The Republicans elect an RNC chair who is a closet democrat. Think about it. Rove's two favorite polarizing, get out the vote, make 'em vote against their own self-interest issues: abortion and homosexuality. What does their leader say? Women should have the right to choose and gays are born gay.

This is a beautiful thing.

Preach to your choir all you want Boy Genius. Your years of dirty deeds are finally catching up on you.

Why is Delay, a felon given time to speak. Why does Mathews call him 'Mr. Leader.' Can someone answer this?

On Limbaugh. I came across a great analysis on Limbaugh's '20 million' listeners.

I've included the link below.

All this aside, it's great to watch the republican party self implode. They are truly rearranging the deck chairs.

http://infrared41.tripod.com/blog/index.blog/354814/limbaugh-by-the-numbers/

Although I agree with you on Dowd's old characterizations of Obama, the current one seemed to me to be complimentary.

She was comparing Obama's intelligence and willingness to upset his base with Bush's ignorance and unyielding loyalty to his base.

She said Obama, 'has a bit of Spock in him'. Nowhere in her piece did I get that he was 'not a man', or 'totally without emotion'.

So, I think you, in this case anyway are being too hard on Dowd.

Thanks for the links.

Regarding the WSJ's 2+ million readership. Not the audience Obama is shooting for. You took me too literally. Obama's popularity, or support for his programs will not be affected by the WSJ. That is why he is going to the people, not writing editorials in the WSJ (although I wouldn't be surprised to see one soon!)

Regarding Rove. His popularity as stated in the article you referenced obviously had little influence on the last two election cycles, or in my belief, the future of the Republican party. Actually, I think the more the guy talks, the deeper his party sinks.

Again, I appreciate you taking the time to respond to my lettter.

The genius of Obama is the fact that he is the one politician who, in my lifetime ignores the echo chamber.

Glenn, who the hell reads the Wall St Journal? Not the 'folks' Obama is speaking to.

He understands that people believe what they see. He has a long term, big picture view of things.

Karl reminds me of my 5th grade student who sitting over a desk with red ink graffiti on it, holding his red pen denied that he did it.

Folks, most of us know that Rove did it, and more are realizing it every day.

It's going to be a very long time, if ever, that the Republican party of Rove et. al. will rise to power again.

My hope is that Rove will end up doing some time, where he write his crap from a jail cell.

I think your analysis, although valid is some areas is generally idiotic... and dangerous.

If the argument that, "It doesn't matter who the president is," didn't get laid to rest these past 8 years, then for some I'm afraid it never will.

Bush the same as Gore? Kerry?

Obama the same as McCain?

If I get you right, this is the foundation of your argument.

Let's see what the 'leader' does with these insiders before we condemn him to failure and the tag of 'same old, same old'.

I thought I had put Bush and his squad behind me. I thought I had moved on.

Cheney's interview had a bad effect on me. I couldn't believe this guy was saying this stuff, thinking that he can get away with this stuff, still. It was, to me beyond the pale.

I felt that old Bush feeling .. totally helpless. All I could do was rant to family and friends.

Olberman's comment was not only needed, but for me cathartic. Who else would call this as he did? Who else has the combination of ego, liberal sensibility, knowledge and history to call this bastard on his unparalleled hubris?

Thanks Keith. Thanks so much.

Just the fact that I thought of using symbols instead of the word fucked. Holy shitballs.

Mike Phelps, greatest olympic athlete of all time, works his ass off, donates time to charity, loves his mom, and is being vilified cause he smokes pot?

Better he should be an alcoholic, at least he could hawk cereal then.

So damn stupid I wanna puke!!

Of course the sheen will wear off (somewhat) our shiny new toy. But if we have learned anything from the Bush era it is to consistently question our president and hold his feet to the fire. Of course we are going to give him a chance, and of course we are going to be disappointed.

My moment of cold water in the face came yesterday. Up until then I was able to justify in some way or another some of Obama's questionable moves, but with the CIA bombing continuing in Pakistan and innocent civilians murdered, my shiny new toy now has blood on his hands. Hard for me to be patient on this one.

Beck is insignificant. He does absolutely nothing to help better our country. He helps represent, along with Limbaugh, Hannity, Coulter and Palin a section of our culture that is shrinking.

Occasionally Salon has a feature headline that's below it's standard of reporting. This is such a case.

With all that's going on, this article gets your feature spot?

If the amount of folks commenting is any indication, this decision is not arrived at by hits to the story.

Ann Coulter adds nothing of any significance to our national dialogue.

I wish Salon would ban any mention of her. What does it accomplish?