I simply cannot believe that Mr. Leonard equates this complaints about this offensive Tee-shirt with the other complants.

This shirt is offensive and no business is or should be required to allow someone wearing it to be in their place of business.

I also cannot believe that he equates someone being offended by this shirt and complaining with people who complaining about public breast feeding, among other things. In the other cases it is the complainer who is being rude. In this case the shirt wearer is being rude.

Just because one's kids have heard worse elsewhere, or most likely said worse elsewhere and further their parent (me included) may have said worse, does not give anyone the right to wear this in a public place of business.

It is rude. Perhaps liberals might start getting back some traction with their viewpoints in the red states if they stop defending such behavior. Most liberals I have ever known are far more conservative in child rearing that most conservative republicans. (who tend to think their doo doo doesnt stink and that they have a right to stomp all over others on their way to the top - and encourage the same behavior in their children)

For the record, I am a christian religous conservative, a political liberal (hence my handle). Breast feeding is a necessity, my wife did that in public almost 20 years ago.

There is no right to be rude in public, and these shirts are highly offensive. My kids joked last week about me buying a shirt with this word on it. No way, no how. I wouldn't even wear it in the privacy of my own home.

This is the coming apart of the Reagan Coalition... The fundamentalists have been duped by over 20 years by the Republicans... You have two groups, one of which will leave, and both could conceivably...

The first group is the vast majority of the "practicing religious" white Christians (Practicing Blacks & Jews have stayed with the Democrats) and they are very much in play... the antecedents of this group were the "Reagan Democrats" and the Carter vote in 1976 (and Carter kept more of it than people realize in 1980)most of these While the most hard core fundamentalists might not leave,

The second group is the corporate business groups... These are the ones that are not uncomfortable with government... recognize that market failure is a real issue... that good fiscal & environmental stewardship is critical... these are the Teddy Roosevelt through Eisenhower/Nixon/Ford Republicans...

The funny thing was Saturday's WSJ equated Huckabee with European Christian Democratic Parties... attacking their record when in reality they ahve historically praised Kohl, Merkel, et al and I would characterize the French Government of the past 10 years as being more CD than Social Democrat... What is amusing is that their definition of Christian Democrats - distrust of both true socialism and free market libertarianism - sounds a lot like the New Deal Coalition...

Me... I like Huckabee as a person, but his policies are not that "liberal"... I will vote for Edwards, Obama & Clinton over any Republican Candidate...

Andrew's numbers are probably on the high side because one of the by products is "distillers" grain which represents the proteins of the grain... These are fed to cattle... I do not know if they can be fed to Pigs or Chickens... So after Ethanol is made from the grain, the by products can be fed to animals...

I for one think the entire Ethanol program is idiocy... but I do support for sticking to the facts...

First of all, this bill is badly flawed and not ready for passage. So to vote to end debate is premature. The point of debate is to get more issues out into the open so they can be dealt with, either in this session or the next.

Second, it would be erroneous to think of Ohio to not have a reason to be concerned about the costs because it is not an "energy producing" state. It is an energy consuming state and very dependent upon coal for electric generation. It stands to have some of the worst increases in electric rates of any state if this bill is passed and the cap and trade mechanism does not effectively distribute the costs around the economy. Coming on the heals of an absolutely horrible decade in losing manufacturing jobs, the last thing anyone should want it to lose political power over an incomplete bill.

Any politician of either party who does not consider the cost that this bill places on the economy deserves to lose their job. I am not saying long term we shouldn't do anything, but anyone who thinks this will be a cost free lunch is investing in dot-bomb stocks.

The democrats who support this bill need to look very carefully, more than they have, of what all the impacts will be and how best to mitigate them. In theory, cap and trade does minimize it and distributes the pain, so in theory Ohio electricity consumers have no more to fear than any other user of fossil fuels, but they have taken the brunt of the costs of globalization while others have reaped the benefits, so Sherrod is being prudent in voting against cloture.