Or maybe I'm sick of the same pompous asses in suits doing this work, but something has certainly struck me during this election season, and I think RT has nailed it here. Hell, these are women, not men. That in itself not only changes the game in ways we aren't very used to, but, given that there have been two women figuring prominently in the races, it's made it positively enlightening.

My favorite out of these three is still Couric, and that probably won't change. I've watched her move onward and upward (and sideways, then upward again) through her career and I can't begin to say how impressed I've been with her at just about every stage. I'm fascinated with the force Campbell Brown brings with her at times, and Rachel Maddow has me positively hot under the collar (and no, not that way -- she's simply able to flip my interest switch the way Keith Olbermann did back before he lost his marbles).

As for ReaderReader's wishful thinking about Couric's "scheduled departure" next year, the network denies they've got any such plans for her, but if they were foolish enough to cut her loose she'd just find some even more effective platform for doing what she does so well.

It all augurs well for some truly balanced news coverage for a change, especially when some of the Old Boys have come positively unhinged from time to time ever since Dan Rather's being accosted and roughed up by aliens or whatever they were.

I'm tickled. It's about damn time.

My pleasure! Good to see you here. Keep on pushin'.

Nice to see religion is still the last refuge of scoundrels. How's that Jesus-as-superhuman-shield working for you so far?

But this time from a conservative whose been around long enough to remember when we were struggling to break the Ginrich Revolution of '94 or even long enough to try and save the second term of Jimmy Carter against the lying, treacherous Reagan administration which kicked open the door for the current wave of neocon madness.

No, I'm not worried about any potential spending issues. You tax, then you spend that revenue. That's why we have taxes. What will be different is that the taxing and spending will be for us, the people, and not for the plutocracy which now rules our Republic, and which it purchased from the defunct, derelict and dilatory Republican party created from the debris of the Reagan insanity.

I'm not worried in the least. We'll be taxed as we always have, but this time the revenues will be guided by our own interests far more than it has been for 26 of the past 28 years.

I'm glad you're on board. You have a right to ask questions. The only stupid question is one you don't ask.

The only stupid answers will come from die-hard (and yet, strangely, dying anyway) neocons.

Thanks for showing up here.

Not only is this the most predictable course for what's left of the Party, but it is also the most expedient for the necessary self-immolation of the Party and the earlier achievment of a sane society.

The neocon facist looners have control of the rudder and will spin the ship into its own whirlpool, creating a long-awaited Perfect Storm. This won't be pretty and it won't be sane, but we've lived with this insanity for at least the past 28 years, and particularly the past 14. The elephant cannot be tranquilized: it must be shot between the eyes. A do-it-yourself project is underway. We must help it along as best we can.

It's no longer difficult for me to say this, let alone think it. Like Chris Buckley, I have no idea what "they" are trying to accomplish, what star they are using to navigate. It is, apparently, one the rest of us (we old-school, small "c" conservatives who cling to memories of Dwight Eisenhower and the evolved Barry Goldwater) cannot see because it really isn't out there.

Kamiya is right. While Bush and, to a lesser extent, McCain and Palin, is/are problematic, they are not the underlying cause of the disembowelment of the Grand Old Party. It's been the followers, the Good Germans of the movement, those legions of parrots ("dittoheads"? Yeah, that too) who have carried the sick message way beyond what anyone had anticipated could have happened. This is why the current crop of so-called operatives are all now calling for the head of Dubya. They always go for the head. Unfortunately, the premise that removal of the head will take out the brain has long since been proven a non-starter in this case, as Bush, although his genes come from a poisoned well, didn't do this all on his own. He is a blind eye sitting at the bottom of the inverted Republican pyramid. That eye will be crushed beneath the weight of its own hubris and ignorance.

This party must be allowed to destroy itself as quickly as possible in order to rebuild or perhaps create a wholly new alternative, call it what you will. There is a whole generation of what the late Soviets used to call "dead souls" out there in Republican drag, and they need to move on to the Elephant's Burial Ground, now.

It is with the greatest pleasure and relief that I see this happening coincident with the greatest Democratic triumph in memory.

There will be no relent from inside the tent, so I certainly pray the bunch of you who call yourselves Democratic Americans will not relent from the outside, until this battle for the soul of the Right is finally won on November 4. The corpus is already rotting. Perversely, only a Democratic sweep can save the soul.

Let us together now finish this job.