"I also saw that Barney Frank and Ron Paul have set aside their differences in order to promote the legalization of marijuana."

This is a common misconception. Ron Paul just wants to remove the criminalization of drugs from the federal level. States are free to regulate/ban drugs as they see fit.

Ron Paul refuses to participate in the Congressional pension program.

Burt, the American people have it within their power to create the "revolving door" you speak of if they had the good sense and willingness to do it. They could start with the 2012 election.

We can fix it at the next election, 2012? If anyone believes that those pukes in congress will suddenly begin to adhere to their constitutional restrictions at the next elections has their head up their back side to put it mildly.

Ron Paul may be a flake sometimes, but over the years I have come to respect him more and more for his good ideas. I used to think he was about 50% whacko, but as we ran out of money, the GBLT, minorities and public sector unions took over and the foreign wars dragged on and on I have come to think of him as only 5% or 10% nuts. Now compare that to President Commie who is 95+% anti-American and delusional, Ron Paul is looking pretty good. I'd take Ron Paul over Romneycare any day of the week.

Our really smart congressmen spent billions on a "War on Drugs," which spawned highly financed drug trafficing rings. Oh yes, Ron Paul is the whacko for wanting to take away their financing?

Unfortunately, we'll once again see our landscape tarnished with "Ron Paul for President" signs and bumper stickers long after the next election.

Burt: Some gems in today's column that, in spite of the actual gravity of the situation, managed to lighten up my morning. By the way, our congress person for life manages to stay in office because to remove him would probably mean having to vote for someone with a D after their name. Oops--have to find the off button on the remote--the potus is about to begin his usual string of pauses and uhhs. Regards from Alaska.

Burt, I have lost all respect for Ron Paul. He should not even share the same air with Barney Weiner, I mean, Frank, if BF held the key to the debt crisis solution. Who would have ever thought that Barney might take a hit from time to time. Some deviants don't need to be high to enjoy perversion. As for A. Weiner, I hear NBC has offered him a reality show broadcasting directly from the Congressional Gym with the catchy name "Pecs and Peckers". Dick's Sporting Goods has also offered him a position as corporate spokesperson, or tweetperson. I can't remember. But you're right, maybe he would be better off as Hillary's liason with the Muslim Brotherhood. A whiny-ass, loud mouth Jew is exactly what is needed to bring a positive solution to the Arab Summer. Better yet, tie him naked to the masthead of the Gaza Flotilla lead ship, his member pointing directly at Israel with a placard stating "A Message from President Obama". I mean, how hard could it be? Peace on Earth.

Anton D Rehling,

I stated that the American people has it within their power to create the revolving door in 2012, not that I believe the politicians " will suddenly begin to adhere to their constitutional restrictions..." I suspect you are right on that point. Now, what are you going to do about it?

"If we're going to keep borrowing money from China, I say we should put up places like San Francisco, Berkeley and Oakland, as collateral, and then encourage the Chinese to foreclose."

Burt, can we throw in Detroit and Chicago too? Not much good has come out of either lately.

Holmes Simons-

You are putting a disturbing amount of thought into how to deal with Weiner.

Burt, your wisdom is astounding. The present norm in American politics seems to be insanity, guided by the pursuit of money, power and self-interest. When people on the Hill develop a backbone, then, maybe there is a chance it will work, but no matter how reasonable your term limit suggestion is, I doubt they would consider it as helping the country and bringing it to the floor.

"If we're going to keep borrowing money from China, I say we should put up places like San Francisco, Berkeley and Oakland, as collateral, and then encourage the Chinese to foreclose"

OMG that was unvarnished GENIUS. One of those "Gee, wish *I'd* thought of that one" ideas. We could rid ourselves of debt, chuck out one of the major Socialist parasites, and plague the ChiComs with a perpetual-destruction machine all in one fell swoop! Nice done, sir!

Burt - the idea of San Francisco and Berkeley being swapped is a great one. The two stipulations are these:

1. Marin County, home of Barbara Boxer, must be included in the deal. That would take out Boxer, Pelosi, and Fienstein in one fell swoop. Hell, we ought to pay them to take it off our hands.

2. The Chinese can never, ever, ever give them back...ever. Remember Daymon Runyon's "Ransom of Red Chief"? Then you get the idea.

Great article.

Burt;

Thank you for brightening my very special day w/ your hard hitting & witty piece. Although, reading re: the commie V. Jones at Princeton (formerly a Christian U), I almost lost my lunch.

The whiny-wiener working for the termagant Hillary'd be delicious. Just picture the duo during a 'conversation': Scene one: A.W. refuses to do her bidding; scene two: A.W. slithering, zigzagging, begging & then cowing as dishes & curses fly around him. Don't you wish that Hillary'd be as deviant as Catherine the Great & he'd give her in turn a deadly STD? Two buids w/ one tryst.

Btw, Burt, you're wrong (your comment from last week) re: Hillary as a better POTUS than the impostor 'O'. She's a hardcore closet Marxist, militant feminist, vicious & vindictive & deviant - she tried in Beijing at a 1996 Women's conf to push five genders on us through the UN & global abortion on demand paid by the US taxpayers. People who helped to kill it were Mormon & Muslim NGOs. Lastly, she was one of the uber-lib lawyers who brought down Nixon.

Great reader comments also, as usual. Especially H. Simmons' A.W. heading the 'Gaza flotilla'. Are there any sharks out there? Even if, they wouldn't bother w/ such a tiny morsel.

I forgot to mention, my special day ain't my b'day but celebrating today 41 years of freedom. Of course, just as I awoke, I thanked God for my Liberty & for being an American.

Robert: Happy re-birthday. Glad you could join us in the greatest nation ever devised by the mind and guts of man.

Ron Paul fans: I would think you would prefer to see him continue to win House elections and forget about running for president. After a while, when you make one bad showing after another, you become something of a running joke, a latter day Harold Stassen.

Regards, Burt

Ron Paul is never going to be elected president of this country.The only thing he will accomplish is to draw off votes that would otherwise go to a Republican.Paul has some good ideas and instincts, but unfortunately he is mostly a wrench in the spokes of the machine that could elect a Republican. Too bad, as even a RINO like McCain would be superior to a Communist thug like Obama.

Richard Ryan

Lamar,Missouri - Birthplace of Harry S Truman

Richard--I agree with you. But so long as Rep. Paul doesn't run as a third party candidate, he won't harm the GOP nominee.

Burt

The problem is many of the so-called Republicans are wanna be democraps. They do everything the communists (oops democraps) do, but at a slower rate. You even have republicans (small r) praising Joe Stalin's best friend FDR. When was the last time, if ever, you heard a republican say social security is unconstitutional?

Howard: The problem is that it wouldn't solve any problems to say that Social Security is unconstitutional. Like suicide, it was a permanent solution to a temporary problem, but after three quarters of a century, it's not going to go away. Also, I do not understand why when people compare the two parties, they pretend that it is inconsequential if terrible things happen quickly or slowly. I will always vote for slowly.

Burt

If you've been fed lies over several generations, then after a while the truth will seem preposterous. I'm not sure who I'm paraphrasing.

The entire "War on Drugs" is an effort to militarize the police and a wedge issue to attack the 4th Amendment. Remember that Prohibition just made the government bigger and the gangs richer--the same results we've gotten with the "War on Drugs".

For similar results see "The War on Poverty", "The War on Terror", etc.

Concentrated power in the hands of the government is bad for the citizens, no matter who is doing the distilling.

Burt, No comment about BO's false birth cert. Mathematically proven to be false and I'm finding few, if any, comments from any news source. What gives? Maybe Trump was onto something. He made it an issue, so something had to quiet the crowd by producing a document.

James--I agree that the war on drugs has been and continues to be a disaster. It merely leads to violence, corruption and mind-boggling profits for criminals. I am enough of a libertarian not to care about what other people sniff, imbibe or shoot into themselves. My only demand is that when and if they commit crimes while being high, they are not allowed to plead that they're victims of a disease and therefore not legally responsible for their acts.

Tom: Perhaps because I have no problem with the foreign-born being allowed to run for president,

Obama's place of birth is the least of my objections to him. I realize what it says in the Constitution, but inasmuch as politicians, not to mention Supreme Court justices, ignore the sacred document all the time. When Obama presents us every day of the week with excellent reasons why he shouldn't be re-elected, I prefer to concentrate on those reasons rather than whether he was born in Hawaii or Kenya. I did hear today that the Boston Globe reported that after Barack was born, his dad tried to arrange to have him taken in by the Salvation Army. So now we know what his father's dreams were actually all about.

Burt

82% of respondents wish that all members of Congress were replaced...Uhh...errr...except for our guy!

Burt: Maybe a revolving Congressional door isn't a bad idea, but it (Congress) is like a kid in a candy store (give a child $100 and he'll spend it all buying candy.) They are allowed to buy votes through appropriations, grants, regulations, the tax codes, etc. (not to mention plain old bribery).

Our system is far from perfect, but it's better than whatever's in second place.

I didn't write this. I wish I had.

There once was a weirdo named Wiener

Who had a perverted demeanor.

Forced from the Hill,

For acting like Bill,

Now Congress is one wiener leaner.