David Sirota

To quote Spinal Tap, "death sells".

Unfortunately, the Democrats are again proving themselves to be the Party of "sold out wimps".

I wouldn't sweat the pettiness -- the article was written by Amanda Carpenter ... HA!

I can't find any reference to David's eminently justified criticism of Pruden at the Center for American Progress site or MediaMatters.com.

I used to line my garbage can with the Washington Times, until it got a rash.

Breast implants? Congratulations. In your opening volley you use women to suggest that health care reform is a wasteful, capricious and vain endeavor. You may have more to say, but you quickly succeeded in pissing me off.

Mark, that's because Medicare is a" halfway there" fix to a larger problem that is our "for profit " health care system. If it's so great why don't we go with for profit fire depts, police, armys, and other core commons that make it possible for capitalism to function?

So he is willing to go out of his way to support garbage legislation that benefits the for profit health insurance corporations over the public good, wow big sacrifice.

Well, good for you, Michael. That's what I'm talking about.

Well put.

"The IQ and life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other going in opposite directions." George Carlin

Faux news! What should we expect from disinformation and lies that they tell

James, some of us old guys just can't get it right. What, close still only counts in hand grenades and horseshoes? Sorry.

@mark that assumes this guy and his ilk are a threat to our nation. They are not. @Shelley trust me we already know more than we need to about rwnj's

I agree we need to face these idiots, but in person when possible, and in great numbers. Take James Inhofe (a bigoted idiot himself), who childishly insulted Senator Boxer yesterday regarding our lack of viable Climate legislation prior to 2010. He is a foolish denier of climate change and people like him, just like this idiot David spoke to, need to be confronted by a vocal and angry mob from our side.

Until then, they think they have the majority, which they sure as hell don't.

the idiocracy is nowhere near power here. what we have is an status-quocracy, dominated by special interests like Wall Street. As to the idea that two old intellectuals have no right to suggest the Prez to rush his AFG decision, not sure of the logic. Only those in the military chain of command should have a right to comment? Almost all of the worst decisions in war are made by commanders in uniform.

Check out my thread in the openleft post. I suggest you change your link for archival posterity...

Like I always say, WWHRD?

Can't both sides of the story be true. Hasan was under tremendous pressure (as is the US armed forces) but he was also beguiled by islamic radicalism.

Yes, Simon, what you say can be true, but that is not what the traditional media are saying. Until proven otherwise, we have to assume that Hasan was NOT part of an international conspiracy taking his marching orders from a cave in Spin Boldak. Wolfie and the rest of his ilk are saying this guy was getting his orders from Al qaeda. Just not the case as far as we know and until that is proven, then we have to assume it is not true.

Of course now we are stuck with Baucus for what . . . 5 more years? Hopefully the backlash against him doesn't hurt Senator Tester.

These sell outs need to be tossed out on their bums.

Thank you David! You keep them coming and I will keep sending them out to papers and friends!

There are no deficit hawks.

It's a convenient excuse to not do stuff, so pet projects can be nurtured in their place. Time and time again Krugman + others have shown that our deficit as a percentage of our GDP isn't even close to danger levels. The truth is the right deficit spending is worthwhile investment in the future of this country.

I remember hearing about the 636 billion dollar defense spending on Countdown last week or the week before. The only thing that went through my mind was the thought of the hypocrisy of it. We are more willing to spend money on our militaristic conquests than help the people at home.