Thanks so much for your wonderful and spot on entry, you said it much better than I ever could as you usually do. You really hit the nail on the head.

America should always come first and trump party affiliations but it never does with the Repubs. They and any Dem politician that support and agrees with them doesn't ever deserve to win at politics or at life.

Wow Ebonius you really said it, bigtime.

Hastert lives with his male chief of staff? Scott Palmer is a "housemate?" Sounds cozy, but Scottie would have to love fatties! Is this a rumor that has been, is, or could be pumped?

OK, just enjoying the whole kick-them-while-they're-down thing too much.

So that's what man-boy love looks like...eeewww!

The president has an excellent record for supporting incompetents. His support of Hastert should come as no surprise. Bush leads us to believe that, like every other problem he can't handle, this is a difficult and complex matter that will take hard work and determination to solve. Only someone with Dennis Hastert's experience as a wrestling coach and vast girth can solve. In point of fact, the Foley incident is a no-brainer. Most businesses would have escourted Foley out the door for sexual harassment in 2000. But, somehow the people in charge of making the difficult and complex decisions about our nation's future can't seem to figure this one out.

Hope for the best, but expect absolutely nothing to change in November. I've been -- like everyone else I know -- too disappointed and disillusioned before to count on anything, no matter how things seem to be shaping up. Republicans are too ruthless and crooked and the Dems are too spineless to expect anything for sure. But here's to hoping.

The SECRET GOVERNMENT of George the Bush.

"Don't ask, don't tell"; it must have been those CLINTONS.

Pull the covers up, Laura, Denny, Tommy, Dickie or Jane.

Bush said yesterday that he was "proud to be standing with Dennis Hastert today."

You see, this is Bush's problem. His pride.

Pride is one of the seven deadly sins. In fact, it's not only one of them, it's the first one listed in the group enunciated by the Roman Church in the 14th century when people were big on defining and listing sins.

"Superbia" (hubris/pride), as it was called, is known as a "deadly" sin, one from which there is no repentance, because those who cleave to it are doomed.

Try as I may, I can't think of any other person in public life who loves to flog his pride as much as our Chimpy. He's proud of this and he's proud of that, he'll be glad to tell you on any occasion.

He's even proud of his ignorance. Although he knows better, he delights in mispronouncing the word nuclear as nu-cue-lar. He knows better. But he's proud of his assinine malapropisms and loves to poke his finger in the eye of all educated people. With just a single mispronounciation he is able to give the middle finger to those he fears are more intelligent than he is and at the same time he demonstrates to the uneducated and ignorant that he is one of them. Now that's pride!

Chimpy's pride is reinforced because despite the odds, he has made it to the top. He has concluded that he must be a genius because he is the president. He refuses to admit that it wasn't his own intellect that propelled him upward, but the hard work of a host of men and women, friends of his father mainly, that have labored many years to hoist him up in spite of his shortcomings.

That's pride!

I don't believe in deadly sins, or any other kind for that matter. But I still do believe in the wisdom of some old sayings. One I particularly believe to be true is: "Pride goes before a fall."

Let's hope it's soon.

Geeze, you guys, can you be a little more careful in your headlines? You are creating images in my mind that are more than a little discomforting. I'm sitting here with my coffee, OJ and rye toast and the first thing you make me think about is Denny and Dubbya in wrestling togs sweating on a mat.