Aquarian Weekly 6/16/10
REALITY CHECK

READERS RESPONSES

This is a goddamned masterpiece. (TAX DAY SPEECH 2010 -- Issue: 4/21/10)You've got my vote if you run, which you could never do: Too honest. Too brilliant. Too hardcore.

Go! Campion! Go!

Karen Heppel

Did you actually deliver this speech in public? In front of people?

Whether you did or not, I still loved it. "What the hell are you doing in Hackensack?" Classic!

Doctor Slater

Oh, so that's what the noise in the back was about....we all thought it was a person who wandered too far the home.

Donna Lee

OUTSTANDING!!!

Why didn't you let me know? I would have LOVED to have been there...I'm sure you got quite a 'hand' when you finished ;-) !!

Babs

I don't believe it happened. Anybody have a tape of this? If he was in the back of the crowd mumbling to himself, who cares? No one heard him. Just another self-aggrandizing writer who nobody knows and nobody cares. Let him go babble at the supermarket.

Missy

That's the best thing you ever wrote! Can I make a t-shirt of it and sell it to all our friends and then some, and we can both get rich?

Laura Debona

I love it when simpletons accuse people of being simpletons while basing their simpleton positions on a simpleton argument. Thank God James that you are in the minority in this country and thank God for the TEA Party. Thankfully someone will stand up to Obama, the Democrats and RINO Republicans. It's about time (albeit a few years late). We should have dropped the smackdown on Dubya when he started spending like Barney Frank, but like The Who said, "Won't Get Fooled Again".

This isn't a pro Republican movement; this is for fiscal conservatives who are tired of being told to give more while being accused of being greedy when they say no. They are tired of having a portion of our populace being blamed for the problems in this country while being taxed at confiscatory levels to help fund the people who are attacking them. These people have as much disdain for RINO Republicans as they do Democrats.

This is pure ideology with not a whiff of partisan politics. If the Democrats come around and decide balanced budgets, no pay-offs like the Cornhusker Kickback and no earmarks are the way to help save our fiscal future then the TEA Party will be all for them.

It is funny how liberals are all over the TEA Party. You get no problems at these rallies even after a lib activist was forming a group to crash the Tea Parties and Clinton was trying to paint a picture that doesn't exist. Why is that? What are Democrats so scared of? What are you afraid of James? Americans all over the country are uniting under a banner of fiscal responsibility and what do you and the rest of the "enlightened class" do? You make fun of them. Why is that? Do you want higher taxes; do you want deficits for as long as this country may exist? If you are against fiscal responsibility, what then ARE you for?

Peace,
Bill Roberts

Well...I usually am right in your camp (no pun intended) but this week I guess I can disagree with you a bit. (ARIZONA CALLING -- Issue: 5/12/10) I think it is important to distinguish between the people who come over to the U.S. from Mexico in search of an honest day's work, and the violent rich drug lords who push their product over the border to us, bringing violence in its wake. On the one hand you have the poor man, trying to feed his family. On the other hand, the Fat Cat, trying to run an empire. Just worth distinguishing between the two.

And there is no such thing as securing the border. It's phantasmagorical. Like trying to capture a sneeze.

Jonathan Young
North Kingstown, RI

I live in Phoenix, and the one thing that I don't get is this: Jan Brewer has the authority to enact the National Guard to the border, but has failed to do so WHY? Furthermore McCain/Kyl big push for more control at the border is a joke, these Dumbasses had 8 years to do something with the border, but yet they did nothing. So instead of joining with the Dems to figure this out, they find it more appropriate to work against them. How does this help the situation? The two John's need to grow up, and they are the one's talking about being responsible; they both need to look in the mirror.

Martin C.

My son lives in AZ and approves of this law. He told me while I was visiting that a woman knocked on the wrong door. When the woman's cohorts tried to kick in the door they were greeted with gunfire from the lady of the house who was home alone at the time. The would-be robbers of course were illegal aliens.

Steve D.

The unemployment rate is still high, but illegal immigrants have jobs. So I salute Arizona. Plus, what about illegal immigrants paying no taxes but using Americans' money when they get sick and continue to have an American's life? I'm sorry to say, but punish them. Or you can't just give them green card right away. They should go through due process, because this is unfair for those people that are waiting for their visa in a legal way.

AMBOJIA

Regarding Immigration Reform, the lack of Responsible Reform in 2007 is what has Crashed our Economy, and the Violence you refer to is in Mexico and I believe the majority are people being killed or dying that were Deported to the middle of the Desert with out even a drop of water. Americas Deportations have caused this political unrest along the Border!

The U.N. should be sent to verify how many of the thousands of deaths are drug related or Deported "Humans"!

David Nichols

The comprehensive immigration reform bill to be placed in front of congress solves the border security question. Subsequently, it addresses immigration reform. Conservatives who nay say the proposed law are losing a grand opportunity for a slam dunk since the law is marginally pro immigration.

Tim Paynter

In the short-run, the Democratic Obama Administration should immediately create some kind of public work/jobs program that quickly provides good-paying jobs and free health care for all native-born working-class and lower middle-class people in the USA. And in the long-run, all Mexican citizens will probably eventually be allowed to work and live in the territory in the Southwest that was acquired by the U.S. government from Mexico following the Mexican War of the 1840s without being harassed by federal or state government law enforcement agencies, I imagine.

BOBF

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