Not to worry, the purge of the GOP will be completed in the next Election.

Their self-centered and destructive behavior is akin to camapaigning in reverse. They always seem to start with the positive and end in the negative.

Eight years of Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld stupidity and mismanagement have made us forget what its like to have smart people back in the White House.

The Republicans have conveniently forgotten the eight years of Bush failures and congressional mismanagement while they were in the majority.

Now, like spoiled children, they'd rather rant and complain rather than support any attempt to repair the economy. Their claims of "being left in the dark" and "not allowed to be involved" are typical GOP lies. Everyone in Congress has had access to financial facts and proposals on a continual basis. There are no secrets in Congress.

Given the mess that Bush left, I think Obama is doing pretty well in his second month on the job.

God forbid that you ahould reduce your standard of living. By all means, enjoy that Hummer, the 5,000 square foot house with leaking windows and doors, the 12 wood-burning fireplaces, the toxic chemical weedkillers in your pansy bed.

The hillarity doesn't stop there. Imagine the joy you'll feel when you realize that you won the battle against environmental regulations but lost the war for the sustainability of human life.

Obama has been pres long enough to get the White House furniture arranged, pictures hung, family settled, kids in a new school, etc. and we expect him to fulfill his campaign promises to boot, and build bridges with the GOP (a bridge too far?).

I am almost certain that a Second Coming of J.C. would result in the same impatience. "You're here, now why isn't everything fixed?" would probably bring down lightning and thunder upon your head.

I vote that we give Obama some time to get the infastructure issues fixed. Eight years of Bush mismanagement and a too-long Republican majority in Congress has been like driving a car with no engine oil. Stuff is broken. Our system is deeply corrupted. We have an army of incompetent idiots in Congress and in business.

is our diplomacy. Our behavior is not.

Without being overly dramatic, isn't this the cancer that destroys nations?

Pretty soon you'll see Republicans on display, if not in the "Endangered Species" area certainly in the "Irrelevant Creatures" area.

For imploding in such a spectacular manner. And, your ideas for America are as spectacular today as they were in 2000.

These organizations continue to produce well-researched pieces about everything from politics to science to religion to economics.

And they do it with style. For example, KQED in San Francisco offers the daily Michael Krasny show in the morning. He does not push a point of view. Rather, he tries to be balanced by inviting guests from all persuasions. The Science Friday show features contemporary scientific subjects and news.

Public broadcasting feeds the news-hungry without resorting to sound-bite journalism and political anger.

Prop 13 was needed because Californians were being taxed out of their homes. As property values increased taxes were raised regardless of whether the property changed hands or not.

We bought our first home in Foster City in 1967. Our property taxes increased each year at such a large amount that we were forced to sell and move.

When Prop 13 passed in was a Godsend to homeowners but included were rental properties and commercial properties. This was a taxpayers giveaway to business and the wealthy and many California businesses and rental property owners today are still paying property taxes far below market rates.

Prop 13 unfairly benefits commercial property owners because their property taxes are paid from revenues generated by their business or tenants whereas residential property taxes cannot be written off against business income.

The prescription drug bill is a huge benefit for those of us that are covered under Medicare. Its faults are the provisions insisted upon by the GOP such as no negotiations with drug companies and the dreaded "doughnut hole" benefit restriction.

The GOP has accomplished a great deal, what with our present recession and spiraling medical costs, not to mention tax giveaways to oil companies and tax breaks for the wealthy.

We're seeing the death of a once-great political Party (the GOP pre-Reagan). Republicans have been reduced to a Party governed by talk show hosts and hate radio.

They have suffered the most from an unecessary invasion.

By the way, shortly before the 06 Election Bush proclaimed "Rumsfeld stays" in response to questions about his war strategy. The Election kicked the GOP out of the majority in Congress and Bush was forced to change his choice of Iraq War leadership, and Rumsfeld was thrown out.

Any discussion about the success (or lack of success) must include Iraqi ctizens' input, otherwise we're just flogging the same opinions back and forth.

It's message is lost in its crudeness.

It's its'.

I doubt it. The GOP needed to satisfy the religionistas in their desperate scrounging for votes so the picked a woman (good idea) but they picked the wrong woman.

McCain was not very happy but he was powerless against the GOP policy gestapo.

in North Dakota.

When the Supreme Court declared that money is a form of free speech it set the stage for the corrupted politics now being practiced throughout the USA.

Buy low and sell high. Isn't that American Economics 1A?

So when you are practically promised by a lender that your home value will increase ad infinitem, and the lender encourages you to take out a bigger mortgage based upon that premise, who's to argue?

I'm old enough to know that all economics are cyclical, but too many young home buyers have not lived through as many real estate value cycles as I have. The lenders knew better but their greed overcame common sense and that greatly contributed to the present crisis.