When seconds count, the police are only minutes away. Taking guns away will only leave criminals with guns.

Vote in November!

Good grief! Is that tired old saw the best you can come up with- after all these years??

How's this one:

No right exists in isolation. The framers of our constitutional form of government founded it upon an active citizenry partaking of both the rights and of the responsibilities of the ballot box, the jury box, the soap box and the cartridge box. Each of these, in certain aspects, assumes a distinct form from the others, and at the same time, each of these prove to be strongly interactive with the others.

As much as we might like--for "safety" or "homeland security" or "national defense," or "the war on drugs" or "the war on terror", or for any other cause--to erode any part of this four-part foundation upon which our (fading, fraying) democratic republic government rests, we can't... we can't, that is, if we intend to remain free of tyranny.

Tired enough a saw for you?

It's important to remember that we're NOT single issue voters, nor do we pick and choose which Amendments of the Constitution we support (or not). We have chosen to govern by this set of laws and by the method of amending them through the election of a representative legislature. Those in favor of a liberal interpretation of the 2nd Amendment have so far been among the majority of our representatives of both parties when that particular issue comes up for legislation.

That's how it works, boys and girls. That's what it means to have "planks" in a "party platform." That's why it's important to pay attention to the pre-election positioning and the policy statements...even if they sound boring. And that's why an educated electorate is so important. Turn off FOX and turn on MSNBC!

Oh.....YES!!!

I'm hoping she's really done herself in with her own mouth. Sadly they show her polling ahead of Reid still, although still within the margin of error. I voted on the 19th and I voted for both Harry and Rory Reid.

It has, many people in Nevada are thoughtful people who make their decisions based on the truth not the drivel shovelled at them by the Angle camp.

Ortorongo, I sincerely hope you have many, many compatriots in Nevada.

Awesome. :)

Exactly, Jim. Seeing any group as a monolith is wrong.

Me too: Gun owner, hunter and progressive.

One thing I've learnt is that people rarely conform to stereotype. And what a dull world it would be if they did.

Thanks George you summed it up,well said.

Pretty desparate when you do a whole blog on one voter! I guess you guys are digging deep now! Most of the democrat incumbents don't even have the integrity to stand up for their voting record. Many are distancing themselves from the ideals that just a few months ago, they were ramming down our throats! The back peddling is amazing! Amazingly late!

I know, I know, EVERYONE ELSE is an idiot! I say, IDIOTS UNITE!

Have you seen how much back peddling Sharron Angle has done, Katy? She's the f'ing queen of riding that bike backwards. She has had to "walk back" or "soften" her stances on just about everything so that way the moderate right would even consider voting for her. It's telling when life long republicans are APOLOGIZING for her. Sadly though there are enough people in Nevada who may just be dumb enough to place a vote for Angle just to see Reid taken out. If they succeed this state is in deep sh*t.

@ Katy: One blog post is hardly the whole blog; although, the sentiments expressed by Mr. Mintz are certainly in keeping with the fact-based truths promoted by the whole blog.

IDIOTS UNITE

You do that, Katy.

Last I checked, Nevada isn't doing so great. High unemployment and foreclosures. You guys are so gullible!! Ried is a politician and he says all the things you want to hear, but has he delievered? NO! None of us totally agree with everything, every politician has to say. But with Nevada currently holding such great power, why are you guys in such deep Sh*T!

By the way, what is telling is that no Democrat wants the President standing next to him. No one wants to take responsibility for their own votes. I guess taking their que from Obama, they don't wanst to accept responsibility for their actions! Typical Democrats!

According to Obama, conserative are the ENEMY! Talk about cuokoo!

Waste you vote if it suits you....

Kathy, Nevada's not doing great, but that's not due to anything Harry Reid has done. Reid helped push through the stimulus package that cut taxes for 95 percent of Americans, giving individuals 400 dollars more in their paychecks over the year and 800 for married couples. Under his leadership the middle class is seeing its lowest taxes since the 30s. What's not being reported is the fact that most of the stimulus package went to tax CUTS. It also went to extend unemployment benefits for people who are struggling to find a job and to keep police and teachers on the job. That's what Reid has done.

He's also helped average americans struggling with the costs of health care. Now you can't be denied insurance for a pre-existing condition.

If Nevada is in trouble, you need to put the blame on people like Sharon Angle who supports the Republican party line and wants to cut taxes for the wealthy, even though historically that has never resulted in more jobs.

The Republican supported tax break for the less than 2 percent of Americans that make more than 250,000 a year would add billions to the deficit. If Nevada economy sucks, don't put the blame on people fighting to fix it.

Don't blame the Democrats! It is great to have $34.00 in my pocket every month! What a break! That ought to stimulate the economy! Not even a tank of gas! THANKS OBAMA! THANKS PELOSI AND REID.

Katy -

Perhaps if you drove a more fuel-efficient vehicle $34 would go farther. For me personally $34 pays for 1 and 1/2 tanks of gas.

Now its my fault! You want to control what kind of car I drive? I didn't say how long that tank lasted me Dutchie. Or what kind of car I drive. And, its a relatively small, fuel efficient car. But it doesn't fill my car up!! Perhaps my tank is bigger than yours!

But, I'm not surprised at your comment. Glad YOUR happy with the extra $34.00. Get ready to pay it back in insurance premiums, unless of course you are just freeloading....

I'll thank you to not paint me with your "freeloading" brush; insults will get you nowhere. My health insurance is increasing by $1 per month next year, for the exact same coverage I have this year.

I have no interest in controlling anything about you, Katy. Perhaps you are projecting your view onto my statement.

What is being lost in the argument about Nevada is the fact that Reid shouldn't even have a chance this election. Hyperbole and insults aside, the fact that this is a competitive race is a testament to how out of the norm Sharron Angle is.

Nightmare, not dream folks.Let this woman fade back into the obscure cracker box from which she emerged (Christine).

Fantastic!!!!

This is definitely repudiation (or is that refudiation) of the Chicago-style politics in Washington. Let's get the organized-democratic crime family out of Washington!

Hopefully it wil be clear with the election results, that Pelosi and Obama's arm twisting won't work!

Go Christine!

Chicago-style politics in DC??

Don't you remember that Chicaago arrived 18 mo ago?

The true 'crime family' has been there for decades..

The country is more divided than ever. DId you know that we (conservatives) are your ENEMY! Geez....

I am married to a democrat and we seem to be just fine. We don't consider each other enemies, by the way.! That is the most inflammatory statement by Obama in a whiel

You keep touting this conservatives are the enemy line, but Obama didn't say that. You are listening to the Beck spin on the comment, and not the comment in its entirety. He was commenting about how it would be fooling for Latinos to sit on the sidelines out of anger that Obama hasn't done enough on immigration. It is very clear that the Republicans are the enemy of immigration reform and a path to citizenship, that is well documented by their own statements.

I have seen several Republicans say that Obama is a Marxist, a socialist, like Hitler, like Hugo Chavez, a gangster, a thug, that Obama is intentionally ruining the country, that Obama is worse than Al Qaeda, and the GOP leaders have said several times that their whole goal is for Obama to be a one term president. Your side has to parse words and infer that he is saying the same thing about them, but the difference is that they are stretching the context.

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/11/01/boehner-enemy-hypocrisy/

A nice list of the pleasant things that the Republicans have called Obama. This is so funny, as it seems to me the GOP can dish it out but they can't take it.

What you don't understand is that politics is no longer about governing and making laws to help the country. It is about your side winning, nothing more. You watch, starting November 3rd both parties will begin their campaigning for the 2012 election. It is a non stop competition for the most seats, period.

Obama had an opportunity to bring together the races. But, he failed. First with his premature comment on the white police. Now he has resorted to going on latin radio stations and asking people to unite against "their enemies and support their friends"! Wow! This was the guy that was going to bring the country together! FAILURE!

And, Democrats had no problem passing Obamacare! So, apparenty they CAN pass anything they want, if they could all agree, but when you go against the majority of Americans, you suffer the political consequences afterward. That's the way it works!

The Democrats could have passed anything they wanted in the last two years. Instead of focusing on jobs, they focused on Obamacare and paying off unions and government employees with a stimulus bill. Obama has failed. Congress has failed. The Republicans had failed earlier. If they get in and continue the uncontrolled spending they'll fail again.

Vote in November!

You are kidding, right? Obama was the first to callout the white police officer withoug know the facts! Also, he went on a Latin radio station calling conserviates "their enemies".

What rock do you live under?

Cuokoo!

Katy, your posts only demonstrate the dangers of propaganda. A majority of Americans actually support health care reform. In fact, a substantial number feel the current law doesn't go far enough. Just because they don't feel the law goes far enough does not mean they are against it.

In an election, there are winners and losers. A clear majority of voters gave the President a mandate to fix health care in this country. Just because you didn't vote that way doesn't mean you aren't being listened to. It just means, in a democracy, not everyone gets 100 percent of what they want, 100 percent of the time.

You incorrectly say the stimlus bill "paid off unions and government workers." But 95 percent of Americans got a tax cut, putting an additional 400 in their pockets over the last year. Millions of unemployed got extended benefits and cheaper health care coverage. Those tax breaks had little to do with union involvement.

Your post also demonstrates the hypocrisy of the right. You blame the President for not "bringing races together" then cite his support of Dr. Gates over the white policeman that violated his Constitutional rights by arresting him in his home. But you ignore the fact the Constitution supports Gates over the cop. Then you label his administration a "failure" label health reform "Obamacare" and call supporters "cuckoo." You result to name calling, instead of putting forth any facts to support your charges. Just typical right-winged bullying in my opinion.

But this administration has successfully adverted the next great depression. It has successfully passed health care reform that gives millions more opptunities to keep their coverage and not be dropped by insurance companies for a pre-existing condition. They have successfully passed financial reform and taken steps that will prevent big banks from creating another financial meltdown.

Propanganda uses repetition and distortions to propell lies and convince otherwise rational people to believe the irrational. Your comments here just serve to illustrate why it should be illegal and emphasizes why it's important to vote this year. If extemists like Sharon Angle and Christine O'Donnell make it into the Senate on a wave of misinformation it will be a real tragedy and a real threat to Democracy as we know it.

This whole election conservative wave is all about saying NO to health care and the overwheming deficit and economuy. I love it when the Demobrats take credit for something that cannot be proven..saving jobs, saving us from a Great Depression! Talk about propaganda!

Yes Americans voted for change, but got the bait and switch. No Democrats or Republicans just Americans...what a joke! And this very person is out on radio telling hispanics to vote against their "enemies" and vote for their "friends". I see that you didn't bother to address that one! It was pathetic!

And, you can't be serious that you would have opinions outlawed! Seriously hypocritical for someone on the left! And very dangerous to our freedoms!

Only a few days left to go. We will see what the people say and then you can tell me whether the majority of Americans belive in what the democratic Congress and Aministration are doing. I know, if they disagree it is only because they are stupid. (read that about a million times on these posts). And, I'm a name caller....

Nobel winning economist Peter Diamond on NPR:

"The first stimulus bill, by all quantitative estimates, produced a huge amount of additional employment," Diamond says. "But that stimulus bill has been extremely unpopular with the American public, even though in the eyes of economists it was a great success."

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130955806

I believe Diamond before I believe any Republican propaganda talking points.

All I have to do is look around me to see how helpful it has been! But, you go ahead and read a story on NPR's website if you makes you feel better.

Katy, you employ the ad hominem fallacy here. Why not explain why your understanding of economics is so much more valid than Dr. Diamond's, instead of making a thinly veiled criticism of the news outlet who provided the reporting on his perspective? Oh, you do not have an PhD in Economics from MIT too? You have misplaced your Nobel prize in Economics? Sorry, my bad.

If you haven't noticed, economists disagree! There was a time when M.Ds. thought that women should absolutely have hormone replacement therapy. Turns out that is not the case and in fact there are harmful side effects. Oh and the environmental experts that said we needed to use plastic instead of paper....turns out the plastic is just as bad, if not worse, than the paper!

I would say that for the most part, its all speculative, with a lot of different "theories" and variables in play. That is why there is not agreement by the so-called experts!

Economists Alan Blinder from Princeton and Mark Zandi from Moody's also concluded that the federal stimulus was responsible for "raising 2010 real GDP by about 3.4%, holding the unemployment rate about 1½ percentage points lower, and adding almost 2.7 million jobs to U.S. payrolls." They published a detailed account of their analysis so you can read and understand why they have concluded the same as Dr. Diamond and other economists.

http://www.economy.com/mark-zandi/documents/End-of-Great-Recession.pdf

Katy, don't worry about the facts getting in the way of your message...most Republicans don't. It is very clear that the stimulus bill helped save jobs, but that is a tough thing to quantify. It is obvious that there are some really good things in the health care bill, but you would rather demonize the whole thing and pretend that it would be better if insurance companies could drop you once you got sick.

I suggest you look at the facts about what the health care bill will do before you decry it as [fill in GOP talking point here].

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20000846-503544.html

Marian,say it loud and say it proud my friend!

Marian you and I are cut from the same cloth. I think of the collective America not the me America. We all can do better if we are all given a chance to have a voice in this country. But unfortunately we are being silenced by the right and their agenda to make corporations our leaders.

Why did you have to take a great and positive message and try to drag it in the mud? This is something that should be lauded, not dismissed and attacked.

angeleno, let us know how you make out with your research on that subject. Might be relevant.

@angeleno: Interesting the way you say that it's "been documented thoroughly" but then offer no citation whatsoever to the "source" of these so-called facts.

FYI, many of the fans of TRMS are fans because of her relentless pursuit of the facts. You might do better at convincing us with a little evidence to back up your claims. Absent that, you sound like an Angle-esq fear monger.