Basically it said "I will gladly pay you tomorrow for a sandwich today." Just ignore that the dems won't act today today. Elect 'em in '08 anyway! Then they'll really do something!

(please ignore that the GOP can win from either a slim majority or minority position.)

"...that calculus is based on the Panglossian assumption that House Democrats from conservative areas like southern Indiana would ever be willing to buck the White House on a vote that would be portrayed in Republican attack ads as not funding the troops in wartime."

Bullshit!

The reason those conservative areas elected a democrat is because they didn't want a republican. They wanted a democrat, perhaps even one that would help end the war. It also feeds back into the reality that those elected public servants value their seats more than the lives of soldiers and civilians.

Doesn't matter though. The dems from NY and CA forgot what they were elected to do. Why should the "southern Indiana" ones remember. Or care.

Wally is just another beltway insider and apologist trying to blow a smokescreen for the dems failure.

Firstly, I don't believe giuliani. His past performance as NYC mayer carries more weight with me than what he says to pro 2d amendment groups.

"Who needs a gun?" That's like asking who needs to speak freely. Especially when the government is willing to grant anyone a limited right to speak freely in designated and fenced off "first amendment zones".

So who, other than cops and the military, needs guns. Every citizen does. Take your pick, would you rather be an armed citizen or an unarmed subject.

Amazingly, people (other than those in power) are still eager to disarmed the citizenry. After all these years of being herded into free speech zones to be tasered, fire hosed, zip tied, pepper sprayed, shot (non lethally so far), and arrested. We have people being disappeared. Congress is actually debating the right to habeas corpus. Congress has voted to retroactively legalize the administration's criminal spying. They are about to retroactively immunize the private corporations that committed crimes at the behest of the administration.

We look over to Iraq where another private company, Blackwater, kills Iraqi citizens and can't be punished or even stopped. How long until that stuff comes to the US under the guise of private security?

By now, you'd expect people to realize that both the dems and the GOP support the erosion of civil rights. The more autonomous representatives and senators make stern clucking noises before voting yea.

With this backdrop of government abuse, some people still want an unarmed citizenry.

And I haven't even mentioned personal protection. Is everyone who is less then 6ft and 220lbs supposed to hire a krav maga expert before going to the ATM? Are the elderly supposed to cower behind bars lest a young thug steal their meds?

Did we watch the same movie?

In "Devil Wears Prada" Meryl Streep is the mother of twins. They play important roles in a few of the major turning point scenes. As for soulless? Watch it again! You can see things eat at Streep as she prioritizes her magazine over her family. Then she snaps back into harsh mode.

One of the things that disturbs me about picking up slack for working parents is that many of these folks are bad parents. They seem to glory in the image of the frazzled parent while they can't prioritize or focus on the goal of raising their children to be reasonable people.

I'm not saying they are all bad parents. Some are great parents and their children are great. I welcome them to my home and support them because I like their kids. The horrible kids though. Yuck. No manners. No discipline. Not welcome. And not welcome to my support either. As the song goes "you may be a joy to your mother, but your a pain in the asshole to me". Regardless, I end up enabling both good parenting and bad parenting. In fact, I'm underwriting it. Time is money.

Supporting someone else's repeated poor decisions is a real morale killer. Their problem can be booze, drugs, sex, or cult of baby. I don't want to support it. Unless they go into a program, like AA. Sadly, we can't legally force bad parents to go to parenting classes under threat of termination. (actually, I've offered to pay and to give time off, just like with drug or alcohol treatment. The parents were highly offended and soon quit. I won either way.)

I would probably feel outright angry if I were a woman who decided to wait and build her career through her prime child bearing years.

I'm a paleocon and these guys are making my skin crawl. I guess the dems are now the party of civil rights, fiscal restraint, and real security. I listen to these tools and feel terrorized by the GOP. When will they figure out that loyalty to bush and his agenda is disloyalty to the nation? Patriotism calls for impeachment.

Hey, maybe salon can cut the video to give those guys a max headroom style stutter.

Romney: "... civil right-right right ..."

sigh

That meme sure is accruing baggage. Having read the wikipedia entry on Malthus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malthus">Malthus), I'm starting to use a litmus test wherein the term Malthusian usually flags that an article/statement is more form than substance.