"Am I bugging you? I don't want to bug you."

He should run for president! Its a shame to read an interview like that and then think of all the smarmy, milquetoast Democrats that will crawl out of the woodwork for the 2008 presidential campaign.

I hope Mr. Hackett has a long, productive career in national politics...and I hope he's embraced by the Democratic party, not rejected.

If Anne Rice's Jesus novel fails to attract a multitude of readers (as she did with her corny vampire stories) how far into the series before she gives us an overwritten, florrid and mind-numbingly sumptuous description of Jesus and John "the Apostle He Loved" going at like dogs in heat? By this point Ms Rice is pretty much looked upon as a literary joke. She had to do some major scrambling to revive herself. There's a real whiff of P.T. Barnum about this. Its seems as genuine as...well the Christian right in general.

Frist and Hastert and Bush are playing to the hardcore crowd. Fortunately I think the American people are beginning to wake up to the reality of the Christian right and neocons. The assault on science, the assault on our separation of church and state, the promotion of abusive practices and secret prisons, the deceitful selling of the Iraq war and the following quagmire, Tom Delay, the money-grubbing practises that are assosciated with Iraq and hurricane reconstruction (Haliburton, need I say more?),I think there is a profound unease growing amongst mainstream Americans over all of these things.

Global warming isn't the only climate change. We're starting to see a shift in the political climate. Bush, Cheney, Frist, Hastert...they're becoming dinosaurs, and they're looking more and more desperate as they appeal to an ever more rigid base. Its amusing to see even Trent Lott distance himself. Unfortunately we're stuck with this crowd for a few more years, but I think neocon/Christian movement will be in it death rattle soon.

Just have Lou Reed carpet bag over from NY. I'd LOVE to see him take on Bill Frist.

If YOU were running for public office now, would you want your name assiciated with Karl Rove? I don't think so. A masterbatory standing ovation from the Federalist Society is meaningless. The bottom is dropping out on the Administration and the Republican controlled congress, and they have one plan: appeal to the most rabid element of their base. The problem is, every poll coming out shows a growing and growing dissatiscation and suspicion of this crowd. How long can they beat gay marriage to death? Americans are starting to get very squirmy with the creationism/itelligent design assault on science ciriculum at a time when the US is beginning to lose ground in the scientific area. Pat Robertson is threatening the people PA with God's wrath for voting out a local school board pushing creationism!

Its twilight time for the neocons. They won't be gone overnight, but they're on the downslide.

Clearly, the Administration was dishonest in their relentless rush to war. Congressional Democrats eagerly jumped on the President's bandwagon for one reason: to appease a post 9/11 American public itching for war. Blame the President? Blame the Republicans? Blame the Democrats? The American people should look in the mirror when they dole out the blame for this shamefull fiasco.

Finally, finally it seems the majority of the American people are facing the fact that their president is a liar...and a liar in a very profound way. We're not talking about a cheap blow job here...this is war, life and death, the reputation of the country. The president can blame the Democrats and attack the Washington Post, but we the people have ceased to believe him, and all of his Karl rove inspired histrionics can't stop his tumbling house of cards. Two shaddowy elections, the Iraq war, Halliburton, Hurricane Katrina, torture as a US policy, Valery Plame: the President is at this point dragging around a ponderous Jacob Marley chain. We may be stuck with him for three more years, but that chain has dragged him down, and history will make sure he drags it forever.

Can these people possibly get anymore baffoonish? How long before Ralph Reed, Bill O'Reilly, Peggy Noonan, Ann Coulter, Nancy Grace, Wolf Blitzer and Jeff Gannon all appear on a very special season of Surreal Life?

Black list! At this point bill O'Reilly has all the credibility of a birthday party clown.

Sen. Chuck Hagel couldn't have put it any better. The remarkable thing about his comments is that they were not political. He spoke of the obligations, rights and resposibilites of the American people and the congress together. Mr. Bush's terse and definitive reply to the question of who he agreed with Sen. Hagel of Vice President Cheney was in effect a great big "fuck you" to the American people. I've said it before and I'll say it again, he was pelted with eggs on the way in, and he'll be pelted with eggs on the way out.

Although neither the President nor the Vice President have ever given an exact definition of "success" in terms of our involvement in Iraq its pretty clear that their Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm notions of "success" are outlandishly unrealistic. By their standards our involvement would require a permanent occupation. The American people truely need to understand that. As long a Iraq remains a cash cow for the financial interests of themselves and their cronies Bush and Cheney will maintain their unattainable measure of "success."

I'm picturing Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld or George Bush himself riding a bomb down on Al-Jazeera's offices just like Slim Pickins in Dr. Strangelove.

Maybe Jeff Gannon will conduct the next press briefing.