To almost no one except the most die-hard, fervent, ne'er-say-die, Gore fanatics.

Now that there's no more pie in the sky, can we deal with the candidates already on the field?

Still, he didn't say POSITIVELY...

[snicker]

A fish rots from the head. Frankly, I blame the pusillanimous, gutless leadership in Congress. It seems like they're too busy triangulating to actually see the damage all this wavering is doing to the party and the country.

There comes a time when you've got to stop calculating (especially when none of your calculations ever seem to add up), stop taking counsel of your fears (or of the Beltway "experts") and actually take stands on issues. Making a stand, fighting for what you believe and losing is something people will RESPECT YOU FOR.

Blustering, wavering and caving in to the opposition makes you appear rudderless, mealymouthed and wimpy. Because that kind of behavior is. Most folks view this conduct with the scorn and contempt it deserves.

But it's exactly the folks who believe this tripe (and who elected this yahoo) that the concepts of triangulation and "moving towards the center" are trying to capture votes from.

Yes, snicker all you want. Then consider the sorry state of the modern Democratic Party.

Not quite so funny, now...

Marie (let them eat cake)Antoinette has such callousness to the public welfare been put into words.

Although, personally, I've often thought that there was a comparison to be made between spoiled, clueless European royalty and Republican legislators!

More "surprising" will be how quickly Congress can roll over and give up the money.

Actually, I guess that's no surprise either....

This Iraq incursion must be ended.

Queen Hillary, I'll have to say they have my vote too. Only one thing scarier than the current dauphin-- a Democratic version of the same!

I think Jerry Falwell said that.

We should ban the printing press, too.

From Her Imperial Majesty.

Given the administration's recent sanctions against Iran and their increasingly (and alarmingly) bellicose attitude towards that country, Obama appears to have the right of it on this one. I believe the administration views the vote on Kyl-Lieberman as yet another green light to aggression and I hold Hillary accountable for her vote in favor. Her explanations and rationalizations, particularly in view of her previous vote on Iraq, ring hollow in my ears.

She appears to have learned nothing from her first mistake and now seeks to explain away her second.

Haven't we had our fill of a chief executive who can't learn from their mistakes and refuse to admit that they were wrong?

In closing, this Iraq incursion MUST be ended!

You need to drink the Kool-Aid and hop on Her Imperial Majesty's bandwagon, along with all the other media pundits.

Repeat after them-- She's the frontrunner, she's the frontrunner, she's the frontrunner.

Never mind her stance on Iraq, Iran or special interest monies. Never pause the chanting to examine.

Just drink of the Imperial Majesty's Kool-Aid...

Drink deep...

Drink...

Good point. By the same token, if we put every juror who made bad decisions or engaged in specious reasoning into stir, apparently the prisons would be overflowing and the courtrooms empty.

Hmmm.

For the cause of American feminism. Boo-hoo, those nasty BOYS made fun of me.

What's next? Accuse them of having cooties?

Way to stand tall, your Majesty. Way to be presidential.

I would just like to take this unfortunate opportunity to apologize to the rest of the country for our very own version of Joe Lieberman...

With Democrats like this, who needs Republicans?

The polarizing charge will turn out to have actual "legs" and be a very tangible hurdle for Dems to overcome. Just look at how Her Imperial Majesty has managed to polarize we Democrats...

She's waffled on Iraq (to put it in the most charitable light); she can't or won't admit that she was wrong on the vote for war; she's either very gullible or very cunning (in the pejorative sense) with her vote on Kyl-Lieberman; and her take on special interest monies is blithe at best and simply antithetical to (little d) democratic values at worst.

Yes, yes, oh Defenders of the Clinton Faith, I know there's a semi-plausible rationalization for each of these points and, frankly, as a yellow dog Dem myself, I'd vote for her if forced into it. But many Americans simply won't (or will recognize these self-serving rationalizations for what they are) and-- particularly if given a palatable alternative (and if Shrub could be packaged by the GOP machine as palatable, who amongst the current pack of righty candidates could not?)-- would vote otherwise.

As far as I can tell, she's come this far on name recognition and because most voters aren't paying close attention yet. It certainly isn't because of her Democratic values.

then you risk becoming one.

you understand why she's rightfully been referred to as Cheney in a pantsuit...

Sure, she's a Democrat, but then so so is Ben Nelson or Diane Feinstein. As with so much in politics, the cognomen ofttimes does not match the reality.

signifying yet again, nothing.

The Democrats will thump their chests heroicly. The dauphin and the GOP will bluster loudly. The Dems will cravenly cave.

In the meantime, more American soldiers will die. More Iraqi blood will spill. More funds we can't afford will be wasted.

And this war just goes on and on, seemingly without end or purpose.

I fear for the future of our Republic, that this is the nature to which our politics and statecraft have devolved.

If a only a few million select people kick the bucket, I'm the future king of England.

Sheesh, reasoning like that gives new meaning to the word specious.

I wonder if one of Nero's departing advisers wrote a similarly ludicrous paean to THAT Fearless Leader.