Has been funny to watch the infighting among the liberals, especially the liberal media. Lots of blame being thrown around. And now Obama has this new defiant attitiude. Will be interesting to see his tone at state of union.

That comment is one of hundreds made by Nancy Pelocchio that angered many. But she’s such a cute little California crabcake…I just want to bite her.

MEDIA — Steve, as you know, I have as much disdain for the media as I do politicians and the political parties. I watched coverage of the “tea baggers” from both the rights and the lefts perspective. And as usual, both were misleading. As an example, I watched FOX and it looked like hundreds of thousands of normal people were peacefully protesting. And I watched CNN, where their coverage would lead you to believe maybe a hundred people showed up, half of them with racist signs equating Obama to Hitler. As usual, the truth is likely somewhere in the middle. It is certainly my opinion that normal people across the country are unhappy with the leadership and direction this year of Obama / Reid / Pelosi. And if they (leaders of the democratic party) continue to treat their opposition as just a bunch of uneducated rightwing extremists who don’t know what’s going on, it will kill the democrats in the next two major elections.

TAXES — Yes, Obama through the stimulus package, reduced some taxes. We can debate the stimulus (spending) plan later if you want. But the bigger reality is that we’re witnessing a massive expansion of the federal government that cannot be paid for by only “taxing the rich”. We the people will be paying more both directly and indirectly. Our tax burden is GOING to go up. I have no doubt about that. Somebody has to foot the bill eventually. Maybe not specifically in the income tax rate, but through other taxes (sales, property, sin, payroll taxes) our tax burden will increase. We will also be on the hook for increased costs of products and services as companies are taxed at a higher rate. Ultimately, companies do not pay taxes. Their customers pay the taxes. And this burden of the rapidly expanding federal government will continue to stifle our economy.

You’re right. Many (and probably most of the influential) political movements are backed by big money somewhere. But it happens on both sides. Do you think that people like George Soros don’t give money to “grassroots” efforts on the left and then expect to have some say in the agenda and message? And if he does, are these movements now “astroturf” too?

The groupthink from the left seems to be that there can be no such thing as a grassroots effort from the right. Which again shows how out of touch they are with the sentiment of many Americans.