I'm thinkin' that Voight needs his carotid arteries cleaned out, so the oxygenated blood can start flowing back into his brain.

Mr. Leonard,

Thanks for writing the truth, and calling out the liars for their lies.

...fuck 'em. Just fuck 'em. The GOP has been lying through their teeth since 1980. Just fuck 'em, preferably with rusty barbed wire.

From Wikipedia:

Pielke has a somewhat nuanced position on climate change, which is sometimes taken for skepticism, a label that he explicitly renounces[2][3] . He has said:

the evidence of a human fingerprint on the global and regional climate is incontrovertible as clearly illustrated in the National Research Council report and in our research papers (e.g. see http://climatesci.org/publications/pdf/R-258.pdf

In conservative hands, "somewhat nuanced" becomes "he supports my position."

As far as Gray goes, he argues, without evidence, that those who put credence in global warming theories do so because they believe in "one world government." He also trashes the nuclear winter notion, apparently because he thinks that nuclear war should always be an option.

Every day I see something about Sanford(R) and his nonsensical statements, his hypocrisy, his overweening, naked ambition, I rejoice.

Let's hope he never steps down, unlike Palin (Q).

If only Teddy had run a shadow government and death squads in Central America! Then the Right would want to name airports after him!

Murder thousands, and the Right will cheer you!

The zombies of the Right come out to eat the brains of the recently dead.

It's because they themselves lack souls.

I dunno, too many letters and too much stupidity to wade through, but:

To "censure" is not to "censor."

To "censure" is to condemn.

To "censor" is to silence.

For all you idiot right-wingers out there (redundant, I know), to "censure" others is no offense to the First; indeed, it's part of the dialogue.

To "censor" others, on the other hand, is precisely what the Right has been calling for in terms of the speech of the Left; we should not criticize a (Republican) president, we should not publish critical ads, etc.

Censure me all you wish, idiot right-wingers. You have that right under the First.

Joan, you're just confusing them by using complex language...

Everything modern Republicans know they learned from Joe McCarthy.

He murdered Mary Jo

There's no doubt he killed Ms. Kopechne, sympathy for whom on your part goes just so far as you can use her terrible death for political purposes. But if he murdered her, then he had to be far, far stupider than the Right has always feared. A rich man who can't figure out a better way to murder an inconvenient woman certainly would never have been half as successful as the Senator became.

So yes, Ted Kennedy got drunk and drove off of a bridge, and then panicked. His name and his own efforts, and those of his friends, helped him to avoid punishment for his actions. These are all true and terrible facts.

Yet one feels that you care about these facts only insofar as they are useful to you politically. After all, you have far, far worse facts on your side; a President who sanctioned a secret war that killed thousands, yet your side argues that we should name airports after him.

And for all those fetuses, dead (because the Senator said so? you misunderstand both politics and history); your concern, let's face it, stops at birth, otherwise you would stand with some of us and argue for job-training programs, decent health care, and doing something about the ridiculous "drug war" in this country, that condemns so many after birth to the same fate that you decry they now suffer before birth.

But your conscience is quite limited to that which makes you feel good and which you can make political hay out of. I hope this country has the good sense to leave you and yours behind, but I fear that your fear-mongering and your appeal to stupidity will be perennially popular.

Always amusing to see one set of immigrants attempting to deny the legitimacy of another set of immigrants.

Ah, I can't stay mad - I'm still too pleased that "man" is dead.

Ah! A Christian, I'll bet.

From a letter by Kennedy to the Pope:

I want you to know Your Holiness that in my nearly 50 years of elective office I have done my best to champion the rights of the poor and open doors of economic opportunity. I have worked to welcome the immigrant, to fight discrimination and expand access to health care and education. I have opposed the death penalty and fought to end war.

his legacy of institutionalized, multi-generational poverty and massive Third World immigration

Yes, before liberalism there was no poverty, and no culture of poverty. Wages were high, the working man well-respected. No racism, either. It was the 50's, and everything was peachy-keen. Heck, the kids didn't even have sex before marriage, except for a little petting.

As for immigration from someplace else than the First World, well, that started with the Irish, didn't it? Which brought us the Kennedys. I see your (racist) point; why let anybody different than us in? Why build a culture of inclusion?

We can always build camps for them, I guess.

I wish some of my ancestors had been less welcoming, then we could have kept your sort out.

. . . just not in a good way.

1) Once the Right redefined what happened in Communist China as slavery, they were fine with it.

2) Concerning Her Hi!ness writing a book, as the character played by George Sanders said of the character played by Marilyn Monroe in "All About Eve," "Isn't it necessary to have read a book before one writes one?"

And besides, seeing a black man on television will really scare some of those kids.