"...but many progressives are retaining their critical faculties despite the economic crisis consuming not just America but the world."--Glenn

Thus we have one of the inherent disadvantages of following one's honest assessments of policies while correctly ignoring the human (authoritarian propensity) of cult-like, papal-infallibility neuroses.

When anyone (left/right brain ideologists) face their demons of partiality they have the option of disregarding the obvious bias and confronting the painful realization that, for example, Clinton/Spitzer is running the country/state well, but their personal, sexual life is embarrassing and hurts their family and country.

A conservative is faced with the paradox of non-conservative, corrupt, lawless initiatives while Bush is President and decides to give him a pass, because it's too painful to admit they love the ensuing results of those contradictory policies.

Moreover, to give any ground to admissions of duplicity for some people is to give their enemy a point advantage.

One is never enlightened or exuberant to see a supposed thinking person reject the recent reality of facts and obvious conclusions to further an ideology of self-promoting a bankrupt cause.

Just when I was about to chuck all this alleged, petty, daily rantings from Glenn on the inparticularities of competent and honest government--along comes bored, bellyachers to prick my insensibility of stuporous sombiessence.

or

Now I'm awake.

We students are as good or bad as our teacher(s).

"They highlighted an article about who had the best abs in the Capital, Barack Obama, or Aaron Schock, the Republican Congressman from Illinois."--Jim Montague

The ab contest is for all those "Joe Sixpack Types". Somewhere in there is a closeted fixation on the male physique, I'll bet.

Now for who has the best I-F (guts)--it's got to be BO. Anyone who has stomached the grueling rise-above-your-"blackness"-image while fending off accusations of terrorist affiliations, has got to boast the hardest stomach in a contest that ever ran.

Though I'm reserving my critique of the new Prez for a inevitable, propitious and calamitous moment in history--he gets points for serving delicious cocktails and allowing victory gardens on the WH lawn.

The corporate and military defenders are getting so bold they appear regularly on the non-partisan , official, political, network of record-- C-Span as journalists for national papers.

Last week on two different occasions I can cite one “journalist” spent her precious thirty minutes defending the corruption of lobbying. If they hadn’t posted her title by her name I would have thought she was a spokesperson for the national gild of lobbyist.

On the other segment some writer (of advanced years and experience) with a Washington newspaper presented the strongest defense for incompetence and fraud on Wall Street.

Both these person were billed as writers/reporters and not assigned as opinion purveyors.

This is so standard--the lobbyists have not only high-jacked the courts and legislative branch, but have thoroughly infiltrated the “news” venues.

Poor Phil D. When that happened back in 2003, the country should have perceived what was to come.

Some of us did.

Only in America can a former President who lied his way through two administrations until the citizens vomited him back out get paid again 9 million (bonus dollars?) to rewrite history so all of us can repel the filth for more years to come than is gastronomically possible.

He's now like a "Kurtz", Limbaugh, Woodward, Clinton and Nixon-- a member of the high rollers club. Too many overpaid members along the way to count and entrenched like fluke worms in the deepest folds of a necrotic liver.

If his writer's block gets the best of him he can always appear on the inter-networks and cable as a paid shill for their and the rightwing lie machine that adorns the all-lies-not-equal airwaves.

"...the only purpose I can discern is that it provides a format for expressing thoughts that are too inconsequential to merit a stand-alone article or post."--Glenn

Never twittered. Am I missing a social venue for expressing what I can in a short-handed way say here?

Either I need to get out more or give up on my "too inconsequential to merit a stand-alone (comment) article or post."

Sometimes the differentiation among commenters and comments that become posts/articles is murky.

Not debating Glenn's observation--just musing on this twitter thing and like him, question its advertised value.

"Oh, the joys and comforts of patience and rationality! Joe doesn't mention Congress's role in this, or Geithner's, or even the very minor fact, for instance, that the money that poured so freely into Congress's hands from AIG, Citicorp, and the rest has bought the deregulation that brought us to this precipice."

Imagine the comfort level enjoyed by all the players since the collapse of 2008-ongoing.

As the ever-changing stories, reports and who-is-doing-who pour in daily, the intense heat is dissipated away from the obvious villains who ride on their gilded steeds and lounge on their tax-haven beeches.

I hear them say to their colleagues, Cabinet members, Ceo's, and bonus gulpers-- "It sure is good to know everyone's confused about the faults and remedies. Now let's go out and leverage some more government bailout money--

We can't lose.

Thanks

"That won't happen until they feel threatened."

First--Insure that the nominations and elections will be valid.

Second--Vote

Third--Start fresh!

Wasn't it "Tricky Dick" who pleaded on his knees before the Presidential portraits for divine instruction in view of Henry K. in the final days of guilt-ridden what-if?

My hasty associations are impugned, but my insights are divine.

We're you describing...

WERE you describing...

"Willfully ignorant use of the term as an epithet allows for a re-definable swath of potential (partial) solutions to be dismissed out of hand, despite the obvious contradictions* - it's infuriating....."

We're you describing the political right modus operandi by cloaking your words so well to state what nefarious instruments they use so aptly (call-them-socialist-mantra)?

"infuriating", tiring and so predictable. JTP meets Jane the Palin.