I don’t know if we both read the Romney comment the same. I didn’t see his speech, but the quote was that “Washington is broke,” which I took to mean without much money, rather than “broken,” as in not working properly.

I think it’s probably broken, but not beyond repair.

I, too, lament the balanced budget of the Clinton years. The GOP seems to forget that Reagan racked up a record-breaking deficit, only to be outdone by George W.

If it is broke, which I really doubt, it’s not because of liberals. It’s the fault of these costly, ineffective wars we’ve been waging on the Middle East.

On the subject of how much power a president has: I think it depends on whether the president is Republican or Democrat. The Republicans seem to want more power (line item veto, “emergency” war declarations) than is afforded them under the Constitution. Not so much the Dems (unless I missed something).

And why do these politicians keep bringing up the past? It’s like these people WANT us to go back in time. Well that’s not happening. People can’t live like they did 75 years ago because the world has changed, not because there are liberals in politics. But, people will believe anything these days…

Zontar, impartial and all knowing, all mighty observer of the current “United” States presidential election is aghast at the present state of affairs. Zontar is sore afraid that the Republican (from the Greek word meaning brain dead, reactionary, bigoted, born again cretin) party will win. Why? Is it due to the convincing and strong arguments emanating from the mind of Mr. McCain? I think not. Only after he chose Sarah did his poll numbers shoot up. Why? Because she is the one who is coming up with original wisdom and insight that will rescue America from its doldrums? Zontar thinketh not. Zontar observes that everything she says is the same dull, overused, logic defying bromides all the neocons have been regurgitating for decade upon decade. It is simply because men like the fact that she has a vagina and that they would like to engage in sexual intercourse with this witch of Endor.

Zontar has also observed that being an unqualified, mean spirited, sarcastic vice presidential candidate is kind of like being a filthy, book-banning, power hungry, innocent-trooper-firing, hypocritical adulteress who covered up the fact that her daughter is really the mother of her latest baby and tried to cover it up by saying she is the mother even though her water broke in Dallas and she went on to give a speech and took a very long flight home with a connection in Seattle then drove to a hospital in Podunk which is another 30 minute drive thus endangering the life of her child even more, then forcing said daughter to be wed to a Neanderthal when neither of them wants to be married simply to satisfy the Conservative powers that be when the father of her child is most likely her father: only an unqualified, mean spirited, sarcastic vice presidential candidate has actual responsibilities.

Hail Zontar!