"...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.

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 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.

"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.

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).

"...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.

"As an independent thinker/voter, it's my observation that the major difference between progressives and conservatives is that conservatives put party before country."-- seismicyawn

Those small "c's" or big "C's" conservatives will remind us all that they love their country more and have the "moral values" platform in the bag.

Anyone affiliated with a political party that deems party loyalty (facism) above the interest of the country, i.e., Constitution, economic stability, equal justice under the law, etc. is clearly not a lover of the country progressives adore.

Observe:

"Right" thinking--there is no need to discuss the validity of the two wars--it is a forgone conclusion--they were honestly necessary and correct.

"Left" thinking--"Not so quick!" There are hundreds of facts and evidence that suggest that lies and ulterior motives were involved to propel us here.

Post 9-11 we are barraged by the standard nobility of offensive initiatives like Afghanistan and Iraq as if no body should question those horrific decisions.

Thus, one example of lock-step thinking with dire consequences.

"...if Bilco affords the same status to Obama. If so, we might be able to deprogram this one."

..and so goes the perplexing pathology of cognitive dissonance--that racially mixed, upstarter, leader of the socialist movement in America will never be "my CIC" (shredded Constitution be damned).

That title is reserved for the true, patriotic and eerily-elected heroes on fuel-gorged aircraft carriers coursing their way to bloody freedom.

It's so chest-thumping and uniform worshiping, I can't bear the bruises and radiance.