... for the President to simply state his goals and then ask Congress to write a law is a sort of new politics -- and he did promise change. But in a way -- which is Obama all over -- it's also a return to the original tradition. The Constitution does, after all, give Congress the role of writing the laws; I agree, they're flubbing it this past few attempts, but, that's what happens when people don't get enough practice at their job. They need to tune up. They're rusty.

I think Obama is sort of biting the bullet and accepting the price of letting Congress try to do its own job. He's trusting them. He's giving them a chance. Who knows, it might work out.

Maybe, for instance, the Senate will drop this 60-vote majority crap. There's 100 of them, seems to me 51 is a majority. If I were President, I would be saying, "Filibuster my ass." But that's why I'm not President. Obama is like, "Okay, you people figure it out. Your call." He understands who is supposed to do what here.

I say he's a class act, and Congress has a lot to live up to. But let's give them a little time to get used to the responsibility.

You don't understand. We're satirizing that.

So what's your stance on the hijab -- all cool?

http://fc04.deviantart.com/fs21/i/2007/271/6/c/Hijab_Fetish_by_cainadamsson.jpg

Incompatible with ice cream culture, that's for sure.

final irony

he cheated the death panel

reform came too late

Sam Ervin said it

"The Lord works in hidden ways

wonders to perform"

Drop in a stitch here

Take out a stitch or two there

all the news that fits

I may disagree

with what you say, but I will

Defend your etaoin shrdlu

he should have died here

after there would have been a

time for such a word

shoot if you muss

this old grey mop

you cannot doot

with a telescop

and curst be he who moves these bones

-->Passive voice crimes

"A nameless man in a hat made of banana skins who lives in a gutter on the Lower East Side suggested..." could tend to skew the answers in a different way from what the poll's designers were trying to manufacture with their use of passive voice.<--

Okay. How did you know it was me?

Dammit! It had been known to me that cameras had been placed in my gutter.

But no problem, I will now just stick googly eyes on the paper bag in which I place my wine bottles into.

And get this straight: Those banana skins does not lives in my gutter.