With the US teetering on an economic collapse, over one million lives lost in a luxury war, and the very foundation of the United States disintegrating - both figuratively and literally – after 8 years of Republican “leadership”, what are the people doing who are directly responsible for this economic, cultural, and moral implosion? They are falling back into their easy-chair mode of the 90’s, believing that (once again) a Democratic president will clean up their godforsaken mess, right the economy, and heal the international fuck-ups they’ve inflicted, which allows them the freedom to make up bullshit “scandals” to complain about. Scandal after scandal without a shred of substance, content in the knowledge that the national media will repeat endlessly their every talking point and every lie pulled from their ass!

Whether it’s the cynical scum-of-the-earth like Murdoch, Limbaugh, etc., who rightly treat their audience like malleable, naïve twits who can be forever bent into believing whatever the Party tells them – OR it’s the people Joe correctly mocks as the “great forensic brains of the right” who discover amazing, historic, colossal, earth-shattering "facts" that the “liberal media” refuse to broadcast, or that Obama “doesn’t want you to hear.” If only there wasn’t such a lock on our media by those all-powerful liberals!

So, having learned nothing from the dire consequences of allowing an absolute imbecile with no ethics, morals, competence, or basic English language skills occupy the White House and usher in this “New American Century” of Wall Street imploding, and torture/rendering & concentration camps for “undesirables” becoming an established part of our worldwide identity, while Americans (poltical opponents/undesirables) are being spied on by their government, and the Justice Department has been turned into a bastardized wing of the Republican Party with no pretense of lawful behavior, we have to make sure that ALL OF THAT IS NOW FORGOTTEN!! Because for 2009 the new president is a DEMOCRAT!

Bring on the manufactured scandals, since the real ones have too much of a "liberal bias"

Only if they're white and live in 'good' neighborhoods (white middle/upper-class).

One thing you will NEVER see these highly "principled", "honorable" people acting on their "most sincere convictions and religious beliefs" do is block the entranceway to family planning clinics in minority or poor neighborhoods.

In addition, as we've seen in Iraq, the murdering (bombing, chemically incinerating, mutilating) babies is not only not objectionable; it's something they cheer on in the name 'peeance' and 'freeance.'

The anti-choice brigades would have a grain of respect if they weren't so hopelessly compromised and grotesquely hypocritical about which babies they deem deserve life and which they deem deserve the most violent deaths imaginable.

Complaint filed by Andrea Mackris, Plaintiff, against BILL O'REILLY, NEWS CORPORATION, FOX NEWS CHANNEL, TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX FILM CORP., and WESTWOOD ONE, INC., Defendants, October 13, 2004, Paragraph 65:

"During the course of Defendant BILL O'REILLY's sexual rant, it became clear that he was using a vibrator upon himself, and that he ejaculated. Plaintiff was repulsed."

People always focus on the falafel and loofah, but the much more disturbing aspect of Bill O'Reilly's deviant, perverted behavior is that he uses a female sexual device to get off. It begs the question, is Bill O'Reilly actually a dysfunctional hermaphrodite?

Clearly, Bill O'Reilly has a vagina, since vibrators are used for insertion in a vagina. Someone should confront him on this. As the rightwing continually says about Obama's birth certificate, if he has nothing to hide he should be able to answer ALL questions posed to him pertaining to his vagina!

"For most who sell their bodies for sex it is a degrading experience and life."

That's your opinion. It's not a fact.

"Depression and self-abuse are rampant, as is suicide."

I'd be willing to bet depression and suicide is much more rampant in those who join the military. Should joining the military be a criminal act?

"Women who are prostitutes are incredibly likely to have been victims of child abuse, emotional, physical and sexual."

There are laws against child abuse. Equating prostitution with the child abuse is the same as equating drinking with child abuse. Not everyone who drinks is abusive, and not everyone engaging in consensual sex for money was abused as a child.

If there’s one thing the last 8 years of a self-appointed executor of "jesus' plan" should have taught Americans is to not allow anyone to legislate their morality. The outcome may include mass suffering, torture, sexual deviancy, concentration camps, and mass murder, as they have under born-again christian George W Bush.

"if it weren't for customers like Spitzer she might be forced to go into a different and safer line of work."

-- ehillesum

She might have joined the military and killed herself.

So many "ifs"...

"There were no war crimes committed by Dick Cheney...During the course of the war the US followed all the proscriptions of the Geneva Convention, not a single portion of the Geneva Treaty was broken, not one."

Correct, except they broke the Geneva Conventions when they committed torture, as Cheney this week admitted. Which is a war crime. But I see your point. He's a Republican so it's outrageous to accuse him of the crimes he's committed!!

"The Wiretapping was legal that required legal review."

But I believe Glenn's talking about the wiretapping done against American citizens that was done without a warrant when a warrant is required. Which has been documented and is undeniably illegal.

"I suppose this would be nice for a leftist like you, you could then outlaw anyone who disagrees with your pathetic, misinformed and partisan opinion.

Yeah, don't you just hate people who put their partisanhip before the law?