That’s my point. There is not much one another living in government or common values. I have come understand that the truth or balance point in most everything is very often found somewhere on the continuum of the tension created between the extremes.

It is not the Democrats who gut consumer protections and put incompetents like Michael Brown to head FEMA.

When Newt Gingrich told John King that discussions of his personal life were inappropriate, King missed a glorious opportunity. King should have agreed. And then pointed out that no one wasted more time and public treasure on such matters than he, Newt Gingrich presided over, in the pursuit of the Clintons.

Since Ronald Reagan declared government the problem and not the solution, the Republicans have waged an increasingly shrill campaign against the government. Maybe it is time someone questioned their patriotism.

No one summed up the Republicans’ political posture better than President Clinton, when he told Larry King, that if a space alien were to land in the United States, he’d think our biggest problem was that the rich people don’t have enough money.