If a war with Iran is going to be the Bush response to an Obama election win, then we need to put impeachment back on the table.

Bush is worried about his legacy, whatever the hell that means. Impeachment would be a strong behavior modifier.

It's been a popular ploy on the right to foist the America is a Christian nation myth since the merger of the social conservative and the backroom cigar fogies. The Treaty of Tripoli, ratified by the entire Congress very early on (which gives clear guidance to the intentions of our founding fathers) is apparently not enough to dissuade some folks. Now the Skeptic Report has chimed in with a great analysis of how far at odds the Ten Commandments are to our Constitution. Indeed.

Thank goodness too. Enforcing the first commandment? Or the second? How exactly would we do that again?

What a joke. I'm glad the loons on the right are finally being shown for the frauds they are. When they were at the apex of their power in 2002 they were a downright scary little bunch. Or, the rhetoric was scary anyway. Now they just look kinda stupid. "Christian nation" my ass. Get a grip. Idiots.

The McCain's have been dodging the property taxes on their seven different hours for four years now. That's incredible. Of course, he won't be fined for it, nor will the right wing media even mention this.

Seven houses? Now that's a guy who is in touch with the average American. Hell, I only own ten houses myself...

Dodging taxes and getting a sweat overlook deal by the IRS. The privileges of Congress baby.

Straight talk express my ass.

Normally I would close the browser tab immediately on this kind of thing, but something convinced me to stay and listen to the song and I'm glad I did. The payoff for me came at the end when he sings about talk radio (e.g. hate radio.)

Is still a lying piece of shit. You go girl.

Thanks to the new Top Two primary, candidates can choose what party label they want on the ballot in November. As we reported on June 11th, Dino Rossi will have "Prefers G.O.P. party" next to his name, which is clearly a scheme to avoid having the word "Republican" next to his name.

Or as one of their candidates admits in this newscast:

"There's 30 percent of the people in this state that would not vote for a Republican no matter what, and we want to get around that..."

Just 30%? Apparently this guy is convinced that thirty percent are also so stupid that they won't know he is a Republican if it says G.O.P.

I'm usually not much on cross-linking to the "lists of" type posts, but this is a good one; the 25 worst rap names. A choice few favorites: Matlock, Atoms Family, Kingpin Skinny Pimp.

Can someone please explain to me how medicare and medicaid are not the dreaded socialized medicine. It sure as hell looked like socialized medicine to me when I took my father to the doctor.

What amazed me about it was how well it worked. I was able to book an appointment with a doctor on the same day if we had wanted. The service was good. The doctor was professional. The rates were reasonable. What's the problem?

This reminds me of Australia. We had no issues at all with health care in Australia even though it was (spooky music) socialized medicine (ahhhh!!!) We always got seen right away. The doctors were well qualified and professional.

I think it's socialized medicine, it's income redistribution, it's everything the Republicans hate. So why don't they fight against it. Because blue hairs are a big constituency and they love Medicare. They've even conned themselves into believing that it's not socialized medicine.

Can we just fix this please? Can we finally get health care that is transportable between jobs? Health care that won't deny every claim? Health care that won't dump you like a hot potato when you actually get sick? Please?

And for the people who would deny us such health are (even though we are the wealthiest nation in the world) could you please come up with some type of better argument than universal health care being a stepping stone to communism. It's not. Every other civilized country in the world has it, and they aren't communists. You have been duped into this fear mongering about "commies" by talking heads who are in the pockets of the health insurance lobby. Think for yourself! Don't deny yourself decent medical care because Hannity likes to line his pockets with blood money.