Texas provided and continues to provide the country with numerous blessings despite the conservative nature of the beast. Letting the GOP run roughshod over the state imperils the country at large (eg Shrub), not to mention the demoralizing effect it has. Silence is so often misconstrued as agreement.

He must be sweating bullets, worrying about how he won't have to bow to his GOP overlords and their theoretical filibusters.

not as bad as the laws Republicans and CONservatives make.

Why is it that people purporting to care about the unborn suddenly lose interest once it actually becomes a person?

But I digress; back on topic:

Not providing a full field of health care options to women, including abortion services, is the worst thing one could do.

As noted by The Swan, Faux News is hardly a reliable source for a body count.

Maybe not. But Obama's flip-flop betrayal on FISA certainly should have.

are even the contributors are getting locked out of the content?

I think that being able to read this article in it's entirity would have been a good thing.

There's a certain flavor of female that (apparently) likes subsurvience. I've spoken with some that are in full agreement with the GOP agenda.

I disagree with them on just about everything, and really don't understand how they apparently work against their own interests. It's a curious thing, and to fully understand what's going on, they shouldn't be ignored or discounted.

p.s. to all you republicant trolls, please fuck off.

Why didn't you post this before Halloween?

... to destroy the village in order to save it, this is it.

I'm glad you're out of office

... Seal (His wife said that when she saw him in biking shorts it was all over but the wedding) and Daniel Craig's speedo in his first bond film.

hmmm, not sure how worried I should be. What's her cup size?

Damn! Reich must have hit a nerve, the idjits are out in force arguing it just ain't true.

Fear not trolls. Just because I was only able to read a couple of paragraphs due to Salon's stupidity fabulous revamp, doesn't mean the flavor isn't lost.

Bottom line - if you want fiscally sound government policy and/or real economic growth, hire a Liberal. (FYI, Obama doesn't qualify. He's too conservative.)

I'm not a Trekkie, but as I recall the communicators that Kirk and Spock used on the original series were about the same form factor as a late 1990's flip phone. And about as useful too.

ST communicators, as depicted in the shows, don't need cell towers.

Last year the country was presented a choice between a charismatic Chicago suit and the Ace/BibleSpice ticket. The latter promised to continue the evil perpetrated by BushCo. The former promised change, and change is what this country chose.

Are we getting our money's worth, is it happening fast enough? Not in my opinion.

Why? At least one reason is the "right" doesn't want that change, and are doing, apparently literally, everything they can think of to stop Obama and the Dems.

Is Obama perfect? No. Are the Dems perfect? No. Are they collectively a better choice than the GOP? Without question.

What are you doing to undo the evil perpetrated in our name by BushCo?

By the way, how dare you critize our Commander-in-Chief during this time of war. Traitor!

to offer the alternative to Reid? I've been wanting to kick his ass for, oh, 7 years now.

Did they say anything about "Liberal Fascism" by JG?

It's an honest question. I didn't hear anything, but then I try to protect my beautiful mind from the pernicious influences of denizens inhabiting the idiot box.

IaintBacchus got to the truth of the matter. It was a Contract ON America.

and the Soviet Union eventually fell apart because its economy could not support its massive conventional and nuclear forces.

Wrong. Not unlike what happened here recently, the Soviet's economy collapsed because of poor internal economic decisions. The GOP lie about Reagan saved us because "the CCCP couldn't compete with the US" is just another fairy tale to justify Norquist's masturbation fantasies.

Try reading some history before butchering it.

This is about effectively communicating with a group so disparate from us that we cannot hold a dialog in our language. I believe that some, such as Unabannable Bastard, choose their words because of Lakoff's work (consciously or not), and successfully so.

The "Right" doesn't respect the "Left" because they think we are weak (among other things). They trashed the place and expect us to clean it up so they can trash it again. Because they are strong and we are weak. If we instead kick the trash in their face, maybe they will learn to change.

Will it work? Probably not. In either case, the correct thing to do is not keep bending over for a buggering while delivering a high-toned lecture on the benefits of being civil. That's textbook insanity.

whatever

Apparently superstition is not a superior survival trait.

it's that slippery slope the Cons are always warning us about to justify raping the poor, and pissing on the middle.

goes the weasel('s brain)

Suck on it trolls. Just remember that your boy Dubya is the reason Obama got the award. Your boy Dubya was so bad, so galactically incompetent, that he got a black man elected POTUS, *AND* got that same black man a Nobel Prize.

Tell me, does it burn?

And to you trolls that attempt to troll Obama's lack of accomplishments, everybody knows you're simply trying to suck the oxygen out of the debate. How could he get anything done when your sole purpose is to stop anything he might want to do differently than W(orst President Ever)? You've pulled the Overton window off the cliff, just like you ran the country off the cliff. We've crashed and burned all because of you.

Why do "Conservatives"(tm) hate America?