What Larry need, man, what he need is for someone to get on up into that asshole of his. Thass right. Kick the door down to that asshole of his and crawl right up in there. And not wid no damn hazmat mask neither. I’m talkin’ ‘bout a big red markin’ pen. You know what I mean? Get on in there wid that markin’ pen, man, and write all over dem walls, “Larry, you stink, and I ain’t talkin’ bout yo shit man neither; it’s deese dumb scripts you been writin’ man. Pee-Yooo-Tread. Diarrhea wid a laugh track funnier then what you bin writin’ lately, man. You hearin’ me? This fresh new shit of yours bin Married-wid-Children not funny. It bin One-Day-at-a-Time not funny. It bin that 70’s Show not funny.” Yeah, someone gotta write dat all over them asshole walls of Larry’s. And then take out your staple gun. No, fuck dat. Take out your nail gun and start nailin’ some a dat good ol shit of Larry’s up there on his asshole walls. Like that Seinfeld one where George pulls the golf ball outta the whale’s blow hole or where he’s redoin’ his weddin’ vows wid Cheryl…now that one hot ass right dere, man. While you at it, I go climb up in her asshole and leave a message.

If things continue at this incremental, equivocating, principle-free pace, the WH just might get its wish...a manned-up Weiner candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2012 backed by the full-throated, passionately energized support of progressives throughout the totally fed-up US of A.

Is any other liberal out there as uncomfortable with this guy on "our" side as I am?

Word of advice, Marty: take that trip of yours to Iran or Iraq or whatever the hell desert appeals to you and try to get away from your totally overbearing self for about 10 or 20 years. Then come back and tell us all about our world and your esteemed place in it .

Re: "Not only did he refrain from those manipulative appeals, he made explicitly clear that we are in Afghanistan to serve our own interests...That should throw cold water on all on the preening fantasies of all but the blindest and most naive "liberal war supporters"..."

Yes, but now Tom Friedman's got cold water all over his preening feathers.