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Carville and Begala, eh? You might want to Google News for Carville OR Begala and see how much impact Carville and Begala are making in the news…

Because to do so would be an admission that the Dem media/communciation strategists (Emmanuel/Carville/Begala) completely f'd up. Their brilliant scheme has resulted in enabling just 3 men, not exposed to any reelection risk, to now have formidable negative leverage against the entire Dem party.

What remains to be seen is whether the elected Republicans can be disciplined enough to leverage off of this and start taking back some ground via the higher road.

The elections in NY, NJ and VA will be the first thing that actually matters. The next 6 months of crying and whining at TMV won't.

You can't have it both ways.

And if the dwindling “drill baby drill” crowd thinks resource depletion is a belief, rather than a fact, take a look at oil, water, copper, lithium, uranium, zinc, cement, aluminum and molybdenum prices and the race against China and India to lock up supplies. Then look at the global food resources that big players are locking up. You guys are in fantasy land. Not me.

“Save the humans”. The earth will be around long after we have used up all the fresh water and polluted and poisoned our food supply and atmosphere beyond human threshold.

Consistently the debate has been between dumbed down, simplistic talking points versus nuance and reason. The more intelligent, thoughtful and reasoned arguments of the right do not make it on the air because its not good entertainment. Same with anything other than the most extremist left wing rhetoric. Modern conservative thought, as portrayed, is misanthropic, paranoid, greedy, give-me-mine narcissism. It resonates very well with a populace that wants car wrecks, groin punches and celebritantes without their undies. Despite the relatively small percentage of people who actually believe what a Rush or Savage spews, it inevitably keeps people's attention because of its inflammatory tone. (along with misspelling, and outright lies)

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Seems that Stickings and Greendreams are members of their own “less than 20% of the public share their philosophy” group. They are as out of touch as the people they continually criticize for being so.

Where do you come up with that stuff? Off the side of granola boxes?

If it wasn’t for voices of reason like Limbaugh and Gingrich, the airwaves would be filled with junk-science garbage like the craziness in your comment. There are a number of weak minded people who would actually believe some of this “save the earth” line regardless of the actual facts and this would compel them to try and impose their minimalist insanity on the rest of us.

I'm surprised Michael that you don't bring up the fact that Carville was the one who put the focus on Limbaugh. One would think that with Dems in control of everything right now, a little focus would be put on them, especially when they voice some sort of disagreement with the President's policy. The only reason why Limbaugh is winning, or why Cheney's toilet approval rating is climbing is because so many in the media keep talking about them, making them more important than they are. And this is some nefarious plot by the conservative media? Give me a break.

We do need to change the narrative, and in part the growing portion of the media outside what is considered the MSM is having that effect. The other and more significant change is in the demographic changes our country is going through. Fewer young people are supernaturalists than in any generation, diluting the “God vs the Devil” story with God on our side and everyone else the Devil's work. I hope this is happening in other cultures and believe it is (see “reading lolita in Tehran” for example). As young people become less gullible in buying into the world-as-Hollywood-blockbuster mentality of the MSM, our global culture will change too.

Similarly, as fewer Muslims buy the “America as great Satan” line, global tensions can decrease. As more young people think of their futures, the future of the planet, the need to build a sustainable future, rather than always viewing life as a fight against “other”, we can get on to the real work ahead. It's no longer about defeating our enemies or protecting ourselves against them. It's about rebuilding our countries into strong allies in securing a future in a world of declining resources, increasing population and global challenges of environmental degradation and the struggles for those dwindling resources. Those dwindling resources are not just oil, but water, clean air, arable land, minerals and more. And our new model, which presents huge challenges, is to build an economy that isn't dependent on depleting resources at the maximum rate and rather, toward making things to buy and sell that don't waste what little is left.

How will they suggest the problem be handled?

When faced by the same problem, Stalin shot some of his detractors and imprisoned the rest. Castro shut down the opposing radio stations and jailed the operators. Saddam, as kind a kite flying leader as the world has ever seen, fed a few of his critics to lions in his zoo.

People would be less prone to think of liberals as crazed anti-American radicals if voices like Limbaugh and Gingrich were silenced, and as E.J. says, there’s much work to do.