to our side. Keep on keepin' on, Grampy.

Since Congress isn't working anymore, they have too much time on their hands and put their mouths into gear before their brains are engaged.

(Hungary's PM) Orban wants to build 'illiberal state' (like Russia and China)

Hungary leader Viktor Orban has said he wants to build an illiberal state based on national foundations, citing Russia and China as examples.

The experience of the financial crisis showed that “liberal democratic states cannot remain globally competitive.”

"Today, the world tries to understand systems which are not Western, not liberal, maybe not even democracies yet they are successful" he said, and mentioned Singapore, China, India, Russia and Turkey as examples.

He said that these efforts were being obstructed by civil society groups and that NGO workers are political activists representing foreign interests. Budapest recently got into a political dispute with Norway after the Hungarian authorities raided the offices of NGOs involved in administrating aid from the Nordic country. Orban's goverment had accused the Norwegian Fund of supporting opposition political groups.

http://euobserver.com/political/125128

BUDAPEST, Dec. 14 (Xinhua) -- The United States should end its unfriendly behavior and policy toward Hungary, Hungary's parliamentary speaker Laszlo Kover said on Sunday.

Kover told local wire service MTI that he has sent a letter of protest to the U.S. Senate after Republican Senator John McCain called Prime Minister Viktor Orban "a neo-fascist dictator", which came on the heels of a U.S. visa ban against several Hungarian tax officials citing corruption.

Washington has employed similar policies against the Czech Republic, Romania and Slovakia, treating them as a tool in a bid to make its own brand of order "in the immediate hinterland behind the front lines", he said.

He added that some U.S. foreign affairs decision-makers have communicated a negative opinion on Hungary whenever his Fidesz party was in power over the past 25 years.

"The tone may be more unusual and irrational now than earlier ... (and) as allies we expect to see a minimum of a correct attitude on America's part," Kover said, adding that the U.S. holds the key to normalizing bilateral relations.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/europe/europe/2014-12/14/c_133854372.htm