about Ron Paul and his convention.

"The Not Ready For Prime-Time Player..."

I thought this was going to be an Al Franken update. I think you tapped on something Minn. Republicans should be using from now until the election, if they haven't already. "Al Franken, still a Not Ready for Prime-Time Player." 

*****

"People only insist that a debate stop when they are afraid of what might be learned if it continues." - George Will 

McCain keeps trying to give me a reason to not vote for him. As it is, I have to hold my nose just to enter the polling booth, if Bloomberg is on the ticket even that will be tough. The things McCain is saying about oil, etc. and the way he votes on these issues, makes me question if he's really capable of doing what the country needs right now. He'd better hope that it doesn't just come down to judges, since I'm not sure he can be trusted to do the right thing there either.

Democrats: Stuck on Stupid since 2000.

"While groups such as People for the American Way, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, and the ACLU express outrage at any semblance of Christianity in America's public schools, very little clamor has met the emergence of Islam in the same arena. An occasional press release, such as the one put out by the Minnesota chapter of the ACLU regarding TIZA, will surface, but by and large, the arbiters of separation of church and state or in this case, mosque and state, have gone silent. The same can largely be said for the federal government and, in particular, the State Department. No doubt, Saudi dollars and influence are part of the problem."

Islam in America is nicely exposing Islam - and all kinds of leftard crap as well - to way-long-overdue scrutiny:)

Islam has put the left in a very, very awkward position

This will also bring besieged Isreal's plight much more sympathy - and rightly so...

Blogonator-Do What??? Maybe I missed the sarcasm.

I would really like to have a discussion with my liberal CT neighbors about why our state is so bad. All I here is complaints about how high electricity is, gas, taxes you name it. My neighbors won't even fathom that maybe things are so bad because we have a Democratic controlled house and senate. Yes, our Governor is a Republican but she couldn't do anything if she wanted to. CT is paying the second highest gas prices in the US. Why is that because we have some of the highest state taxes in the US. Now we are getting another 5 cent state gas tax increase come July. The price we pay for gas is just one example of how bad things are in CT. There are tons of houses for sale because people can't afford to live here. Of course no one would want to buy these houses because people want $250,000 for one bedroom houses on minimal land. Our electric rates are sky high and Cl&P keeps getting approved for more rate hikes. Of course it doesn't matter if we cut down on how much energy we use. CL&P has gotten smart and now our delivery service rates go up...not our supply rates. My electric bill is double what my parents pay per month in VA. Even with them running central air all summer. I don't have any A/C. I can't afford the $500 to $600 a month electric bill that my friends pay to run A/C. It's cost $180 to get a driver license in this state. You buy a car they don't tax you for what you pay for the car but for the blue book value. I could be here all day. My point is that I get so tired of hearing people complain in CT that things are so bad when they continue to elect the same people responsible for all this JUST because they are Democrats.

Sorry for the rant! It's very frustrating listening to people complain and then they do nothing about it.

at the intersection of clueless and powerless

Yup....to paraphrase the State Farm commercial...The whole bunch of them standing on a big red spot saying "We're SO there!"

That would be awesome. Then my Firecracker popsicle won't melt so fast.

Kucinich does it about every other month. Yawm.

Popeye Pelosi says impeachment's off the table.

The only reason it's getting any mention at all is because Rob Wexler (Obama's Florida campaign chair) has signed on. Wexler is the liberal twit representative from Palm Beach, Florida.

Old news. BTW...this site is about exposing liberal media bias. Where is the bias in letting Kucinich's & Rob Wexler's partisan hackery go unreported? Hmmmmm?

David Gregory, do you know which damn network you lie for? ~ Uncle Jimbo, @Blackfive

I guess your steel trap of a brain neglected to notice that this website is devoted to LIBERAL media bias, not moonbat douchebag media bias. Hell, this story did not even warrant inclusion on the award-winning Shrub Report®.

Perhaps, in the future, you could supress your erection over Kucinich long enough to understand what kind of website you are at, and that it is not 2004 anymore.

I bet it does get lonely living on the kook fringe, doesn't it?

Our Leftist friends who think the government OWES them a doctor free-of-charge will like this even less:

Sun, November 18, 2007 - Enough to make you sick: Government monopoly on health care is killing us financially and literally

By IAN ROBINSON

There is a good reason Alberta spends more on health than any other province in the nation -- $3,695 per person -- and yet we wait longer for care.

The Fraser Institute notes that if an Albertan sees a family doctor -- if you're lucky enough to have a family doctor, which in Alberta is fast becoming a mythical creature on the same order as a unicorn -- and are referred to a specialist, the average wait before actually getting treated is 19.5 weeks.

This is not good.

It is not even up to the sad standard set by other Canadian provinces.

Our American cousins look at such numbers and are appalled.

Yet there is a very good reason for this.

It is because the economic model for our health-care system, in Alberta and across the country, would be instantly recognizable to Josef Stalin and Mao Zedong.

Mao and Stalin didn't believe in the rights of individuals to make economic decisions on their own, and neither do those who become hysterical and cry like little girls denied tickets to the new Avril Lavigne tour when it is suggested an absolute government monopoly on health care is killing us, financially and literally.

We have taken the economic model of the Soviet and Maoist collective farm -- the result of which was generally widespread starvation -- and applied it to the delivery of health care.

Anyone surprised by the fact it doesn't work is probably also surprised Jack Layton isn't prime minister, the sun rises in the east, sticking a knife into a toaster hurts and that you can sit in a Calgary hospital emergency room suffering a serious gallbladder attack for eight hours before getting a shot of Demerol, which happened to the wife of a friend of mine recently.

Despite our institutionalized disdain in this country for all things American, if a U.S. citizen doesn't have health insurance and goes to a county hospital where medical care, as it is in Canada, is "free," the wait for treatment for a gallbladder attack is .... you guessed it ... about eight hours.

The average Canadian, with his much-lauded, universal medical system, is treated like the average American without health-care insurance.

Countries that provide a compassionate and intelligent mix of private and public health care simply do better.

A recent survey of 28 countries that offer universal health care saw Canada place 26th in terms of medical outcomes for every dollar spent, 18th in access to CAT scans and 22nd in infant mortality.

Because of the presence of (gasp of horror!) capitalists in the systems outperforming ours, such as Australia, they have embraced the discipline of the free market, which delivers any product -- from iPods to heart surgeries -- more efficiently and effectively.

We place so low because if you're not rewarded for efficiency ... you'll be inefficient.

We used to have a mixed system in this country.

Some doctors remained in the public system. Others opted out all the way.

Some took publicly insured patients and extra-billed them.

That has all been taken away in the name of equality -- the same sort of equality lauded by Mao and Stalin -- and the result has been predictable.

This country saw health care costs rising and decided it would .... restore free market discipline?

Naw.

We decided to limit the number of doctors graduating and, in a peculiarly Alberta solution, blew up a freaking hospital without having built a new one first.

So we now have doctor shortages and hospital bed shortages and the only people surprised are the same ones wondering how come the sun rises in the same place every day.

 It'd be enough to make you sick if you weren't afraid you wouldn't get timely treatment.  

Res tantum valet quantum vendi potest.

Prester...

And people chide me for my tagline.

"Abstain from McCain"

Thank you MM...thank you Ann.

"Never murder your opponent when he is committing suicide." ~ W. Wilson