What a piddling project. How about transcontinental light rail from NY to Los Angeles. It would give the country a first class rail system. It worked for the robber barrons and the 19th century. That is if you can fight off the oil and airline industries to get it done.

There is a simple way to settle the controversy, with one statement. Mrs. Obama says no way girlfriend!

I understand your frustration with the hyper partisan media and the toll it took on the Clinton Presidency. However, don't kid yourself, Clinton could give as well as he got. The biggest wound of the Clinton Presidency was not inflicted by his critics in the press or his GOP enemies. Monica Lewinsky is the self inflicted responsibility of Bill Clinton himself.

The great irony in this is that the same people so outraged that Rush Limbaugh was not allowed to be part owner of the Rams are probably the biggest defenders of country clubs discriminating against people on the basis of sex, race, and religion because people should have the right to associate with whom they please. Rush Limbaugh, qualified millionaire with deep pockets found himself shut out of the club just like women and minorities frequently are in their local community clubs. Welcome to our world Rush!

Joan, give me a break, when people talk about Henry 8th do they talk about the reformation, the rulings of Parliment or the six wives? Our purient interest about sex and romance will always trump serious policy initiatives anyday. Bill Clinton's refusal to discuss the issue, Monica's silence and conversion to productive citizen and the uncommon Clinton marriage only gives it more mystery. Wouldn't we all want to be a fly on the wall if Bill Clinton ever accidently ran into Monica again?

Obama's problem is not with the right wing or some of its more crazy partisans. They lost credibility and respect with the public long ago. No one wants to return to the go old days of Newt and Dancing with the Stars Tom Delay. Obama's problem is his base. The supporters who are still unemployed, seeing their houses foreclosed on and being strangled by credit card companies who are getting richer by the day. The country voted for change and is wants it sooner rather than later.

Good for Dave for not caving in. Two consenting adults sleep together. Big deal. I'm so tired of all this speculative twaddle about those poor, helpless, widdle ladies who allegedly might have been pressured to have sex. The gals who can't say no - get the hell out of my face Dave. I want some sympathy for the gal who slept with an unmarried boss, liked it, and wants to keep her business private. It is no body's business but their own.

Not to sound mean spirited, but I think she is a tabloid sweetheart because she and her publicist work hard at it. The never ending Brad, Angelina, and Jennifer coverage has always seemed a little forced fed with an emphasis on the (fed) to me.

Its a well crafted, extremely racist book and movie that I personally feel rips off the very Yankee Edith Wharton and her book the Age of Innocence. That said it should be watched and read. It reflects the times in which it was made and the attidtues of the people who lived them. It reminds us daily that in our perfect union human beings were subjegated and treated as property and this was thought normal. This should not be ignored. We are not the Pharoahs of Egypt, changing history, removing all its warts from the record because its inconvient.

What else do you expect? They are playing the only card they have left. They have no new ideas, no bold programs, just crazy idealouges and fidelity to the policies of the dead Gipper. Of course, the rights only goal is to get to regain power. But it, would help if liberals in the media would stop playing into the rights hands by constantly asking is the opposition motivated by race. Does it matter? The battle has to be won on policy grounds because if race is the story it only allows people such as Mikka and Joe on Morning Joe to play the reverse victim card. You know, its the claim if you criticize Obama you are immediately called a racist. Go back and look at Pat Buchanon and his statements regarding the New HAVEN firefigters and it was predicatable the right would play the race card. But that doesn't mean the left has to stay at the table and Joan you and Salon should ignore them and say this has nothing to do with health care.

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So George Will (a "prominent" right wing voice who was "for it" before he was "against it") pens one column stating what has been trumpeted by the progressive caucus of the Democratic Party (oh for like since forever) as common knowledge---but "it's the progressives' fault".

Again, huh?

Yep, you may not believe this but in the eyes of the American people the guy favored by the progressives won the election. He makes the decisions now.

I'm shocked, shocked that a network owned by one of the largest military contractors in the world is not outspokenly anti-war. Don't blame the mainstream media for this one. Up till now the most prominent voices saying get out of Afghanistan are coming from the right, exhibit number 1 George F. Will. Its Vietnam, Iraq, all over again. People putting their misgivings aside because they want to support the administration. Blame not the mainstream media my friend, the fault is with progressives, themselves.