As for Sunstein, he lost me with his 'soft spot' for O'Reilly. Top of the head, perhaps? This is more 'they all do it' bullshit, and contemplating someone who writes books and gets interviewed yet still gets taken in by Falafel Boy ... well, the ship be sinkin', as that basketball player once said.

... you speak of, Joan. It's been pretty obvious for a number of years that GOP types are authoritarian cultists, and that all the sideshows about abortion and gay guys are just to hustle money from the hicks. Why wouldn't wingnut voters like Rudy? He hates blacks, supposedly considers the "war on terror" a latter-day crusade, will "keep us safe" by killing 'em all and letting Our Dear Lord and Personal Savior sort 'em all out, appoint more Alitos and Scalias as sure as the sun comes up ... who gives a shit about him banging his mistress under this wife's nose? A man has needs ... except if he is a Democrat, of course. How many times does the other side have to cough up a guy like George W. Bush, who would have sent Freud screaming from the room, before you press types realize the truth about these people? Read Rick Perlstein's 'Before the Storm.' Right-wingers have been all the same since the model came out: bitter, envious sociopaths deeply full of shit on almost any subject.

Feinstein "handles and deflects media queries with silky ease ... exuding both authority and compassion." Okay, Cam -- so THAT'S what's important. The pass on torture, the free ride for the telecoms; the racist Judge Southwick ... mere sideshows, I guess. You amaze me, really. Policy? Positions? Beliefs? All bullshit. Reels the mind.

Will does look smart, though ... so he must honest, right? This little shit annoys the hell out of me. Wingers are bad enough when you can find an honest one; at least I could rsspect him if he argued, "We have to beat HRC because she'll do bad things." But no. She'll win a close one, and therefore be unable to/should not attempt to wield any power. Unlike the Idiot Son. What a freaking jackass.

Will they reveal it to the rest of us?

Er, Maureen Dowd ... it probably doesn't take much to open that particular door, all meanings meant.

And I mean not the "loathsome" Edwards, but Elephantman! Hey, Chief, I'm sure you have facts and proof about all those "phony" expert witnesses Edwards used to snow all those gullible hick jurors. You know, the good solid everyday Murcans you wingers say you respect so much. Plus you left out the part where the corporate defense experts were the soul of truth-seeking honesty.

The headline in the Philadelphia Daily News on his death read: "What Took Him So Long?" I didn't know whether to chuckle or be offended. I kind of did both.

Because Mitt has LOOOOSER stamped all over him. Calm down, Joan ... this guy has no shot and we should pray ... pardon the wordplay ... that this joker is their nominee.

Didn't believe Jor-El, either. And look how that turned out. In all seriousness this is a sad and worrisome state of affairs. Fifty years from now, as here in Philadelphia my survivors look out over their oceanfront property, the conservatives of 2057 will be attacking the science on whatever problem we face then, because these are people who NEVER change.

That we all know it sucks, so fuck it all, and root root root for the home team? What do you expect to be done? Isn't more exposure better than none? Yeah, I'd like to see management blamed also, expecially one former owner of the Texas Rangers last seen ruining the United States. But I'll settle for embarrassing these freaking millionaires and God-squadders a little bit, if that's even possible. I just hope Schilling is named.

Like Gore-Bot 2000. Glad we got the authentic brush-clearer in there! BTW, who's your favorite columnist -- Maureen Dowd? I love your stuff, TT ... but can we stow the they're-all-the-same bullshit until AFTER we get rid of the criminal warmongering scum we have now?

I'm an Edwards guy ... then Obama the Good ... and I think HRC is the one person who can lose next year. That said, she's light-years better than any GOP turd floating in their punchbowl.

You guys made a big deal of it, Walter ... and as usual, now say it was "his fault" that someone took a picture of such a supposedly unmanly or effete pastime. Not like clearin' brush down at the vinyl-sidin' "ranch." Much like the Edwards haircuit "story," which no sentient voter not on a press bus gives a shit about. But whatever. Cackles, haircuts, cleavage, voices ... if you say it matters, then it must.

The GOP's oppo department might have an opening. Great idea for a liberal: destroy our contenders before the year even starts! Does it even matter that every single Democrat would be light years preferable to the jokers piling out of the GOP Clown Car? Guess not. Thanks again.

Mr. Shapiro, I like your writing. But geez ... McCain would lick the floor to be President and I guess you have to be off the bus to realize it. 'Not just ambition.' Sher. I know you have to be ambitious to want the job, and that's fine, but do you press people have to peddle this bullshit at us yet again? And if St. McCain 'knew what to do' in Iraq, why did he support the Jackass-in-Chief for so long? There is videotape on this, sir ... but I guess to mention it might get you stared at by the rest of the hard-hitting 'journalists' you hang with. Did you read Zengerle and Scherer? Aren't you embarrassed? Can you guys EVERT stop pumping up this pathetic Bush-hugging wingnut geezer?