That's not true.

I think that the Republican members of congress have a case of situational sanity (in comparison to the total insanity of current levels of government spending). It hasn't always been so as Donny Shaw shows over at opencongress.

"Yes, health care was front and center. But it is notable that voters of one of the most dove-ish of states, chose to side forthrightly with the candidate of the Bush foreign policy agenda, over Obama/Paul."

As if Ron Paul supports the Obama Afghanistan escalation (not). Can't you just critique Paul for Paul's positions and Obama for Obama's position?

If it didn't sound rude I would say "Are you kidding me?" Liberals never feel pain or guilt - the problem is Old White Men and never that their presumptions are faulty. To feel guilt they would have to admit fault - that will never happen.

I do not agree with Eric Dondero's positions but I am sure he is as sincere in his beliefs as Ron Paul is. He is willing to lay out his reasoning in an article so why call him trollish? Presuming to claim that he has no real understanding is pretty presumtive on your part.

You and I may believe Eric Dondero is incorrect as to his reasoning or conclusion but calling him names doesn't advance the discussion one bit (in my opinion, I could be wrong).

Between elected congressmen allocating spending or anonymous government employees at least congressmen can be fired.

I don't see the problem as being one of deaf ears but mute mouths. When it comes to voting there are few people who will consider voting for someone who isn't covered my the predominant television media (ABC and so forth). The greater variety of news available on the internet will help Kennedy and other Libertarians but for now ABC covers the Republican and the Democrat and nobody else in their news coverage that I observed last night.

Brown - his idea of socialized medicine differs from Obama's idea of <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=socialized+medicine">socialized medicine by _how_ many percent?

Oh yea Romney/Brown 2012 - because RomneyCare is obviously better than ObamaCare (yea, right).

As if voters could trust Scott "RomneyCare" Brown to oppose government health care.