I suffered from chronic daily headaches for over 35 years. While not classic migraines (no auras or nausea), the pain was intense -- behind my eyes and top centerline of my skull.

My doctor prescribed a low dose of Elavil, an anti-depressant.

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The current Congress isn't worthy to clean the toilets of the responsible lawmakers that passed FISA -- and sadly, that includes a majority of today's congressional Democrats.

This FISA disgrace is the last straw. The Dems have abdicated any claim to legitimacy. Starting in 2009, a new political party is needed.

Is there a trademark on the name "Federalist Party"?

As in Vietnam, a determined and organized population of a country occupied by a foreign invader can kill enough of the invaders to force their eventual withdrawal, but the foreign invaders can never kill enough of the native population to force their withdrawal.

Why is this such a difficult concept for these arrogant bastards to grasp?

One of the many rationalizations offered by the Bush regime for the invasion of Iraq after WMDs were not found was that Iraq would become "flypaper" for foreign terrorists.

Iraq has become "flypaper" all right, but it's becoming increasingly apparent from Republican rhetoric (100 year occupation) that it's Americans who are stuck.

Reid and/or Pelosi and Hoyer should be forced to explain how this FISA travesty does not obviously contradict their oaths to "faithfully support and defend the Constitution."

Or has the 4th Amendment already been discarded without official notification?

The Republicans have run on a platform of tax cuts for a generation. These tax cuts, at the local, state and federal level, have been sold on a "tax cuts, whether we can afford them or not" basis.

Voters willing to accept these irresponsible Republican tax cuts are basically selling their votes and selling-out their country. The 43% decline in the value of the dollar (and subsequent rise in the price of oil) are a direct result of the astronomical deficits created by the budget imbalances resulting from politically popular but fiscally ruinous tax cuts.

If the economic anemia of the last eight years have proved anything, it's that "there's no free lunch." Third world economic policies and government financing by printing press is no magical substitute for a rational tax policy.

Hip-hip-hooray for our congressional Democrats.

They're the Misfeasance party in sniveling, groveling and virtually imperceptible opposition to the Malfeasance party.

Other than for the lack of a congressional quorum and the improvement resulting from paralysis of the legislative branch, would anyone even notice if they were to just stay home?

Pathetic.

The morons currently "managing" US foreign policy (and their cheerleaders in the press) obviously have a childishly simplistic, two-dimensional, black and white view of international relations.

Instead of dealing with multiple games of 3D chess, these fools apparently think that their diktats to soverign states shall simply be obeyed or punished. Instead, as in Iran, their own bellicose actions are having exactly the opposite of their intended effects.

The Iranians, faced with an aggressive US military occupying countries on their eastern and western borders, and a US president constantly threatening military action against them, are presumably pursuing the only means of national defense and deterrence to US aggression against them: nuclear weapons.

When the United States practices the concept of "Peace through Strength" it is considered natural, rational and honorable.

When the Iranians practice the same concept in response to explicit threats from the United States and Israel, it is considered a virtual act of war.

The U.S. Constitution has been ignored when inconvenient for quite some time now. Our current system of government is a presidential dictatorship.

Will President Bush issue an executive order establishing that McCain is a U.S. citizen? That's the only thing that matters.

Through their own cowardice and stupidity, Congress and the courts have made themselves irrelevant.

A war with Iran is innately rational. Primarily the social and religious demographics are uniform, and will collapse simultaneously. Once air power knocks out the power grid in Tehran, and we secure the Straights of Hormuz, the battle is essentially over.

Rational? It's that type of arrogant megalomania that has gotten us mired in Iraq with $ trillions of self-inflicted economic damage already.

I suggest you read Barbara Tuchman's "The March of Folly" before advocating any more such idiocy.

An attack by Israel or the US may succeed in temporarily shutting down Iran's nuclear program. But then what? Within 5-10 years of a redoubled -- and more fortified and harder to find and attack program -- they will be right back where they are today.

Only then the Iranians will be itching for revenge and totally justified in staging retaliatory attacks. An attack today guarantees a counterattack tomorrow.

Truman and Eisenhower never employed the "1% doctrine" currently advocated by the necons/Likudniks against the Soviet Union, and time and diplomacy ultimately succeeded in peaceful coexistance. A less lethal policy with a long-term view will be much more productive.

Watch how Democratic congressional candidates will run their campaigns in the 2008 elections. Their campaigns will be uncoordinated from the Obama campaign, with no mutual reinforcement of Democratic "principles," and absolutely no coordinated strategy or rhetoric.

Instead, we will basically see ~483 political independents campaigning as a generic opposition against the Republicans, not as a members of a united political party with a common ideology or agenda.

It is this lack of policy and message coordination that has enabled the Republicans, whose policies have never been popular with a majority of Americans, to consistently achieve victories -- they campaign as an organized political party.

The political incoherence of the Democrats seems to be institutional and irresolvable. As one who has voted straight-ticket Democrat since 1972, I've come to the conclusion that a new ideologically driven party is the only solution.

Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result is a definition of insanity. A party with "leaders" like Pelosi, Hoyer and Reid is a party in name only.