"Eternal vigilance" is TWO watchwords, Broun. You deluded hatemongering fool.

This is why I say the GOP will be exactly the same animal in 2012, running Sarah Palin on a platform of attacks, division, hate and fear. It's also why they'll get buried in a Congressional landslide and only then realize they need to reinvent their party if it's ever to be relevant again.

Totally off topic, but was the guy featured in the show about the grizzly named Jim Cole? If it was, can you tell me what show you were watching? I'm a ghostwriter and I'm writing a book proposal for Jim so he can tell his story and earn some money to pay his medical bills, and I'd love to see that TV piece.

Thanks.

...what the Jesus Brigade could do if it wasn't wasting its resources, dollars and people protesting holiday greetings at department stores, holding up placards of dead babies at family planning clinics, marching to prevent gay people from getting married and looking for books and movies to boycott. Say, helping wipe out poverty in this country or teaching people to read?

Just saying, Xtians.

And once again, we get the Pavlovian bell, bringing on the usual division of comment labor. A majority of condescending atheists called Kauffman's ideas infantile nonsense, a minority of spiritual folks arguing in favor of them, and too few people who can set aside their own biases long enough to actually look at what the man is saying.

Sigh. 200+ self-referential attempts to say, "Look how evolved/spiritually democratic I am!" Have at it, folks. I'm going to watch Jon Stewart.

I'm with you. Forget the inauguration; the real fun is gonna be when Obama starts doing things like closing Gitmo, and when healthcare reform is rammed through Congress by the new majority plus some GOP moderates despite a filibuster. Watching the right-wing wackosphere eat itself if/when Obama turns out to be an effective president.

Yep, I'm putting my feet up and waiting for Rush's next drug arrest. He's got to be medicating heavily after this humiliation.

If I were the new senator from Alaska, I would have someone watching for the dagger aimed at my back from Stevens' people trying to "help me prepare" for my new office.

Cue the Republican pre-emptive accusations of favoritism by the MN SecState, election stealing, calls by Coleman for Franken to stop wasting the taxpayers' money, etc.

In five...four...three...two...

What he said: "Not saying Merry Christmas caused the economic meltdown."

What he meant: "I have a book in the works and I want to be identified by the batshit-crazy evangelical Obama-hating Republikook base as one of their must-read authors, along with TrAnn Coulter and Bill O'Rantley."

Note to Henninger: If you're writing a book for them folks, use small words and a big font.

Getting the hell out of Iraq would save us a bundle—$10 billion a month, or half a Citigroup.

Maybe that should be our new denomination for budget sums over $1 billion: "The House today passed a wind farm bill that allocates 2 Fannie Maes for sustainable energy."

Well, now Martin's sure to win. The woman shits on everything she touches.

How long are the freaks on the Biblical Right going to keep ramming the "faith of our Founders" crap on us? The founders were not religious zealots nor even Christians, for the most part. Many were half-assed deists, agnostics or pure atheists, though that wasn't the sort of thing spoken of in polite society in the late 18th century. If they had a religion, many were Unitarians. So please, shitcan your blah-blah about the faith foundations of the nation. If we'd been founded by zealots like yourself, DeMint, we'd have witch burnings and heretic executions to this day.

Clearly, the Founders were brilliant and visionary. They knew that religion would spawn nutballs like DeMint and the rest of the Xtian Right, and knew how corrosive and destructive they could be. Hence the establishment clause right there in Amendment Numero Uno. Smart gents, powdered wigs and all.

I'm not sure whether to vomit my chili all over my MacBook or continue to laugh myself into testicular retraction over this story, but either way, please don't update it. It's ruining my ability to work.

This is not surprising at all. But the sheer irony and audacity of it is...well, Bushian. Now begins the four-year period of books eviscerating Dubya as the worst president in the history of the Republic and a lifetime of non-returned calls from any media outlet other than Fox or the WSJ editorial page.

The ghettoization of science is finally coming to an end! Now we get to see what the best minds backed by a government that listens to them can achieve.