And Obama isn't fixing the mess. He's making the mess bigger, a lot bigger. As is, America is unsustainable. Name one thing that Obama has done to reverse that. I can name half a dozen of his policies that are making the problem worse.

But we disagree on who created the terrible financial situation Obama inherited. If Obama had not acted when he did, we could easily have seen 3-4 million more unemployed.

Conservative corporate control of America for the last 30 years all blew up in the last stages of the Bush administration. The criminality and devious greed was a sickening sight. Conservatives were perfectly satisfied with that status quo as long as we had a GOP president. Now, the grown-ups are back in charge, trying to fix the mess, and lo and behold, conservatives don't want it fixed….they want even more of the same.

But I don't think the people really started to wake up until the recession hit full force, and that was nearly at the end of Bush's term. Then the people were dumbfounded by the size of TARP. That was a game changer, with all the big boys being bailed out as the little people suffered. But people still had hope somehow that Obama would be different. Then they quickly found out he isn't different at all. He's just more of the same, only this time on steroids, with the debt rolling up faster than ever, with the government spending faster than ever, with the government intruding more than ever, and with taxes soon to be rising faster than ever. Enough is enough. The only ones who surprise me at this point are the ones who aren't protesting. Those are the ones with the stars in their eyes.

And I know this will be hard for you to believe, Rev, but Obama isn't doing the will of the people. Most of the people are against his policies. His instrusions, in only six months in office, mind you number — $787 billion waste of a stimulus, $500 billion permanent increase in government spending, $9 trillion 10-year projected deficit, government health care, government buying auto companies, a coming huge energy tax. Lots more I could add, but those are the biggies. Plus, Obama has broken his campaign promises at a record pace, more than any politician I can ever remember and he can't say five sentences without being dishonest.

You don't have to believe any of what I say, of course, but….I've been to the protests. I know what they are about. I'm going to another one next month.

You say that most people know that government intrusion is a direct threat, and I assume you're speaking of Obama's health care proposals. The problem is……when governemnt was radically intruding during Bush, I didn't see any angry mobs full of conservatives protesting. Same with Bush's doubling of the debt….no protests about radical government spending.

The backlash, as you call it, is over a Democratic president and a Democratic Congress going about doing the will of the majority of Americans. Remember, conservatives are now in the minority, Republicans are in the minority….and that's what is a direct threat.

Things have come full circle since the 60's and 70's. Back then, it was leftist organizations committing all sorts of violent acts. Now, right wingers are protesting, but not committing violent acts so far. I certainly hope it stays that way.

That being said, did you really expect that the majority of people in this country would go quietly into that good night as the government expands by leaps and bounds into all sorts of new areas ? Most people instinctively know that government intrusion is a direct threat. Our country was founded upon that idea, and we aren't going to forget about it just because Obama is good with a teleprompter.

I wrote a post the other day about how successful small businesses could soon be paying 50% in taxes or higher, and how that will hurt job creation and therefore hurt people. When the government taxes at that level, it is theft, just as the Social Security scam is theft. I only wonder how people put up with it this long. With our economy finally coming apart at the seams, as the bills come due for nearly a century of almost non-stop irresponsible big government policy, people are finally realizing they've been had. Then Obama came into office and immediately became the biggest of all the big spenders who came before him. The backlash is inevitable.

Personally, I thought Barney was being kind in his response to the woman who sees Nazis everywhere.