Sir;...I have to disagree... In going on a straight party vote while the democrats did not, the republicans look like they put party before country, and before their own states and districts...Doing nothing all of a sudden when something, or anything was required was crazy, but par for the course... So now the republiclones look like the republiducks, and it is a shooting gallery out there... They get in line, and how does that help the country??? Makes me wish I was running as an independent against  my rep...The one thing the republicans isn't is independent... Thanks...Sweeney

I'm quoting -"Obama warns of catastrophe if stimulus delayed! Obama urged members of Congress "to act without delay" while also promising to "work to make it stronger." WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THIS 'SCARE TACTIC' APPROACH? Politicians seem to stop at 'nothing' to steal Taxpayers money. IT'S TIME TO STOP THE 'SCARE TACTICS' BEING USED ON THE AMERICAN TAXPAYERS! JUST THINK, ONLY 40% working, paying Taxes, that have a job at present, 20% retired, the OTHER 40% living off social and welfare programs, never worked and don't intend to. The figures no longer add up for the high dollar politician's salaries and retirements. The 'tax & spenders' sold Americans' jobs, and 'GUESS WHAT, FOLKS, THERE AIN'T NO MORE MONEY!' It's time to cut politicians salaries and retirements to $12,000.00 year, pay off trillions of debt to foreign countries they sold America to. Incidentally, if Obama and the rest of the tax & spenders were so worried about the economy, why would they take high-dollar vacations, ride around in high dollar gas guzzlers with armed guards, stay/and or live in the most exclusive places, and 'rob' the few Taxpayers, that still have jobs at present, until they don't have enough money to pay their mortgages, let alone buy the necessities for their own families? GOES TO SHOW TAXPAYERS THEY ALL HAVE THEIR 'HANDS IN THE TIL' AND THAT 'NO ONES' BEEN CHECKING BEHIND ALL THESE 'FAT CATS' IN POLITICS WHO'S GETTING ALL THE EXTRAS FROM LARGE CORPORATIONS WANTING BAILOUTS AND HANDOUTS, AND NOW, AMERICA IS FACED WITH NOT BEING ABLE TO PAY THE INTEREST ON THE TRILLION DOLLAR NOTES THESE IGNORANT 'FAT CATS' BORROWED FOR THEMSELVES, WITHOUT THE CONSENT OF TAXPAYERS, AND THEY'RE NOW USING 'SCARE TACTICS' ON THE TAXPAYERS, SO THEY CAN 'STIMULATE' THEIR OWN DEEP POCKETS!' AMAZING? TAXPAYERS SAY '"KEEP 'GITMO' AS THESE 'FAT CATS' SHOULD BE CALLING THIS PRISON HOME!"

Professor Sowell, your column was persuasive, until the punchline turned out to be your same old song: all the beleaguered GOP has is the support of the people against the Democrats' big, bad media, unions, environmental extremists and tort lawyers. Why did you leave out the disabled, single moms, gay people, the unemployed, and people of color? Those Democrats are really a formidable machine. Poor Republicans! They have only the Religious Right, an army of xenophobes, the Health Care and Military Industrial Complexes, a huge majority among the economically comfortable, everybody who hates the poor,and our fear of another terrorist attack. You were once a pretty good economist, but your Social Darwinism has a natural tendency to make you the darling of our country's most extreme reactionaries. That ought to bother you.

You and Larry Elder may God help u two uncle toms.