that chair you're using to hit 'em must be in pretty bad shape by now. :)

Did I see 5 committee chairs voted against a bill Nancy wanted? She had the votes, she didn't twist any arms.

Tell me folks, are the Republicans hero's now for not voting for this thing?

And wasn't Obama taking credit on ABC's Sunday morning's show with George?

have had their collective head handed to them on a platter. It is a dish most richly deserved."

And if they would only lose on November 4, they would have their collective asses handed to them,too.

Then WE would get what we deserve... Hillary in 2012!

And light it with a blowtorch:

OBAMA: Well, I think there are a whole host of areas where Republicans in some cases may have a better idea.

WALLACE: Such as?

OBAMA: Well, on issues of regulation. I think that back in the ’60s and ’70s a lot of the way we regulated industry was top-down command and control, we’re going to tell businesses exactly how to do things.

And you know, I think that the Republican Party and people who thought about the markets came up with the notion that, “You know what? If you simply set some guidelines, some rules and incentives, for businesses — let them figure out how they’re going to, for example, reduce pollution,” and a cap and trade system, for example is a smarter way of doing it, controlling pollution, than dictating every single rule that a company has to abide by, which creates a lot of bureaucracy and red tape and oftentimes is less efficient.

Spoken by The Prescient One on April 28, 2008.

Tell me again - which party does this guy work for? Today that is. I already know which one he'll be working for tomorrow...the other one.

We can admit that we're killers ... but we're not going to kill today. That's all it takes! Knowing that we're not going to kill today! ~ Captain James T. Kirk, Stardate 3193.0

Did anyone catch Pelosi calling House Republicans "unpatriotic" for their role in the hold-up this bill? Really? Are we really going to start using their old bludgeon, and especially on something Democratic leadership shouldn't even be passing in the first place? Has this world been turned completely on its head? Hell, even old Denny Hastert wouldn't have said such a thing during sensitive negotiations like this. I'm glad she said it, it helped sabotage the passage, but if she were actually trying to get something necessary passed, we'd have been in trouble.

You know, barring the financial industry even recovering to its state directly before the crash before electionday (and that's simply not possible), Obama is going to win this thing. This crash is a gift to him, no matter how many times he drops it or tries to return it. But, damn, we're going to have one of the most ineffective governments we've seen in a long time. Unlike the Bush administration, I don't even think they are capable of getting corruption right. lol

There simply isn't any real leadership at the top of this party. It's certainly not coming from Obama, who's denounces the Democratic Party every turn he gets. He's running some kind of parallel party that just so happens co-opt the Democratic Party 'leadership.' It's not going to come from Harry or Nancy, that much is apparent. In the absence of any real leadership, they are simply going to get pushed and pulled by those authoritarian forces in the Republican Party.

Rarely have I seen a majority see itself a minority party and govern as such. They could have 60 seats in the Senate and still govern as if they didn't know how a majority governs.

This quote:
This was the plan and these were the people that the Democrats decided to fight for.

IMO, this should be the call to arms for any actual liberal or *cough* progressive Democrat. All the things we've demanded, all the things they promised when we turned out for 2006 - this is who they choose to fight for and protect.