this is the same thug who helped rig the Ohio vote against Kerry. why do the
media insist on putting thugs and low lifes on their programs?

Listening to Mr. Blackwell is painful. Literally disturbing. And it leads me to say what I’m sure many of you already think: How exactly does this sort of half-baked, ill-thought-out discourse (writing) ever reach the public realm? My 18 year old niece is more articulate.

What’s wrong with the majority of Republican’s, Libertarian, Tea Party folks? How can anyone take seriously what they say? They’re all nuts!

Notable in all of this was Mr. Blackwell’s refusal to listen to the evidence presented that his argument was nonsense.  No suprise there I guess.  He also has a most irritating skill, no doubt honed on the screaming talking heads circuit, of making noise continuously rather than shutting up for a moment and listening to his interlocutor.

What I keep wondering is what these people are talking about when they prate about liberty?  Stewart pointed out repeatedly that actions that Blackwell calls a power grab and an attempt to upset the balance of power was just fine to him when George Bush was doing it.  Liberty must mean something more than freedom from taxation.  The founders complained not against taxation but against the lack of representation.  Isn’t it more restrictive to liberty when a working couple must hold two jobs each and put their kids into second rate custodial day care and eat poisonous processed foods just to survive in this country?  Isn’t it a greater threat to liberty to have the banks arrange the greatest theft of equity in the history of the world?  Isn’t a greater threat to liberty to worry that a broken bone or auto accident or serious illness could lead to medical bill bankrupcty?

It’s time to take back the language and stop letting these people define liberty.  What they are talking about is not liberty but what those 18th century moral philosophers called license.