This economy is dead in the water unless the legislature undertakes the following three actions: a) permanent extension of Bush tax cuts b) elimination of confiscatory inheritance tax c) authorization of Bush's plan for aerial bombardment of Iran.

Right-on, John McCain! We should have sent 750,000 men instead of 150,000, we should have invaded Syria and Iran, as well, and we should have spent $2 trillion instead of $1 trillion!

For the man who had the wisdom to invade and occupy Iraq, a President McCain would certainly have a Supreme Court appointment available for President Bush at the first vacancy.

And it wouldn't be the first time a former Republican President has served on the Supreme Court. President William Taft later went on to become a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

Now that Rudy's out of the race, McCain's brain is about to get a whole lot bigger. Within the next weeks, Straight Talk Express Watchers can expect to see Giuliani's entire batallion of intellectual firepower, men like Norm Podhoretz, Elliot Abrahms, etc, get aboard for the long ride to Tehran.

Let's just say when even Ariel Sharon manages to get up the energy to endorse his old comrade-in-arms, there's not much point in Romney getting into a pissing contest with McCain over head counts.

Here's what caught my attention about Martin's ad. He said we need BETTER DEMOCRATS.

In that same column, Brooks also writes if McCain can just get young people to think of Wars in the Middle East as the New Frontier, he will be certain to win in November.

Well, I'm not too crazy about John McCain. However, if he should win the Presidency and decides to appoint Alan Dershowitz Homeland Security Chief, I might reconsider my opinion of him.

My perspective is somewhat different. When, I think about that kid with the corduroy jacket lugging boxes of shit around, I think, hell no, I wouldn't go back to that for all the tea in China.

When John McCain left the Tiger Cage in 'Nam, McCain was convinced the NVs had implanted a tiny Tiger Cage in his brain with a live tiger pacing around inside. Well, subliminally, the cage has always stayed with him, and at some point, the cage door lock rusted apart, the tiger busted free, and now it's eating McCain's brain.

So what are we to understand as typical native garb in our heartland-- XXXL stretchpants with a Whopper sweatshirt combo finished off by a pair of K-Mar trainers?

"the Jews should all move to Germany and San Francisco"

Haven't rich Israelis already done that?

How the hell can you put a price on civilization? As John McCain would say, that $3 trillion is just the down payment.

Taking their cue from Karl Rove, Republicans plan to represent Rev. Wright as a diabolical Willie Horton. The RNC had initially played with Obama's middle name, even experimenting with versions of Barack as Saddam HUSSEIN, however, they've decided that with the fears raised by Wright, they can actually get away with representing Obama as Adolph Hitler.

South Koreans met almost no protest from our progressive elements because they were making progress in their transformation from dictatorship to democracy.

The best diagnosis for McCain's Iraq-Nam obsession was provided by the Washington Post's resident psychiatrist, Dr. Charles Krauthammer, who explained that in Iraq, McCain was seeking a youth lost.

Last Saturday the subject of Chef Ramsay came up while I was having afternoon tea with my mother-in-law. She made a very good point which I had never read or heard anywhere by a food critic before, but it is certainly something to keep in mind when choosing a restaurant. My mother-in-law said she wouldn't want a chef with a mouth as foul as Gordon Ramsay's to come within a mile of any food she ate.

Imagine Jack Welch, former President of General Electric, dictating to his secretary a daily news summary meant to be distributed to non-salaried employees of his old company. That is what Brian Williams reads every night.

Well, guess what? Daily Show viewers agree: it's not funny being treated like an employee by Brian Williams.

In describing the movement of the country toward right wing Republican rule, Blumenthal fails to include the crucial role of the corporate media in shaping American national political discourse in favor of a conservative ideological framework. Before independent media companies were concentrated into divisions of corporations such as General Electric, Walt Disney, Time Warner and Rupert Murdoch's News Company, the press was subject to journalistic standards of documented truths and elemental fairness. However, corporate ownership of news outlets has replaced journalististic criteria with corporate business goals.

During the last eight years, the corporate media has disguised the extent of America's catastrophe in the Middle East, as well as Republican malfeasance in the management of the national economy. At present, the only counterweight to the establishment media is the internet, whose reach is still small in comparison to mass market media. As long as corporate media remains the main source of news, an end to right wing rule in this country will remain an uphill battle.

Republicans in selecting John McCain as their nominee, say no to renewables, and instead, offer America a fossil fueled presidency.

I'll you one thing. As soon as McCain kits himself out in his flight suit, it's all over for Obama.

If Portman is finally selected as McAint's running mate, he'll have a fantastic opportunity to put his rhetorical skills to use in a Vice Presidential debate by explaining how McAint's plan to eliminate social security will benefit the American middle class.