When accurate missiles were developed in the 1970s, bombers became instantly totally obsolete. If you understand this you know where I am going.

Building an airplane to carry bombs makes no sense, but to build incredibly expensive pieces of flying gasoline stations is beyond ignorant, insane, incompetent or acceptable.

Think people, please, think. Making tankers to fuel airplanes that carry smart bombs (actually missiles) makes absolutely no sense at all.

Why isn't some one able to use what to me is totally common sense.

When I was in Vietnam, I walked from Camp Granite through the depot at Qui Nhon to my work station. Every damn day I walked past the enormous park of totally destroyed tanks and crew carriers. You got any idea what a B40 rocket does to the crew? Yet I see we still build tanks and even get idiots that will drive them. Building instant scrap makes no sense to me but I lost my faith in anything in my first two weeks in that country.

Don't ever let me talk about the supersubmarines that we continue to build. Remember when George the Genius let his ol' Texas drinking buddies go to Pearl Harbor and command a fully armed submarine. Now remember that when the drunks yelled “surface, surface” the submarine sank a Japanese fishing boat. No inquiry as to why anyone would let a civilian even be in a nuclear armed sub much less give commands. Also, note that the super expensive insanely overbuilt submarine could not even detect a fishing boat directly overhead. Nope, no questions here. The only people ever killed by those floating disasters in the making were the poor fishermen who didn't know just how ignorant technically the american navy actually is.

Freaking fools rule. Could we get an adult to simply look at the pure freaking waste that is being discussed, please, just one question based on reality rather than raving maniacs.

Can we, please, put an adult in charge? Just for a couple of days would be fine.

Wouldn't it be funny if a Dem replaced him in the next election?

No fair. He's already too easily marked. Ed Schultz made it clear this afternoon, this bull ain't Harry, for a pair of obvious reasons.

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I assume that we in Alabama deserve a thank you for sending you a senator who can finally bring this divided country together in agreement? I think a few billion dollars in defense spending should do it…

*ducks*

I can see why this came out on a Friday. Jon Stewart is going to have a field day with this one. He's really been letting Jeff Sessions have it, lately. There are days that it really stinks to be from this state.

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But, again purely as an observer of political calculation, it will be instructive to see who flinches first. Reid could trot out the best and least controversial nominee and call his bluff on not getting 60 for cloture to remove the hold. Or, they could grease one of the procurement holds for Shelby and buy him off.

The Nelson/Landrieu bribes precedent could haunt the Dems for a long while.

Sadly, this is politicaly good for Shelby, bad for America, and a bipartisan problem.

A spokesperson from Shelby's office said: “He did not confirm that Shelby has taken the rare step of blocking all of Obama's nominees, as was reported yesterday.”

All is not well in the state of Alabama.

First the healthcare thing is a bit different since historically this is how legislation works in a representative democracy, you make deals and often selfish ones to get your way and the way of those wanting to pass it. Having said that I would be happy as a clam to see it end and a different route of representative democracy to be taken but making a deal on a single piece of legislation is very different from an across the board digging in of heels for utterly unrelated “favors”, if that in actuality is what was happening, especially in an anti-earmark anti-pork era when he is supposed to be part of the party that is against it. Not to say some of the deals were not extreme like Nelson's and the like and disgusting just that the issues are a bit different. Both though are large problems in our nation and also are large reasons why we are in the fiscal mess we are in, death by a million papercuts.

Second the same people attacking Nelson and the others that got sweet heart deals backed Lieberman in his quest for the same so both sides are equally dirty in that hypocrisy.

If Republicans as a whole do not step up to the plate and push to end earmarks you can indeed consider Republicans as a whole complicit. Note the weak response of Mitch McConnell.

For assuring agreement from pretty much everyone, that this kind of thing stinks, no matter who's doing it!

Hurrah! Hurrah!