Ok, now I'm forced to say it... the Republican leadership just seems to get dumber by the day.

Do you think they're taking "stupid juice"?

Now they're trying to say that Obama's supreme court pick is racist. One idiot saying it is just an anomaly, two idiots saying makes them both morons, three idiots saying it is an epidemic of utter stupidity.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/05/27/gingrich-sotomayor-racist-should-withdraw-nomination/

Someone smack them upside the back of the head, please.

So prejudice won in California. I'm disgusted.

I see, so you're happy that prejudice, discminination, hatred, fear, and religious zealotry won out? I'm sorry, I disagree. In fact, I'm ashamed of the California court.

It seems that the American populace is incapable of learning from the past.

If popular consensus had won out during the Civl War, do you think blacks would be slaves now? Or not? The people aren't always right even if they think they are.

This is wrong. Just plain and flat out wrong. Its biggotry and it wasn't ok to do to the black population decades to hundreds of years ago, and its not ok to do to the homosexual population.

Its time Americans started learning right from wrong. And this kind of behavior is wrong. This country used to stand for something called "freedom". People died for that right. It doesn't stand for it anymore when "freedom" only applies to the religious fundamentalist right.

Denying people the human right to choose is NOT justice. Its despicable.

*knock knock knock* Hello?! Are you there??? Can you hear me?

I've never seen anything like I have recently.

All the Republican party can seem to do is spew lies, hatred, division and say "no no no no" like a whiny baby.

We have been telling you Republicans over and over again what the problem is. Yet you still completely ignore all of it to just say "no" all over again.

Are you deaf? Do you hear us knocking? Apparently not. Maybe you need to be knocked up the side of the head with a baseball bat.

How exactly is Obama doing damage by telling the people that received bailout money they can't use it on pleasure trips?

The Nevada governor is claiming that he is. And childishly said that he won't meet with the President because of it.

Shortly put... what a load of selfish crap on the Governor's part.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/05/26/nevada-governor-turns-down-obama-airport-meeting-2/

Who do you support? The decorated Army General or the fat drug addict with the big mouth?

Well, apparently Rove and Cheney support the fat drug addict with the big mouth. Sorry I don't have a link for Cheney but we all saw it on tv when he opened his mouth a few weeks back.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/05/24/rove-sides-with-limbaugh/

Honestly, I don't like Republicanism as you have probably already noticed, but Colin Powell has my respect. He's a good man who has fought in many wars, with a good head on his shoulders.

I'd support him for President if he ran. Thats how much I truly like the man. He reminds me of my stepfather who has to be one of the most educated and intelligent men I have ever met and is a former Major in the Canadian army (he served in Cypress and the Gulf war, among others).

It really disturbs and disgusts me that the Republican right seems to be so driven by Limbaugh. Steele is not their leader even though he holds that title. No, Limbaugh is their leader because all the leading Republicans capitulate to him like mice to a cat. Every time the cat opens his mouth, the mice go running to their hidey holes only to peek out and squeek that they support him hoping that it means he won't eat them.

Why? Even I know that this is not what the Republican party is supposed to be about. The party is supposed to be about fiscal responsibility but they wouldn't know it if it bit them on the ass. They are instead trying to be the moral party. Its time to wake up and tell them to knock it off.

Did Obama create the Gitmo problem himself?

No, of course not. And to suggest otherwise, as one CNN reporter did yesterday, is uneducated and foolish.

Obama never opened the Gitmo facility. He never allowed torture on its premesis. THAT was the Bush administration.

Yes, Obama promised to close it, and he's right.

The only problem here is that there is a minority number of the US public that doesn't want the prisoners on US soil. Which is really very childish as they would present no more threat than the mass murderers, mass rapists, and sadists already in US prisons.

And then there's a problem with the fact that McVeigh and Nichols were both housed on American soil (McVeigh until his execution, and Nichols for life imprisonment) for the Oaklahoma terrorist bombing.

Whats the difference? Yes, those two are American citizens but thats honestly beyond the point. They were also terrorists. There is no difference other than nationality.

The prison needs to be closed. Rather than spending American money on a, for all intents and purposes, foreign prison, on foreign land, it should be spent on US soil.

The rock and hard place does not exist for Obama. Its the people that are creating the rock and a hard place because they aren't thinking things through.

Obama needs to close it because of what it symbolizes and because of the money that is being wasted on foreign soil supporting the prison.

Americans, you need to wake up. We cannot be children anymore. Humanity must grow up. Grown ups don't torture things.

Tired of the lies about Canadian health care.

No, its not perfect but no system is.

There is NOT a waiting line.

Its extremely rare to ever spend 4 hours in emergency. In 33 years, it did happen to me but only once. That was because there was a three car pileup on one of the highways and the doctors were needed to perform emergency life saving care right that second. I just had a sprained ankle. I was fine with waiting for them to save three peoples lives even if I did have to hurt alot longer than they did. I wasn't the one dying.

Yes, some people go to the US for treatment. If the problem is rare, or elective. Because you bloody Americans pay so much, we're losing doctor's to you for these circumstances because they'll make more money. Its something called "greed". Canadians feel it too, you know.

The most I've ever had to wait for a general checkup by an actual doctor (not a nurse practitioner) is one week. And that was because I just wanted to so it fit my schedule.

I'm so tired of the lies about Canadian health care that Americans tell themselves so they feel better about their own terrible health program. None of it is true.

Recently there was a video of a woman in a hospital. She was wearing a hospital gown. She fell down in the ER, face down. Security walked in, looked at her and walked out. Nurses walked in, looked at her, and walked out. Six hours she lay like that and not a one of them helped her despite the fact that they all saw her. Not even any of the patients helped her.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lKUwBCIBzA

This happened in New York. And its not the first time I've seen that come from the US.

I've never ever seen that in Canada. Not once.

Stop being so selfish and self centered.

Enough is enough. Health care in the US needs to change. Period. There is no "ifs" "ands" or "buts". There is no "people are just selfish to want to not have to pay thousands of dollars so they don't die".

It has to stop.

Health is not a privelege. Health is not a business. Health is a human right whether some selfish people in the United States want to think it is or not.

Since when have the GOP apologized for anything?

Despite what Michael Steele says, not a single Republican has apologized for anything. We've heard excuses, we've heard name calling, we've seen childish stamping of the feet, but never once have we heard the words "I'm sorry, we screwed up" from anyone in the GOP while Bush was in office or after he left office.

What is Michael Steele smoking that he's hallucinating so badly?

I wait with baited breath to see how badly he can make the GOP look tomorrow. Its like a train wreck. You know its horrible and you don't want to see it but you can't tear your eyes away because its gruesomely entertaining.

I WANT IT NOW! NOW! NOW! NOW! NOW! NOW!

When we are children, we stamp our feet and pout every time things don't go fast enough for our young minds, and we get bored easily. Everything has to be had right this second.

When we are adults, we are supposed to have grown out of that behavior to understand that patience is a virtue. "Supposed to" being the operative term here.

Never have I seen such little patience as I have the Republicans since Obama won the election.

Within one week, they were declaring Obama a failure. Within one month after taking office, they were declaring his administration a failure. Within three months, they are screaming bloody murder, stamping their feet, and throwing a fit as though their behavior is evidence that everything about him is bad.

It took them 8 years to cause the worst economic decline in the entire world since the great depression. Yet they expect an overnight turn around.

People, Bush put forth TARP with little to no qualifications on who could or should receive the money, and how it should be spent which is why the rich fat CEO's were going on expensive vacations with private jets while their companies were crashing.

Obama comes on the scene and tries to change the terms, then gets a new stimulus pkg created and sent out with harsh terms and conditions - and its working because we are now bobbing like a cork in water - and somehow you expect overnight returns.

Aren't we above this kind of thing as adults? We should be. Its time to grow up and stop acting like spoiled children.

Patience needs to be learned by the Republicans again. Apparently the Democrats already learned it. After all, the Democrats didn't run around in costumes having tea party's when Bush was busy destroying the world.

Why shouldn't we throw dirt on Republican graves?

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/05/13/rollins.republicans/index.html

Ed Rollins, a senior political contributor for CNN, wrote a commentary today on CNN that I think needs a reply. Since we can't reply on the site, I'm forced to reply here.

Mr. Rollins posits that because the Republican party has recovered with a vengeance before, that they will recover again.

While that may be true to a certain level, the Republican party will not survive as it is now. It cannot survive as it is in a world that no longer fits their idealistic view of "the way the world should be".

The Republican party thrives on pointing out, and obsessing over, differences between people and their mindset. They are currently ruled by the far religious Christian right minority and by mostly white elderly rich men. They promote fewer taxes for the rich in a twisted idea of the trickle down economic theory while having just presided over the greatest economic crash since the Great Depression and the worst war-time since Vietnam.

The party claims to simply support less government involvement, and less taxes, while the rich get richer, and the middle class are forced to become poor because their idea of trickle down economics only results in the rich thinking they have more money and everyone else just suffering with what they have.

They don't want to increase the minimum wage, they want to take away a woman's right to her own body, they think their religion should rule all things, and seem completely clueless why this mindset won't work in the modern world.

The Republican party may survive but it simply can't survive the way it currently is.

They need to dump the religious right, the leaders need to actually lead instead of capitulate to movie stars and rich moguls like petulant children, and they need to start relating to the every day person again.

Today alone, they are launching a campaign against Obama's attempt to force the credit card companies to live by rules that no longer screw over their customers. Which is frankly despicable.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/05/14/rnc-launches-priceless-web-ad/

Can you see the lies in this thing and the childish behavior? They could have launched an ad with ideas in it. Instead, they chose to attack Obama with things that they invented.

The Obama's dog was a gift from the Kennedy's, the $780 billion ticket was from the BUSH administration before Obama ever came into power, and so what if someone uses their own money for ringside tickets (people do have to live and its HIS money, the govt didn't pay for it).

So why can't we throw dirt on Republican graves? The current party deserves it and even needs it. Maybe they can dig themselves out of that grave but I don't see how.

I see a party split coming in the future. Its not dead (unfortunately few things ever die when they should) but its floundering.

The childish behavior needs to stop.

This is the perfect time for a new loyal opposition to pop up.

That's the way things work. Survival of the fittest. And the current Republican party isn't fit for survival anymore.

If they win, they will destroy us. We can't allow that to happen.

Democrats have never behaved like this after losing an election.

Reporters busted for cell phone by Secretary Gibbs

How amusing.

At my job, we're told directly that we can't have a cell phone on. While everyone has them anyway, everyone also has the ringer off. Its polite. If the management discovers that we have our ringer on, its taken away until the end of the day because its a distraction to everyone around us, including ourselves.

Its been that way ever since the first job I had back in 1993.

Why would reporters think they're immune to it?

What am I saying... reporters think they're immune to common human decency and don't care whether they SHOULD do something, only that they can.

Silly me.

Check that, Republicans aren't wolves. Wolves are too noble for them.

They're vultures picking each other off bit by bit.

And whatever they may say, it would seem that Rush Limbaugh is their mascot, and Dick Cheney their leader.

Both of them keep shooting their mouths off when their party would be served best if they shut it.

Rush is... well he's Rush. A fat lazy pig bent on angering everyone he meets and an extremist that needs his mouth washed out with soap.

Dick Cheney is trying desperately to defend his behavior because he's getting scared. He could very easily end up spending the rest of his life in prison and he knows it. And he makes it worse every time he opens his mouth.

Do you trust the Medical companies in the US to save $2 trillion in the next decade?

I sure don't.

They want to save themselves money, not the people they support. If it were otherwise, prices never would have gotten this high in the first place.

The only way to solve the health care crisis in the United States is to make it universal with laws so that people can't take advantage of it.

I just hope Americans wake up and realize that.

Health is a human right, and should not be in the hands of companies who don't care whether a person lives or dies only how much money they can make off it.

We don't want the Bush administration to be Prosecuted?

Are you kidding me?

The only people who don't want them prosecuted are the far right. It needs to be shown that no one is immune from the law, not even government officials. If nothing else they need to be prosecuted for that reason alone.

They broke the law. Prosecute them.

The Swine Flu Hysteria is alot worse than the flu itself!

The regular flu kills around 36,000 people in the United States every year. Yet you don't see people going around wearing face masks.

People, you are taking this too far. There has been one death. One. And that child wasn't even from here, he was a baby that came from Mexico for treatment.

Around the world there has been under 1000 cases of flu virus and only roughly 50 deaths, total.

You need to calm down. This is not the plague. Its a flu and not even a very dangerous one at that.

Chill out. The way you're behaving is worse than the Swine Flu itself.