Most jaw-dropping headline I've seen all week:

Cheney to Press for Mideast Peace

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iVv4PV5jDHUrvbA3ZksdNFw9BQrQD8VAM1N02

Your juvenile stupidity seeps through yours.

Why don't you just call someone a faggot and be done with it?

You would think that speculation on whether someone was willing to "throw a punch" would be replaced by more careful consideration of more factors when we consider that we are handing that person the keys to 9,962 nuclear warheads.

not to expose a teenage child / young adult to the mud that gets generated with this kind of publicity.

http://www.mccainblogette.com/

Peruse the whole thing before you make any judgements about who's exposing who to what.

My name is Paul Dirks and I approve this message.

I think the Bush-led Right needs to be beaten down and expunged from our polity, and if that makes me an Angry Leftist, so be it.

One of the ironies included in that phrase and thoroughly documented is the fact that the "Leftist" label is only a direct result of your anger and has nothing to do with your actual position on much of anything.

It's especially odd because what's drawing everyone under the "Angry Leftist" umbrella is an infuriating combination of arrogance, belligerence, stupidity and an insistence on absolute control on the part of BushCo.

What's not to like?

I do know the area well and I can't underestimate the importance of this result. IIRC however I thougt Dennis Hastert had had some diffuculties with a Real Eastate deal involving federal funding for an interstate extension so his coattails were nonexistent.

The eastern edge of the area consists of farmland being bought up rapidly and added to the Chicago/Naperville megalopolis but as RMP can attest, its a Republican stronghold through and through.

turn off the boob tube, even though it makes the advertisers cry.

turn off the boob tube, because it makes the advertisers cry.

Or else he has this peculiar idea that politicians can function without a way to get their message out. Or that there's an advantage to marketing ass-kissing.

It's not for nothing that traditional media market share is in the toilet.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gQZZmxxd-dehJ1c_lUKFffsXLaxwD8V9S54G0

Nearly two years after taking control of Congress, the Democrats have claimed another prize by capturing former GOP House Speaker Dennis Hastert's seat — a development that Republicans say is not a harbinger of things to come.

Anyone who doesn't think that is big news doesn't know that section of Illinois.

Can you say "Doesn't Play in Peoria?"

I knew you could.

That Carlson, like John King before him, referred to this tendency to collaborate with the object of their investigations as "Journalistic Standards."

WTF planet did THEY go to school on? I just don't get it.

Don't you think that hurts the rest of us in our effort to get to the truth from the principals in these campaigns?

Truth is a rather maleable thing. Here in the USA, apparently truth is what is arrived at after everyone has had a chance to collaberate and get their story straight. Of course in the rest of the world such things would usually be calledself-serving lies but then that would be uncivil.

I was aware of the irony as I was typing.

The lack of "the end" is also why talk of winning or losing Iraq or the GWOT is rather nonsensical as well.

That would make for some good theater.

Unfortunately since he's already declared himself not subject to the original FISA, I see a signing statement in his future, rather than a veto.

of why real life differs from the movies.

In real life, the villians often win in the end.

For putting a human face on the problem.

While prunes and walter argue over whether the totalitarian reign will last centuries or merely decades, we can see first hand the sort of thinking that will lead us down the path in the first place.

Teenagers smoke dope and have sex, adults prey on children, people post dirty pictures on the internet, mothers punish their children in shocking ways........

FOR GOD'S SAKE! DO SOMETHING!

For some people, the prospect of Freedom is terribly frightening. They would do anything to have someone more powerful than themselves relieve them from the uneasy feeling that seems to permeate their lives. The possibility that these more powerful folks might themselves be incompetent or corrupt simply doesn't register.

The fact remains that bad shit happens on an almost daily basis in every town in every state of the Union.

It's called life, get used to it.

Must be something you're smoking......

He might not be doing as much as we want. But he is talking a better game than any other Candidates.

http://phd9.blogspot.com/2008/01/full-text-from-obama-campaign-retelecom.html

When I am president, there will be no more illegal wire-tapping of American citizens; no more national security letters to spy on citizens who are not suspected of a crime; no more tracking citizens who do nothing more than protest a misguided war.

Our Constitution works, and so does the FISA court. By working with Congress and respecting our courts, I will provide our intelligence and law enforcement agencies with the tools they need to track and take out the terrorists without undermining our Constitution and our freedom.

I agree wholeheartedly.

Whenever I argue against the telecom immunity, I always stress the fact that Bush could have changed the law when he had the chance but refused to do so and lied to the American people when he described their "still getting warrants."

Even people who think the NSA should be given the Keys to the Kingdom ought to be able to concede that its the Congress's responsibility to provide them, not the President's.