Mr. Weaver,

Those 'masses' whom you think got us in trouble because they took loans they couldn't repay would not have been able to do so if the banks were not pressured by groups like ACORN to loan money to folks the banks KNEW would never be able to repay their loans. Don't blame the 'masses' because they took advantage of getting loans at a monthly price they could afford and were taken advantage of by lenders who did not make it clear these payments would balloon into massive amounts few of them could hope to afford. The Republicans tried to get Congress to do something about Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae while Bush was still in office and the Dems blocked it...

I have NEVER heard that any Republican, or anyone else for that matter, likes Bush or Palin 'because they want to have a beer with them.' Such a ridiculous statement certainly could not have come from the mind of an intellectual... In addition, I defy you to PROVE your biased statement that Palin could not handle being the governor of a SMALL (?) state so she quit. Do some fact checking and cease writing lies, how about it?

You, like many leftists, sling mud and call it intelligent...

If it takes reading Aristotle and Nietzsche to be considered 'educated' in your elitist world, I would bet Obama and most of Congress would not fit the bill.

I am sick and tired of those who THINK they are 'smarter' than the masses leveling charges of being uneducated and stupid on those of us who have worked hard all our lives at making America what it is--all of us who do the 'menial' jobs that keep America running so those like this letter writer can get the education that makes them feel so superior.

I do know that both common sense and truth appear to elude the elite. Perhaps all those who consider themselves intellectual super stars should gather in California together with the Hollywood bunch. Why, I'll bet the weight of all that brainpower would sink the state into the sea!

teamster:

I am sane. Name one so-called ethics violation that was not started by the Democrats in order to try to bring down Sarah Palin. In addition, please name one with which she was charged that was found credible and for which she was actually found guilty. Before you start ranting, have some credible evidence with which to back yourself up. Hope that shoe leather tastes good...

BTW, have you looked into the ethics of the President and his cronies? 'Any sane person' cannot believe this group is ethical.

Sarah Palin is an angel by comparison.

I seem to remember a Democratic PRESIDENT who got a bj in the OVAL office and kept his presidency, even though he lied big time to the American people. This sort of thing is old news in the celebrity/political world and I don't see why Ensign's failings as a husband are subject to so much screaming and wailing from the Dumbocrats. Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones!

Hampton loves the limelight (he looks like a greasy scumbag to me) and enjoys playing the victim. I think he's 'come out' about the whole thing because Ensign would no longer go along with Hampton's demands for payment. If Hampton is so upset by the whole affair, why is he still with his wife? In fact, why has she kept so silent on the subject? It takes two to tango, as the old saying goes. Where is her statement about what happened?

I don't condone what Ensign did, but it's between him and his wife. If Ensign's wife is over it, that should be the end of it. Quit rubbing salt into her wounds.

Consider this rambling sentence of O's book, 'Dreams of My Father', recently printed in Slate Magazine's forum, The Fray: "The apartment was small, with slanting floors and irregular heat and a buzzer downstairs that didn't work, so that visitors had to call ahead from a pay phone at the corner gas station, where a black Doberman the size of a wolf paced through the night in vigilant patrol, its jaws clamped around an empty beer bottle."

This sentence was written by a Harvard grad??? A person with a 'stellar education.'

You, sir, are obviously a snob. No matter where one gets an education, one must have common sense to go with it, or all is for naught. Sarah Palin has the common sense to go with her education, while O has none at all. He needs a large body of 'czars' to tell him what to do because he hasn't a clue. I know a man like him who has the 'stellar' education you seem to think those in government should have. He doesn't have the common sense to come in out of the rain!

Get over yourself. We need good, honest people in government; those who know what it's like to be out here worried about how to pay the bills. Not career politicians whose 'golden parachutes' and monied backgrounds are so far above the common American they could not possibly understand what is good and right for the constituents who put them in office.

They're all villains for participating in illicit behavior. Hampton obviously forgave his wife or he would no longer be with her, so one has to ask why he brings this out now and why he did not bring it out while it was going on?

The obvious answer is money or to stop Ensign from succeeding in going into higher office. But then the exact same questions can be asked for that situation as well.

So why now, Doug?

DouglasDemocrat,

Without any evidence? Care to look up how many mistresses JKF had? It was at least seven...

And brother Ted did leave a young woman to drown, and received only a slap on the wrist -- a two month suspended sentence.

For you to call me out for NO evidence when I certainly do have some kinda damages your credibility, DouglasD. BTW, I was trying to make a point that both sides have bad apples because this article seemed to point fingers only at the Repub side. BTW, I am NOT a Dem or a Repub, but an Independent who has NEVER voted strict party lines.

As for this current administration, I have my own opinion of them and their actions so far seem to bear out that opinion. If you wish wear rose-colored glasses and think they're all a bunch of saviours, have at it!

It amuses me when people characterize any political party by a few of its bad apples.

If one cares to dig deeply enough there are plenty of bad apples in both the Democratic and the Republican parties. At least Ensign told the truth once confronted by blackmail, and I find it curious he is being so ostracized when prominent Dems have done so much worse, including multiple mistresses and even murder (and have gotten away with it, btw!)

As for the current Democratic administration, I have never seen more corrupt, lying, cheating bushels of bad apples (very plural!) in all my days (and I'm no naive child.) A childish president, an evil witch, and a power hungry bunch of senators and representatives who just push through whatever their childish leader wants without even reading it. The American people are getting the very short end of the stick this time around and I wonder if there will even be a USA by the time they get done!

How can you report this event as 'sold out?' In the pic I saw there were quite a few empty seats with folks spread out to try to show more people. Tickets were even being given away on one website.

Of course the Sun is a wee bit biased, is it not?

Reid is one head of a vicious hydra devoted to bringing this country to its knees to bow before a dictator type leader. This hydra must be stopped before we, the people, have no freedoms left at all.

Obama is great at campaigning but not so good at actually performing the job he's elected to do. Just check out his Senate record: many of the bills he supposedly brought forth were actually presented by others with his name added. I am sick and tired to the adulation shown this sham and his compadres.

BTW, Rocco and you other liberals: I'm not a Repub (I'm an Independent) and I don't listen to Hannity, etc. I simply have a brain to think for myself and do research on my own. I've found way more than I needed to know to NOT vote for O and Company, nor blindly suffer what they dish out!

We as a people and as a nation have more than enough to worry about with this 'recession' and all its accoutrements without obsessing about the past. We cannot change it. Obama and company are doing more than enough damage to this country NOW, and more of us should worry about THAT.

All I see and hear and read on an almost daily basis is more jobs lost and more debt piled on us. I want to know where the thousands of jobs are we have been promised and where the changes are that will make us stronger and better as a nation. Where is the transparency O promised? It seems to be all focused on the past and none of it on the present, where O promised it would be. We're being slowly taxed to death and our government seems poised to take over public sectors they should not be involved in, and we are not informed of it until AFTER it happens. Scary stuff!