How do you define the following?

Catastrophe — a debt of $14 trillion;

Insanity — a $1.4 trillion deficit without a budget;

Idiotic — a tax code of more than 6,000 pages that taxes only 50 percent of wage earners;

Mainstream media — water boys for leftists in the Democratic Party;

Greed —  well-off seniors on Social Security;

Fear — Sarah Palin or alternative positions;

Gaffe machine — Obama without a TelePrompter;

Danger — “a lead from the rear” foreign policy;

Democratic talking points — “tax cuts for the rich;”

Failure — $800 billion stimulus;

Barack Obama’s work ethic — golf course;

Freeloading — 96 weeks of unemployment checks;

Taxpayers — government employees who did not take civil service examination.

George Jones, Otisfield