Coupling Obama's Georgetown speech with the Bo rollout was brilliant. Who wasn't going to hang around waiting for the puppy story on the nightly news? And while we were waiting, we were treated to a Presidential update on the economy. Perfect.

If the polls are any measure, Americans are feeling pretty good about the hands in which we've placed the country. And that will play an important part in fixing the mess that Bush and Cheney left us in.

Meanwhile, let's all enjoy the dog.

We agree with the premise that one should not interfere when one's enemy is destroying himself, but — please. Allow yourselves to have a little fun at the wingnuts' expense. We can't remember the last time we watched the news and were on the floor the whole time. Teabagging. Hilarious.

Does that mean this right-wing moron thinks the passengers and crew of United 93 gave their lives for nothing? That is, if he thinks about them at all.

I hope someone rips his, shall we say, teabags off.

Unattractive on the outside, the real deal on the inside.

Since the release of the memos this week, MSNBC several times has shown that speech by Bush in which, his voice rising with every word, he declares, "The United States does not torture." God, seeing that again made me want to slap his face... and slam him into a wall... and lock him in a confined space... but, I digress.

It's incredibly sad to me because all I can think of is how the Wehrmacht, when the Allies were closing in on them in 1945, desperately wanted to surrender to American soldiers and not the Red Army — because the Soviets would, you guessed it, torture them. We were the good guys. Not any more.

Bush was the Worst Ever for a thousand reasons, but this is probably the most heinous thing he's done: crushed the fact that we, for our many faults, were still "the good guys."

Interesting! Maybe that's why Bush's voice kept rising in that weird way. But I still want to slap his face. God, that would feel good.

As for Liddy, you're right, he's a menace to society. But unfortunately, those of us who believe that are in the minority... after all, he was a guest star on "Miami Vice," for cripes sake!

I don't know how anybody who's so beautiful on the outside could be so unlovely in the inside. Except, wait. He's ruining his looks with drink. So now he's unlovely all the way around.

Mainly because this is driving the Republicans crazy. That's a good day in my book.

I think it's very indicative of how far the REPUBLICAN party has shifted, but not necessarily the Democratic one. So I don't buy the Lieberman analogy — at least, not totally. When Lieberman felt unwelcome in his own party, he did not become a Republican. He became an Independent. Specter felt comfortable enough to go "all the way" — proof that the Democrats are the party of the big tent.

...Unless for some reason you can't run in Pennsylvania as an Independent, in which case I'll stand corrected.

But it's still a good day — as I think you know from your recommendation to watch FOX "News." Fun!

He and Richard Wolfe last night agreed that making a joke that involves September 11 is not funny. Or at least, that "20th hijacker" joke was not funny. They did not mention Wanda's reference to Limbaugh's prescription drug addiction. Too bad, because they missed an important point: That while it was perhaps less than amusing to make a joke about terrorism, Sykes was smart enough to slide the OxyContin reference in there. I think that took the sword out of Limbaugh's hand yesterday.

Overall, however, it's obviously too difficult to pull this event off, and the White House Correspondents' Association should just stop trying. They should rethink ever holding it again, and not just because they can't find an "acceptable" comedian to mask the fact that they're sucking up to the people they're supposed to be covering. Sure, reporters and their subjects have mixed and mingled in Washington for decades. But running into Adlai Stevenson at a cocktail party in the middle of the Cuban Missile Crisis is one thing; more recently, fawning over Presidents and Cabinet secretaries who turn out to be war criminals — at a dinner that millions can see on television and on the Web — is quite another. Although President Obama and his team are a vast improvement on the Bush crowd, the event still makes me wince.

Thank you, thank you, Joan Walsh, for citing the nutty little notebooks that Bob Graham kept, detailing every inane moment of his daily life. We in Florida had a lot of fun with that story when it first came out, and subjected Senator Graham to a good deal of ribbing. But now, not only are those notebooks going to prove Nancy Pelosi's case against the CIA — I'm beginning to think that Bob Graham invented Twitter! Or at least, a 20th-century version of Twitter. Way to go, Bob!

I can see why you missed mentioning Sarah Palin, since she was a candidate for Vice President, not for the Supremes. But surely we should give a nod to the Republicans' most offensive Hispanic nominee for anything: Alberto Gonzales. In fact, he's just the most offensive, period.

And I mean that without irony, that when I needed to avail myself of my Constitutional right to reproductive freedom, I could do so in a professionally run clinic, in complete medical safety, without harassment, and without my healthcare providers worried that their cars or their homes or their persons would be staked out and terrorized day after day after freaking day. As we are clearly reminded today, that is not the case everywhere in America. So, since the rule of law evidently does not apply equally in this country, I was... just lucky, I guess.