ranks, but these days, it is all about gun profit.

As usual(R), their public front seems so noble, but under the sheets, there's hanky-panky goin' on.

When the hunters (The People) take back their NRA from the gun lobby, (Wall Street) you may see sanity return to this issue. But as long as greed alone moves them to manipulate the minds of so many well-armed lemmings, we can only hope the 'baggers don't go bonkers.

So, when does the whole globe become too common for them, and they head for outer space?

Removing the last vestige of royalty from our inherently conservative culture, whether inherited or delusional, might actually create a world of equal opportunities.

Problem is, the closer the uber-wealthy move to be near the cheap labor they depend on for their extreme selfish, economy-constipating personal wealth, the less security they have on the mean streets.

It is still safer in NYC than along the Mexican border.

Most of the time.

Or is that backwards?

Who's ignoring? I thought NY 23 was pretty good proof that most of us here are tight about the Republicans splitting, but since you are so cautious to use conservative rather than Republican as your label, you are obfuscating right out of the box.

There are no "Liberal v. Conservative" parties in the country, it is Democrat v. Republican.

When you attempt to move the bar so that it is Dems v. Conservatives, you are comparing apples and oranges. So, while it may prove what we already know, that the conservative/liberal ebb and flow is still at play, the Republican v. Democrat ebb and flow has reached tsunami proportions, and until Conservatives (with a capital C) find another party to take over, they are just another minority, albeit with a lot of money.

As long as the wingnut extremist Republicans, who don't know conservative from liberal in the first place, can dictate who runs for office, as they did in NY 23, the old line Conservatives you so proudly tout are just another minority.

It isn't Democrats V. Conservatives. Never has been.

Campaign mode is kicking in. We are one year away from the next big test of their ability to fool some of the people all of the time..

The season of lies is already upon us, and the worst of the liars are busy preparing their oh-so-crooked pathways.

That half-million person event was not covered by the same media that will inflate this event to match their needs.

Why would the media cover this little mob of pseudo-angry astroturfers, and not a horde of sincere, peaceful protesters?

Because the media is a tool of big money, and pharma ads are now their primary bread-and-butter. Especially with the auto-ad market drying up.

The media need health care industry money like a wino needs Mad Dog. Expect them to try to move the fulcrum on the HC debate, rather than weigh and balance the issue fairly.

And those "11%" were actually Republicans who will NEVER vote for her, lying through their $20,000 caps.

Cars? Would those be the new 2010 Lemmings?

It might be fruitful if the chain of command, no matter how far up it starts, that took part in any CIA lie (or "government" lie for that matter), was identified and exposed in some way.

But it might be more accurate to say "CIA officials lied" because, like all our agencies, it only takes a small circle of co-conspirators to dirty up the whole basket of laundry.

Considering their daily-coercion visits from Cheney, one might safely deduce where the ultimate guilt "lies."

Not only are they able to wean themselves off the welfare teat, they become top-end consumers, spending a much higher percentage of that new income than any millionaire ever could.

So, not only do Colorado counties and the state benefit from shrinking welfare rolls, they get the benefit of sales and income taxes previously non-existent.

Sane pot laws create jobs, both in the ag industry with hemp, and in the general culture, with pot. If the corporations could control it (which, by it's very homegrown nature, they can't) it would have been legal long ago.

Some oxymorons just stand right out...

What you really mean is "monopolists abusing the capitalist system", but your point is well taken.

One of the hallmarks of monopolists in capitalist clothing is their tendency to pay-off "government" to protect their monopolism, as "exceptions" to common competition protective laws.

And where's the proof?

Here's the easiest one...

WHY IS INDUSTRIAL HEMP STILL ILLEGAL TO GROW?

Now that so many states are legitimizing pot for smoking, will industrial hemp be freed from it's anti-competition unfair treatment?

The only reason industrial hemp can't be cultivated openly is because it's THC-bearing relative, POT, is labeled a dangerous drug.

Now that myth is being systematically debunked, state by state, WHO is stopping those same states (and all the rest) from putting this very versatile ag product back into domestic U.S. the market?

MONOPOLISTS, that's who.

Cotton, oil, fiber and paper industries live in fear of industrial hemp, because it is not only an alternative, it is a RENEWABLE alternative.

So they promote the "pot-is-hemp-is-evil" myth, costing us billions in lost ag revenues and law enforcement tax expense.

And which new wing of the old Republican Party will make that happen? It is more likely a third-party conglomerate will form, rather than the Republicans regaining power. If that is what you are suggesting, it is still a long way off.

But if you are saying that the Palin Republicans (her supporters don't even like the word "Republican" any more) are going to unite with the McCain Republicans for another go at it, consider recent history.

Lalo35, your wishful thinking that the rift between ideological wingnuts(R) and consewrvative centrists(R) will heal soon is naive at best, more like downright delusional.

But, that is nothing new.

HYPOCRITES!

Diebold, anyone?

He can never live up to the conservative icon his father sculpted, bbased on real conservative values, not no-bid bppk-cooking neoconservative values, so Jr. doubles down on neoconservative dogma in an attempt to be to the new conservatives what his father was to the old conservatives.

COnsidering how crazy the Rigtht has become, that means Billy is dealing with a short deck, compared to his father's poker game.

Thus he encourages extremists because there aren't enough centrists left in the Republican Party to perform for.

He's desperate to claim the legacy his father created. And since he's the self-appointed inheritor of all that wind, he has to keep reaching further into wingnuttia for popular support in his vain attempt to match the old man's influence.

In order to keep up the psychological battle, his values float like a book-cooker's decimal point.

Hubris has never been better represented than it is in this current Chamber or Horrors. These are the pernicious "them" that We, The People, have always alluded to without knowing exactly of whom we speak, when we talk about "Them v. Us."

And if they can't win in court, they will hire some new congresspeople to pass laws that protect them from the free speech of parody, just one more indulgence that their corporations will get at the expense of the common citizens who our constitution was written to uplift.

Now, with our Bush-generated Corporate Protector Supreme Court installed, we will see those indulgences upheld in court every time.

The only way to prevent them from it is to elect people who will not succumb to the money magnet powered by these magnates.

Electing them will be easy. FINDING all those honest Mr. Smiths to replace the money-hungry misfits who now sit in our highest Legislative and Congressional seats is the problem.