I've all but run out of sympathy for our national media'a "sensible liberal" caste that's all too willing to sacrifice core liberal principles on the altar of civility. If only we'd had more sensible liberals during the war for independence. An eighteenth century David Brooks penning a scathing editorial slamming this new "constitutional congress" for offending the sensibilities of the English gentry. I mean, "give me liberty or give me death?" Can't we meet the royalists halfway on that?

Save us from the horrors of the FDA, Ron! Give us back the freedom to sell Radium Water over the counter again! Don't let that, ahem, fleet-footed Barack Obama get in your way!

Conservatives are deeply concerned about street crime as long as that street isn't Wall Street.

That's not a smear, it's the result of exit polling from the New Hampshire primary. So much for the argument for President Hillary as some grand feminist triumph.

I can't wait for Laura Bush's campaign in 2016, it'll be a sight to see.

Hillary's message that she'll be ready from "day one" for the presidency because she has experience doesn't wash now, and certainly won't amount to anything in a general election.

The first time Clinton is fool enough to mention "experience" in a general election against John McCain, the senior senator will smile that odd little smile of his, point to his scars, and say something to the effect of "Mrs. Clinton got her "global" experience sipping tea with the prime minister's wife. I got mine in a bamboo cage in Vietnam!" Then Chris Matthews and David Brooks will probably swoon on live television, and the independents of this country will run to pull the lever for John McCain.

Democrats aren't going to get to play the "experience" card like they did in 2000 and 2004, but with voter dissatisfaction with all levels of government at record highs that should be a good thing. The way to beat John McCain in 2008 won't be by nominating someone who voted to go into Iraq.

Stella,

You keep bringing up this comparison of "cult" versus "political party" when it comes to what you consider Michelle Obama's remarks. Is that really so beyond the pale? That she might actually think about Hillary's actual stance vis-a-vis the issues rather than some nonsense about being "ready on day one" and "battle tested"?

I like many Obama supporters will have to think long and hard about whether or not we'll vote for Hillary Clinton in the general election. Voting for her just because she's a Democrat is precisely the sort of cultish behavior you decry.

Hillary's actual record, as opposed to her rhetoric, speaks of a candidate who continually folds to republican opposition, pushes unconstitutional nonsense like anti-flag burning legislation, and the small manner of supporting both torture and the Iraq war until it became politically unpopular to do so.

Other posters to this thread have brought up the feminist problem. I consider myself a feminist, but a Hillary Clinton presidency would be a step backward, not forward, on the road to women's equality. It would say to the little girls of this nation that of course you can be president, as long as you marry into power and half of your constituency consists of people voting for your husband by proxy.

I'd rather she'd waited to read the speech before commenting. Possibly taken time to address actual points made in his speech rather than just giving this boilerplate response.

The new Sonic game isn't that bad.

At least not until I see a certified, embossed copy of his vault birth certificate! Me, Ron Paul, and several PUMAs have pooled our resources to hire a Sengalese geneticist and we've determined that Al Franken is likely to be Stalin's biological grandson.

I'm sorry folks, but until resident emeritus Camille Paglia is convinced about your "warming globe" theory, I shall remain skeptical. Hopefully her next column will feature more of her piercing insight about this issue between her uncomfortable bouts of Madonna-obsession and tales of her journey to Wal-Mart to rap with the proles.

You'd think the republicans would be nicer to their most stalwart ally in the senate.

Obviously, Newt wouldn't go on TV and give anything short of an objective assessment of the economic stimulus. Surely he wouldn't use his time in front of the cameras to make disengenuous statements and drive the republican narrative, right?

Settle in, kids. We're in for at least another four more years of concern trolling from the media.

If you liked this comic, then I would recommend checking out The Venture Brothers, on the Adult Swim network. It's a parody of shows like Johnny Quest, complete with a vast menagerie of neurotic supervillains. (I'm partial to Dr. Girlfriend, Phantom Limb, and Joseph and his Technicolor Nightmare Coat myself). It's a good show with three seasons already aired, two of which should be available on DVD.

Seriously? You're gonna go all Founding Mothers Cosplay at your big right-wing tantrum party, and you dress like the woman who sewed a flag? Why not Sybil Luddington? Or you could be a modern Molly Pitcher, carrying water to quench the throats of those brave patriots too parched from reading off their mises.org talking point sheets all afternoon.

But calling him "pro-life" is a perversion of language. This man has cheered on murder, the murder of doctors, all in support of his own personal jihad. Terry's just lucky his extremism is of the Christian variety instead of Muslim, otherwise he'd be rotting in a cell in Guantanamo right about now.

Certainly not! Real men knock a woman up then come back in twenty years to ask for a kidney. They do this because if they lived with a woman, she would make them clean. (Real men also live like pigs)

Yeah, Klavian deserves praise for teaching us something here. Not what he intended to teach, but still something.

The infantilization of the language continues.