You mean the guy who penned an impassioned defense of segregation in the 1950s? Whatever. Cons are authoritarian cultists looking for Daddy to save them from their inner demons, while lashing out at anyone else's personal freedom. That, and hateful greed-heads who deny decades of evidence that their 'philosophy' is ten pounds of shit in a five-pound bag. Dick Armey, years ago: 'Given the freedom, American business will always do the right thing.'

The woman is a punchline ... a grifter ... a huge phony and a borderline psycho. As a staunch Democrat I can only wish your party nominates this frozen goober in 2012. What are you and your fellows going to do when Obama crushes whatever sacrificial lamb the GOP offers up in three years? I'm only sure it will be pretty funny.

As for that 'plummet' in the polls, PPP also says (you left this part out): "President Obama's national approval numbers essentially track his 2012 re-election numbers ... he's more or less in the same place he was on Election Day."

Also, when health care passes and the economy comes back -- GDP will be over 3 percent this quarter; I know you will be here touting that when the numbers come out -- Obama's approval will be the 55-60 percent that it will be on Election Day 2012.

See you then.

You lost me there, and that was pretty quick. Grown men afraid of their wives and mother? What decade is this again?

What does Schumer (and Rockefeller and Sherrod Brown) know? 95 percent of all liberal blog commenters know the Democrats suck, so get with the program. :-).

Here's something from a new NY Times/CBS poll out tonight:

"Would you favor or oppose the government offering everyone a government administered health insurance plan -- something like the Medicare coverage that people 65 and older get -- that would compete with private health insurance plans?"

Favor 65%

Oppose 26%

Support for a public option has jumped 5 points since late August and opposition to it has dropped 8 points. I guess all the teabagger townhall bullshit was just that, as I figured. Suck on it, GOP.

You were right the first time.

Just 'come out' as a GOP mole and be done with it. And pictures of dead kids? Demagogue much? If Obama cured cancer you'd attack him for the existence of heart disease. For God's sake, man -- REPUBLICANS are the enemy. They are the scourge of America. But no ... to you, any event is an excuse to slam Democrats and help the GOP do its work.

Yeah? Why? Because you -- rapidly becoming a complete downer from whom hope can neither escape nor enter -- say so? No offense, Mr. Reich -- but the one note you play every day is becoming really, really tiresome. Maybe we should all clap harder and Obama will turn into FDR. Or, we could stop blasting him because he isn't. How quickly we forget the last 8 years, and worst of all, forget the fact that the slimebag REPUBLICANS are the enemy of progress.

Good stuff. I love it when wingnuts yell 'ACORN' and think "the deficit" -- which Glenn Beck told them about on the TV this very year, because it just happened -- has the same meaning as "the economy."

This 'quote' is utter bullshit and you know it. SO WHAT if one jackass makes a stupid remark? Your hatred of Obama is just sickening. Why not just join the GOP and be done with it? You were once a voice for sanity, and now? Another Sirota-Hamsher bullshit artist.

Yeah -- what a 'pattern'! Three whole times in a year! Impeach the right-wing bastard!

And Glenn: cram your 'veal pen', okay? Not only are you spouting nonsense like Hamsher, you're stealing her 'clever' phrase.

They only have 40 Senators (thank God for small favors). Any filibuster would be courtesy of the corporate-towel-boy bloc of 'Democrats' -- Ben Nelson, Conrad, Landrieu, Lincoln and whatever the hell the Moaning Scrotum Lieberman calls himself nowadays.

But that said, for being 'dead' -- as the wingnuts and Beltway whore press assured us -- the public option looks like a pretty good bet. I guess the teabagger hordes were as ineffective and meaningless as I suspected. Sucks being you, irrelevant ones!

Or is that only when they support Obama, and not bash him as you do every goddamn freaking day without exception?

'Hasn't been voted on yet.' What, the Democrats didn't invent a speed-up-time machine? And an 'almost government' plan? You mean, 'Government will kill your grandma' and 'government takeover' and 'government sex clinics' are all bullshit? And industry spent $30 million against a silly 'almost government' plan?

'You love it,' my ass. Your ridiculous political party is further on down the Irrelevance Road as of today.

Lieberman is full of shit on multiple levels; a publicity whore; an utterly dishonorable man. Why would you believe he won't get bought off?

Thank you Heather! This show is unwatchable, and believe me, I've tried. NO ONE ON PLANET EARTH acts like ANY of these people. That's why 'Seinfeld' worked -- because (until the last two seasons) the situations had some relation to reality but were a 'tad askew,' as Jerry once said. You're gonna tell me that the one scene -- of so many -- where Larry David freaked about a spider on the ground, then stepped on it causing horror among the onlookers, who included Beverly Hills teenagers apparently giving a shit ... was funny, on any level?

And that Essman woman? The one that says 'fuck' a lot? Hey, so do I -- can I be on TV?

It BLOWS.

Among so many Beltway moments, her slamming John Kerry for drinking -- my God! -- green tea on the trail in 2004 stands out. Green tea: the stuff you can buy by the gallon at highbrow joints like the 7-11 and gas stations.

Have another donut, Candy. And sue your facial surgeon.