Bravo! It is past time for liberals to start kicking some GOP ass.

God knows, the liberals are intelligent so why can't they use that intelligence to kick sand in the faces of the blatherers on the far right?

The Republicans have decided to use Fox commentators as the face of their party. They know that facts are not necesssary to win an argument when a loudmouth liar with a microphone can deliver the message.

Medicare can be modified to serve every American but the Part B component, currently sold by private insurers, would probably not generate enough income to keep private insurance companies afloat unless they could modify their business model to accomodate a different revenue stream

Would the inclusion of the millions not currently insured provide enough new revenue to make up the difference?

Do we want to maintain a broken medical system in order to accomodate private industry?

Excellent idea! I have often wondered why court decisions are not accompanied with a long list of "credits" (just like the movie industry) displayed immediately after the verdict showing all the researchers, clerks, supervisors, facilities servicers, and the parking attendant.

When rabid, right wing talk show hosts became the de facto leadership of the Republican Party it became obvious that no credible Republican leadership exists.

This is showing in their overt hatred of Obama and their inability to enter into meaningful negotiations with the Democrats.

You expect a helluva lot from a man being in office less than one year. Let's get healthcare reform passed first.

There are schools in Tennessee?

receiving the benefits of socialist institutions and government programs.

I pity anyone not understanding that.

The Fox News audience is fooled by a constant barrage of fact-free garbage that most people can see as one-sided and meant to deliver a specific, biased point of view. This is not "news".

Much of the Fox audience is in the Bible Belt, where people are undereducated and easily led by commentators tuned in to the fears and prejudice of their audience. This is easy fodder for Fox and that allows it to claim its large audience numbers.

I believe that Americas number one disease is a form of non-fatal brain cancer fed by religion, deceptive advertising (like "Fair and Balanced News"), politicians dispensing fear instead of constructive ideas, and commentators posing as journalists.

"Interesting and thought provoking" sayest thou?

Perhaps, but "Factual and thought provoking" is my preference, and my reasons for watching/listening to NPR and PBS and the BBC.

What a wonderful world sloganeering is. Come up with a few words describing something totally ambiguous and you've got the beginnings of a new branch of Fox (Fair and Balanced) News.

Whoopee!

Are the Cheney's the real life version of "Alien" as depicted in the movie series?

At the end of each episode, the Alien is (predictably) defeated only to emerge again in a following episode.

Eventually Alien and Human are bioengineered into one species the sum of which is more terrifying than its parts.

Just saying, is all.

It never stops, even when it causes its undoing.

The Cadillac ad immediately to the right of this posting area has a nasty habit of popping over into the area where I am typing. It screws things up. Sometimes it is difficult to resume typing after the ad has been "closed", by selecting the microscopic button at the bottom.

Someone at Salon ought to fix this.

The world is not fair and balanced. life is not fair and balanced, nor business, nor politics, nor religion, nor society, nor anything except the butcher's weighing scale.

"fair and Balanced" in managed news, plain and simple.

that children raised in a deeply religious family where social contact is limited to church activities or contact with other religious families, are usually deeply religious themselves as they mature into adulthood. Their strict upbringing and social networking casts a path that is hard not to follow.

This is not rational religious belief, rather it is the product of conditioning beginning in early childhood and reinforced throughout the child's formative years. It is insidious and unfortunate when this conditioned belief is not open to new ideas or challenges, as it is a closed mind.

When someone says, "I accept the Bible as the literal truth" I hear a parrot saying what has been hardwired into its brain.

Religious and political affiliation is not measurably changed by anything spewed out by blustering blowhards. They are not successful as agents of change.

What these people are accomplishing, however, is fatter bank accounts gleaned from their education-starved followers.

It wasn't that long ago that a black man would have been lynched for wanting to marry a white woman in Louisiana.

Let's give the Deep South another 100 years or so to finally sort the race thing out, shall we?

Go figure.

When the leader of the Republican Party, Rush Limbaugh, wished for Obama to fail even before any healthcare plan had been presented, we saw the true face of the Republicans.

They have no plan, no ideas, and no desire to serve anyone save the special interests.

In Obama's defense, it appears that the US has lowered the threat of withholding intelligence in general if the British move forward with public disclosure of the torture committed in this case.

This is not a small thing. Obama is having to deal with the horrors committed by Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld while being accused of continuing their policies but I'm not sure it is as simple as that.

Policy changes cause ripples throughout a system and Obama needs to correct the lawlessness of the Bush Administration while protecting our vital interests. I am hopefull that the British decision to disclose the documents received a wink and a nod from the US and that intelligence sharing between the US and Britain will not be held hostage as it was with the Bush Administration.