People are born with learning disabilities and lead difficult lives as a result. The use of “retarded” as an epithet perpetuates the notion that these disabilities are shameful or a sign of inferiority.

You wanna poke fun at the conservatives, be my guest. Please leave people who were born with disabilities out of it.

Thanks.

The Troll interviews are on Freaky Fridays. Check in with Dr Pedro.

And it’s too late to do anything about it, the damage has been done, the
Supreme Court has been packed with justice who don’t give a hoot about individual rights, and the President has already proven he doesn’t have to obey the Constitution or any laws of the land, and the American people so passionately supported and voted for this. I can see it now, McCarthyism is returning with a vengeance, and all the tools needed to fight it off have been successfully squashed.

Look at the bright side, if things keep going the way they’re going, that will dramatically cut down on problems with illegal immigration, our country will less and less attractive as a place to move to.

We Are All Dez Jacksons
by Oliver Willis

Related to this entry, and the seeming unwillingness of Democrats to even [...]

She was the former legal head of the ACLU to go along with her other liberal bona fides. She was also a qualified attorney, and the republicans respected the office of the president and recognized that their role was to “advise”…not to decide on the ideology, the was the president’s perogative.

Contrast that with todays senate.

Republicans opposed when we believed it would better the country, not because we were the “opposition party”

And that is EXACTLY the problem with the Democratic party….a huge subset of it believes that.

Thanks trevor, for having the honor to come out and say exactly what you and your party believes.

It isn’t about the good of the country, it is about opposing the Republicans.

OW you should make that into one of those democratic party t-shirts…

However, I think your contrasting the Repubs under Clinton with the Dems under Bush leaves out one crucial factor – namely, that the Repubs had the majority in the House and Senate from 1994 on.
As you well know, the Dems have not had a majority in either chamber throughout Bush’s term (Jeffords’ switch doesn’t really count). Control of the Congress affords a mighty big megaphone.

Moreover, it is my understanding that the Repubs have consolidated their power and made it impossible for Dems to push alternatives in Congress. So I can see why the Dems are perceived as having no voice.

Instead of pointing at ourselves and buying the MSM’s regular blather about Dems being ineffective, we should spend more time kicking the Repubs in the ass and reminding the American public of the numerous ways they’ve been getting screwed by the Repubs. Like you usually do on your site. And like Dr. Dean did yesterday with that fool Katie Couric.

Keep up the good work.

Thank god it’s still a free country………so far.

(ps- bear with me. I’m not havin’ much luck with jpegs or video links.)

http://media.echoditto.com/SOTU.mov

Kennedy and Kerry at least are not bending over and spreading.

What I do want is for the Dems to stand up for something on a consistent basis. I would have felt a lot better losing in 04 if our candidate had been less ambigous about things and didn’t feel the need to have everybody in the world love him.

I would have felt a lot better losing in 04 if our candidate had been less ambigous about things and didn t feel the need to have everybody in the world love him.

And there’s the problem because Kerry couldn’t be unambiguous without losing large chunks of the population.

He couldn’t give his full-throated support to the PP/NARAL crowd without losing all the folks who despise partial-birth abortion. He couldn’t say “out of Iraq NOW!” without losing “security moms”. Nor could he become a true hawk without losing the Peacenik base. He couldn’t smack Bush silly on spending (a legitimate weakness) because every day Kerry had to propose a new spending program to keep all the Left special interest groups in line.

No wonder Kerry appeared so wish-washy. He had to straddle so many disparate constiuencies it left him “stretched too thin”.

PS factcheck:
Would you agree or disagree that the template of criticism of GWB includes variations on “cowboy” and “dumb”? You knew EXACTLY what you were intimating with ‘Merica and you got called on it.