I still maintain that the root cause of Bush derangement syndrome is the fact that Bush's presidency can be attributed to out-democrating the democrats. They don't like it when you're on their turf.

Hey d u m b a s s ray ancle, the war is over. Go home.

Wow charles, to criticize the difference between 57 and 58? What kind of a jackoff are you?

My wife is quite happy just handing me her ballot. She never voted in her life until we married.

Dr. Adams presents a good example of what tenure is supposed to be...protection of independent thought, not protection of deadbeats. Dolly, to your statement that he is to fall in line with those who feed him; if that were actually true, there would be no need for tenure. Unfortunately, the rest of the lapdogs in academia value their society and cocktail parties more than intellectual honesty.

Makes me wonder what goes in in MO and TX.

I am not against across the board spending cuts: as a proportion, defense cuts would be much less than entitlements. I think what's aggravating and should be framed properly by the Repubs is that of all the items in the federal budget, defense spending is one of the few that is constitutionally authorized.

BTW, your 4 point list is very astute.

We actually agree. The education I was referring to was the lesson learned from sitting on the sidelines. The two biggest problems our side has is disengagement and thumb-sucking.

"Just because the Obama campaign is running a disgusting campaign doesn't mean it will hurt them. Negative campaigns remain extraordinarily effective." The Cruz-Dewhurst race is one data point that shows that there might be a new normal here. Disgusting campaigns are tailor made for stupid electorates. I pray that the last 3 years have educated at least 50.1%.

Dewhurst lost any support from me when he intervened on Texas' effort to run off the TSA from Texas airports. He chose sides with the wrong guys.