Will Callista even still be around by then?

If the residents of Maine are in favor of Health Care reform and her vote reflects that, why aren't these morons being asked to explain in what democracy her votes shouldn't reflect that and why she shouldn't be representing their interests over what the GOP says. I'm tired of these Jackasses thinking the "dictated" Republican platform of obstruction should trump the will of the voters.

Defend the "Constitution" by violating it? Overthrow an elected president because he doesn't align to your warped interpertations.

And he reconciles defending his father how?

Say what?

I hear that Ms. Bachmann once shared a flight on a UFO with Miyuki Hatoyama - just on the way back though so she might be an illegal alien.

All rhetoric served up from right wing talking points. Organized demonstrations are democracy despite GWB attempting to stifle them. Again - they should be welcome to demonstrate, ask questions and be in the discussion. Being tools of the industry, all they want to do is shut down and intimidate others - not participate in the democratic process. Much like you do here in attempting to divert from the discussion at hand and spit out rhetoric and get things off topic. You're hardly worth engaging but I haven't had enough coffee this morning yet.

@LuchAAA - Mobilize? To what - subvert democracy? GOP ideas were somewhat rejected in the last couple of elections - in some cases, soundly, as Americans have come to realize the path Bush put us on wasn't sound. A hand was extended to include the GOP in governing and soundly rejected. The GOP now only seems to be focused on being obstructionists and hoping that the US fails so they can once again gain their seats at the trough and feed their greed and the greed of the corporations they serve.

@Miscweant, I certainly hope that comment to hjb - if me - was misdirected. I certainly can't see anything I posted that can be misconstrued to illicit that response.

Asking a question is a far cry from what they are doing. I'm sure these Representatives would love a civil discourse - but in the climate the GOP has set out to foster, that isn't possible. The goal of these reprehensible creatures is to shut down the discussion not ask thoughtful and insightful questions. When asking a question the then shout down any attempt to answer. What are you and your friends afraid of? Sadly the thoughtful and fact based discussions we need are no longer possible. To the GOP and their radical fringe respect is a one way street - or maybe not, maybe their just a self loathing group incapable of living in a reality based environment.

Stimulus "Pork" goes to feed those put in the soup line by GWB

I would welcome the movement by the HP towards the more critical Froomkin model and I hope more outlets consider where they are and that they should move in that direction. Unfortunately, as Glenn has noted, the qualifier in all of this is the reader. There seems to be plenty of anecdotal evidence that sites or publications of one particular bent are satisfactory to their audience - feeding them just what they want to hear. I can only hope that there are someday many more that are willing to air voices like Greenwald and Froomkin.

April is almost over, hopefully this fool will disappear with it. I've tried, I've tried ... but Salon, you've failed. This is just more of the same partisan BS rhetoric. My bad. I was so hoping for an intelligent reflective and honest column with true insight and hoped to try and understand those who have viewpoints different than mine. But perhaps, maybe a wingnut is just a wingnut - that would certainly explain why Salon may have no other option to this worthless collection of pixels.

We ought to start relocating all of our armed services bases and training facilities out of Texas along with any federal agency that is housed in the state right now. Any manufacturer with a federal contract should be made to shift production to another state now. We can't take the risk of now knowing if they'll be friend or foe. Pull it all out now and see it all collapse around the egotistical jerk. The hypocrites have been living off the federal teet for years.

Wonder if she'll talk about any outrage she may have had when the media repeated her unsubstantiated charges against Obama without checking them and just printing all that she said unfiltered. I just love this outrage that candidates exhibit whenever their definitions of themselves aren't run verbatim. God help us if we have a press that might actually exhibit a little curiosity regarding who someone might be or what their actual record is. I guess the GOP was a little spoiled during the W administration's fortunate run of having the media repeat their talking points as written relentlessly. Sadly, it's only a nanoparticle better right now.

My times have changed. What has happened to the ideology crowd control gestapo? W's people would have made sure he only had loyal and devoted zombies present.

We ought to bring back "Reefer Madness" in health classes to educate these youngens about the danger of this serious evil. 'Cause there certainly aren't more serious issues that we as a nation should seek to solve.

All the right is capable of is bark and bluster. They seem incapable of listening and seek only to parse what few words get trough with their own demented spin to suit their needs. It's difficult for them to hear and understand through all of the noise they generate. I'm beginning to wonder how long Obama is going to bother attempting to deal with them. Compromise to them seems to be total submission. One can only hope that some day, that many of those who still support them, wake up and smell the coffee.

His pet goat ate it.