On the deficit question, Behar should have recited the 30 year history of republicans running the government deeply into the red.

Saying that Walters is Jewish was plain stupid. Coulter's comment was in poor taste, but not racist. In fact, Behar proves one of Coulter's taking points by acting like a liberal victim. Is Walters so fragile she can't tollerate a metaphorical reference to the nazis? Please.

On the criminal question, instead of making it a contest between men and women, Behar might have pointed out that criminality is more a function of poverty, which is caused by republicans hoarding cash in open defiance of the gospel.

As usual in commercial media, every issue is dumbed down to the lowest level. Their main goal is to create an ignorant public. That's Behar's job, and Olberman and Maddow's, with help from their fan clubs.

I've never watched and have no intention of watching. It's actually an embarrassment that the queer station would put on such trash.

And they've been given fair credit. But that's not good enough. And it isn't enough to have it easier than most people on the planet. Now you have to be an oppressed minority too. Please. Try having your music copied, your dance exploited, your screenplay stolen. Watch it make multi millions. Then get back to me on what a victim you are.

civility, etc...

Commericial culture destroyed all that, and reading Levine's idiot rambling creeped me right out. 'Saving money won't save your soul'? Nobody said it would. It's a part of high culture. Moderation in all things: work, thrift, and pleasure.

She puts money in the market, calls it saving, and pats herself on the back. Please.

Modern culture is just too selfish and ignorant for words.

It's about work and thrift and charity and public transit and strategic spending and kindness and fainess and integrity, etc... These are only a few strains of educated society.

Seems Levine and her bosses in the media are trying to discredit high culture by labeling it as puritanism. It's more proof that the deceit and vulgarity of commercial media never end.

It was the usual abstractions: pull together, confront the challenges, take responsibility, act wisely. Please. If he were any more vague, he'd disappear.

Are we going to get equity positions in the banks we've bailed out? Will the war and oil industries begin generating clean energy? Will we get a modest return from the mortgage bailouts? Will he appoint competent managers in the banks? Why is the stimulus filled with counter productive measures: tax cuts, pork, and deficit spending? After swiping the Clinton agenda from day one, why is he not using their economic policies to get us out of this mess? Why has he fallen back on old party corruption?

You can fool most Americans (99.9999999%), all of the time. But all the sugar coating in the world won't hide the issues forever.

hicks and robber barons took over the party. He taught us that there's a population explosion. And it was our responsibility to have two kids only. That way, a few die, and the population slowly decreases. Now that's not too hard to understand. Is it?

But it is too difficult for 99.999% of the public who are so raving selfish they can't think of anything other than themselves. Mass culture is a total horror.

I learned to jump out of the way. Or politely remove the hand from my bod. Or say 'please don't do that.'

It doesn't hurt to be touched. And it's only my body, not a holy shrine. Is there something I'm missing?

We should have asked for domestic partnership there. And going to the court is another one. It could generate a voter backlash against the dems, which they don't need right now.

But the movement is a branch of popular culture, so completely selfish it couldn't strategize its way out of a lace negligee.

propaganda campaign. Or a lazy and ignorant public that believe everything on TV.

Population control is totally effective today. Until the public actually studies the issues, which would be a first in itself, we can't expect politicians to devise effective policy.

It isn't surprising that the Times would publish such trash. Commercial media's jobs is to confuse every issue. So of course they're going to yell that capitalism is dead. They know it isn't, but they can count on people to believe them and take themselves out of the decision making process.

Christianity or the teachings of the gospels. Like much of catholicism and fundamentalism, its the ancient fertility cult using religion as a disguise. The cult has a hundred faces, anti gay, anti birth control, anti environment, anti science, anti charity, anti justice, anti free speach, anti anything that interefers with the right to procreate without restraint.

tax cuts, pork, and deficit spending. It won't fix anything.

We need Clinton economic policy to get us out of this mess: fiscal restaint, strategic investment, modest tax hikes to pay down the debt but leave capital for investment, tax cuts targetted to support American industry, competent financial management, and a modest return on the bailouts.

None of that is complicated. And running the government with a reasonable profit margin would be a piece of cake for educated managers. But powerful forces would make a killing from the meltdown, and the stimulus package shows that they're still firmly in control. To pass anything serious, Obama and the congress will need massive support from the public. Yes Virginia. We're at the mercy of the slobbering masses. And time is running out. They'll need to support neo liberal policy in the voting booth, opinion polls, and through NGOs. Until they do, the economy will continue in free fall.

Please see Stimulus Redux on my site.