Awesome. The incompetence is astounding. The voice of the people on 2 NOV will be deafening.

Doctor, you said/wrote:" This in a year of extraordinary deficits, rising uncertainty and jittery financial markets. Gold is going through the roof. Confidence in the dollar and the American economy is falling -- largely because of massive overhanging debt. Yet no budget emerged from Congress to give guidance, let alone reassurance, about future U.S. revenues and spending."

I and many other people think that this is just what Obama, Pelosi and Reid want. If they could make it worse, and unles a miracle happens on November 2nd, they will!

Then the "crisis" they manufactured will give them the opportunity to come before the people with their brand of revisionism/state socialism as the "savior" for the debacle he and his co-conspirators created.

That two trillion sitting on side lines could easily pay for the deficit? Obama shafted the GM stockholders, then us old geezers with the Medicare theft. He and his Congress could easily shaft us again. Me, I am taking my tiny share out, converting it to gold and burying it. Of course, he'll know that I have the gold and will probably come for it. We're so screwed.

The Colbert "mockery" seemed to this citizen to fit perfectly with the mockery of this entire Congress. I, as an independent, declare myself not amused by either party. They are all incompetent. If not, how do we find ourselves in the predicament we're in?

It's the Progressives in both parties - we have Progressive (Dems) and Progressive light (Republican guard) right now. The Republicans had best wake up and purge their ranks and become conservative Cosntitutionalists or We the People will form a new party out of the remnants of both.

As usual, Charles has hit the "nail on the head"! If the democrats don't lose control of one or both houses, the downward spiral will continue at a rate that is so fast our heads won't hvae time to spin. God help us all!!!!!!

Their failure to pass a budget or vote on the tax cuts was by design. They want 55% of your estate to go to them, not your kids.

Let's get one thing straight, Progressives are not bumbling idiots trying to fix the economy, they are trying to BREAK it.

"As if this was not enough, Congress then adjourned without even a vote -- nay, without even a Democratic bill -- on the expiring Bush tax cuts. This is the ultimate in incompetence.' They did vote by leaving the expiration of the tax cuts in place.

Sixty-five percent view Obama favorably "as a person?" They must not see the same things that I see in him. There's nothing I find favorable about him.

You're all forgetting the major legislation Congress rammed through before leaving--they fixed it so our television commercials won't be louder than the programs they interrupt. They have their priorities and fixing the budget was lower than television volume. Is there a message here?

America is on to them and they know it. By 2012 conservatives should be able to muster a filibuster-proof majority and America can get back to being America again.

J Henry Jr is closest. Disagreement here on the dates; 2012? More nearly early 2011, is my view. On the assumption that RINO's and Dems become a minority, and real Republicans control both Houses. Which, it is hoped, will result in impeachment of Obama/Biden, elevate the Speaker (Boehner) to POTUS, who will appoint---your guess. I have a name in mind for VP.

Semper Fi'

It's important for the American people to keep an eye on the winners of the next election both democrats and republicans. We can afford to let politicians continue to destroy this country bit by bit. People need to be held accountable for their actions. What is really sad is that both parties can't work together for the betterment of the country instead of bickering and fighting. We could accomplish so much. I think people are really tired of it.

Obama succeeded with healthcare? Charles, you nuts? Forcing this down our throats is good? What about the million loopholes and defects? The healthcare bill is all about the virtues of tyranny. Is the goodness of the bill the reason so many states are suing the Feds to withdraw from the tentacles of the Federal government health plan? As a doctor, you may have reasons to say a health care bill is good in general, but the travesty of how we arrived at the bill is patently obvious.

Ah, for the good old days of the much maligned Joseph McCarthy when the Country searched out Communists and their sympathizers for condemnation rather than election to the White House and Congress.

What do we do if the Republicans turn out to be the same version as in 2000 to 2006? That is my biggest fear.

Sixty-five percent view Obama favorably "as a person."

People are still afraid that if they say, "I hate his guts," they're admitting to at least a spark of bigotry, even though race has nothing to do with it. Saying they hate his policies but like him personally is much safer emotionally. We have been taught/forced to be politically correct for so long, it will take some time before most of us have the nerve to call a spade a spade, even in an anonymous poll.