When asking about an investigation of their president  why do they get so bent out of shape on taxes?
829752
We can help stop it today, go vote.
239992
Bush is very effective at this.  You can only go to his functions if you agree with and worship him.  Everyone gets background checks months in advance.  He has a script to read and every person in the audience who gets to ask a question has their part of the script.  Bush can't think on his feet or at all really, so he would never be able to answer somebody's question if he didn't already have the correct Public Relations answer.  \n\nOther elected officials do this somewhat, but not to the same level as Bush.  He lives in a fantasy land in his presidency.  \n\nAlso, I have a feeling if you didn't ask your scripted question, you'd be taken secretly to Guatanamo Bay as a 'terrorist'.
1169272
He is the worst president in the history of the U.S. so it is only natural to ask questions about him. His past leaves much to be desired also, he was a coke snorting, alcoholic before he became a "born again Christian". If you can believe that with all the other lies that he has told.
361118
The IRS is an agency of the Treasury Dept.  Relax.  :)
1098373
In the Politics and Government section, most of the questions are thinly-veiled rhetoric, masquerading as a legitimate "question".\n\nHave you ever watched a press conference from the White House?  Half the "questions" posed to the President are blatant posturing.  They don't qualify as questions because the question itself is worded in such a way as to imply an answer.  It would be like asking, "Do you think that pregnant female prisoners should be allowed to give birth before being executed?"\n\nOh wait..... that was a REAL question, and Al Gore said he'd have to think about it further.
721579
This is a typical Congressional idiocy. Especially since it is coming from our own pockets (taxes)!\n\nThis is yet another example of why you don't want these idiots in Congress to become president. Totally freaking clueless.\n\nFrist needs to be biatch slapped.
345438
Because either people are apathetic, or, they are hypnotized by these  crooked politicians.  Very few of us are immune  to it. I am one. I do not vote for those who want to rule for  a 2nd or 3rd term or beyond. They have gotten rich enough, and don't need any more of my money.
676757
Well, they're somewhat less likely to trash your civil liberties or invasively crawl into your private life.  They're more likely to implement tax laws that will balance the budget yet still be reasonable from a business perspective -- no more "welfare for the wealthy".\n\nOn balance, they're all politicians so they're worthy of only minimal trust as such.
736194
It seems that Mr Bush is a very focused man - which could be a good thing, but has instead been a negative thing.  There have been people inside his administration who have tried to give him advice and he has almost categorically ignored them.  It seems that there is information that is welcomed and accepted, and then there is some information that is swept under the carpet.  I think people feel disenfranchised when the President and congress act as if we are preschool children and we are incapable of making informed decisions at all.  Most Americans are intelligent enough to take the information that is presented to us on a daily basis and form opinions and ideas.  We just wish that we felt represented and not dragged along behind whatever agenda our government decides is important.
701745
Because this is how Democrats think: \n\nNancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton announce that every family will receive a $500 annual rebate in the form of a check because they want to fight poverty.  The looneys on the left thunderously applaud and wet their pants.  \n\nHowever, someone with some sense asks:  Where is that money coming from?  Well, says Hillary and Nancy, you will have to pay $1000 extra in taxes so that we can then process it at the federal level, take our cut, waste it in bureaucracy, and then we magnamously send you a check for $500.  See, we care about you.   \n\nThe crows breaks into a cheering frenzy.\n\nThe sensible person says:  Wouldn't it have been better for me to have kept my $1000 to begin with?\n\nThe sensible men is beaten by the angry mob.
91660
LOL!! Because they are brainwashed! Our country wouldn't be in the shape it is now if he weren't in office!
648991
They hardly pay any taxes at all. Dick Cheney got a 1.9 million dollar tax return from 05 this year. That is also a crime and over the compensation limits to be in the presidency. A tax return is clearly stated as income on the IRS's 1040's.
63271
He didn't have the authority.  Bush is not a dictator.  If he were to seal records, that would do nothing but make more people interested in those records, and the next president would unseal them.
717613
It's much like interviewing someone from the Mafia.\n\nThey are not going to admit they belong and they are not going to say anything.
17637
under the patreit act its not illeagal if he or the goverment feel you pose any kind of threat to the country resently thay investigated some quakers for meating and soon broke off the investigation.\nUnder the P-act there is no cause other than thay have suspition and thay can also arrest you if thay feel you are an enamy combattont..\nBut your quistion should be if investigated what happens to the information thay have gatherd once you are cleard and the tap is removed and how is the goverment paying for all this?\nit is in the senate for revue the president wants to mandate it as law but as of today thay need not tell you thay are investigating you or explain why.\nsimilar to hitlers hench men and hitler was able to get it through feer of being attacked sound fimilair?
606642
Because any straight answer will be used out of context against them at a later date. Any statement without enough reservations to clog the idea will end up in a campaign commercial against them, showing how heartless they are.\n\nJust look at most of the political answers on this service. You never see any straight answers, just comments on how evil someone else is.
791863
They aren't understood; they are manipulated for political purposes. Currently, the Reps do it more...labeling liberalism as something so bad.