C'mon, Warner can invoke "family" all he wants, but we all know the truth: he figures he can't beat Hillary. This way, he can set himself up for a VP nomination when Hillary triumphs over the rest of the field.

I mean, who's left? Little Johnny Edwards, fer cry-eye?

Unless Gore loses some weight and starts running (soon, Al, soon!), Hillary's now got the nomination in the bag. Of course, she's unelectable, but that seems, at this point, to be a condition for winning the Democratic nomination, not a disqualifier.

Well, the psychic got one thing right: the "humorless" part.

"If you look at the general overall situation, they're doing remarkably well."

Yes, in most square miles of the country, there are no murders at all.

No people, of course, but no murders.

Uh, to begin with, Catholics are Christians (although some Christians will, I grant you, take issue with that).

Second, if you *really* want to baffle 'em, ask 'em what Wahhabism is all about--and who practices it, and why it might be important.

Sheesh. Not only is the President a moron, most everybody in Washington is apparently a moron too.

Too damned bad we didn't capture Osama when we had the chance, eh?

Too damned bad we got involved in a country that had nothing to do with 9/11, eh?

Too damned bad that the party in power is busy looting the treasury and protecting pedophiles rather than taking care of business, eh?

The stakes? The Constitution. Our freedom. Our democracy.

The enemy? The GOP.

"...when the Democratic Party in Connecticut purged Joe Lieberman, in effect, drummed him out of the party on the grounds that he had supported the president in the global war on terror."

The voters in Connecticut bounced Lierberman's tired ass not because he had supported some "global war" but because he had supported, and continues to support, a very counter-productive local war--the war in Iraq.

Just another GOP lie. Why am I never surprised and never disappointed in these boyos?

The Right doesn't "argue" anymore. They did, at one point, when people like William F. Buckley represented the Right. But if the Right were to trot out its real positions today, and back them with the real reasons they hold those positions, most Americans would run screaming into the night away from the Right.

They hold positions such as "We don't care about balancing the budget because you're the ones--yes, you! middle class!--who'll end up paying for it," and "We're running a war in Iraq for the benefit of multinationals and the power elite, not for your benefit, middle class dupes!"

Obviously they can't come out and actually say any of this--they'd never see the bright side of election results again.

So they smear, they lie, they bluster, and they bully. They take a patriot with shrapnel in his body like Kerry and paint him as a gloryhound coward; they take a crippled war vet like Max Cleland and mock him for his injuries; and they take a man like Michael Fox and attack, not his position--which is a perfectly reputable and possible thing to do--but his malady.

And they get away with it--for some reason, the media just won't talk about fairly and intelligently about these ugly tactics.

When was the last time you heard someone on the Right advance a real idea backed by real argumentation? That's all it takes for somebody out there to say. Yet all we hear from the media is fearful silence.

Somebody should stop CP from saying "my party" in reference to the Democrats. She's no more a Democrat than I'm a member of the Workers' Party. She's a neo-conservative Repubican, and she should admit.

If she doesn't recognize her own political position, then she's about one-tenth as smart as people pretend she is.

"If we left before the job was done, we would simply validate the al-Qaida strategy and reinforce the notion that if they kill enough Americans they can change American policy."

Didn't we invade Afghanistan because al-Quaida killed enough Americans?

Weren't we supposed to be in Iraq because "they" killed enough Americans to force us to invade?

Isn't there something inherently stupid and contradictory in Cheney's statement?

I found a couple of major articles in this article that I just have to call to your attention; they call into question the integrity of the whole piece.

Here we go:

"It was she who chirpily informed us that NewsBusters and other right-wing sites were blaming CBS News for Santorum's defeat in Pennsylvania (and, no doubt, for global warming and the North Korean nuclear bomb)."

Everybody knows that the Right blames Bill Clinton for the NK bomb and that they don't believe there's any such thing as global warming.

Now that we've cleared that up, let the laughter roll loud and long.

That should read "I found a couple of major errors in this article." Sorry for the brain fart!

Yep, Matthews lost it.

The "Phantom" reference was probably a "Phantom of the Opera" reference--with Bill being the Phantom and Hillary being Christine, his protege.

Boy, is that a stretch, though, just as the "Chinese" thing is.

Chris, if you can't say something nice, keep your fucking mouth shut.

Paglia writes, "Democrats scored big in my neck of the woods. Statewide in Pennsylvania, we brought down Senator Rick Santorum...."

"We?" This woman has been determinedly, stridently, militantly anti-Democratic for years now. She likes to claim membership in the party but she shows no evidence whatsoever of being a Democrat. Instead, whenever and wherever possible she excoriates the Democrats.

She's no more a Democrat than I'm a member of the Workers' Party. Don't let her get away with these blatant lies.

I'm sure this morning she's mourning Rick "Man On Dog" Santorum's loss.