I knew that but wanted to have a little fun with your reply...

I am waiting for the alt-left to examine the outrage of Hilary Clinton using the confederate flag to woo southern voters and demand all reference to he be banned from national discussion.

This is all about destroying the Republican Party because the democrats can't win honestly.

The noise is all orchestrated and the media is playing their part perfectly.

I agree with the Tenth Amendment people.
Force Congress AND every federal employee onto obamacare and watch how fast it disappears.

I used social liberalism in the lowercase sense, which just means I am liberal on social issues like marijuana, homosexuality, etc.

What issues are you not liberal?
Military force?
Out of Control Spending?
Muslim refugees infiltrating the entire world?

I am about as hard rights ass it gets but find I common ground from time to time with you, much to my surprise, so maybe I need to step back and ask the question...

What are you conservative about?

Gary,
You almost had me agreeing with your soliloquy until you added your own lefty spin one time too many. We could have found so much common ground but you couldn't stop yourself from elevating the left and denigrating the right to try and pretend the playing field is even.
It isn't.
The left has gone so far off the rails that normal humans don't try to rationalize their idiocy anymore. It's too cultish. Too fascist and too much a sickening cult of death.
Every single person who speaks a contrary word to the offense of the day-du-jour is pounded by death threats so deeply disturbed that any honest psychiatrist would identify the threatener as mentally deranged.
The left demands that we agree that sudden onrush of gender confusion be renamed and any reference to the mental disorder that transgender is be stricken from not only public discourse but the medical profession completely.
It is yet another politically protected mental illness, alongside the gender pronoun bullshit.
Laws are being forced cell fed into daily life stripping American citizens of basic privacy rights to pander to the weaponized homosexual lobby, so sick, so perverted and so deeply mentally disturbed that a lot of those freaks should not be out in public.
And you rationalize how somehow the conservatives are just as bad.
Sorry, Sherlock. You're full' of shit on that score.

The problem with all of you - conservatives and liberals - not wanting able bodied people to live on the dole is being able bodied does not necessarily mean a job is available. Bring manufacturing back to the inner cities and to rural small towns. Get rid of regulations on small businesses. Get rid of regulations on big businesses.  Get rid of taxes on all businesses. Stop incarcerating people for non violent offenses.

...or just stop punishing hard work and rewarding parasitism.

To put it even more simply: the reason everyone is worrying over this is because (a) Trump is now the president and (b) it was Russia. Not just any foreign government but RUSSIA for cryin' out loud.

It doesn't matter whether the lawyer actually had any connections with the Kremlin, she claimed to and the three went into it apparently believing she did.

So yeah, I'll contradict what I said above, this was a 0.15 not a 0.08. It was first class reckless behavior.

That's utter bullshit and you know it but are trying to slip it over the plate under the guise of pretending to be thoughtful and sober in your mulling.

There is no there there. Period.
Unless... you are willing to be even far more outraged at the Secretary of State who personally solicited pay for pay bribes, handled by her lesbian aide, and sold a huge percentage of the US uranium to RUSSIA in exchange for bribes paid to her phony charitable foundation.
And that's almost the least of her treasonous offenses.
You will shimmy and shake trying to avoid this topic because you are another liberal America hater who is too blind to allow facts to disturb your never ending bullshit storm .

The people of the state of Illinois would be best suited if the state simply went under and ceased to exist as a state. The census bureau could then divide the population into other states and let America move on without them.

Then when California and New York,a long with Mass. go the same route we will have a road map for how to proceed. Then Chuck-you Schumer and Elizabeth Warren can try and win  senate seats in a larger land mass with more potential for fraud and vote buying schemes on the part of the party of fraud.

IF a state can't continue to fund itself, it needs to go away, just like the old USSR.