California is going to take themselves off the cliff culturally and economically, fiscally. They are going to be at the trough in Washington wanting a bailout.

American businesses and upper incomes pay a larger portion of the federal taxes of our national taxes than any country in the world.

I went through two pretty dark years being fed up with the system and frustrated with my own party after two disastrous elections in 2006 and 2008.

The hope and change the Democrats had in mind was nothing more than a retread of the failed and discredited socialist policies that have been the enemy of freedom for centuries all over the world. I fear America is teetering towards tyranny.

If we become too scared to confront the chief problems of our time, there is no hope of ever solving them.

We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free.

Anyone who says the Republicans have been irresponsible aren't looking at the facts.