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.

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!!!!

In California, the rights of women are paramount.

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

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

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.

"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.

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

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.

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?

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.

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?

"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.

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.

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.

I suggest a display extolling the virtues of the Salem Witch Trials.

Or perhaps a diorama displaying the 1857 Mountain Meadows Massacre perpetrated by Mormons upon unsuspecting "gentiles." Although, to be fair, it was "gentiles" who murdered the Mormon Church's founder, Joseph Smith. So, maybe a tandem display would be best.

Or possibly a mannequin exhibit showing a Catholic priest raping a young boy while his archbishop covers it up and the Church's lawyer forks over a huge wad of cash to the victim's family.

Yes, we CERTAINLY wouldn't want to shortchange the role of religion.

but at a price. And a hefty price, at that. Government controlled seats on the board; taxpayer equity in the form of stock; agreement to fully support government sponsored reorganization efforts to retool for production of greener automobiles with increased fuel economy or alternative fuels; and resignations of top tier management, i.e., the guys responsible for driving these corporations straight into the ground in the first place.

We've seen in the financial sector bailout that just throwing effing great wads of cash at these knuckleheads won't work. This time around, let's try a quid pro quo instead.

In Chicago, with the occupation of the Republic Window & Door company by workers stiffed out of their lawful severance, we're seeing the first of many (well, the first highly publicized, in any event) consequences to the financial crisis and the heretofore ineffectual (yet multi-billion dollar) bailout on the jobs of working men and women (as opposed to the consequences to individuals via foreclosure, skyrocketing personal debt, out of control medical costs, and bankruptcy).

Who's to blame? In the Republic case, workers blame the company, the company blames their lender-- BofA, and the bank blames, well, not themselves.

In chaos-- as they say-- there is opportunity and one dares to hope that from this financial maelstrom, this economic Perfect Storm, that the workers of the nation-- finally supported by an administration sympathetic to their needs-- will look up and realize that their last, best hope for security lies at long last in organization. In that respect, maybe the Republic action will show the way.

And see what kind of President he will actually be rather than endlessly carp from the sidelines before he's been sworn in.

Parsing future actions from the tea leaves of Cabinet appointments is a pointless activity best left to those with nothing else going on in their lives.

In Bizarro-world.