That Republicans kept power as long as they did. In fact, considering the general incompetence and cowardice of the bulk of the Democratic Party's leadership over the last decade, it's amazing they're not STILL in power.

Indeed, it's arguable that, absent the worst economic meltdown since the Great Depression, they'd be in power RIGHT NOW.

until there's actually something to wring my hands about. Speculating about what any potential appointment may or may not "signal" is really an exercise for the terminally neurotic or those with way too much time on their already overly wrung hands.

"This is about telling you that you mean nothing. That democracy is a nice word, but it should never threaten the entitlement of the most exclusive club in the world.

No matter what Joe Lieberman does, the people who are protecting him hate you much more than they hate him."

I may just be nobody, but I have a voice. That, and a long memory.

For many more years of this spineless bullshit.

Why is it that the Republicans have no problem acting ruthlessly and decisively, whatever their nefarious purposes, but modern Democrats can't even summon the nerve to give the ax to the most deserving quisling in recent memory?

I'd much rather she become the Senate Majority leader. We need someone with smarts, balls and a spine, which are all qualities Harry Reid lacks and which Hillary possesses in spades.

That bloated gasbag Lieberman would do is quit the Senate. He might try caucusing with the Republicans, assuming they'd have him (although with their apparent lack of standards, they might welcome him), but so what? This withered testicle's behavior was unprecedented and so far over the top that a mere mealymouthed apology would not, in my opinion, come anywhere near sufficing.

After all, what's an apology worth when the offending party clearly doesn't mean it?

Is wrong with Democrats? Okay, leading question, but I mean why the hell don't they rid themselves of this piece of crap? All the post-partisanship good feelings in the world won't make this leopard change his spots.

Mark my words though. Not only will he retain his chairmanship. When he runs for reelection it will be as a Democrat and all these good ol' boy dumbasses will be standing in line to endorse his candidacy and welcome this treacherous, withered testicle back into the fold.

Obama would win the presidency. Can I write a long-winded, self congratulatory epistle to me for Salon to publish?

"They have taken untold millions that they never toiled to earn,

But without our brain and muscle not a single wheel can turn.

We can break their haughty power, gain our freedom when we learn

That the union makes us strong."

Solidarity forever.

Is to clean out the spineless, fear-driven, ineffectual Congressional leaders that brought us this "we can't do anything" brand of "leadership." Nothing else will get done, or indeed CAN be done, unless you remove those roadblocks.

For the meme that we're a center-right nation.

In California, the rights of women are paramount.

But let's keep those nasty gays from marrying...

Nothing more guaranteed to bring defeat and further diminution to the GOP than the candidacy of the dimwitted, truth-challenged governor of Alaska.

That being said...

Cariboo Barbie 2012!!!!

Dear dimwit,

"ever since the civil rights movement..."?

Don't you have a Klan meeting to attend? Maybe they'll burn a cross and you can get a hard-on. Wear the white hood, it's formal night.

As for researching a "cure" for homosexuality, what you do in your cousin Merle's basement doesn't actually count as legitimate research.

over anything the Eva Braun of American politics has to say is beyond me.

That a state who'd elect Cariboo Barbie to run anything beyond a county beauty pageant would naturally elect a convicted felon to Senate.

For, to quote Thomas Paine, "The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value."

I have in my lifetime endured a very bad marriage and I am now luxuriating in the bonds of an exceptionally good one. While I would wish no one to suffer the former, I would preclude no one from enjoying the abiding love, faith and trust of the latter. In my America, the principles of fairness and equality under the law will always, eventually, prevail.

Knocked down, we rise to fight again. Keep marching, keep fighting, keep moving forward. A battle may have been lost, but the struggle continues.

That her base remains enamored of her. I want her to run in 2012. I would love for her to be their party's candidate. Can you imagine a debate between Cariboo Barbie and Obama?

Palin 2012. I can't imagine a better nominee to further complete the marginalization of the Republican party.

Dump that a-hole Lieberman out of his committee chair?

As we're all huddled around the TV sets, cheering our victories or nursing our wounds, safe in the bosom of family and friends, home from exercising our duty and responsibility as American citizens, spare a thought for our troops serving in harm's way.

Please, let us finally, at long last, end this madness and bring THEM home to the safety and comfort of their loved ones.