I think I love you!

Way to slap down Sensenbrenner!

And you made mincemeat of Broun.

It was sweet! Never back down and never apologize, Rep. Grayson, the Gentleman from Florida.

I wish we had three hundred more Democrats as full of fight as you are. I hope your colleagues will be inspired to follow your example.

But however symbolic this gesture may be, I say it's about bloody time for ANY pay cuts companies bailed out on the public dime who then paid their employees benefits after one of the worst financial performances since 1929.

Go Ahead and Leap, Limbaugh and may Glenn Beck go thundering off the cliff right after you. You can still live damn comfortably on half a million a year plus stock options.

rubs finger and thumb together this is the world's tiniest violin and it's playing for those who think their life is over. Go look at the homeless, people. Look at people who lost their retirement savings through no fault of their own because of greed and stupidity on Wall Street. Look at people who have gone bankrupt through health crises and having their coverage cancelled out from under them just when they need it most.

If all Democrats were as willing to lay it on the line as Rep Alan Grayson.

I wish that Grayson, not Reid, were the Senate Majority Leader.

Harry Reid is like wet spaghetti. If Olympia Snowe will only vote for a health care bill that is a toothless POS, why on earth did we need to work so hard to court her vote?

If the World were just, Cheney would be on trial in the Hague for his revolting war crimes.

But hey, if it makes even Republicans realize he was the wrong person at the wrong time, and he fought his wars with disastrous ignorance arrogance and incompetence, Let the old bastard talk... and talk, and talk some more. Hand him a rope and let him hang himself.

My only regret about Rep Alan Grayson's plainspokenness is that A. he didn't speak up even earlier this year.

And B. that we don't have 300 more Democrats just as willing as he is to lay it on the line, push back, put the Republicans on the defensive and above all REFUSE TO APOLOGIZE for hurting wittle Republican Feelings.

A lot of the idiotic rumors about death panels could have been deflated before they truly took hold if the Congressional Democrats had given us that same forceful plain speaking early on in the game.

"Obama doesn't deserve the Peace Prize--Give it to the 9/12 organization!" And the 9/12 organization has done... what? Wave tea bags around and wildly inflated their organization's numbers at the 9/12 rally on the Washington Mall? Wave signs that say "we came unarmed--this time?" Oh yeah, definite Peace Prize Material.

But give Glen credit--he still sounds more sane than Orly Taitz.

I do wonder, did the Nobel Prize Committee get bored and say "Let's give it to President Obama and see what happens to the so-called brains of the people on the American Far-Right?"

I wish EVERY Democrat would be as unapologetic on this topic as he is; if they were, there were, we'd have good health care with no question about a public option, not a "debate." Bipartisanship only works if both parties are willing to show good faith in negotiations. I've seen nothing but shrill lies and bad faith and general bad losership from the GOP since the start of this year. If anyone owes ANYONE an apology, the GOP owes theirs to the American people. Now would be a good time for them to start because they have a couple of decades worth of bad decisions to atone for.

In 12 years as the majority party in Congress, what health care reform plan did they ever come up with?

BUM FUCK NOTHING, is what they came up with. It wasn't even on their agenda. You had your chance, elephants. You blew it. If Grayson's analysis hurts, well, sometimes the truth DOES that. Suck it up with those long snaky trunks of yours.

Is why Obama now has such a hellatious crop of problems to contend with. Not only did the Republicans "Build the Golf Course" they were the original golf-ball flinging monkeys.

ALthough a timid POS that reforms nothing, gives the store away to the GOP (and still failed to interest them) and coddles insurance companies in its own right, prove to be a constructive disaster that spurs a REAL bill that offers true and bold reform. Reform that's actually helpful to people who are in the most need of help.

If coddling doesn't work on Republicans, lets ride over them rough shod instead.

I'm SICK of coddling that corrupt bunch of ninnies!

Who "saw" Sarah Palin's charisma about this time last year? Before she was brought low by gentle interviews with that media barracuda Katie Couric? Who winked during the VP debate? Who stood in front of rabid right wingers and smiled encouragement of the ones who yelled 'Kill him!(Obama)?"

So tell us Camille. How's that McCain Palin administration working out for you?

In the words of Yogi Berra, "It ain't over 'til it's over." The Obama presidency is a loooong way from over.

It seemed almost too true to be funny, to me.

Given the number of whacked out people who will take to the street screaming that the sky is falling for whatever reason, It's hard to know where parody begins and paranoia ends

Me too, Joan.

Oh God, me too.

I want to see him at his forceful, articulate best, as he'll get more votes that way than he ever will by conceding to Republican demands.

I'm tired of cynicism and disillusionment, too. They are as much of a barrier to progress and problem solving in this nation than the present GOP.

Don't concede, Mr. President.

Win.

Please, we're counting on you.