The health care effort was the biggest blunder, but was not ruined just by itself, but from a string of things that ruined it, such as the “climate change” lefty politics idiocy in the House (with the Senate having been poised to pass similarly destructive play-pen legislation of its own).  But first came what's still related to the most important thing, the economy.  The stimulus was a fiasco.  I have yet to hear these politicians (the lefty dolts like Krugman already have taken the wrong positions on health care and everything else to date, and no doubt will do this with subsequent issues, too) come forth yet with a rational, sane stimulus plan, that includes cancelling the worst of what they sought earlier (oink, gurgle, oink, oink — squeal!) as well as giving us (voters) something that gives us reassurance that the worst idiocy may be behind us and that they may be acting in our and in our nation's interest — for a real Change [tm].  That would
give us real Hope [tm] as well as relief.

Meanwhile, the idiots such as on Stephanie Miller's girl-kiddie show are screeching that the Dems are insane for not having gone far left.  (That's why so many people in Massachusetts voted GOP, yep…)

When the govenrment, and party washing machines are not on spin cycle, they go to recycle (of ideas).

can now, months after I've listed, time after time, after time, after time, the elements of reform to which Obama and the Dems should have directed their efforts, and likely won passage and public approval, now the Dems and a number of people on the “Moderate” voice are magically, fantastically, brilliantly discovering, or finally stumbling over, the obvious when it comes to health care reform legislation.

It's amusing as can be to see and hear this “incredible discovery” now, over a year later, by others, notably on the Left — along with the outrage at honoring the First Amendment's protection of the right to free speech, continued misuse of the term “judicial activism” by those who have defended it, now dishonestly misidentify it, and who exhibit an obscession with “corporate personhood” along with corporations as demons, while also personifying corporations themselves.  What a laugh.

Tea Partiers are hypocrites AND fools?

Absolutely not!!! I don't think of them anywhere near that highly…

(Or when what's on Hartmann's show at the moment is uninteresting)

Hartmann is his good, old self today, bashing the Supreme Court for its decision about holding unconstitutional constraints on political expression unconstitutional.  Lefty temper tantrums galore!  He's naturally calling it another Dred Scott decision.

Nah, just Rush, even a blind pig can bump into a barrel of acorns, Limbaugh and insulting Sullivan.

That's what I thought.  OK — so since I happen to coincide with Limbaugh on this (actually, with most of the universe, not just with him), I am living dangerously, at risk of being labelled a schmuck.

And the “I didn't see anyone criticizing Bush” argument is a bit worn out. I don't see the sun from my windowless office, but that doesn't mean it's not out there.

Are you saying the people of Massachusetts loved George Bush so much that none of them criticized him?

I know for a fact that none of them showed up to any of his events carrying firearms…

Separately: what does torture have to do with small government and low taxes?

A government that is willing to torture is a government that has no respect for human rights, for common decency, for the US Constitution nor for Signed Treaties ( Geneva Convention) for that matter. A government that is willing to torture is a government that is willing to do anything and it does not matter how large or how small it is.

Okay: I'm guilty. Of all of it. And so what?

It doesn't change that Tea Partiers are a cacophony of many voices; are largely comprised of regular, flexible, pragmatic Americans who advocate small government and low taxes as best they can – including advocating via Tea Party protests. It doesn't change that Tea Partiers protested in 2006 via voting Repubs out of Congressional leadership; then began the Tea Party protests (the first protest most of them had attended, ever, about any issue) after watching, in horror, as Obama's Congress put the U.S. on a course to triple the Bush era deficits.

If you have a consistent, factual, intellectually solid different opinion, please share. Otherwise, enjoy the ad hominem, and tu quoque yourself until you are raw. I suspect it's all you've got.

Separately: what does torture have to do with small government and low taxes?

The cacophony is largely comprised of regular, flexible, pragmatic Americans who advocate small government and low taxes as best they can – including advocating via Tea Party protests.

Funny, I don't remember any of these people saying squat when GW Bush was starting two wars without figuring out how to pay for them, or giving tax cuts to billionaires and destroying Clinton's surpluses, or when he decided that torture was official US policy…

Far left has taken over Democratic Party, Sen. Bayh says

My suggestion to Senator Bayh is that if he thinks the Party has gone to far to the left, he should leave it, either become an independent or really go all out and join the Republican Party…

PS. This holds for any other Blue Dogs who think the Party is to far to the left.