The WaPo writer, an old acquaintance of my husband, is Joby Warrick, not Jody Warwick.

If they filibuster, Bush will undoubtedly attack them as Soft on Terrorism in tonight's State of the Union speech, but nobody outside of David Broder, Joe Klein and the Super Tough Blue Dogs listens any more or cares about George Bush's attacks.

I don't even think anyone cares about the SOTU speech, much less the attacks. I can't muster the energy to watch.

From Yglesias: Who do you want to see take the lead role in setting policy for the country: George W. Bush or the Congress?" asks NBC/WSJ. The answer is congress by a 62 to 21 margin.

Hi, Congress? Maybe you could just do an experiment, and try having a backbone? If the Angry Fist of Disapproval with Your Overreach comes down on you, you can always scurry back under the Republican's skirts, but maybe you could just TRY it first?

...if the next president told the telecoms that they should record all phone conversations of our Senators and Representatives, that they would suggest that the telecoms "second-guess" that order right quick.

I'm sure there must be a way to work in the "culture of victimhood", possibly even "identity politics". Expand these thoughts a little bit, there's certainly no shortage of links, and you've got yourself a world-class satirical treatise on the Plight of the rich white conservative Christian male.

Well, that would make it easier for wingnuts to understand... their irony meters, are, well, they have no batteries, they've been hit with sledgehammers and they're lying in chains at the bottom of the ocean.

The post makes no sense. Really. Read it. Several times. See if you can figure out what (s)he is saying. I have no idea, unless it's "if you really want to call the conservatives on their culture of faux victimhood, the best way to do that is to be an even bigger faux victim." That won't help.

I don't know what the "right" answer on health care is, I just know that the Republicans' idea that there's nothing, including cancer, that can't be solved by freer markets, is not going to cut it.

But this might be helpful (sorry I'm terrible at hmtl): http://www.huffingtonpost.com/harold-pollack/universal-coverage-and-t_b_84386.html

We can ruin a country in 8 years

But it takes 12 to kill it

You can lead a donkey to water,

but you can't make him grow a pair.

Thanks for attempting a donor graft anyway, Glenn.