He helped start this damnable war with his incurious attitude and fawning towards anyone in power. Let him answer to the dead he helped create, American and Iraqi.

Ask Matt Simmons about offshore drilling or drilling in ANWR. As one of the upthread posters said, this isn't going to solve *all* of our energy needs; moreover, so what if the oil ends up getting sold to Japan? As you might have noticed, two-thirds of our oil comes from world markets. If just some oil can come from sources in politically stable jurisdictions, it will help keep things from utterly collapsing. We just don't know how far and how fast the downside of the oil production slope is going to be, but cutting off one potential brake to that is just foolish.

I will work in the Senate

Funny, he hasn't been working there all week.

What a load. Coming up next: Obama on the forever war in Iraq and why it's necessary to send American troops there until we are "forced" to restart the draft.

when he started French kissing Tim Russert's corpse.

Really? Goodness, I certainly hope Glenn is finished with his book long before the elections start, with a big round of media circuit talking heads to go with it.

Longer answer: because asking questions demands answers.

Compressed air is an energy storage mechanism, not an energy source.

ready to pass a law prohibiting whatever the latest strain of evil is, no matter how poorly defined. Put it this way, if it's so dangerous for the rest of us to drive and talk on the cellphone, why isn't it illegal for police/firefighters/etc. to talk on the radio?

Is your flight of fancy supposed to impress us with how amusing you can be?

There just wasn't enough in this woman's letter to come to the gruesome conclusion you did. You used her as a platform for a starkly obnoxious reply. Boo. I've never seen such an inhumane response in my life.

As I wrote earlier today, the one thing we can always count on is that markets will go awry and government will have to pick up the bill to pay for straightening things out.

Only if people don't put their feet down and demand that idiots who make idiotic decisions shouldn't be bailed out. Because if that doesn't happen, the eventual result will be a bailout too big to socialize, and then the entity that fails will be the federal government.

are of the same ilk as Mao, Stalin, and the rest of the damnable totalitarian murderers. You first, scumbags.

is where this all ought to end. I find it disingenuous of Glenn (as with all those who propose a "bottom-up" bailout) that he neglects to mention that there was fraud on the buyer side, too, and that this is propping up housing prices, making them artificially high. A bottom-up bailout rewards those who lied about their incomes to get a mortgage and punishes those who saved and lived within their means. By going through bankruptcy court, the market will find a correct and reasonable price for houses, while the fools who foisted this sham on the public will lose their positions of power.

or something like it back in her Suck days:

http://www.suck.com/fish/contributors/cox/

Or maybe not. Since pointing out others' vapidity, she has become vapid herself.

but "crazy conservative" is a pleonasm, not an oxymoron.

FISA. Obama voted to gut it along with copious pious mewling about how he was going to carefully monitor the program or some such claptrap. Wake me when he actually does something wonderful.

Yes, because governments are SOOOO good at containing costs.

Americans are too dumb to spend their own money, so the government must do it for them.

This, really, amounts to the rock bottom of stupidity and arrogance.

Giving BIG piles of taxpayer money to really, really big companies is high up on the Salon/Democratic agenda, huh? Amazing. And then to coat it in this faux sugar of populist drivel? Bawl elsewhere, please.

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/12/reynolds-respon.html

I wonder what Mr. Spitzer's wife and children feel about this "minor, victimless crime?"

Compared to war crimes in Iraq? Take off your blinders! The point is the media, in deciding what is newsworthy, has elected to completely ignore what is really important.

Cozy with power, and all too comfortable with giving taxpayers' money away to squanderous companies in exchange for votes. It staggers the imagination how the party of FDR could pull this off.

Right. On.

Clank in that last graf.

Too bad neither of us is a bank. Outside of Washington's bizarro-land, this doesn't happen. Seriously, honey, grow the F up.