I support 100% the idea of sending Rice and Cheney to the Middle East. Let's start with downtown Baghdad. With the 2 silver-tongued diplomats working together, those dusky Iraqis would stop fighting in no time.

I also nominate Rick Santorum to be sent to Tehran to organize the next bus drivers' strike, and thus bring down the Islamic Republic. I volunteer to start the collection plate, so Santorum can bring along that suitcase full of money. $10 anyone?

Finally, yes, we should give Congressional Medal of Freedom to anyone who smothers a 80-years old sick man in his hospital bed. All I want in return is that all those anti-Castro Cuban-Americans in Miami @#$% take the boats back to Cuba to rebuild that country.

It's no surprise that Anti-Castro Cuban exiles find a political home in the GOP.

They chose to run away from a conflict they might have had an impact on.

And from comfortable distance, and all these years later, still want to dictate how it turns out and what it all means.

Pathetic.

I'm all for parking Rice and Cheney in the middle east. In fact we should park them there until their war crimes trial is finished. They can draw straws with Saddam over who gets the rope first.

Great idea Rick, nothing says "We aren't really sincere about our grievences, but just a tool of the US than a boatload of money funneled into the bus strikers campaign. But hey, if your channeling MLK over this, my suggestion is you go coach on that Condi and Dick flight to the Middle East, hop a bus to Iran (hop a bus, get it?) and then march down the middle of Tehran in support singing "We shall overcome." Let me know how that works out for you.

As for the latest Florida political moron? Well, I think certain historical documents recall JFK having the same idea. Of course, at the time Castro wasn't one and a half foot in the grave like he is now. (Of course I'm no JFK, but I think he might have had second thoughts had he known Raul, not Fidel was in charge, but I digress). Still, if your heart is really into it, a piece of advice. Lay off the LSD laced cigars (he gave them up last decade) and avoid taking open top drives through Dallas; if you get my drift.

The military is what you use to solve a military problem. It is not what you rely on to solve your political problems.

But then, we know that. Dubya, does not.

See: The invasion of Iraq.

The abandoning of Afghanistan for "better targets" in Iraq.

Shooting the messenger instead of taking responsiblity for ANYTHING.

Giving aid and comfort to sexual predators in the House.

No accountablility

Tom DeLay

Jack Abramoff

Deficits as far as the eye can see while the rich get RICHER.

Medicare overhaul that leaves Medicare in shambles.

Everything they touch turns to shit. Do I really need to go on here? Has anyone in recent memory been able to find a group of people who collectively find so many ways to be so utterly stupid? Leave aside the moral and spiritual bankruptcy and let's just address the yawning chasm of ignorance and incompetence. Good riddance to them all!

Damn! Sometimes we overlook the blindingly obvious.

Santorum should have replaced Rice months ago! The man has ideas!!! Hit 'em where it hurts, in the bus!

And definitely put Cheney over there. Well, nobody "over there" is afraid of him because they know he has a deep aversion to real bullets. Besides, he can't smear them and they know it. To Iran he is a stupid blowhard pygmy.

Good to see the GOP remains a fount of ideas, though.

Brownback is a classic example of what John Dean calls a conservative without conscience - a "Double High" authoritarian personality that seeks power and domination for its own sake, considers itself infallible and amorally commits any crime that will achieve its goals.

See also Bush, George W.; Cheney, Richard; DeLay, Tom; Gingrich, Newt ... Need I go on?

The authoritarian/submissives who comprise the largest GOP voting block will always choose the most batshit insane Double High they can find.

It's Brownback, for sure.

Any one of these three ideas might also have come from a Democrat.

Yes, I'm sure the bus strike will bring down Iran.

How do these people get elected?

Hey Norton! Hand me another one of those Molotov Cocktails.

Sorry Ralph, I just drank the last one.

Even if that ever was a good idea, it's about the worst timing you could possibly pick right now. If Castro's not already dead, he's certainly dying, and if he passes away quietly we may have a small shot at a leadership that will enact some reforms and avoid an all out civil conflict. Shoot Castro now, and we'll be the enemy for another half-century.

I think I just had a waking wet dream.

...don't let the doorknob hit you in the ass on the way out! Your exit from political power can't come soon enough.

Sen. Brownback's comments seem primed to take lunacy to heights unimagined even by soon-to-be-ex-Senator Santorum. DICK CHENEY, engaging in crucial Middle East diplomacy? *gasp* Then we see Santorum himself, endorsing U.S. support for a bus drivers' strike in Iran, as an instrument of American policy? Don't know who to bet on in this contest for Craziest Republican of the Month.

As for Rep. Ros-Lehtinen, U.S. policy towards Cuba has been so distorted by fanatically anti-Castro Cuban-Americans for so long, there's literally no way to analyze or understand it. Who wants to bet against this: that Fidel Castro's death will bring little or no real change to Cuba? He's gone NOW, for all intents and purposes. What has happened in response?

I'm asking others here more knowledgable than I am: is Sam Brownback as much a blithering idiot as he seems from the various things I've read as having come from his mouth?

I'm thinking that the phrase "contemptible hack" doesn't even begin to characterize just how unsuitable for any kind of public service Brownback seems to be.

This latest blurb seems to confirm that Brownback is either a rank opportunist, a moron, or both. Does that seem right? To those here who know more about him?

Because if he is as big an idiot as he seems to be, maybe we can hope the GOP actually nominates him for President... Hillary might well win that one, if the Dems are so bound and determined to nominate her.

Seems to me ANY other dem nominee could beat Brownback...or am I missing something?

God, our politicians really are contemptible these days. Where in HELL is Hunter S. Thompson? We need him now more than ever. Who will take up his mantle?