The deal looks bad and smells worse.

What our country deserves from everyone who enjoys its fruits and freedoms is a little more gratitude - and a lot less greed.

Since when did the American Dream become the American Guarantee?

Official motto of the White House economic team: Those who can, do. Those who can't, fantasize in the classroom, fail in Washington and then return to the Ivy Tower to train the next generation of egghead economic saboteurs. Life is good for left-wing academics. Everyone else pays dearly.

It's time for ordinary Americans to come out of the shadows and remind Washington every day in words and actions that we are a sovereign nation, not a sanctuary nation.

Instead of putting Americans to work, the Teamsters have been busy yanking members off projects and idling construction projects from California to Indiana to New York in order to shake down employers.

Liberals see racism where it doesn't exist, fabricate it when they can't find it and ignore it within their own ranks.