Thanks. You summed it up. It's why I'm happily married...I actually like my husband, and there's bennies to boot!

One Prop. 8 supporter I know has been divorced 4 times already, but it's all about the sanctity of marriage, you know.

This was a great ad. I wish it (or something like it) had run during the campaign.

I've been shoved (hard) in line for a concert, they wanted ahead of me and everyone else. Did I have the "right" to retaliate? A shove back, a hit, a slap? Would it have been smart? Mature?

I once had a woman in a bar stomp on my foot (she thought her date had been eyeing me) , I looked her in the the eyes, told her to back off calmly and she did, would parity require me to bruise her foot to make up for mine? I stayed and had fun, she was thrown out of the bar...it was witnessed.

If (IF) Rhianna hit/slapped/whatever Brown, he should have pulled over, told her it was over, kicked her out of his car. If she wouldn't leave on her own violitian (without physical force) he should have called the police on her. My advice would be the same to a woman driving with an abusive boyfriend.

The best self defense is not escalating the fight, it's getting away.

AIG is owned 80% by the US government. That means the taxpayer.

Without the federal aid, they would be BK. The contracts would be void. The only reason they are solvent now is because of taxpayer money. My money.

We demand that welfare recipients, people that recieve disability income, students that recieve grants, etc. all meet certain requirements.

Why is it if a rich guy gets millions of dollars for a job poorly done is seen as necessary, but an idiot that commits welfare fraud and gets a couple hundred dollars a month extra is seen as horrendous and a gross waste?

Not only was the money given out in 2008 (pre Obama) it wasn't given out by Congress. It was given (no strings attached) by the FED.

That being said, Obama and crew need to step up the pressure and that means that NO MORE money gets given to them until they "renegotiate" all their executive contracts.

The Dems don't have to paint the Republicans as the party of Rush, they are doing it to themsleves.

thanks for the link, curse10.

I would have thought that mattcliff had a point that this might have been a setup UNTIL good ole Rush went off the rails and said that if he were Steele, he'd quit. (side comment...like all the problems facing the RNC is because of Steele, yeah right.)

If Steele apologizes, backtracks, is hounded out or quits now, Limbaugh IS seen as the head of the party, the solid Republican 30% support drops even further to just the dittoheads. Even the corporate backers will start to get antzy.

Thing is Rush is so vain and has been listening to his own PR for so long he will not let any criticism of him stand.

Over at TPM they gave a shout out to the "Democratic pschops" that set this up. Heh.

The top 1% does not pay 40% of all taxes...maybe just one type of tax.

They do not pay 40% of all FICA taxes, they do not pay 40% of all property taxes, they do not pay 40% of all sales taxes, they do not pay 40% of all DMV "fees" or other hidden taxes.

They may pay a huge portion of capital gains taxes, but then again, they make a huge portion of their money that way as opposed to us lowly people that make our money the old fashioned way.

Also, what percentage of money does the top 5% of the country control? Look at it this way, if Bill Gates was only taxed at a 2% rate, he'd still pay more in taxes than millions of low income workers combined, even if we taxed them at 10%. Would that still make you pity him?

as others have pointed out, that didn't let you see who passed away, but instead focused on Queen Latifah (who did a great job, but was not the focus of the item), I thought the show was done very well.

I thought Hugh Jackman gave the show a feel of class. I was very pleasantly suprised.

While I love some of the comedians that have hosted the show in the past, the humor always fell kind of flat and/or forced in that very stuffy setting.

I'm good with the comedy bits being done by some of the presenters, like Steve Martin and Tina Fey.

My brother-in-law is the target audience. He even has the night vision goggles and crap and used to play pretend soldier in the desert with his buddies.

He (and my stepsister) are now both unemployed and in danger of losing their grossly overpriced home. If he doesn't have a job by March 1st, he's enlisting.

Even though one would think this would make him even angrier, it hasn't. If anything it's brought him down to earth, probably because he doesn't listen to talk radio all day like he did when he worked construction. Getting pissed about liberals and Hollywood is probably a luxury now.

I have to disagree. In some ways Santelli reminds me of Rachel Maddow. Just freaking nice with a healthy dose of humor.

Since I've watched him daily for along time, I realize this clip paints a picture of him that distorts his normal style.

The bad news is my very liberal, Obama supporting husband cheered when he heard the rant live. Then he got worried about the implications if there really was a tax revolt.