A senator, at least one with a substantial voting record, can't become president. Americans don't have a clue about how Congress works, so they fall for those ads that can pretty much show a senator voting for or against any issue under the sun since every issue under the sun has been part of some big bill full of compromises and ammendments.

Every senator voted for something before he voted against it, and that's why it's governors who actually win.

From Wiki:

Consequentialism refers to those moral theories which hold that the consequences of a particular action form the basis for any valid moral judgment about that action. Thus, on a consequentialist account, a morally right action is an action which produces good consequences.

Consequentialism is usually understood as distinct from both deontology, which derives the rightness or wrongness of an act from the nature of the act itself.

I wish I was as smart and funny as Ruben Bolling.

I'm all for wxploring the mysteries of faith but existential depression might just be actual depression.

It was just a matter of time. Every broke bum seems to have a nice cell phone, and easy credit allows many of modest means to drive a late-model BMW if they choose; even live in a big McMansion. But children and other people (maids, tutors, nannies) are expensive no matter how you work it and that's why they are the new status symbols.

That said, societal norms have really been against families with more than a couple kids for the last few decades. If the pendulum shifts to allow people to have more kids if they want without being taged as trashy losers, so be it.

If I could afford to have four kids, I just might. It's nice for a kid to have siblings.

Limiting parking in a city is all fine and good except that in the end, a city must compete with the suburbs for jobs and residents.

Here in Philadelphia, downtown commuter parking is about $150 a month. A train pass from the suburbas about $130. So, factor in the cost of gas, of course it's cheaper to take the train to work. But guess what? It's even cheaper to drive from your suburban house to your suburban office park, and pay only for gas. As a bonus,you and your employer both avoid Philladelphia's high earned income and business taxes.

The result? More people commute from homes in Philly to jobs in the burbs than the other way around. I curently work in the city at a non-profit, but when I was looking for a job 90% were in the burbs. Make it harder to park here and you are simply making the math more obvious.

The fact that the Republicans have not gotten behind their absolute best candidate pleases me to no end. I mean, the Dems are possibly shooting ourselves in the foot with Hillary but c'mon - you've got a two-term gov with evangelical values, a great sense of humor, prety sharp, and he's losing to a lousy actor who was once a lousy senator, a melalomaniac thric-mayor on his third wife, a Mormon flip-flopper from Mass., and John McCain, whose polical capital is spent. I hope they don't come to their senses until after one of these morons scores the nomination and picks some other moron as his running mate. Huckabee strikes fear in my hear.

The dirty secret here isn't that Visa is encouraging people to go into debt - that's obvious. The fact is, every credit card purchase includes a cut FOR the card company. This percentage charged to the merchant amounts to a hidden tax the gets built into the price of everything whether you yourself use the card or not. And yes, as a bonus, the Wal Marts of the world negotiate better merchant rates, furthur allowing them to undercut the little guy.

The top 10 percent of Americans collected 48.5 percent of all reported income in 2005. In fact the number may be higher because 99% of wage income is reported but only 70% of investment income is.*

Willie Sutton robbed banks "because that's where the money is" and our tax policies ought to follow the same strategy. Keit is right - the rich are spending money as fast as they can. They need our help.

* http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/29/business/29tax.html

"I know vegetarians don't like to hear this, but God made an awful lot of land that's good for nothing but grazing."

Dammit, it's bad enough that we have the son of a president as president. We cannot have the wife of a former preident next. THIS IS A FREAKIN DEMOCRACY or at least it's supposed to be. No direct relations of former presidents allowed. And while we're at it, no sons of Senators (sorry Gore) or sons of Governors (bye Mitt). STOP THIS MADNESS - STOP HILLARY!

I am a loyal Democrat but I will absolutely leave the button for president selection unpressed in the voting booth if faced with a choice between Hillary and whatever sad of s--- the Republicans nominate.

the day when we must fly in tsa-issued unitards cannot be far ahead. in concert with the obesity epidemic, the future will be disturbing.

Why bother posting this lame little ditty? No mention, even, of the argument that a Prius exacts an environmental penalty in the mining of its battery and additional resources needed to create other components. Short girl test-drove some compact cars. Newsflash!

I can tell you one thing, New Mexico will probably go Democratic w/ no recount needed this year. Shoot, we might even get Florida.

i don't understand the adoration of eric clapton. he's okay. he's a lousy singer and, while technically a great guitar player, he lacks soul. I'm not saying a white man can't play the blues, but Clapton sounds like a session player who got put up front.