Oh, and WillyP, this thing about “his whole life suggests it” – this is complete nonsense. If you’re going to throw out crap like that, you need to be able to back up your arguments and so far you haven’t been able to. Not to mention that you’re essentially parroting Glenn Beck’s view to the letter and he’s not exactly a paragon of veracity.

“You worship a personality. The same frighteningly close-minded mentality of Cult members.”

One word for you:

Reagan.

In fact, you con jobs have been looking in vain for him ever since he drifted into dementia and died. While still in office. You’ll never find him, for he never really was.

Why do you post your opinions under the secrecy and protection of a pseudonym? Before even reading the first word of the first paragraph of your “rebuttal” to Stanley Kurtz, it’s clear by your unwillingness to identify yourself that no personal conviction or personal courage underlies any attempted points you might try to make against Kurtz.

Stop hiding Eugene.

“Obama IS a socialist. The argument was over long ago. His entire life SUGGESTS it.”

Sorry about adding that second emphasis, I just couldn’t resist with something this silly.

Suggestions are proof beyond dispute now?

Well, there’s an awful lot of reasons to consider the Tea Party a modern offshoot of the John Birch Society.

And the John Birch Society did accuse President Eisenhower of being a communist sympathizer, and possibly even a Soviet agent.

You’ll find it really instructive to go back to the Republican Party platform of 1956 to see just how far the party has fallen.

Actually, there’s enough material for a whole book, and it has been written:

OVER THE CLIFF by John Amato and David Neiwert.

http://www.amazon.com/Over-Cliff-Obamas-Election-American/dp/0982417179/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1280516452&sr=8-1#reader_0982417179

From the Amazon product description:

“(The authors) examine the torrent of right-wing kookery—the eager willingness of conservatives to fervently believe things that are provably false—and its ramifications both for our national discourse and our national well-being. The authors show how this outlandish, overheated rhetoric—generated by mainstream-media figures like Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and Lou Dobbs—is accompanied by a wave of lethal right-wing violence and threatening behavior.

The book explores the main drivers of this descent into madness: the extremist Radical Right and the longtime Republican willingness—dating back to Nixon, but refined in more recent years by Lee Atwater and his acolytes—to engage in a divisive politics of resentment, both racial and cultural. ”

(Snopes.com lists literally hundreds of false rumors that have been spread about Obama.)

Certainly each Administration has its agenda and perhaps favors some areas of enforcement over others. The present Administration is apparently devising a mechanism to get around immigration laws and effectively “de-regulate” portions of that area. Your point is interesting. Do you have any other sources that support your view that SEC supervisors were simply shelving certain enforcement projects?

Not being old enough, I really don’t know what it was like 40 years ago to comment on whether those were the halcyon days of the GOP.