No sympathy for progressives whatsoever. There is the reason we have long primaries. If you ignore the spin, ask the right questions, listen to the answers, and watch television and read the internet you can get a good feel for the candidates and see all their flaws before they get elected. It was clear during his primary campaign that Clinton had a problem with fidelity but the media gave him a pass. Many saw that Bush was a product of marketing, that he was intellectually incurious, poorly read, was going to be solely at the mercy of his advisors but it was all swept under the rug by the pundit class. If you followed the campaign and actually read his position papers you saw Obama was to the right of Clinton on health care, abortion, FISA, Afghanistan and even affirmative action. Heis the anti war candidate that never voted against a single war expenditure in Congress. However, he had this cult of personality around him that literally tore you to pieces if you asked any hard questions. Progressive projected what they wanted to see and ignored what they didn't. Even the FISA vote was seen as an abberation. Obama is now President and he appears to be setting up a fairly competent center right administration. But if you wanted a lefty, progressive should have taken the time to ask the guy what his posiitons was.

I'd rather have them battling pirates off the coast of Somalia then providing security in New Orleans like they did after Katrina. Think about it.

What really killed GM was its unholy alliance with Big Oil. They kept killing electric cars, fuel cell technology, not developing cars that ran on alternative fuels and avoiding change to the point that the technology has now outrun them. In South America cars run on sugar cane. Europe is into solar cars. The rest of the world has no intention of indulging Detroits insistance for building cars that run on expensive fossil fuels so they are now dinosaurs. That said, thirty five billion is a drop in the bucket in these times. They spend and blew that amount of money on a couple of military planes that crash these days. The only reason for bankruptcy is to screw the autoworkers out of their pensions. No union victory can be left unturned by the right. Regardless of whether they get the money or not the jobs are gone. But we can at least make sure the employees get the pensions.

Why are Democrats the only victims of these crazy conspiracies?

Poor Blagojevich. I guess he thought the Senate seat was the same as an ambassadorship. OUr government at work.

Blago may be as crooked as a two dollar bill but the Senate needs to follow the law and allow Blago's appointee to be seated. Blago is a duly elected governor. He has not been indicted, convicted or immpeached. All that hangs over him is innuendo and speculation at this point. Harry Reid might have had a minor point when he and all the other pundits where screaming Blago was going to be indicted next week. But now a prosecutor who has only been investigating the man for over 5 years is asking for additonal time up to April to complete his investigation. Does anyone think the Illinois house would have started impeachment proceedings if they were not given the idea an indictment was imminent? The appointee should be seated.

No offense but why is a governor with one of the highest unemployment rates in the country considered an economic guru?

We went through this in the 90's when the militia movement was all the rage. Sooner are later they are going to turn these weapons on the government. Which may be what they are hoping for.

Mr. Yoo was one lawyer in a vast bureaucracy. He thinking was radical and provocative but he was not in charge of the Justice Department. There was an Attorney General in place (a Harvard Graduate no less) who ultimately bears the responsibility for Mr. Yoo’s work product and whether his legal memorandum was consistent with the Constitution. I do not concur with Mr. Yoo’s thinking but to make him a scapegoat for doing his job, which is to present the President with free and candid advice and all available options even ones with do not agree with is wrong. I also believe that Congress should not be let off the hook, they knew about the abuses and did nothing.

Sorry, after the horrors of the last eight years the idea of a male ruler strugling with his inner demons with a trusted counselor by his side has zero appeal. We have outgrown the age of kings and have no desire to look back. The producer should have put this show in a science fiction setting and maybe it would have worked.

The whole bill is a scam and Congress knows it. The US government with its armies of attorney's could easily have stopped the distribution of millions in bonuses by simply going to Court as AIG's majority owner. Yet we have this ridiculous, bill, which they know very well in six months will be declared UNCONSTITUITIONAL. I've come to the sad conclusion the country is ungovernable. Well whatever is left after Wall Street gets finished looting it.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

John F. Kennedy

Their rigid party discipline, 11th commandment, and refusal to allow dissent has brought them to this place. It’s a cautionary tale of what happens when a great party marginalizes competing voices, builds a cult of personality around one man and insists that everyone see the world through their eyes only.