you can take the 5th, BUT...

imagine running a company, seeing a major problem blow up, calling in your manager to make her explain what happened, and she tells you "no, I refuse to answer your questions on the grounds it may tend to incriminate me"

WTF!!!!

well, meet Lois Lerner, our employee/high-level official at the IRS

rather than tell us how her agency targeted Conservatives and religious people and organizations, she invoked her 5th Amendment right against self incrimination

well that's fine...it's her Constitutional right

BUT....

she is our employee, and as her employer, we need to tell her the ramifications of refusing to tell us what happened are SHE LOSES HER JOB, SHE LOSES HER BENEFITS, AND SHE LOSES HER PENSION

WHY ON EARTH would we allow such a person to keep any of these "public trust" provided benefits????

WAKE UP CONGRESS!!!! -- TAKE ACTION!!!!

dangerous failure of America's mental health system

what is crystal clear in the horror of the Sandy Hook School shootings, the Aurora Theater massacre, VA Tech, Columbine, etc., etc., etc. - you name the mass shooting incident - is a total failure by our mental health treatment system to identify and properly treat or institutionalize the patients committing these atrocities

all of these killers were under the treatment of a mental health professional...none of them were treated properly for the safety of Americans

how is the focus not where is should be?....how can our mental health treatment system be failing so miserably to recognize and treat or put away these people before they go on their mass killing spree?

it is time to start addressing the real problem in this sordid mess to America's safety and do it now before another of these horrendous acts occurs again

but first we have to recognize and face the real problem -

AMERICA'S MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENT SYSTEM HAS DANGEROUSLY FAILED AMERICA!!!

a winning issue for Conservatives

increasingly, America is becoming a conflict between those who primarily work and pay taxes, and those who primarily receive government (taxpayer-paid) benefits...and the liberal lines of "you can afford to give more", "the rich need to pay their fair share", "it's for the children", and the like, continue to persuade many, if not most, Americans who do primarily work and pay taxes

Conservatives need to fight tax increases with the message that "as more and more people start getting more and more of your income in taxes, they become an overwhelming majority of voters who will continue to take more of your income and you won't be able to stop them from doing that - you are creating a majority voting block that is working against you"

this is an argument of financial persuasion and reality...this is an argument that makes the economy personal...this is an argument that anyone who looks at their paycheck can understand....this is an argument that can make Conservatives a majority winning voting block again, before it is too late

now all we need is a Messenger

is the Conservative movement over?

tough question - serious question

Anne Coulter recently commented: "If Mitt Romney cannot win in this economy, then the tipping point has been reached. We have more takers than makers and it’s over. There is no hope"...I think Coulter could very well be right.

we have known for decades that the lame-stream-media is pushing the liberal agenda and candidates...we have watched generations of our youth being educated by increasingly liberal and more liberal teacher's union dominated democrats...we have watched the net-tax-receiver class growing and growing under BOTH dems and republicans...we have witnessed the growing influx and fostering of illegal aliens into our country, again with the support of BOTH parties

and so, could it be we now have reached that final outcome?....AMERIKA?

a sad sad state of affairs

so you don't like Mitt's 47 Percent Comment?

Romney took a lot of heat over his comment that 47% basically live off of government welfare, and they are going to vote for the democrat party that continues to give them their checks and even more

so many Americans - even those who think of themselves as Conservatives or (shiver) "moderates" thought the comment was callous or worse, and voted for obummer, thinking that "yeah, rich people should pay a little more to help"

well please pause to think...as the obummer vision for America continues to grow, so will that 47%...what happens when that 47% becomes 51%?

I'll tell you what happens...the great experiment that we know as America is over

if you are part of the 53% right now, and you think it's OK for us "rich" to pay more, that 47% will keep growing...and as they start demanding more and more from you, AT SOME POINT YOU WILL SAY "NO MORE"...but by then, that 47% you voted with will then be 51%, and it won't matter that you say "NO MORE"

hoping for a Romney / Ryan landslide

let's hope Morris is right:

the "toe-sucker" is a recognized genius for his work during the Clinton years..I'm betting he still has his finger on the pulse

I'll be satisfied with a "squeaker" for Romney / Ryan

I'm fearing a drawn-out replay of the 2000 sore/loserman debacle....and Ohio or Pennsylvania (or both) could play the Florida role

it's scary...the future of America could well be at stake here

praying for Romney / Ryan

it IS a tax...it IS NOT a tax...

"it's NOT a tax!"

"well gosh...maybe it IS a tax..."

"those nasty Republicans are lying!...it is NOT a tax!"

"OK....just between you and me, it really IS a tax"

"come on, folks...I wouldn't lie to you...it is NOT a tax"

"HA HA - fooled you!..it IS a tax after all!"