Who Can Tell the Difference Between A Republican and Democrat or Left and Right?

I gotta ask - How the heck can you tell the difference between "Republican" and "Democrat" or "Liberal" and "Conservative" or "Left" and "Right" any more?

Which ones say they are for Social Security and Medicaid and Medicare for and targeted help for the elderly, poor while pushing for and then passing legislation after law after bill after package that actually just give welfare to the people who were rich enough but stupid enough to buy things like Citigroup stock or bonds or are now in the ownership class in this country because they own real estate and borrowed heavily against their so-called equity from banks who were rich enough but stupid enough to leverage up lending people who were rich enough and stupid enough or dishonest enough to borrow money using real estate as an asset.

I mean seriously, the Republicans act like they’re for things like free-markets and capitalism and individualism while giving trillions — TRILLIONS — of dollars in free welfare, welfare loans and welfare guarantees (most guarantees of which, if history is any lesson of course, will become out and out losses) to corporations and creating new Medicare and Medicaid programs. While the Democrats act like they’re for things like helping poor people and fighting big business while giving trillions – TRILLIONS – of dollars in free welfare, welfare loans and welfare guarantees (most guarantees of which, if history is any lesson of course, will become out and out losses) to corporations and creating new Medicare and Medicaid programs.

Guys, doesn't it figure that the markets won't stabilize -- neither stocks nor real estate nor the credit crisis and on an on -- until the government stops politicizing marketplaces that were profit-driven marketplaces? 70 years of below market funneling of capital through tax breaks for those rich enough to use them to buy real estate of any sort wasn't enough of a bubble? Now the Republicans and Democrats and the Left and the Right and the Liberals and Conservatives are all fighting over the details over just many hundreds of billions in direct welfare benefits and targeted tax tricks for the corporate and white collar people who are most well-connected and for the shareholders and bondholders of the banks and also want to out and out provide welfare to those who were rich enough but stupid enough to borrow more than they could easily afford to payback in the name of "stablizing" real estate?

Both sides say they want to create new policies and laws and regulations to make housing affordable using new targeted tax tricks and welfare for those rich enough to risk money on real estate right now. Wouldn't housing, by definition, be more affordable if we let prices fall so the average American who's been renting and saving can step in and buy some of that real estate that those people who used to be rich enough to risk their money on real estate during the bubble are selling?

Which way is up around here, much less which way is left and which one's right.

I am completely frank and sincere when I tell you that I can not at all tell any difference between a Republican and Democrat except that each party has (some) different cronies.

I mean seriously, after the last 20 years of the Republican/Democrat Socialist Regime being on a power-hungry, wealth confiscatory overdrive, can you tell the difference?

Ann Coulter's on Happy Hour tonight and she's gonna get one question from me, I figure: How the heck can you tell the difference between "Republican" and "Democrat" or "Liberal" and "Conservative" or "Left" and "Right" any more?

Mort Zuckerman is our guest for the markets discussion at the top of the show and will join me and Eric Bolling for Quick Shots too.

PS. I was on Judge Napolitano's new FoxNews.com/StrategyRoom "Freedom Watch" TV show yesterday (it's every Wednesday at noon EST) with Ron Paul, Peter Schiff and others. You can see the whole show on YouTube here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pw7U8JS1a4A

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