Typical GOP hypocrisy: speak about "family values," act to screw families every chance you get.

In 1992, the Soviet Union was out of business. It was officially dissolved in 1991.

Republicans referred to FDR as "That man in the White House" for the 12+ years he served as president, saving us from the Depression and the war. Unlike Clinton who counter-punched and eluded his attackers with feints and jabs, FDR laughed in their faces. When asked if he knew how much some people hated him, he replied he did and, "I relish their hatred."

People forget he was the target of an assassination attempt before his first inauguration.

My grandparents were Teddy Roosevelt Republicans and hated FDR. When she was in her 80s and I in my teens, my grandmother would still call FDR a "communist" or "socialist," but she always cashed her Social Security checks even though she never worked outside the home. When I suggested she return the money if Social Security offended her so, I got the stock reply, "Your grandfather earned that money." Well, not exactly, and she collected Social Security for 20 years after his death.

FDR knew a majority of the people were behind him and he kept his Democratic majorities in the House and Senate in line. Obama needs to do the same. Forget the Republicants. They will never support you. Get the Blue Dogs in close; give them whatever they want to support health care reform with the public option and tell the GOP to go screw itself. Tell the nation that the GOP can't breathe because they are so deep in the pockets of the insurance companies and Big Pharma.

Raise a howl with Limbaugh, Hannity and Beck. Have the FCC for lunch at the White House and leak the tidbit that reinstating the fairness doctrine was discussed.

I hope all the Democrats who were thinking bipartisanship would work are re-thinking it now. The Republicants do not want to help. They do not want health care reform. They do not want to give the entire nation a health care plan. They don't care if you have no health care insurance or if you die. That's your death panel -- it has a big "G-O-P" written on it.

Max Baucus has been beating his gums all summer about his plan. He bent over, grabbed his ankles and the GOP reamed him. Nice work, Max. Nice leadership.

Get the Democrats on board, give the Blue Dogs whatever perks will make them happy, and push a bill through complete with the public option. Tell the Republicants if they don't want to help with this, they need to sit down and shut up. And if I hear one more senior citizen yelping about his or her Medicare ... they need to sit down, too. You got your government option more than 40 years ago. We need ours now.

It is a disgrace that in a country this wealthy with plenty of money for wars, tax cuts for the rich, corporate bailouts and corporate welfare. we do not have a national health care plan for all Americans.

When I first started watching network news shows at around age 10 (it was the 1960s and there really was a lot of news), I could watch Walter Cronkite, Huntley and Brinkley or Howard K. Smith.

When Peter Jennings died, Tom Brokaw retired and Dan Rather finally imploded, all I was left with was Charles Gibson. He seems to be the last remnant of the era of the news deliverer who is serious about it all. Now he will be gone.

I can tolerate Katie Couric in small doses, Brian Williams not all (he tries soooooo hard to have gravitas and keeps coming up short), and I cannot stand Ms. Sawyer. She oozes false feelings and ignorance. I wince when I hear her voice or catch a glimpse of that pinched countenance.

I am lucky enough to not have cable so I do not have to endure CNN, Fox News or MSNBC.

There are many women journalists I enjoy watching and listening to on the tube and radio, but I may have to resort to internet-only news gathering.

Shame on you, Salon. You discount Johnson's story about Palin wanting to adopt her own grandson but you swallow whole his story about there being little parenting from Sarah and the Todd. Can't have it both ways. Either accept his story at face value or discount all of it.

I am hoping the Year of Sarah having just ended we will no longer have her to kick around. I fear she will haunt us for many more years. Thanks ever so, Senator McCain, for dumping this ignorant shrew on the nation.

If the public option is still part of Obama's plan, then his people should stop saying it's negotiable. If saying they were willing to drop it was a trial balloon, it was a hydrogen balloon because it blew up. The right wing gave nothing in return, in fact they declared victory, and liberals were pissed.

Stop mucking around. Come up with a plan and vote. Tell the Blue Dogs that election funds from the DNC depend on who supports Obama on the vital issues -- like this one.

I have written to my senators and my congressman. I am writing to Obama.