— Ahhhhhhh! We're all gonna die if we don't Pass Obama's stimulus bill NOW! We will never recover from the coming economic CATASTROPHE!—

No, we were all gonna die if we didn't rush into Iraq IMMEDIATELY. Because of the thousands of millions of WMDs that were scattered about like sand on the desert. We knew where they were, Dick Cheney said so. They were north, east, south and west of Baghdad. And even if they weren't, we didn't want the answer to come in the form of a mushroom cloud.

We threw a trillion dollars at Iraq, and now we're broke, and here you are with the same ancient memes. It's amazing, really, how determined you are to be completely wrong until the end of time.

It's unbelievable, the sheer smallness and pettiness of these people's souls. Look! Over there, there's a homeless man with no arms and legs operating a wheel chair with one of those mouth switches. Where's MY wheelchair?

It's like someone has to be armless and legless, sitting in a lawnchair, selling pencils in a cup —

(Pencils? He has pencils? Where'd he get those? Must be nice to live in a world where you have pencils just handed out to you)

and people put their coins in a jar and take a pencil, or not, but then someone steals that coin jar!

Oh, so now I suppose it's MY job to feel sorry for him and pay for the police to get his money back? Why doesn't he have a gun so that he can shoot the coin thief? Oh, that's right, because LIBERALS hate guns as much as they hate personal responsibility!

Really, they are truly appalling human beings.

But don't all those earmarks and pork (and again it should be emphasized that the definition of pork is that sum of money going to someone ELSE'S district) doesn't all that extra spending come from the house and senate? McCain's remarks should be aimed at these people.

Yet when he stands there listing things, he keeps pointing at Obama. I can hear exactly in my head the whiny way he used to say "That's not change we can believe in" on the campaign trail.

But he knows full well that Obama has no line-item power. He can only veto the package in its entirety, or sign it. When McCain promised that he would cut every single bit of earmarking out, he had no real means to keep that promise either.

It's this moronic kind of grandstanding against Obama that makes McCain seem like a jerk now, not his legitimate questioning of expenditures. Don't like all the spending? Tell it to your fellow senators, senator. Tell it to them in person. Don't freakin' Twitter them.

The official McCain campaign position was that the fundamentals, my friends, of the American economy, my friends, are strong, my friends. Any talk to the contrary was basically liberals being economic girly men. If there was anything wrong with the economy it was that some whiny Americans were acting as if working 2 or 3 jobs wasn't the very definition of the American dream. What happened to their "can do" rugged individualism? In any case, if a bridge or levee collapsed, it was nothing that another round of tax cuts couldn't fix.

For godssakes! Boy did we dodge an enormous bullet a few months ago. Can you imagine trying to face the current crisis with this cranky old man muttering and mumbling about earmarks, and twittering speeches from the oval office? For the love of God, this man could have been our president now, with Sarah Palin in charge of keeping Putin's head from rearin' into our air space.

Future events such as these will affect you, in the future.

Yes, it's quite amazing the number of people who haven't quite connected the dots yet. Good bloggers are those who are able to quickly correlate reports from a variety of sources and deliver a picture that is bigger than any one of the parts. However, they are only able to do this because of the reporting done by the initial journalists. (I wanted to shout that, as an earlier poster did, but resisted.)

Hate the MSM all you want, but there were some good people still working, still digging up stories that might otherwise remain hidden. Holding out hope that bloggers will fill the void just is kind of delusional.

When I imagine someone getting elected to an office of this stature I imagine them going before a crowd and saying things that will convince that crowd to vote for them. I assume someone at that level will at least meet a certain level of competence, whether I agree with them or not.

But then, every now and then, or frequently, actually, they will open their mouths and reveal their mind at work, and I realize that their thought process is like someone lost in a vast cavern, their voice echoey, remote, swallowed by a darkness, unable to see, but gradually their minds imagine they can see a light, and they follow it to strange places, never knowing that its all mirage. How is it, I wonder, they could be that dumb, and still get elected?

But this phenomenon is in no way restricted to Colorado.