I've seen You Tube videos with more polish. And the fact that the GOP has to go back forty years for a way to comment, is a perfect illustration at how much they are living in the past.

As usual, they also have no IDEAS to back up their stance on Guantanamo, just more worn-out, bullshit fear mongering.

The provision in the bill limiting access to credit cards for those under 21 is a brilliant and much needed move.

The credit card I have, that I am still trying to come out from under, is one that I signed up for as a college freshman. I was nineteen years old, and ten years later I am still trying to pay it off.

Credit card companies must absolutely stop their predatory targeting of college students. They wave free t-shirts at kids and get them to sign up for something the companies hope they will be in hock to for the rest of their lives. It's a shady and crooked practice.

Personally, I don't think this bill goes quite far enough- as I truly believe we need to re-define usury rates in this country in regard to credit cards. For too long, credit card companies have been no better than back-alley loan sharks when it comes to their outrageous interest rates. Don't tell me they still wouldn't make billions in profit every year, even if the rates were capped at 15 percent!

Thanks a lot California. Good to know that I'm still a second class citizen in your eyes.

Any potential tourist and travel dollars I might be spending in the foreseeable future will certainly not be spent in your state.

"Keep in mind that California already has civil unions (and will continue to have civil unions) that provide all the same legal benefits of marriage."

Not quite sure that's correct.

As is my understanding, the reason that the supreme court of California originally upheld marriage was because civil unions did not, in fact, guarantee full equality under the law, and therefore, ruled that only marriage itself could grant full legal equality.

While on one hand I am extremely happy to have another few lawyers joining in the fight for legal equality, I can't help but wonder why a former Bush lawyer should be the one to help the fight.

After all, wasn't it Bush himself who was "proud to stand with" those who wanted to make DOMA a Federal Law? Isn't the GOP platform based largely upon its overwhelming hatred of gays?

I can't help but to eye this development a bit cynically- the GOP is in the political wilderness right now and as slimy as they are, I wouldn't put it past them to try and cast themselves in a pro-gay light now that no one is buying what they're selling.

You know what I'm sick of having rammed down my throat?

Sanctimonious fundamentalist bigotry smugly spread around by you and your ilk. Politicians who stand on a national platform and excoriate me and those like me in every possible way- calling me sick, diseased, depraved, immoral, abominable, etc.

Sick of being treated like a second class citizen in my own nation, despite having lived here my entire natural life. Sick of having to constantly "prove" my worth in a country that will take my tax dollars but deny me equality under the law. Sick of homophobic bigotry being par for the course- so much so that for the first 10 years of my working life I had to hide my identity for fear of being fired over it. Sick of growing up in a country that is so virulently hateful toward gays and lesbians that many of us kill ourselves in adolescence because the hatred and isolation is so overwhelming.

I'm sick of idiots like you telling us to "shut the hell up" or to go back into the closet. What you hate is that we're starting to actually be treated like human beings, instead of your constant punching bags. Well, I'm sorry, but we're not yours to kick around any longer. And we're not going to take it.

In twenty years we'll look at people like you with the same shame and disgust that we view the loudmouth segregationists that existed in the 50's and 60's.

So sick of tired bigots.

"so as not to be reminded of all that hot, sweaty sex with new partners each week that they will not longer enjoy."

Take your stereotypes elsewhere, please.

just release the photos already.

I'm tired of the continued secrecy, I'm tired that there is no accountability for what we've done. I'm really tired that I backed a candidate because I wanted real change, and more and more Obama is becoming Bush Lite.

"The paper quoted Taguba as saying, "These pictures show torture, abuse, rape and every indecency."

He said he does support Obama's decision to fight the release of the images subject to the lawsuit, even though he has not seen those images. "No other photographs should be released,"

So, basically:

Everything we've already done, and know we've done = Bad.

Everything we've done, but haven't openly admitted = Okay.

So: "Change" = Diet Bush.

Good to know.

by becoming him.

Let GM go bankrupt with no assistance and smash the tenuous re-growth of the economy?

We're just at the point where things are (finally!) starting to look up a little bit. This is damage control. This is attempting to fix a problem before it becomes a catastrophe.

The RNC is like an arsonist blaming the fire department for coming to extinguish an inferno. Personally, I think the Republicans should just shut their damn mouths when it comes to ANY opinion they might have about the economy. It was their bankrupt, screwed up economic ideology playing fast and loose that got us all into this mess. The fault lies entirely with them.