As a long time fan of Mr. Martin's various pursuits I'm a aware how amazingly talented, funny and intelligent he is. I don't mind however that he makes crappy movies like this one, after all someone shows up at you door with millions of dollar to do something as pointless as making a crappy movie, you say 'yes'. Who am I to judge? I'd make a crappy movie for 20 dollars. And even more importantly, I don't have to see it, so who cares?

I just wish he wouldn't do ONLY crappy movies. Throw yourself and your fans a bone and do an occasional project that reflects your talent and intellect.

Would be nice if someone asked her exactly how having a beer with Sean Hannity would help anything. I imagine she thinks Hannity would give Obama the ideas he needs to save the country. Frightening.

They risk putting themselves in the position where if the stimulus works, Obama/dems get the credit. If the stimulus fails, repubs will get the blame for hamstringing Obama/dems.

Bafflingly, their strategy seems to count on America suffering a great depression. Obama fails, America sinks into economic ruin,then the RNC maybe wins the public perception war and looks good.

WTF is wrong with these people?

its just a plan to demonize repubs.

Dude! You're goin to Gitmo!

Without getting into whether the stimulus bill is good or not, the GOP has screwed themselves in my opinion.

By being very loudly and proudly obstructionist they've set up a future dynamic where if the bill works, they're flat out screwed. If however the bill fails to help America out of the economic problems it finds itself in, then the GOP could look good compared to the Dems but they run the very real risk of losing a perception war in which their gutting the bill of items that might have helped cause them to get blamed for its failure.

The sad thing about this is that the GOP seems to have pinned their political hopes on the stimulus failing, America's economy becoming catastrophically worse and then maybe winning a perception war. WTF is wrong with them?!?

As far as the filibustering goes, it does occur to me in today's age of c-span and the internet (youtube, blogs, etc...) a congressperson blathering on nonstop runs a very real chance of saying something career-ending.

Since its been shown the Repubs are only interested in obstructing this, Dems should throw out all Repub proposals and make the bill the Dems want. Repubs will threaten to filibuster. CALL THEIR BLUFF

Think about how Repubs think and speak. Forcing Repubs to blather on for hours, publicly is sure to be a career ender for someone. Give them the rope.

As if our MSM isn't tainted and questionable enough. Subsidize them and whatever value they may have would be lost.

I'll grant you that there is enormous value in the work done by the actual reporters on the ground, but solution is not to artificially keep alive the failed framework in which they exist. If the work of the reporter on the ground has any true value, it will find a new venue, a new paradigm in which to exist. Do I know what that paradigm is? No, but left to its own, if there is value, a way will make itself found.

Consider in the current framework, for each reporter whose work is valued, how many are hopelessly connected insiders to whom 'access' is the holy grail and so for their high salaries produce nothing truly of value? If the current dynamic in which reporters work is failing, let it. We'd be doing no one any favors to keep it on artificial life-support, except those who are currently served by the state of our media.

Just so. Isn't it that small pool of connected named reporters who are concerned with access and maintaining that access to the exclusion of any actual reporting commanding the highest salaries? My point is if the reporting is valuable (and it is) yet the industry is losing money, then its the framework in which the reporting operates in that is the problem. Lose the framework, the valued reporting will find an outlet. Good reporters are like artists. The don't report for the money, they report because they have to know. Let these types of people be the next wave of our media and let the blowhards fade into the bottom of parrot cages.

Note: I wasn't even talking about people like Gregory. He doesn't do any reporting. I'm talking about Judith Miller types. High profile reporters who get it wrong yet are celebrated for their access, despite the fact that their access actually ends up precluding good reporting.

Thats her problem!

You know these right-wing pundits often say outrageous things that in any sane society should cause them to be ostracized but has no real impact. When Rush said he hoped Obama failed it sounded to me like the one-off thing that could cause his downfall, or at least cause him some damage. I knew it would be the kind of comment that his notable or political supporters would have trouble defending. It put them in the position of seeming unpatriotic or denouncing him. Which do you think most righties would take?

This can take a backseat to all the minority kids who's lives are ruined due to this country's insane drug laws that unfairly target inner city youth, and hammers them unmercifully.