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From the comment pages.

“Everything in life is relative. Is Obama perfect? No. Would the GOP do better?  Hell No.  Just because the steak isn’t a perfect medium rare doesn’t mean I’ll send it back and order a can of catfood.”

GOP catfood…that sounds about right.

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Well, that’s what Republican Rep. John Fleming of Louisiana says.

“We are either going to go down the socialist road and become like western Europe and create, I guess really a godless society, an atheist society. Or we’re going to continue down the other pathway where we believe in freedom of speech, individual liberties and that we remain a Christian nation. So we’re going to have to win that battle, we’re going to have to solve that argument before we can once again reach across and work together on things.”

Don’t you love it when complex issues are framed and simplified into clean black and white terms.  Your choice has come down to voting Democratic and perpetuating a godless, socialist society or voting Republican and returning to a time of milk, honey and Christian faith.

It’s a clear cut choice.  I hope those pesky Muslims and gay folks are listening.

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Anthony Weiner on Hardball referring to Dems doing battle with Republicans.

“Democrats bring library books to knife fights.”

True.  It would be nice if both sides would show up with library books but unfortunately, one side has chosen to remain illiterate.  The dilemma for Dems is that one faction of the party is screaming for them to drop the books and start packing knives or risk getting bloodied time and time again.  Another faction demands that they stay true to character and double the number of books they bring to these fights with no thought of resorting to their opponent’s tactics.

I’d like to think the answer lies somewhere between those two extremes.  Definitely keep on carrying those books but don’t be afraid to flash a knife or two when the situation calls for it.  Being ‘right’ is important but it won’t win you any battles when faced with an opponent who fights by a unique set of rules where integrity and truth have no place…an opponent who understands only too well that half the jury who gets to pick the winner is as illiterate as they are.

The proper balance of “books” and street smarts is what’s called for, I think.

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An oversimplification?  If so, not by much.

“This is a choice between the policies that led us into the mess or the policies that are leading us out of the mess,” Obama said. “It’s a choice between falling backward and moving forward.”

It’s always quicker and easier to break something than to fix it…especially when the bastards that broke it keep on messing with the tools required to get it fixed…and when some members of the fix-it team are more interested in their corporate sponsors than actually fixing anything.

And in case anyone forgot, when President Inept left office in 2008, the country was losing 800,000 jobs a month.  That’s quite a fall Humpty Dumpty took and it’ll be quite a job to put him back together again.

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Sarah Palin, John McCain, Rudy Giuliani, Michael Steele take note.

Bill Maher:

“Every asshole who ever chanted ‘Drill baby drill’ should have to report to the Gulf coast today for cleanup duty.”

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Andrew Sullivan…

“And so you return to the Palin conundrum. The sheer crudeness of her rhetoric, the vast ignorance it champions, and the charisma of a beautiful white woman rallying heartland male voters against commie evil is a combination it’s simply impossible to grapple with effectively.”

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Bill Maher…

“I want to just take a moment to thank the Teabaggers. Thank you so much for helping us pass health care, for resurrecting the Obama presidency. I know they’re saying, ‘Why are you thanking me? I was so against it, I marched on Washington with tea bags hanging off my Founding Fathers costume, with a gun on my hip and a picture of Obama dressed as Hitler, screaming about his birth certificate.’ And America saw that and said, ‘I think I’ll go with the calm black man.’”

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David Frum has been under attack by his own party over his criticism of Republicans.  His wife speaks out.

“We have both been part of the conservative movement for, as mentioned, the better part of half of our lives. And I can categorically state I’ve never seen such a hostile environment towards free thought and debate — once the hallmarks of Reaganism, the politics with which we grew up — prevail in our movement as it does today. The thuggish demagoguery of the Limbaughs and Becks is a trait we once derided in the old socialist Left. Well boys, take a look in the mirror. It is us now.”

Sadly, Republicans are not listening…and never will.  Ignorance runs deep.

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How do you argue with this?

“My Congressman, Bart Stupak, has neither a uterus nor a brain.” -Michael Moore

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Communications director for the Democratic National Committee, Brad Woodhouse, on the Washington tea party attendance numbers.

“I’ve been to birthday parties that drew more people. More people attended my wedding than went to the tea party kill the bill rally on the hill.”

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