In point of fact the Bush Lied Mantra emanated from Bush's lies.

And under what conceivable definition is Karl Rove a conservative?

Obama derangement syndrome, both in the style to which this author has so clearly and repititiously succumbed, and in the cruder version displayed in the comments, which he so clearly and dearly enjoys stimulating, is an exceedingly ugly thing.

I really, really tried to follow the "logic" of this piece but the only fair conclusion is that it doesn't exist. The argument seems to be 1) We have a serious deficit problem, 2) We must blame said problem entirely upon the recently enacted health care legislation (despite the fact that there is no economic consensus that it will add to it) as opposed to say, an unecessary war we didn't pay for or the unfunded bribe of free drugs to senior citizens in exchange for their votes, 3) The new drilling in question will generate revenue, and 4) The generation of such revenue is a bad thing because we must only consider said revenue to be a partial offset for the costs I speculate will be generated by said health care legislation.

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The crazier the cult, the more unhinged it becomes over any perceived acts of apostasy.

1. It's dumb because you can't say that you are taxed enough already and terrified about the deficit, but don't want people messing with your entitlements or your military all in the same breath if you have a third grade understanding of arithmetic.

2.It's dumb because it has a high degree of tolerance for birthers, racists and other random lunatics.

3. It's dumb because it draws "intellectual leadership" from dolts like Glenn Beck, Michelle Bachmann and Sarah Palin.

4. It's dumb because it sustains the fantasy that you can craft 18th century solutions to 21st century problems.

That's a start. Talk amongst yourselves.

Nope, to the best of my knowledge those are all accurate statements. The apparent anger behind them may get you close to the line, but I would agree that you don't cross it.

This is probably a lost cause but let me try again. There is a fundamental difference between making an accurate empirical observation about race and being a racist. Stating the the tea party movement is overwhelmingly white, like stating the the NBA is overwhelmingly black, doesn't mean that you are a racist, it means that you can see. Mr. Barone did the same thing at the conclusion of his column when he placed "racial minorities" on the other side of the fence he constructed, but I don't see you lobbing any ridiculous accusations in his direction. The tea party movement isn't dumb because it's white, it's dumb because it's dumb.

As I understand your logic, such as it is, since you consider me to be from the left and since you consider some specific inviduals on the left to be racist, I am, ipso facto, a racist, despite your failure to reference to any supporting evidence for your position. Well played sir. By the way you might want to either learn how to spell or invest in a spell checker.

Nope. And you?

As ridiculous as she always is, at least some of Ms. Coulter's criticisms of the legislation here are in fact valid. Had the Rs had some interest in coming to the table as opposed to functioning as the party of permanent petulance, some of these problems might have been addressed.