This is why the Democrats should start being more assertive against the RepublicansHaven't we gotten past all this Ayn Rand-style nonsense by now? It's like people don't remember the lessons from the Great Depression. If FDR had only authorized programs that were pre-funded, the country may never have made it through the catastrophe. The New Deal ( Read more... )

This is yet another sad day for America, with the inauguration of the Cheney-clone Chris Christie as governor of New Jersey and the election of an apparent Teabagger to the seat held by the late great Ted Kennedy. I have to conclude that Americans have the long-term memory of an amnesiac fruit fly, it's only been a year since we got ourselves out ( Read more... )

More Republican nonsense, courtesy of Bobby JindalApparently Jindal's trying to position himself as the new party leader, taking Michael Steele's "disastrous" snub of Rush Limbaugh as an opportunity to ingratiate himself to the cigar-smoking power behind the throne. To anybody not living within the bubble of Republican stupidity, praying for the ( Read more... )

It never ceases to amaze me how the Republicans forget who got us into this messCastellanos may not have had anything to do with the Bush administration, I really have no idea. He certainly did have something to do with Mitt Romney, who ran like the rest of the Republican lineup on the promise of continuing the failed policies of Bush and Cheney ( ( Read more... )

John McCain needs to ask himself whether people actually care what he saysDoes he think that he actually won the election and that he's president now instead of Obama? We voted for Obama, not McCain, and given his very high approval rating it seems that Obama has managed to win over even some of those who voted against him in the election. Worse ( Read more... )