It's still the ICE AGE ..... in Washington because of Mitch McChicken, Eric Cantor and his Young Guns, who will stick a gun to everyone who disagrees with them.

My instinct is to criticize Meet the Press for always having more Republican than Democratic guests, but maybe it's the best thing in the long run - shining a bright light on the Republican ideas that the majority of Americans find abhorrent.

Please Santa, bring me Rand Paul as a candidate for President. He's a big bipartisan hero after his paranoid rant on drones, but as soon as he starts talking about eliminating the Civil Rights Act, Social Security, Medicare, the FDA, etc., the voters will see what Republicans really believe, not what they say they believe.

I like Rand Paul, too, a rising star inside the GOP.. a conservative with a conscience...proposing for cuts to defense and also standing up for our constitutional rights. So refreshing.

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Paul should definitely run for president.

He just finished the longest filibuster in a long time since rules of filibuster changed in the 1970s. Quite an achievement.

Rand Paul's filibuster reminds Americans that our modern elected representatives CAN DO something while in Washington DC. The administration was vague on the specifics of uses of the drone program in CONUS; post-filibuster it is crystal clear to all Americans on what POTUS cannot do with drones. It is refreshing to see a present-day politician stand up for something other than party whining. We need action in Washington DC now!

I find it amazing that Colburn talks about how mean Obama has been to the R's. The President spent 3+ years taking their insults and craziness without barely a response. He starts playing by their rules and their feelings are hurt. He says it will take time for the scabs to heal.....HILARIOUS.

The next show, FACE THE NATION, was even more hilarious as the Republican Senator said that while President Obama was right in reaching out to Republcans, that the President needs to reach out to his own party and convince them to come around to the Republican way of thinking too. BLLAAWWWUUPPPPPPP!(much puke!). How in the hell Republicans can ignore the last election with straight faces is just bizarre. The are stuck on two points and will not move: 1) taxes cause cancer and destroy Americans, and 2) we Rublicans are not in any tiny way responsible for any of this current economic mess whatsoever!

Wouldn't it be More Productive if Our Elected Leaders Started Working Together as AMERICANS for AMERICANS and AMERICA, instead of just bickering, stalling and posturing for the next election as democrats and republicans! The American People have had it with this unproductive BS! The way that both parties having been operating for years just stinks! Neither party has really been looking out for the best interests of the US Citizens who elect them and who they're supposed to represent.

Both parties have sold out the bulk of the American citizens, who they're supposed to represent, by allowing the "out-sourcing" floodgates to open wider and wider without taking any sensible measures to stem the tide.

It shouldn't be all about Democrats or Republicans! It should be about Americans, especially our elected officials, doing the right thing for our country and its citizens. All the single-minded, left versus right, ideological one dimensional bull has got to go!

Both parties need to start working together and actually start doing something to fix the real problems in our country like "out-sourcing", illegal immigration, the out of control costs of health care insurance and our reliance on foreign fuel. If they don't start working together and actually start making progress by the next election, then American citizens should run a nation-wide campaign to vote out all incumbents regardless of party to send the message.

The ONLY REAL FIX is to Raise Revenue, by Bringing Back Jobs to US Citizens who Pay Income Tax.

Massive cutting just puts more people on unemployment, which just depresses the economy even further.

Returning private sector jobs to American Citizens will provide income tax revenue to OUR Government versus our government having to pay unemployment benefits to those who would be jobless instead. We need our elected officials to Start Protecting American Jobs and do whatever it takes to bring back the jobs they let go. We need leaders who will actually stand up for the American people.

The bottom line is that “Our Government” has to protect domestic industry and the jobs that those industries provide. If they do that, the rest will take care of itself.

We may have to pay a bit more for products made here in the USA by US citizens, but at least we'll still have jobs and a future for our children.

And yes - I'm Angry - As are most American Citizens right now!

To hear Republicans whine about Obama demonizing them is absolutely mind boggling. This is the party that has absolutely savaged him since before he became president, vowed to fight anything he tried to do at every turn to make him a one term president and has turned him into an evil fictional character that has very little to do with the real man. After all this they're the ones to complain that he has demonized THEM? Truly people who live in their own version of reality, completely oblivious to their own behavior.

I also find it hilarious when they cite Clinton as a great example of someone they could work with. Do they mean the guy they hated every bit as much as Obama and tried to impeach based on a personal matter? That Clinton?

Not only the Republicans are bullies, but they're bullies that think they're somehow the victims of the people they brutally assault at every turn. Fortunately the majority of Americans can see them for what they are. That's why Obama is a two term president. Something they thought to be inconceivable, but only because they reside on their own little planet.

Two things: The first has to do with conservative racism. Making Obama a one term president was PRIORITY 1, as we know from Mitch McConnell.

Secondly, rather than cutting benefits that help the most vulnerable people in our country, the government should negotiate the prescription drug plan as does the VA, and stop excessive costs of the supply side of medicare/medicaid that has drastically driven up health costs above and beyond the rate of inflation. And we should close tax loopholes including offshore accounts for corporations and individuals. This will provide plenty of revenue. It's time for Congress to look out for what's good for America, not party or ideology.

The idiocy of the discussion on the debt/deficit issue is that the real issue for the American people is what services they actually expect from their government. Time and again, it has been demonstrated that even those who want massive cuts and lower taxes still expect the services they have come to expect.

I would suggest that, although it would make for a long and maybe boring show, Meet the Press should dedicate a show that has political leaders go over the actual government expenditures, agency by agency, program by program, to see specifically what they would cut or expand and at the end of the day, how much revenue is needed to support those programs. Then a discussion of tax policy would be meaningful.

Lets stop all the political posturing and hypocrisy in Washington, but we middle and poor class Americans know that won't happen. As long as we have the power elite and their corporate crony capitalists in charge of our political and economic systems they will continue to marginalize anyone who challenges their authority.

Until the discussion can shift to solutions to the REAL issues that effect the majority of Americans, we will continue to see more of the same corruption and scandalous behavior we Americans have been so conditioned to accept from our so called leadership in Washington.

The Republican leadership boasts that, "True American Democracy no longer exists for the average American. That privilege now only exists for those that have enough money to but it," and the Democrats are right there with them.

We have 150 million Americans living on or below the poverty line, while those at the top continue to increase and add to the growing economic disparity that has existed for decades with more middle class Americans joining their ranks. Does anyone really expect the oligarchs to give up their power they have over us?