Harry Reid. And the bungling will not only continue, but worsen until the Democratic Party can manage to rid itself of this useless, clueless load.

That anything effectual will be accomplished with Reid in a leadership position.

Maybe he was punched too many times in the head when he was a boxer...

More blunders, more flip-flops, more concessions to an increasingly belligerent GOP, that will be Reid's leadership style for the remainder of his days.

But Chris Matthews' Fred Willard imitation just never gets old.

...Or is that Fred Willard's Chris Matthews imitation?

Anyway, one of them is really funny. The other one's kind of annoying, though.

Nothing will change until we:

Raise taxes on the upper income bracket back up to levels last seen in the days of Reagan-- or, better yet, Eisenhower;

Close corporate tax loopholes and get these ridiculously wealthy corporations to pay their fair share (i.e., more than nothing, which is what most pay now) of taxes;

Pass the Employee Free Choice Act and reinvigorate the moribund union movement-- one of the greatest contributors to the creation (or in this case, preservation) of the American middle class;

Create a single payer universal health care system to replace the current for-profit one that is slowly strangling American families and businesses while at the same time providing them with substandard care.

And while we at it, let's throw in these:

Revise the manner by which election campaigns are funded in this country so that monied interests aren't buying the votes of politicians through hefty campaign contributions;

Insist on the breakup of corporate media empires, so that our news and opinions aren't spoon fed to us through the filter of a handful of boardrooms.

Then maybe our kids won't face a future bleaker than what we have now.

Yeah, I know. Wish for the moon while I'm at it...

Let's hope they don't draft Harry Reid for the job.

He's been more effective at getting all their legislation passed and giving the Democrats a black eye in the bargain than any two Republicans.

How sublime.

I think Sam the Not Plumber ought to be abolished from, you know, the undeserved limelight in which he's found himself.

That she's only his climate "czar" and not one of his principle economic advisors(and does anybody but me find it ironic that a czar of anything would have socialist ties?).

As for the "socialism is theft" canard, whoever repeats that nonsense demonstrates an understanding of neither socialism nor thievery.

According to a General Accounting Office report, among the largest corporations -- the 1% of all corporations that owns 93% of all corporate assets -- 82% paid less than 5% of their income in taxes. Some of these selfsame corporations have recently been yammering loudest for the largest pieces of the taxpayer funded bailout pie.

Capitalism. Is. Theft.

It just doesn't get any clearer.

Then cannot one reasonably expect religious bigots to mind their own?

It seems to me I read somewhere that it's best to tend the beam in one's own eye than to mind the mote in your neighbor's... Now where did I see that?

Party of one!

For the first time in my recent memory, I am hopeful about the direction in which this country seems to be going.

almost happened to me the other day. But then it didn't.

Although I didn't get a story written about my close brush with a near tragedy that failed to materialize, I can sympathize.

what Mr. Cheney would have put in a note to Obama.

What? You didn't expect the barely literate dauphin to actually scribble something, did you? That sounds too much like work and why, after eight long years, start now?

A cool breeze blowing away the stultified reek of corruption, secrecy and purposed inaction.

How very refreshing!

Drudge is a dickwad.

Oh. I guess that's not really breaking news to anyone, is it?

My heart feels lighter and the future for my children appears a little bit brighter.

An end to torture as government policy. The closing of our gulag. Planning, at long last, to get our sons and daughters out of the Iraqi quagmire. And that's just by day two.

Thank God. For awhile there, I was afraid we would be waving goodbye to our Republic from behind concertina wire ourselves.

Completely devoid of story ideas? PLS TRY HRDR.

ROTFLMAO....

I wondered where the Bush dead-enders had gone.

Looks like they feel it's safe to come out...

Na-na,

Na-na-na-nah,

Hey, hey,

Goodbye!

Another lapdog tool that won't be missed.

Anybody who hasn't had their heads up their keesters for the last thirty years or so knows that class warfare has been in full swing. So far, the bluebloods and their minions have been winning, hands down.

How many workers were laid off just so some Wall Street a-hole could have his little corner office slice-of-heaven a tad more upscale?

How many laborers have had their benefits reduced or eliminated so some other industrial kingpin could have a better waste basket than the joker across the hall?

How many Americans have been made to suffer wage cutbacks or forced to work two jobs just to survive in order that one of these drones has a bigger, better corporate jet to fly him to his mansion from his vacation home?

How many unions have been driven to their knees and made to accept table scraps for their members just because a multimillionaire tycoon needed to make an million bucks more a month in take home than the CEO of his competition?

The funny thing is, in spite of this economic catastrophe-- engineered by these selfsame overpaid, pampered egotists-- most of America is none the wiser. Look around. The middle and working classes are being squeezed, made to suffer, and asked to sacrifice, while the aristos party on.