Glenn Beck gets a spanking on The View

I sincerely hope this is sarcasm.

Otherwise I suggest you think about how a country comprised of people living on multiple credit cards and running itself into the ground on bad mortgages can blame its government for basically doing the same on state level.

Well said, except I disagree with you on two things.

1. There's nothing wrong with freedom at any cost - I'm an extreme libertine and I believe the only time it's appropriate to take away our rights is when society would otherwise collapse. Like our right to murder each other. That's a right I'm willing to give up, because if I can murder you, you can murder me, and society would quickly fall apart. Basically any right that would directly harm any other person or their property should be taken away. But the default state of things is to be legal. Not illegal. That includes murder, rape, theft, etc.

2. Freedom is the last thing the republican party wants. They love to talk about it, but when do they act on it? Unless you're talking about "freedom to force christian values on everyone else" or "freedom to not pay taxes" but surely nothing beyond that. Being an advocate for freedom means you believe in letting people do things that you personally do not agree with. When the Republican party (which I now call the Republican-Christian party) is FOR the end of the drug war and decriminalization of ALL drugs, then they can rightly say they are for freedom. But they can't even deal with simple marijuana decriminalization and would prefer to waste hundreds of billions of dollars of taxpayer dollars to keep nonviolent americans locked up - to lock up more people and a greater percentage of our population than any other country in the world (including China). That's the time of big spending and anti-freedom they love.

And then there was the Patriot Act, which they forced down our throats due to fear - it was nothing more than a list of pro-police, pro-government laws the Republicans had been drooling over for decades, and with 9-11 they had the excuse to scare people into getting it passed (without even reading it!). The Dems are doing the same thing with the stimulus bill - using fear of the economy getting worse to pass a huge bill containing thousands of public programs and things to spend money on that they've been drooling over for decades.

The Democrats' motivation is more honorable, they think their spending will make things better, while the Republicans' motivation was to consolidate government power (because they thought they'd be in power forever after 9-11, the best thing to ever happen to them). But they are both taking advantage of Americans' fear and Congress' lack of balls to get their agendas passed.

But you're right about everything else.

But the worst thing about the Republicans is that they sold out to the Religious (Christian) fascists. Then they start lying about the framers of the constitution, saying they were all Jesus freaks too (most were deists, and though quite poorly of Christianity - especially the primary authors like Madison and Jefferson). I hate religion and I cannot support any candidate, let alone politican party, that bases its platform and agenda on reigion. This is NOT a christian country (any more than it's an English country or a white country) and religion is like pubic hair - it should be kept to yourself, off the dinner table and off of television and out of the public square. Do what Jesus says - go into your closet, close the door and pray there - where nobody can see you... it's not meant to be advertised or showed off.

I hate big government and I'd prefer not to be a democrat. Though Republicans would be spending the same AMOUNT bailout and economic stimulus money that Obama has spent, the only differences are (1) they would not require any oversight or responsibility of the companies receiving bailout money because "that's communism" and (2) they'd give the economic stimulus money to Exxon and other big companies that don't need it, because "they create jobs" (the type of trickle-down economics that's been proven wrong time and time again).

The best thing we can do to improve the economy is to reduce barriers to job entry (you should not need a license and to pay an occupational tax to be a florist or pet groomer) and to reduce competition (do not allow companies to get "so big the can't be allowed to fail" - that's anti-competitive and thus anti-capitalistic).

I am absolutely against giving all this bailout money to all these companies, but the Republicans DID and would continue to do the same thing. Their only complaint with Obama is that he's quiring some oversight ("Nationalism" as they call it).

I voted for Bush in 2000, though by 2004 I realized he was the worst most incompetent person to ever hold a government office and that all he cared about was pleasing his imaginary friend (god).

As for Olberman, just because the republicans give him a ton of stuff to pick apart, it doesn't mean he is unfair or one-sided. Same with Jon Stewart. These peop

"Are the folks at TV Squad a bunch of left-leaning folks?"

To put it succinctly and in the vernacular of today's young folk: "Well duh!"

I'm not a left-winger, I've voted Republican my whole life, until the GOP turned into a big spending, anti-liberty, pro-torture, fearmongering cult of the Christian Right. I'm libertarian leaning, if anything. Let's put it this way - I call myself a "Goldwater liberal" insofar as I love Barry Goldwater and insofar as Obama, Hillary Clinton, and even Al Franken are so far to the right of Barry Goldwater that Barry "Mr. Conservative" Goldwater wouldn't be welcome in the modern Democratic Party.

As for the religious crap, take your prayers and shove them. By the way, statistically speaking, the chances are incredibly high that you're praying to the wrong god. There are thousands if not tens of thousands of religions, it's beyond egotistical to think that YOUR god is the only right one. So, we can both burn in hell together as only the Zoroastrians guessed right.

Of course there is really no guessing about it - religion is not a choice any more than homosexuality. It's a mental disorder passed down from parent to child. Do you think it's a coincidence that you are the same religion as your parents? Or did you start out as an agnostic, research all the world's religions, and settle on one of them to devote yourself (yea right).

While praying is pointless, I will hope that you will be one of the very few (about 1 in 10,000) people afflicted with the disease of religion who goes into spontaneous remission. Like cancer, there is no cure for religion, but every now and then people go into remission. Unfortunately it's quite rare. May you be cured of your mental disorder.

Bruce, your biggest problem, and you have many, is your name. You should get it over now and change it to "bullshitter". You never voted Republican, much less voted for Bush.

What you *ARE* is a hypocrite, a liar, a so-far-left-leaning-as-to-be-horizontal liberal, a proselytizer worse than any you rail against and the definitive village idiot. Your very existence is laughable as are your comments.

exactly

Beck's a compulsive confabulator. The View girls are stupid whiny bitches.

That's how they're different, Tom.

Thanks for setting that straight. I thought they were both pretty much irrelevant entertainers/media whores. But I see now.