Yeah, as someone posted, we DO know why we don't like her. She's a bitch.

The last show, they make totally separate visits to the makeup room. Totally separate consultations about their looks. Irina wants dark smudges for the tough helmeted chick look. Althea wants dark smudges for the street-chic thing. The get the same results.

Irina says "that's Althea" - now how in the fuck did Althea steal your idea Irina? Seriously. So if I wear jeans today and so do you, I'm copying? Never mind I'm on the other side of the continent?

Puleeze. Frankly I had to scoot up to the television to see the actual texture of her garments. Black on black. Yawn. Helmets we've seen before. Repetitive fabrics and details. S&M getups.

I liked Althea's work. It was accessible and well-made, varied and interesting and yet related. There is a fine line between "cohesive" and redundant. Irina's crossed the line. Had she not had that t-shirt, she might not have won. I did love that deconstructed sweater, though. Not coincidentally it wasn't black.

I was moved by her dad's reaction. I just wish she'd tone it down a bit - although maybe being annoyingly condescending and bitchy equips you to create fashion? (that none of us can afford and almost none of us could even wear . . .)

I wasn't implying it's all Obama's fault. But he IS leading with the premise that we have to get GOP votes, rather than telling reid to move ahead without the republicans. And he is spending time on the road trying to convince US that health care reform is a good thing - he should be working on the conservadems instead of the folks at town halls.

How congress works depends on leadership. WHY did the republicans vote in lockstep? Is it that they all believed uniformly? Surely there was pressure at the top, or from somewhere, that got them to vote in lockstep.

Meanwhile, you have Landrieu spouting off nonsense, demonstrating a total lack of understanding of the bill - why isn't someone, Obama, Biden, other dems, Freaking Reid!!, talking to her, explaining to her that she has her head up her ass about this whole thing? How does the democratic leadership allow democrats to remain completely, embarrassingly oblivious about such an important bill?

It's not Obama's fault per se, but the WH can be doing more to get the dems informed, answer their questions, quell their fears, and kick their asses if necessary, than they are doing.

Fucking grow up?

Fucking get real.

How much did the bush administration compromise with the democrats on ANYTHING? Zero.

They didn't even compromise within their own party. Step out of line, say anything off the party message, and you're toast. Rove made sure they knew that. I used to say he had their sisters locked in a closet somewhere, such was the control they had. And Rove fed to the lions anyone who didn't follow instructions.

The gave huge bills to the dems with less than 24 hours before the vote, cut off discussion, did not allow amendments. The held votes open for three hours while they bullied their own party members (Medicare bill) and only afterwords do we find out that the bill will cost twice as much.

The republicans didn't have a 60/40 split. You could count their majority on one hand. And yet they never courted ONE democrat - they didn't have to. They had Landrieu, Nelson, Lieberman. The dems shoot themselves in the foot. But the GOP never bothers to give a shit about what democrats want, even when the election is "won" (ahem) by a razor thin margin.

Bush swaggered like he'd gotten a mandate. And then he "won" by 3% and proceeded to ram every piece of shit legislation down the democrats' throats without caring how much they choked - or how much half the nation disagreed.

Obama wins by 6% or whatever and Reid has a 60-40 split and he's all whiny about how he can't get anything done. The GOP didn't bother to whine over needing 60 votes. They got things done. Things that make me sick, but they got them done.

Ironically, they cowed the democrats into disavowing the filibuster, which they now threaten to use "liberally" to obstruct anything Obama or the dems try to do.

Stop with the "only" (ONLY??) 60 votes bullcrap. That's plenty, if Obama puts his thumb on the scale.

In the meantime, some other jackass said that we voted for Obama without knowing his Vice President's name.

Joe Biden. His name is Joe Biden. An excellent choice, a man of experience and gravitas and passion and a connection to the working class (look it up) with a strong knowledge of foreign policy.

Sure, everyone knew Sarah Palin's name - a shallow, ignorant, self-important wingnut with no experience, gravitas or even passion for "governing" ("what does the Vice President do?" she asks. Oh, and what about "I quit!") with a history of graft and whose foreign policy knowledge consists of looking at Russia from her kitchen window.

I knew Joe Biden's name. But those who didn't know his name knew Obama wouldn't choose some empty-headed fundie beauty contestant. And they knew he wasn't a senile old coot who might keel and leave us with a barbie doll as President. >>shudder<<