Christians are enjoined to imitate their savior. Jesus "palled around with" tavern-owners, whores, and (where was Grover Norquist?) tax-collectors, omg. When he died, he was literally in the middle of thieves, one of whom mocked him.

And Palin cannot find the Christianity inside herself to pray with people she does not like, and to forgive them?

Someone needs to go back to Sunday school, and this time to really listen and take those lessons literally.

It's not enough that the right thinks Geithner's a power-mad statist who wants to destroy the free market for all time,

Seems to me that the free market is doing that all by itself.

Market economics were saved by FDR's intervention; market economics will probably be saved by Obama's intervention.

Time to ditch capitalism for syndicalism.

Jesus, of course, would torture, steal an election, start an unprovoked war, turn his back on the rest of the world, trash the environment, run the economy as a Ponzi scheme, get rich and ignore the poor, laugh at science, and embrace hatred.

So, if that's you mean by Judeo-Christian values, then yeah, sure, they're dead on.

The Big Lie is Alive and Well and Living on the Right.

First, I have to say, every libertarian seems to think they were born full-blown out of their own foreheads; nobody helped them, they made themselves, yadadada. After reading Atlas Shrugged, years ago, I realized that if all those men of the mind went on strike, it would be months before they were missed. Let one of their secretaries not show up for work, however, and her absence would be noted immediately. Go Galt yourself, BS; your absence will never be missed.

And, as for Ms. Limbaugh--who cares who you're related to? I find absolutely nothing admirable about your cousin, and much to condemn, and we'll never know anything except his persona, which is neither amusing nor insightful, but is bigoted and hateful.

But this has nothing to do with you, save that you seem to believe you walk around with a giant L on your forehead, and can't take a joke. Grow up, be yourself, and don't, for Ghu's sake, follow your cousin's path. Unless you enjoy living without a soul--at least professionally.

If Stevens were a Democratic senator, we could write the scripts for talk radio without any problem.

Given, however, that Stevens was a Republican senator prosecuted by a DoJ under a Republican administration, and the flaws in the prosecution have been set right by a Democratic administration, we're in serious danger of seeing an epidemic of right-wing head explosions like a chain of Black Cats going off all around the country. Their world-views simply can't accept these facts on face value.

My prediction: starting with Limbaugh and Hannity, we'll hear this: It's Clinton's fault.

As with so much else (according to the RW skewed view of things), Clinton essentially corrupted the mechanism of government (How, you ask? Simple: a radioactive-like effect--the man's mere presence was a corrupting influence! Very Greek-tragedy-like!) This corruption ran so deep and so strong that eight years of Republican cleanliness simply could not undo the pervasive stench and rot...hence, the flaws in the Stevens prosecution.

Why were these flaws undone by an incoming Democratic administration? Simple: the effect of talk radio. Rush and his cronies are so powerful that they have forced the Obama administration to come clean. And they must keep up the drumbeat of opposition in order to keep the Obama folks at least relatively honest. (Keep those cards and letters with money enclosed coming, folks!)

Thus we'll see figurative band-aids applied over the head cracks of the GOP, preventing that terrible plague of exploding craniums.

The fact that Stevens was prosecuted at such a critical time in the election process was near-absolute proof that the Bush Administration had not politicized that case.

Actually, the fact that the DoJ under the auspices of the Bush administration went forward with the prosecution at all--of a sitting Republican senator--is de facto evidence that this case was not politicized by them. I don't believe that claim has any relevance in this discussion--good strawman, 'phantman!

Furthermore, the "active case" qualification ignores the fact of the many well-documented attempts to politicize almost the entirety of the activities of the DoJ. I refer you to the matter of Gonzales, Alberto, and his and others testimony before Congress.

Good attempt to narrow the matter so as to be proven "right," 'phantman!

We see how the GOP keeps heads from coming apart under the pressure of extreme internal dissidence.

Frankly, any GOP "criticism" of a sitting GOP senator takes the flavor of Captain Renault's protestation upon finding games of chance on the grounds of the Café Américain.

We should all be aware that there is proof that these folks will accept.

Give them a copy of the "vault" document, and they would claim it was only a copy, not the "real" thing.

Let them examine the "vault" document and they argue for further tests to "prove" the document as genuine, or not.

Let them do further tests and they would test until they found an "expert" who would "certify" some supposedly-questionable aspect of that document.

And so it would go, because the real objects of their complaint--that Obama is a Democrat, that he's a black man, and that he has a "funny" name--will never go away.

We can expect, in the future--because we can have no expectation of a sudden outbreak of mental health in the rightwing--that these kinds of bogus concerns re legitimacy will be raised with every major successful Democratic candidate.

At some point, we can only hope that, scorned and laughed at, they will fade into the background of the Internets.