Balances out your little doll and the push pins.

Johnny Carson's political humor was funny. So is Jay Leno, Doonsebury, and Mallard Fillmore. Letterman and SNL are rarely funny about politics these days. From time to time, so is Olberman, though he's an entertainer, not the "journalist" he pretends to be. George Will can be pretty funny sometimes, and Bill Safire can be a hoot with his droll humor. When he tries, Bill Cristol can be really funny.

Russ Logan is often funny. Space is regularly funny.




Believe it or not, I don't hate BUSH, and would be happy to have him and Laura over for a no-politics dinner at my house. He appears to be a nice enough human being, in way, way over his head. It's his POLICIES and his PERFORMANCE I hate. Mostly grades D & F, punctuated by the occasional "incomplete, unable to grade because this makes no sense at all, please rewrite and resubmit with relation to reality".

As I see it, the signing statements are meant in part to offer some protection to executive branch employees in the event of legal challenge.

I can imagine a case in which the court rules the signing statement irrelevant to the interpretation of the law, rules the government's conduct against the law, but permits the signing statement to be used in the defense of an individual.

Most criminal statues require criminal intent on the part of the offender. Perhaps signing statements could be helpful to defendants.

Leno was inteviewed here locally, says he tried to go after both sides, but he hires writers, so who knows what his own politcal humor runs too. Never cared for Mallard, and Doonesbury got old long ago.



You're more the contemptuous type. The rank and file Dems hate him.

Still, my contempt is for his policies and performance. I'm sure he's a great guy to watch a football game with, or have pizza and beer.

I'm not sure of the ordinal rank : Abhor, detest, hate, contempt.

But do keep me at the top, though.

Personally, or politically?

Somehow I just can't imagine you or he having much fun over pizza and beer. (but the press would love to catch him with a beer)

It's become both.

I found him merely distasteful in his early attempt at state politics, and it was political at the point where he became governor, but it was while he was being tutored and before he was nominated that it became personal too.

I had more respect for Reagan and Nixon and understood why they thought they could be President. I think Reagan was merely mistaken, but where it came from made sense.

But shrub has never had the right to think of himself in those terms, and he should know better. I got really incensedat his interactions with McCain too.

And every thought, word, deed and breath since he was nominated.

The in breaths and the outbreaths.

I just find it all too amusing. I used to abhor and make fun of him, but seeing what kind of people hate him, I got used to the idea that better him than people who would be just as happy being Fins, Cubans or Canadians.

aint just dems that hate his evil arrogant ass. Hell his whole evil thieving family.

Keeping a bucket of TNT under your bed and a ticket to Ireland in your pocket is far better than having a Bushie candle in your yard.

I've come to feel better about him personally actually. I resented his dynastical position, easy life of half assed failures, and sponsored rise to power.

Still, there the poor bastidge is, struggling to do his best. He deserves credit for that.

Bush is an arrogant silver spooned tyrant.


He has torn our country apart using his and Rove's wonderful style of politics. He is a known liar and a criminal by any standard we used before 9/11.




Bullsheit. I have no idea how you can feel that about him. It's so crystal clear to me I can't even imagine why anyone would believe a single word he says. especially considering his track record.




Unbelievable. Jesus, what a fargin joke.

farkoff you moronic biatch

which hymn would you care to be serenaded with this evening brother bart?

I'm afraid that there's nothing a person with his beliefs could do to please Dems, and especially leftist Dems. No amount of "competence" or anything else would please them because of basic ideology. I suppose if he'd had some magical plan to stop bin Laden, expose Al Qaeda's plots, made Saddam abdicate, the Taliban disband, rerouted Katrina, and tried to raise taxes instead of lowering MAYBE he would be SLIGHTLY less hated.

Generally I just chalk most of it up to the fact he says he's going to do things leftists don't like, and damned if that isn't exactly what he does.

What he has done, Bush's actions determine how I feel about him. He deserves -0- trust and to pity him is slightly ridiculous considering what Mr "uniter" has done to our country.


And the world.

Preacher, I think you need to look to the moat in thine own eye first.

Ain't no jizzbag like davis got a right to call me bro.

It is mote, moron.

And I think I listened to quite enough of Bart Katz's faith-based, General Jesus, situational ethics BULLSHEIT for years to justify my response.

You remember that oath I took to remind him every time one of those slugs was outed as an immoral douchebag?

Now is my time. I am going to love it.

Shove it up your ass, you farking cocksucking fo'shizzle ridden snake.

Let's see, is that the "morals" part or the "values" part.

Seems like the usual crap to me.

His best so clearly what it is, he should resign for the good of the country and mankind.

He is so ignorant he really cannot see the position he and we with him are in, and for that he gets my contempt.

No, I'd feel that way about Kerry if he'd won - one reason I'm glad he didn't.

First, the mote referred to your lack of Christian or even secular human empathy for the president. Hatred even.

As to Bart- cuss him out for whatever you like, but I think Christian attack is off base.

Davis doesn't remind me of poopy unless someone quotes him. I just randomly tell him to fark off from time to time in an unorganized manner in no specifice order.

Why, oh why in the sweet f--- would he want to do any of that? Nobody, but nobody, has profitted more from any of that than AWOL and his mindless followers. The guy is a thieving moronic embarasment at best.





BS. An unelected liar that has acted like it the whole time. Why act like he wasnt worried about being re-elected? Because he didnt have to worry. The fix was in. Eff him and the quarter or less of the country that kisses his ass.

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I think you're stealing davis' rants.

Dont' worry, the chick party has half of government so the mean old military-industrial complex warmongers won't be able to kill those poor little terrorists or open their emails much longer.

Actually if Bush was merely competent, no one would "hate"him.

It's hard to like a despot. Not if you love America.

I understand some put party ahead of that. I don't. He and Cheney should be impeached. As Americans, we should insist on it. It's an important remedy to the type of outrageous corruption Bush has arrogantly demonstrated. That s WHY it is mentioned six times in the constitution.

No one should be able to get away with the crimes these jokers have committed in our name. No one is above the law in this country. including a Bush, a v.p., or a president. 3,006 American soldiers need SOMEONE to stand up for THEM.

As for the lame "excuse" that others dislike of Bush "pushes" people to excuse the inexcusable deeds he has done, that's got to be the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard in my life.

Sounds like something a peevish 6-year-old would claim upon being proven wrong by a younger sibling. It's contemptable in a so-called adult.

I have -0- empathy for Bush. Period. He is the worse our country could do in a time of instability. He has turned our country into a cultural battlefield. He and his ilk have torn us apart and destroyed what was left of bipartisanship for political gain. Screw that heartless bastard.

As for Bart?


Have that loverly man tell us all how he and his Christian party are inherently morally superior to everyone, being the ONLY REAL OPTION for anyone who has any morals whatsoever. Have him tell me why my dad and anyone else who disagrees with his party is a traitor. OK? That's all we heard during the "morals and values" campaign. If you don't like what I have to say you can just have a nice day yourself. I am enjoying every second of the destruction of what they have created in the last 5 years.

My Christian attack is off base?

Bwahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahha!!!

How about that sack of turds act like a Christian then? Oh right, don't tell him how to practice HIS religion. Suuuuure, it's fine and dandy for that entire party to wrap themselves in Jesus and the flag and act like heartless animals. lol.









I remeber being beaten by "morals and values" I told those folks what I would do. Turn around is fair play.






Ever heard him call everyone north of the Mason Dickson line as elitist, godless, bluestate liberals? Ever heard him and the rest of his Republican faith based goons trash everyone who isn't an evangelical as godless?





Thank you I will.

Payback is a motherforker isn't it? Just wait until the indictments start on the Jesus camp. You think I taunt them now? Wait till some of these lowlife scumbags (but morally superior) gets busted for being god damned extraordinary criminals.

Ever seen me dance?




Morning bee. How's dem morals and values?

Fine. This "clueless, knee-jerk, New England liberal" had to put her hip waders on this morning.

What a bunch of BS.

It's OK.



Just be sure to have Christian or even secular human empathy for the president.

Nevermind that he is responsible for the death of hundreds of thousands of people and the de-stabilization of the Middle East and the entire world. Nevermind that he is responsible for the United States making torture official policy. Nevermind that he is turning the clock back over 200 years and embracing the destruction of our Constitution and all rule of law. Nevermind that he wants to turn us into a police state with no privacy or rights at all.


Try to ignore all that. Just make sure you have empathy.

Oh, I do have that. Just not to the point where I'll excuse a despot. I can't help but wonder at the motivations of those that do.

It's gone far beyond a disagreement over policy. It's all about ego.

Pardon me if I find that incredibly pathetic and even unAmerican.

So, you're suggesting that there may be a distinctive quality to your different ranting styles?


Knee-deep in lapdogs and minions?

In comparison to Bub's utterly boring and predictably childish taunts, they're Pulitzer material.

Mister fister has -0-.

The problem is the people who complain the loudest really do love America and American ideals least. They want to model our institutions and policies after socialist and communist regimes. How becoming more like France is loving America is beyond me.




I hope you never have to live under a true despot if you can't survive the US political system.

How becoming more like the old USSR is loving America is beyond me.

When the government starves and murders 40 million people, then maybe you'll have a case.

I have a case now. There are similarities whether you like it or not. Just saying 40 million dead does not erase the fact that the current administration has undermined the Constitution and all laws that might impede their quest for global dominace. Secret arrests, prisons, torture, spying on us, using any and all means to gain even more federal power?

Sure artie, that's why old Ronnie Reagan defended the USSR. Because he admired them and their inhuman behavior.

You are a case.

Fair enough.

The Democrats hated Reagan for calling the USSR the evil empire when they DID murder, and hate Bush because he's out fighting terrorists and REAL DESPOTS, instead of trying to negotiate with them.

They don't negotiate in good faith. Not with infidels.

Hardly. He's stirring up the rest of the world against us. The man knows jacksheit about diplomacy.

I don't hate Bush 'cause he's fight'n REAL terrorists and despots.

I don't like Bush because of what he has done to our country. Our standing in the world sucks because of him. I also don't like him because he's forced the radical rightwing big business platform on the US using war and terrorism as a vehicle. I think all the bullsheit the Republicans have passed with hardly anyone even remotely aware of what is in the bills and laws is a cheat and a sham. Remeber the freedom tankers? I DO. Most of what Republicans put in bills had absolutely nothing to do with terrorism or stopping it, it had everything to do with using the issue for financial and political gain. A nationwide database of all domestic calls doesn't equal fighting terrorists, it equals big brother. You goofballs have thrown the baby out with the bathwater. Now that it's obvious what's been done you have to support it all.

Protectin' freedom by killing it.

The rest of the world is finding out what happens when you kowtow to terror.Someday they won't just be burning cars in France or killing writers in Holland.

Well look! Theres some more BS.

The problem is I ®aq and it has nothing to do with terrorists. As for despots I'm sure saddam was one back when rummy was shaking his hand doing weapons deals.

What utter BS. Socialist, maybe. Communist? Codswallop. Illogical fearmongering is just stupid. Protesting the more "Stalin-like" edicts from this administration is EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE of what you are accusing the left of.

I guess I should wait until they declare themselves King before I practice that little thing called "eternal vigilance?" If no one had complained or protested, the Republicans would be busy giving more of the treasury away to corporations, likely declaring war in Iran, and spending even less time in the House, (if that's possible) doing their actual job, which is to oversee the OTHER branches of gubmint and govern wisely in the best interests of the Country. Kicking Saddams ass was NOT in our best interest, which is WHY Bush senior didn't do it and no living president approved of it.

I'm with the majority that understand that a freedom lost to fear and bigotry is a freedom gone. Protesting it IS protecting America. Giving the administration a blank check and a warm kiss on the ass hardly is.

YMMV.





The rest of the world manages to catch and lock up the terrorists. That's something we just don't seem to be able to manage under George W. Bush.

The history has been done here repeatedly. Iraq was a Soviet client. Most of it's weapons came from Russia, we gave the tiny bit of help when Carter let Iran go fundamentalist and was in position take over Iran. We didn't want either of them controlling half the oil in the region.

How about we just get off oil?

We have some of our own. How about "we" drill that, and democrats quit oil cold turkey? 50 million people demand electric cars, and somebody would be happy to build them. But you do know electricity isn't free anymore than oil is, don't you?