Applying child pornography laws to cases like these makes me conclude that the prosecutors are intolerably stupid, viciously cruel, or both.

Whether they're true sociopaths or just politically retarded, that troublesome third of our fellow citizens that loves Limbaugh and Hannity and thinks Bush was a great president was roughly the same proportion of the German population that supported the Nazi party in 1933.

That "sociopathic third" is apparently common to every society.

Stupid, crazy or a combination of the two -- they can't be reasoned with or negotiated with. They can only be vigorously confronted in the battle for the "muddled middle."

The Republicans impeached him.

Congressional Republicans can't be reasoned with. Today's GOP "base" won't allow it. They want blood and will punish, i.e., remove their GOP incumbent via primary challenge, any sign of reason or pragmatism.

If the Obama team really wants Republican co-operation, they should forget McConnell and Boehner and start direct talks with the Limbaughs and Hannitys. They're the ones who really control the Republican Party now.

Republicans are completely unhinged. Like sociopaths, they are genetically prevented from admitting responsibility for the policies that got us into this economic disaster. Instead, they're trying to blame FDR, Clinton -- anybody but themselves.

Democrats should never try to make deals with Republicans. Those lunatics can only be "dealt with."

It only matters whose Gore is oxed.

Republicans are now doing everything in their power to obstruct any meaningful recovery of the US economy.

They've spent a generation devoted to a single economic mantra: tax cuts. If Obama's stimulus succeeds and America begins to prosper again, Republicans lose and the GOP brand will become as historically obsolete as the Whigs.

Conservatives would rather see America ruined than their cultish ideology permanently repudiated. Intellectually, they are bankrupt -- as evidenced by their leaders: Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin and Joe the Plumber.

Kristol is a genius in a twisted sort of way, and one must use a George Costanza-ish approach to accurately read the garbled messages from this modern-day oracle.

The opposite of everything he says is true. Democrats have learned to fiercely oppose anything Kristol supports. Luckily, Republicans still take Kristol's pronouncements at face value -- such as his endorsement of Sarah Palin.

In my most cynical moments, I sometimes wonder if the hard right will launch covert terrorist attacks against this country as a way of discrediting the Democrats and proving that they're weak on terrorism. To try to destabilize non-Republican regimes as "proof" that they were right all along.

Using Cheney's 1% Doctrine that if there's a 1% chance of a threat of an attack we must act as if the attack were imminent, Cheney should be seized and subjected to "enhanced interrogation" to ensure that no domestic false-flag operations are being planned.

I'm sure he would undertand the logic behind the measure and approve.

America can only be safe through the routine use of torture agains anyone we suspect may be harboring bad intentions against us.

Brilliant...

The Reagan campaign committed treason in 1980 by negotiating a deal with the Iranians to keep the hostages until after the elections.

That arms shipments from the US to Iran began immediately after Reagan took office proves this is no "urban legend."

What is with Senate Democrats electing non-entities like Daschle -- and now Reid -- as "leaders"? Is it that they just don't want anyone in a position of authority telling them what to do, such as establishing an agenda, strategy, party discipline, etc.?

You know, stuff that a real political party normally does.

With "leadership" like that, is it any wonder that these guys can't even hold on to their own seats? Watch for Harry Reid to be unceremoniously dumped by Nevada voters in 2010 -- and go straight to the lobbying trough.

Americans still don't realize how dire our economic situation really is. Since the Reagan years, America has sold off the only true means of wealth creation: our manufacturing capacity.

A service/financial economy creates nothing tangible and therefore cannot create wealth. As a result, America's wealth has flowed to foreign countries with nothing to replenish it.

We've behaved like spoiled heirs squandering our inheritance, finally waking up to find we are are flat broke.

Only when we have rebuilt our domestic manufacturing capability and practice "economic nationalism" will our current economic disaster begin to be reversed. This will take at least a decade -- and will only happen with serious government intervention.

I'll say it again: The Democrats need to act like a political party -- with an ideology, an agenda and a strategy to achieve that agenda.

The Republicans may be criminally insane, but at least they act with political efficacy.

Congressional Democrats are a bunch of freelancers. No leadership, no strategy, no common message, no party discipline -- and predictably -- utterly ineffective.

Republicans have painted themselves into such a tiny ideological corner that GOP "political discourse" is now comprised exclusively of lies, insults and utter blather.

Well done, Joan.

Obama, Gibbs and other Democratic spokespersons should deploy a new strategy for dealing with press corps foolishness:

Preface any response to their idiotic gotcha attempts with "Here's why that is a stupid question."

Humiliating those underinformed yet overblown egos on national TV can nip that nonsense in the bud.

The man is an idiot.

CNN (Headline News) was disgraced by having him on their "news" channel.

Beck is in his natural element on Fox News: An idiot spouting idiocy for the approval of other idiots.