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You guessed it: their public health-care system. It was seen as bankrupting the country and unsustainable...sound familiar? http://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2010/05/14/guess_what_greece_has_to_jettison__98467.html

Now, this guy can be crazy and say some insane stuff, but he's right on this issue. Observe: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pE3oiKuU8UI&feature=player_embedded

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/sec-pornography-employees-spent-hours-surfing-porn-sites/story?id=10452544 How nice we pay these folks $100,000+. I need a job like that. Who do I have to fuck to get it?

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/feature/2010/04/16/parasites_in_journalism/index.html And a related article, "Obama skips tradition of free press," might be also interesting. http://www.suntimes.com/news/otherviews/2168612,CST-EDT-open17a.article Does anyone feel this is a really bad...

http://www.gallup.com/poll/127262/Democratic-Party-Image-Drops-Record-Low.aspx#1 What a difference a health-care disaster makes.

http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=522446 This is a decent list of valid complaints about the Democrats' health-care plan. The president failed to respond to them. Do any supporters have an answer?

The people who paid for this are even more tone-deaf than the current president.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/february_2010/75_are_angry_at_government_s_current_policies Congress/politicians: "La la la la la, I can't hear you!"

http://www.judicialwatch.org/weeklyupdate/2010/04-pelosi-party-planes#anchor1 Including over $100,000 for in-flight food and alcohol. Those must have been some pretty hip "business trips" she's taken. Oh, and she constantly reserves and cancels Air Force-provided flights, costing us huge...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg0n0nIqgrc&feature=player_embedded

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/29/AR2010012904235.html We cannot afford this. Memo to Congress: major cuts needed.

From his remarks about intelligence failures, I found myself admiring this bit of speechifying: Hear, hear! It's a shame the rest of his remarks were things like "we need to follow up intelligence leads when we get them" (no shit). But that is a pretty sterling argument against many of our...

http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2010/01/while-economy-burns-jon-kyl-blocking-treasury-nominees-over-petty-bs.php Oh...because of Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl (R-AZ): Thanks, Senator Kyl, for holding up staffing of a department more important than ever due to petty political...

Bad enough we have a Treasury secretary who cheated on his taxes and was utterly incompetent as head of the New York Fed, but more details: http://www.openleft.com/diary/16834/geithners-fed-told-aig-to-hide-sweetheart-deals-from-sec-thus-i-repeat-geithner-must-be-fired Come on, Obama, this...

http://bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&sid=a48c8UpUMxKQ If this passes in its present form, we get TARP/Fed meddling in perpetuity. Why is Congress' answer to everything socialized risk? If you're going to do this, just propose nationalizing the banks. Then at least taxpayers would get...

I guess it's not just the politicians. Why do these people still have a job while defrauding their employers (us)? http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hGnTTadfKOtcrwNE6Tbxpt1OxvVQD9CJTSG80

http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/government-222563-down-people.html Do you think it's fair to be treated like a criminal because you want to buy some Sudafed?

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1109/30013.html Especially when spending someone else's money. Or do you prefer $265 for donuts? Maybe $1,561 on bottled water? Remember, this is only over the last quarter, so the last three months. $1,000 in flowers per month. I hope they were...

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/11/28/ED1D1ARCP5.DTL

We had a spate of them who either failed in their confirmation bids or are currently in government (Timothy Geithner, Charles Rangel). The newest revelation is a Republican: Arnold Schwarzenegger. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/11/28/BAKL1ARFOQ.DTL