I'm just so sick and disheartened by all of this that it's all I can do to not just say "fuck it" and give up. I'm a lifelong Democrat, but I'm really starting to feel like LeftWright is correct (more or less) about what's really going on, except for his/her final note about "the second American revolution" coming: as I see it, it seems like the first one never ended, it just took a while for the monarchists to finally quell the forces of democracy and restore the natural order of the strong subjugating the weak, and to fill that need in a large portion of the population to have a "strong leader" in control of the country since they lack the courage, imagination or even interest to take responsibility for it themselves. And as for the truth setting you free, LeftWright, the truth is that the truth usually just annoys the people around you who don't want to know or think about it. It's Bread and Circuses--Americans are fed and entertained, and that's enough for them, so much so that even torture is okay as long as they can keep watching "American Idol" and NASCAR with a bowl of chips in their fat pudgy hands. The only thing that might get them interested in the torture of terror suspects is if they could watch it on Pay-per-view and get to call in to vote for their favorite method.

I'll still vote for those fucking spineless Democrats for now, hoping for better, but I suspect that I do it partially because pointlessly beating your head against a wall can sometimes feel like you're still doing something.--TV

So, if I'm getting this right, then D'Souza's plan for defeating radical Muslim terrorists is to give in and become more like them. Yeah, that'll teach 'em to mess with the U.S.

I know 2008 is a ways off, but has anybody actually looked at the latest polls? The majority of the latest polls show Hillary beating Giuliani (and anyone else):

http://www.pollingreport.com/wh08gen.htm

That doesn't look like a sure loser to me. (Not that you'd ever actually hear this in the MSM).

Personally, I'd like to see her win if only to watch the Republicans squirm as their worst nightmare comes true. After 8 years of Bush, they deserve it.

New bumper sticker: "Hillary 2008; Payback's a B*tch"

Lieberman parrots the GOP's Iraq party line that insists that "it doesn't matter how we got into the Iraq mess, it only matters that we're there now and should forget the past and move forward." The problem is that they're "moving forward" in exactly the same way that got us into the mess in the first place--unilaterally and with no consideration of any other ideas--and their "strategy" to fix the mess (the so-called "Surge") is simply more of the same--it hasn't, and isn't, working. But that's typical of the GOP mindset: when their square peg doesn't fit the round hole, rather than reach for a new solution, they just pound on it harder.

Hillary '08: Payback's a b*tch

After years of having to protect everything about her stories like they were nuclear launch codes, Rowling can now finally openly discuss her creation with her fans. Cut her a break if she wants to enjoy it. (And I agree with others here who have noted that only a fiction writer can understand what that feels like.)

My brother, a Republican, once argued that the difference between Republicans and Democrats is about as much as that between Coke and Pepsi. I don't think it was true back when he said it, but I think it's become true, and I feel sick about it. Come 2008 I might just spit them both out.

Goldberg could have saved a lot of paper and ink by simply crossing his little arms and yelling at liberals: "I know YOU are but what am I???"

And I understand that Salon wants to show that it is open-minded and all, but there's a point where somebody giving polite and thoughtful consideration to such moronic assertions is just embarrassing to read.

YOU TWO STOP FIGHTING BACK THERE OR SO HELP ME I'LL TURN THIS COUNTRY RIGHT AROUND AND GO BACK REPUBLICAN--IS THAT WHAT YOU WANT???