Is there a senator more responsible for helping Bush advance eight years of bad policy than Jon Kyl?

I doubt it.

Jon Kyl bears responsibility for helping Bush promote a lot of bad policy for eight long, miserable years. I'm thrilled Obama reminded him that he had won.

A lot of us here in Arizona are going to do our best to make sure Jon Kyl doesn't return to Washington once his current term is up.

I'm beginning to believe that the people who make up the right wing in the US - or anywhere really - thrive on hating. It must the tonic that cures all ills in extremist-land.

It's beyond time we engaged the Muslim world with respect and end the delusion that they are all jihadis. Although I'm fairly confident that if we continue the policies of the previous administration we could most likely convince a larger percentage of them to become jihadis.

Message to the right: Take a deep breath, calm down, and remember that to be respected in the world we need to show some respect to the world.

We just endured eight years of failed policies on both foreign and domestic fronts. Let's see how a new approach is received.

Tax cuts - it's all they know. Take the senators from my state (please), John McCain and Jon Kyl. Neither of them have a clue about economies but they'll loiter in front of any camera they can find and pretend they're competent in economic matters. They aren't. They have proven themselves incompetent.

Blah, blah, blah, blah, tax cuts. Blah, blah, blah, blah, make the Bush tax cuts permanent. Blah, blah, blah, blah, tax cuts. Blah, blah, blah, blah, make the Bush tax cuts permanent. Blah, blah, blah, blah, tax cuts. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, make the Bush tax cuts permanent. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, tax cuts. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, make the Bush tax cuts permanent. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, tax cuts...

Sick. Of. It.

I agree.

I listened to a number of small to medium sized business owners call into a radio talk show this morning to say that tax implications aren't really a major factor in their decision making process right now. They need people to buy things and tax cuts won't cure this ill.

The Republican tax cut mantra doesn't appear to be resonating. Indeed, why should it? They're looking increasingly irrelevant and schizophrenic - trying to be the biggest Bush-hater and yet parroting Bush's economic bulwark, the tax cut. It's difficult to tell yet which Republican will take home the biggest simpleton of the year award.

Wow - between the Georgia Peach groveling on Rush Limbaugh's show to Dick Armey making that bizarre comment to Joan Walsh, it looks as though the Republican party can slide even further down the crapper than they already have.

Dick Armey's bizarre comments yesterday were telling. What a dotty old fool.

I'm with Obama - the stimulus package needs some refining. But if all the Republicans can come up with are tax cuts and making the Bush tax cuts permanent, they're at the end of a 28-year-old road. It's over.

Deregulation is at the bottom of this and one party was much more enthusiastic about advocating that than the other. The government, by abdicating it's responsibilities, created this mess and the government is going to have to get us out.

Also, the rest of the world no longer trusts us. We sold them worthless investments that were rated AAA by corrupt ratings agencies. Even if we managed to irk everybody with stupid moves such as an elective, pre-emptive war, they still trusted us with money. Now they don't. Nor should they.

Forget the Republicans, when does re-regulation start?

I was watching Reefer Madness with my father back in the early 80's. He was a conservative guy but not a ideological nut case. When it got to the "play faster" part we were both howling and he said "It isn't like that, is it?" I told him nobody smoking a doober ever did anything faster and if it was an accurate portrayal, they would probably mosey off to the nearest cafe and eat pie. (I'd be shocked to learn that Phelps is high when he swims.)

When my husband was diagnosed with cancer several years ago, his mother, a nurse, asked if he had any pot. Long story short, he didn't want to smoke anything - he was trying to beat cancer - but he was losing too much weight and one night I talked him into giving it a shot. His appetite returned and we were able to watch movies and not think about cancer for a few hours.

I miss the 70's when it wasn't a big deal. But I also miss the pot from those days, the kind that just kind of filed the edges off. I don't like to be incapacitated after one hit.

He's still a remarkable athlete and hitting off a bong doesn't change that.

I just want to underscore what several posters have already pointed out: the majority of Republicans who favored salary caps on the big three American autoworkers are NOT in favor of salary caps for financial workers. That's all anybody needs to know.

Vote for the stimulus and then support re-regulation so the rest of the world will begin to trust us again.

I can't remember which show it was, but Ricks was asked if the surge worked and he said no. The point of the surge was to create stability so that a political solution could take place. Since that has yet to occur, it remains to be seen if the surge was successful or not.

I'm not suggesting a political solution will never materialize, but I am saying it hasn't happened yet.