to scare a generation of kids in order to manipulate them later into BS legislative measures ;D... like taxing exhalations, and regulating light bulbs

Colorado as a 'toss up' is being generous. We're increasingly more and more Blue here, even after the mid-terms....

Great post, Joseph.  The A's are beloved.  The Yankees do what they do within the rules, but where's the fun in rooting for the team that's there every year?  Let's just all be Lakers, Patriots, Steelers, and Celtic fans, too then.

If you love the Yankees, you have to love the Pirates and Royals more....being that they are the Yankees farm teams.   You gotta crush the little and suck him dry, squash him (if you will) for your own success.  Yankees got the best players money can buy, we have the best government money can buy?  Is that where this line of thought goes?

yea.  I'm with this sentiment.   That sham/scam that was the '11 budget.  The President's 'speech' the other day.  Boehner as 'leader.  Moral victories don't count for anything.  We're getting hosed.  All I can hear is Pat Caddell saying, "Republicans are soooo stupid!"  And now we're supposed to feel good and optimistic about this? Come on.

Seriously, NYT is gnashing it's teeth.  And?  The House had to pass just to keep the base from going medieval them.  So, I pose the question, what exactly did they do? 

Do NOT count on Colorado.  Mid-terms, asides from some rural districts going to Repubs...everything else went blue.   Ballot amendments weren't even close.  Hickenlooper got elected after saying that most of the state, outside of Denver and Boulder, is a bunch of backwoods gay-haters.  The Denver Mayoral election is in a few weeks, guess what? there's like 9 varietys of Democrats on the ballot and Zero Republicans.   Our senators are Bennet and Udall, need more? Colorado loves it's gov't cheese....

you know if 'Fight Club' where it's asked, "If you could fight one person in history, who would it be?"  I got my answer, w/o hesitation after yesterday's "speech."

I'm with Kenneth's cynicism and Diane's simplification.  The Anarchy of Laws.  Damned if you, damned if you don't.   Our system is not for simplification at this point. Please, let me know if i'm wrong on that.

Exactly. Why change when the opposition is this weak? or already dismissed the mid term elections....

oh, and, it's 38 billion-ish in "cuts" from a budget that never existed. 

Couldn't agree more.  The Barnes, Brooks, Rove media types are going to sink us along with the democrats.

Levin wasn't three minutes into his show last night saying that many conservatives media types got 'snookered' by Boehner.  Where's Pat Caddel to call Republicans stupid some more. They are.  But, unfortunately they are the only vessel for non-lefty types to vote for. 

How many times will the Right fall into this trap and then demand answers?!

The old 'drain the swamp' phrase has a whole new meaning these days.  Stop with the old guard bs already, it's destructive, and stupid.

I'm glad both of ya'll are here.  I joined this site just for the sake of busting Peter's view on the budget, and Rob Long's for that matter.  We're in it....deep.  We can't make the same mistakes that lefties made with Barack and start feeling all good about Boehner or any other politician.  No more status quo, or 'stay the course's' and such, but, we have a new reality, a new America....i.e. new things to deal with in new ways.  I hate to quote Eddie Vedder, but a Progressive friend of mine does often, "...i'll keep takin' punches 'til their will grows tired..."  

they're waiting for us (conservatives) to cave...

Welcome to the New Fight. No Quitting, no playing nice and no crappy deals w/ democrats in DC.

go to youtube and type in 'male feminism'....? 

I'm with David.  The 'political capital' arguement is tired.  The stakes are too high.  We conservative types need to know that our Reps in DC will fight for us.  Alot of us are just waiting for these guys to do 'business as usual'...cut yet another bad deal ('tax cuts' for unemployment extension).

This. We can't whine about political courage and then just give them a budget they punted on anyway.

I'm pretty sure I'm not alone here.  But, this is why I'm having a hard time not being cynical about things....specifically Ryan's budget proposal, and I don't want to be.  Because, soon after, this kind of junk gets fed into the news cycle.   Ryan's proposal might be the best thing i've ever seen in my life come out of D.C. (I'm 32).  So, to counter some serious reforms, 'we' get to even talk about *uckabee and Trump.  Seriously?  What's next? How the GOP compromises and special deals/backdoor deals the 2012 budget to death?  Please, stop the insanity :)

That's a whole lot of assumptions...

for starters, like those receiving entitlements are just going to give them up because this budget proposal says so.  I guess this budget proposal is a start, but it's a long road to 'not-heaven'.  I'm not about to take yours or the WSJ's word for it.  Been burned too many times...