Amy Poehler has been horribly misused by SNL. She is one of the funniest women out there. You need to look no further than the three seasons of Upright Citizens Brigade for proof.

www.uprightcitizens.org

Rev. Wright ads are too late to save McCain. It might slow the bleeding and prevent a landslide, but this is a classic case of too little too late.

She was supposed to be an Obama-cipher, but is really just George Bush with female plumbing.

Someone so obviously put forward as a hail mary pass to win an election -- and with no thought toward how she would govern thereafter -- and someone so willing to go along for the ride deserves derision, contempt, and finally, defeat (or recall, if such a thing is available to Alaska voters).

She is the personification of the last eight years of this collective nightmare.

I am about as politically in-tune as they come as a "young person" (age 27) and I'll agree with your assessment of the boneheaded move on FISA by Obama. It was a huge disappointment.

That said, attributing this to the apparent lack of a early youthe vote surge is stretching believability. I doubt most of my peers couldn't define FISA.

I think we'll see a big pick up this weekend and Monday. After all, us 20-somethings are still thinking about our Halloween costumes first.

I believe "yoots" is from the estimable Joe Pesci in "My Cousin Vinny"

Yoots = Youths

Tacomas would suit most truck-needers just fine.

I lived in Maine for years ("real-America" as far as New England is concerned) and when I lived on a spit of land owned by a boat-builder/marina manager, he had two towing vehicles: a military surplus truck that had previously been used to tow enormous refueling jets at the nearby naval air base and a 1987 Toyota pickup (the Tacoma's predecessor).

Access to the property was via an often muddy-like-soup dirt road. One day while towing boats to and from the water, the miitary vehicle got stuck in the mud.......and the little pickup that could pulled it loose.

The moral of this boring story is that like with everything else, Americans over-buy. Most people don't need an Excursion or a F-950 or whatever the hell it is but they buy it anyway, because anything less means you're either a) poor or b) a pussy.

USA! USA! USA!

Why? Because...

1) This whole "winning" thing still feels so new to me, so to see the personification of "loser" keep rearing her head on every TV station is a great reminder how Obama beat those two like they stole something.

2) If she is serious about 2012 -- which I am sure she is -- it helps to keep on reminding people how nightmarish a choice she would have been. Let's face it, the longer you linger in the spotlight, the harder it is to prove that Palin 2.0 in 2010 is different from Palin 1.0 in 2008.

can't cut old Joementum loose and still find a couple of sane Republicans to work their way to 60 votes -- the eternally vulnerable Collins and Snowe of Maine spring immediately to mind -- then they don't deserve to be in power at all.

Remember, Joe didn't just campaign for his buddy McAncient. He went out on the stump for Palin. He revelled in the whole Ayers nonsense. He impugned Obama's character and patriotism. That this leech could turn around and demand his chairmanship while being fundamentally at odds with the incoming Administration and the mood of the country is fascinating.

I understand Obama's call for post-partisan politics, but the angle that must be played here is that Lieberman defied a) CT voters whom he promised that he'd help a Dem get elected in 08; b) Obama himself, who came out to try and save Joe's ragged ass in the primary fight against Lamont.

Unacceptable. Time to sweep the leg on ol' Joe.

Ricardo.

the "revenge" or "politics v. governing" meme here. The fact is that any significant legislation that Obama wants passed -- think of climate change, immigration, energy -- will need 60 votes and probably a couple of the moderate Repubs are going to pitch in (Snowe and Collins in Maine, among others).

So the line goes that "yes Joe is a prick, but he votes with Dems most of the time." That's great. Is he really going to become pro-life overnight? If Dems kick him out, will he really take his toys and go home? The man is looking at almost certain defeat if he is crazy enough to run in 2012, so all he has now is to try and polish his tarnished legacy, and that would not happen if he bolted to the GOP and started voting as if he were Mitch McConnell.

I would argue that keeping Lieberman in the caucus is more about politics than governing. I don't buy that the Dems chances of significant legislation being passed decreases when Joe takes his -mentum to the GOP. I think its playing politics to keep him in the caucus, b/c you're trying to sell biparisanship to the electorate and the GOP.

Whoever said this is more like an abusive relationship (Dems give and give, and receive nothing but contempt in return) is dead on.

"Hit me again Joe, and this time, put some stank on it!"

--Harry Reid

You answered your own question inside one sentence. Impressive.

i thought the difference between Nixon and Bush was the Nixon committed crimes only in the United States, while Bush took his thug show on the road as well as plying his trade at home.

Another great hairdo goes down.

But no wonder the Feds take you down when you're a dead ringer for Bolivian President Evo Morales.

You could take a weedcutter to that mop.