How many times now has he been called upon to respond to and explain?

I HOPE Mitt gets the GOP nomination. He's an absolute disgrace and disaster. And I hope his "happy pride day" flyer from 2002 gets a whole lotta attention.

Umm...that would be Blackwater and the big oil companies, respectively.

I'm always mystified by the reactions of both bush's critics and supporters. They really are just flip sides of the same coin. His critics call his "stubborn" and "delusional" and "stupid." His supporters claim he's a resolute visionary. Both insulate him from the most extreme responsibility. Both absolve him from guilt and wrap him in a tragic cloak of misguided intentions.

Well no one is that stubborn or delusional that they wouldn't have realized long ago that entirely new thinking and new strategy was needed to change the course in Iraq. The situation as it is now (and has been) is exactly what's needed to keep the cash faucet turned on full showering US taxpayer money on the well connected contractors, mercenaries and oil companies. George Bush and dick Cheney will make sure the pigs at Halliburton. Blackwater, Hunt Oil, etc. will feed at the tough that is Iraq right up until the day they walk out of the White House. This has been about oil and money from the start.

On that morning in January 2009 Bush, Cheney and their buddies can cash out and leave the mess for someone else.

is anyone suprised?

The "surge" is coming to an end, not because it was a success, but because there aren't enough troops to support it. Who would fight this new war in Iran? There would have to be a draft, and they'd have to start drafting guys now. Cheney's shriveled old dick might get almost hard thinking about bombing Iran, but right now we have nothing to back it up (militarily or financially). It aint gonna happen.

Bathroom break, no doubt.

I think he's an old hypocrite, and he deserves all the derision and humilation he gets, but I give him credit. He's got balls. Let's be honest here, he got caught with his pants down. He got caught in a humiliating situation. We wasn't caught delivering false information about Iraq's nuclear aims in a State of the Union Address or giving false information before the United Nations regarding Iraq's weapon's of mass destruction. He wasn't caught lieing to the American people to drum up support for catastrophic war. He wan't caught revealing the name of a CIA agent for vengefull purposes. His "offence" was a personal embarassment, and it revealed him to be vile self-loathing hypocrite.

He should tell his fellow Republicans that he will resign when "Baby" Vitter does. I hope he doesn't resign. Let the voters of Idaho decide if they want him as their Senator.

I wonder how many military personel and their families will vote Republican? I would bet ALOT.

History will not only judge George W. Bush with a harshness that can't be described, history will judge Amerians with that same harshness. We elected him twice. We knew before both of those elections that he had no business holding that office. He was elected as a result of vapid ignorance (I'd like to have a beer with him) and meanspirited bigotry (demonizing gays and foreigners). Don't talk to me about Florida. That election should never have been close enough for "Florida" to happen. George W Bush, like it or not, is a reflection of America at the beginning of the 21 century. He struts and swaggers through the chaos and destruction with that wink and smirk that belies any remorse or conscience. And the nation becomes more greedy, bloated, divided, self-absorbed, resentful, jealous, hatefull and bitter. George W. Bush is Dorian Gray and we are his portrait.

What does he know about foreign policy, military matters or the Middle East? He was fortunate enough to turn his accidental connection with 9/11 into a second career. Why on earth would he be looked upon to give recommendations on a matter of extreme national and international consequence?

...and say, "I mean look, she's like that broad from The Manchurian Candidate."

"Hillary Clinton and Chris Dodd voted no. Joe Biden and Barack Obama didn't vote."

At least Clinton and Dodd voted no and Biden and Obama didn't even bother.

I congratulate Mayor Sanders. He dased his decision on thetruest element: people, not phantoms, or boogie men or manufactured "heroes," just regular people living their lives.

I read it only attracted 9 million viewers. considering the massive push CBS gave it and the "controversy" surrounding it, that's pretty dismal for a premier.

I couldn't bear the commercials, so I had no interest in watching, but the previews looked very staged...and let's be honest, is there anything more miserable than watching creepy, attention craving children? I think not.

They should have put it on Saturday mornings where it belonged.

I have a feeling a head to head match up of the Democratic candidates wouldn't sound that much different. The big difference is the Republican's courting of and dependence on the toxic religious right.

John Kerry and John Edwards were both attacked for bring that professional lesbian, Mary Cheney, into the campaign. I think they were spot on, and that wretched women should have been made a bigger issue to illustrate the hypocricy of the Republicans.

For gay-rights on a large scale to be advanced there has to be a personal face put on it. That's why the mayor's appearance in San Diego was so significant. It brought the issue home to a very personal human level, this is about my family and staff. This is about people, not a concept.