I thought Gary Kamiya's article was great, except for the inappropriate title. Rush Limbaugh hates liberals. He denigrates them on a daily basis. He doesn't think they were ever capable of having a sense of humor, so how could they lose one? And when he attacks liberals, it is not meant as a joke.

Limbaugh dissembles about his past statements on a regular basis. He constantly attacks the "drive-by media," but then quotes them when he agrees with something they say. He has a legion of followers who hang on his every word, oblivious to his reworking of the truth, his rewriting of history and his logical inconsistencies. True, he is clever and funny, but he is also diabolical.

People on the left are always going after Fox News, but that organization is diverse, albeit slanted to the right. I am more worried about the legion of dittoheads Rush continues to nurture and amuse with his often hateful commentary. They constitute the Limbaugh cult, and I don't think their cult leader, "El Rushbo" as he likes to call himself, is entitled to be given any credibility as a serious and thoughtful commentator. The dittoheads may buy into all this, but why should anyone else?

Shapiro writes: "[W]e have created a political culture in which marriages are on the ballot in November. Michelle Obama's center-stage role on the opening night of the Democratic Convention is emblematic of this buy-one-get-one-free trend that began with Ronald and Nancy Reagan."

In what universe has Shapiro been living? The only "two for the price of one" presidency was the Clintons'. As Al Gore joked when asked what it is was like to be number two at the White House, "She seems to enjoy it."

Other first ladies have played a largely ceremonial role, as well as espousing causes. Barack Obama has indicated that his wife would continue that tradition.

As for marriages being on the ballot. McCain is divorced, as are Fred Thompson, Chris Dodd, Joe Lieberman, John Kerry, and Bob Dole. And then there is Rudy Giuliani!

The reason that John Edwards' morality and marriage is "on the ballot" is that he and Elizabeth put it there. I now think that Elizabeth's main reason for continuing to campaign after her cancer returned was to save her marriage.

So Walter, please get your facts straight!

What on earth does Bristol's pregnancy have to do with Presidential politics? Talk about looking for smears? Daily Kos has done a great disservice to the progressive community by pushing the story about whether Sarah Palin was really Trig's mother (Trig is the four-month-old with Downs.) When it comes to the bipolar internet, a plague on both their houses!

Mostly ranting and raving. "Serious wrongdoing"? How can you equate a felony conviction with campaigning for Republicans? Now Lieberman may use his subpoena power to investigate the Obama administration? Lieberman has voted with the Democrats, even on most procedural issues. He may often walk like a Republican, and talk like a Republican, but he is still at heart an (admittedly hawkish) Democrat.

And he is a very moral man. A lot more so than Bill Clinton, who has become a multi-millionaire cashing in on his Presidency, an office that he besmirched with his bad behavior.

Why don't you bring up all the terrible things Hillary Clinton said about Obama during the primaries?

I'm glad that Obama seeks to govern rather than to seek revenge. Too bad there are so many "Democrazies" out there who aren't getting the message.

Obama's appointment of HRC as secretary of state gets her off his back domestically. She can't push her health care agenda or a new E.R.A., etc. So she and Bill can galavant around the world, but with strings attached, to Obama. And while Tom Daschle leads the health care initiative.

She would be more qualified to be AG or Secy of HHS, but that would lead to all sorts of mischief, since more bickering is allowed in those positions than if you are Secy of State, where you are representing the President.

A brilliant move on Obama's part. He made her an offer she can't refuse.

‘Twas The Night Before Bail-Outs

by Gregory Bachelis, aka mathpol

'Twas the night before bail-outs, and all through the nation

Not a business was stirring, not large corporations

Their requests had been sent to Congress with care

In hopes that Pelosi, or Reid, would give them a share

The CEO’s had their hopes set on the Fed

And visions of bonuses danced in their heads

I was at home, full of hope and wonder

At the thought of big companies not going under.

Then out on the street there arose such a clatter,

I looked out the window to see what was the matter.

On the street was a hay wagon, making its way

Not the usual wagon, filled with bales of hay.

No, this one, (and I know this sounds funny),

Was filled instead with bales full of money.

With a very old driver, so morose and deadpan,

That I knew in a flash it was Alan Greenspan

There was a small note, stuck to each cash bale

With the name of a company too big to fail.

His wagon was drawn by eight sleek mega-bucks

And he shouted their names as he whipped their buttocks

“Now Paulson, Bernanke, Now Rubin and Volcker

On Krugman, On Samuelson, Kudlow and Cramer,

To the next company’s holiday retreat!

So I can deposit a bale at the revelers’ feet"

And so the wagon continued on,

Until the last bail-out bales were gone.

Greenspan then to his team gave a whistle,

And away they all flew like the down of a thistle.

And as they flew way up into the sky,

Alan cried, “I must see Ayn Rand one more time ‘fore I die.”

And I heard him exclaim as they flew into the night

"Happy bail-outs to all, and to none, oversight!"