In the same vein, why is it a reflex reaction to assume that those of us who live outside of the Beltway or far away from either coast are automatically assumed to be too daft to understand 'politics'? Knowing right from wrong doesn't take an Ivy League education, only common sense.

When did this country switch to looking at everything through a legal prism vs. the traditional right/wrong method? Over the last few months we've seen in full high-def clarity they aren't even close to the same thing-as if it weren't completely obvious before that if we'd have been paying attention in the first place. Turn off the reality TV and start participating in the reality beyond the remote control.

The quickest way to turn the country around? Start with 'number one'. Instead of going into personal attack mode at the first hint of criticism look in the mirror. There is a difference between constructive and destructive criticism. Americans have simply lost the ability to know the difference.

Can anyone identify the exact date when reporters stopped reporting?

If there's really anything to take from Max Baucus showing the world he's just another run-of-the-mill D.C. hack for nominating his girlfriend for a government position, no pun intended, its just how completely incestuous the US Politburo has become.

A new opinion of 'Global warming' in Hurricane Algore's own words: He lied to us. He played on our fears. (Make sure you're screaming them)

Republican pundits and talking heads yap loudly about having a tent big enough for 'diverse opinions'. However, nothing is more of a turnoff than ridicule from the Republican elites for being an independent with views closer to libertarian than republican. Hearing highbrow scorn from folks who don't tend to land anywhere in between when traveling from one coast to the other sends the message that voters with differing values really aren't welcome.

Would it now be an easier accounting for women who haven't slept with Tiger Woods to come forward? I've lost count.

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Pre-Traumatic Stress Disorder? Sounds like just another lame excuse for not getting out of bed in the morning.

As long as we're creating new excuses like Pre-TSD, consider Political Prisoner Inadequacy Syndrome. Trauma will be widespread when average Americans are jailed for failure to purchase health insurance. Will we truly be jailed just for that? Will Amnesty International and the ACLU plead our cases if/when this silliness becomes law? Will Nelson Mandela or the family of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn point at us and laugh?

Not that I distrust the Illinois Connection but who in that state is going to be profiting from the prison for terrorists that's likely going to operate there?

On the same line, its time for the country-clubbing president to have his frequent flyer miles revoked and get his butt back behind that big desk.

Senator Mary Landrieu. A few hundred million dollars. In DC and Louisiana what she did might be called 'politics'. In the real world there's a different 'P' word for it.

As long as we're seemingly in the mood to soak the 'rich', and in the spirit of fairness, how about a tax schedule that more accurately reflects the attitude of the country toward our elected 'leadership' in DC? The 'rich' who make exactly 174,000 dollars a year are taxed at an 85% rate, the 'rich' who make 193,4000 at 90%, and anyone making 223,500 feels the pinch of a 95% rate. Maybe then our esteemed Politburo, uh, sorry, Congress, would start feeling the frustrations that average Americans feel.

Decent speech by the President at the memorial service for the Fort Hood victims, but why does doing or saying the right thing always seem to take him longer than it should?

When I hear a Democrat say 'bipartisanship' I hear 'we need a Republican on board to blame when our idea doesn't work'. And yet the Republicans fall for it over and over. Time to replace the elephant with a picture of Charlie Brown holding a football.

Robin Williams once joked about English law enforcement procedure concerning unarmed police faced with a fleeing criminal: Stop, or I'll say stop again. Who knew years later this would be adopted as Obama administration policy toward Iran, and North Korea, and Afghanistan, and terrorism, and you get the idea? The only thing that so far has warranted a stronger Obama stand is the destruction of criticism and dissent.

Anyone see the photo-op cheshire cat grin of Imelda Pelosi being serenaded by fellow Democrats applause Saturday night, after the passing of that unconstitutional health care bill? I can't see that picture without adding the caption 'Look how much money I just spent'.

Can someone please tell Bill Clinton that the real conspiracy is how Al Gore is still somehow living on the government dime.

Where'd all the war protesters go?

Before the moon was bombed shouldn't we have given UN sanctions a chance, or at the least sent Hillary Clinton there to open a dialogue? Maybe even add the moon to the presidential apology tour list for landing there in the first place.

I guess its safe to assume that the wind beneath Bette Midlers' wings isn't Glenn Beck.

The NFL and its esteemed commissioner Roger Goodell carry the scent of hypocrisy once again. Goodell couldn't even hold Larry Johnsons' actual homophobic comments to the same standard as he did the imagined comments attributed to Rush Limbaugh.

What is diversity? Hearing a caller to a national sports radio show saying Limbaugh is blatantly racist because he's from Missouri, and that the Midwest is naturally racist because there's 'no diversity' has me concerned. Is diversity a region predominately white but with varying opinions stemming from differing ethnic and religious influences, or is diversity represented by a political party whose members all parrot the exact same words?
I guess diversity means Democrat.

Why is it whenever a member of the US Politburo, sorry, Congress, cites a statistic or percentage it sounds like they've made it up that very second?

If anything written here led you to believe I'm Republican, not hardly. I left back in 1990. Watching The Dede and Newt Funtime Road Show further cemented my feeling that Republicans are low-cal Democrats. Flipping the bird to the voters they're supposed to be courting by running candidates like John McCain and Dede Scozzafava, and then trying to justify it with a bend-over-and-accept-it attitude is a great way to ru(i)n a political party. Do I support third parties? No, but I understand the anger and frustration that comes from being ignored by the party leaders who've been holed up in DC for so long that they've lost the ability to relate to, or for that matter even talk and listen to, ordinary people.

If either party spent even half as much time protecting the greater interests of the country as they do playing politics they'd never lose another election.