I do!

Right on! Right on! Right on! or should that be "Write on!"

The folks who cut taxes down to nearly nothing for all the ways the top 5% make their money (mostly playing games with other people's money and playing middle men for stuff made by real people and sold to real people neither of which got a square deal), have padded their own pockets and bank accounts with money they borrowed from all of our grandchildren's piggy banks.

Somewhere down the road, the next generations are going to hate us for falling for the same old distraction/bait and switch routine. Look over there! It's abortion, gay marriage, and islamofascism! Meanwhile they high tailed it out the back door with our financial future.

But they took the Fourth Amendment with them, too!

more than i despise the bandits, i despise the 'liberals' who watch this happening and can not figure out, or are too cowardly to say: the system doesn't work, the constitution doesn't work for most, we need change that is not 'new faces', but new laws.

mike gravel's citizen initiative is probably the way to go. or you could just sit on yer liberal ass and watch the country eaten to death by the beltway buzzards.

And tuned in early in hopes that your column would somehow address the convention in St. Paul. While you didn't disappoint, I was sorta hoping you might have borne witness to the free speech/assembly demonstrators and their confrontations with the local, state and national militia. If anyone is in a position to bring some much needed light and enlightenment on that, you could.

In the meanwhile, I agree about Norm Coleman and a whole bunch of others who have been asleep at the wheel for the last 8 years. God, we need our country back, damaged though it is.

Is Garrison Keillor rellay criticizing Gov. Sarah Palin as a "lightweight" while he exhorts Minnesotans to vote for their next Senator from the Democratic Farmer-Labor Party... Al Franken?

This is all in the same column, with apparent seriousness?

The ad is featured in just about every Salon column today, of all days.

She kicks her legs futilely as she is being devoured alive. Will she be swallowed whole or spit back out? Does she harbor any hope of escaping from her ill-fated circumstances?

Only time will tell.

because Al Franken is a lightweight? I have read similar versions of Republican reality this week, Elephantman. Good Luck with those.

Of course I am not a bear, (or you would shoot me) I am the horny young teenage boy who is dating your daughter, and all those daughters across America. Thanks goodness my time has come at last.

Garrison Keillor is more disgusted than I am and I didn't think that possible. Amen to this editorial. NRA Barbie has no business running this country. The last 8 years have been worse than abysmal and IMHO, a vote for the GOP ticket is tantamount to a felony crime.

1) Salon needs a new picture of garrison. The one that is used makes him look like Aunt Bee.

2) Garrison suggests that Sarah Palin isn't up to the job of VP, then moves to a discussion of Al Franken's run for the senate seat in Minnesota. Garrison's logical leaps (Palin is unqualified, Franken is) reminded me of Gomer Pyle, which caused me to recognize garrison's resemblance of Aunt Bee.

Aunt Bee photo, judge for yourself:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aunt_Bee

Is Garrison Keillor rellay criticizing Gov. Sarah Palin as a "lightweight" while he exhorts Minnesotans to vote for their next Senator from the Democratic Farmer-Labor Party... Al Franken?

Hmmm, I don't believe Mr. Keillor used the word "lightweight" in describing Mrs. Palin. No, no he didn't. I went back and checked, and no he didn't use that word. That's your word, but you put quote marks around it as if you were quoting Mr. Keillor. He did however praise her "perkiness", which seems to be the only thing he said about her. The rest of Mr. Keillor's comment in which he speaks directly of Mrs. Palin is about John McCain. Most of the article was about issueless distractions and bait and switch and smoke and mirrors and even silly things like flag pins that, you know, Republicans normally use as a way to win elections. I can see from your comment that your career as a Republican propagandist is coming along quite nicely. Rove must be proud of you.

Now that you mention it though, she really is, and let me quote you directly, a "lightweight". And while Al Franken might also fall into that category in your estimation, he wasn't picked to run for Vice President alongside a 72 year old man with multiple caners and possibly other health problems we are not privy to. But that is no reason to wish for her failure at becoming the next Vice President. It's because of what she believes, which is far scarier than any lack of meaningful experience.

but I just cannot stand the Prairie Home Companion!

Because the sad truth of the matter is that it's not the Bush administration, nor the venal corporatists and their ugly functionaries that are to blame, it's the American electorate. It's especially the American electorate that elects to vote by not voting at all. (Almost 50 percent - correct me if I'm wrong.) That's right: don't vote and you're voting anyway; by giving you're vote away through negation, or at least a portion of it, to someone else who may not have your interests at heart.

With all due respect, how can one expect Americans to understand - let alone care - about acronyms like PSI and IRRF and SIG, if they can't do the simple math on mortgage contracts.

I've come to the sad conclusion that this country's citizens do not deserve the country they live in.

Elephant-guy, self-proclaimed coward, snarks: "Is Garrison Keillor rellay criticizing Gov. Sarah Palin as a "lightweight" while he exhorts Minnesotans to vote for their next Senator from the Democratic Farmer-Labor Party... Al Franken? This is all in the same column, with apparent seriousness?" Speaking of featherweights,

you sure do get around. No surprise, though, that you don't hang around Freeker's Republick, or TownHall, because most of those dead-enders already agree with your 'talking points' (can't say opinions -- you folks don't hold opinions). It'd be talking to the chorus (speaking of choruses and faux-chrisitians, this Sarah is creepy and her church is even creepier, but I digress), and there'd be no joy there, eh, Elephant-guy??

And then you've got LowOrbitGuy hanging out as well. Are you boys looking for a spanking or sumptin?? BTW -- ol' Sarah's Sandpoint (the place gawd would stick the hose if she was going to give America an enema) accent is phonier than George's Texass drawl.