The problem isn't that the tent has shrunk, it's that progressively fewer people think they should come into it anymore.

Even "just words" have real consequences.

Tax cuts are not an expense for the government.

Unions do get more pay for their members, until they suck up all the money and the employer collapses.

Just not anything he's said he wants to do.

Mr. Obama, do you want to achieve Ronald Reagan stature? Then read this letter!

Senator Obama clearly thinks that the way to a great society is to redistribute wealth. But that doesn't work.

What should have been said, by a wiser candidate than the two we have.

Have we become so used to injustice that we expect it, and simply live with it?

Each of the unfortunate changes in the American system which happened in 1913 would have resulted in some problems probably more manageable each on their own.