GOP House minority leader, John Boehner, says seniors should sacrifice their Social Security to pay for the Afghanistan war.   

Why are these dangerous, banned  Katrina formaldehyde trailers still out there being sold during the Gulf oil crisis?  The sellers should be in the slammer.

"Welcome to the surveillance society".....e.g. "At a California State University, Fresno lecture on veganism, six of the 60 in attendance were undercover officers from the local and campus police."

With all the Wall Streeters in both the Bush and Obama administrations this should be no surprise: the Treasury Department's "point man" on AIG, Don Jester, was a former Goldman Sachs employee who owned stock in the bank even as he was making decisions on the bailout that ultimately channeled billions of taxpayer dollars to Goldman.

This is also no surprise: presidential scholars rate George W. Bush worst president of the modern era and one of the bottom five of all time (another of whom is Franklin Pierce, Bush's mother's ancestor). 

What's wrong with the Democrats?  When Dubya was in office, he got just about everything he asked for.

China and Germany the winners as the US corporate elite offshored and practically killed manufacturing in US with the help of GOP and triangulating Dem administrations.