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Following the release of Gen. Stanley McChrystal's assessment of the situation in Afghanistan, President Obama faces some tough questions and some even tougher decisions, decisions that have the very real potential to have more of an affect on his presidency than the fate of health care reform. Think about it; health care reform, if passed, will not take effect until after the 2012 election. But if we're still in Afghanistan, with no end in sight,...

Bill Moyers does it again, exposing another member of the Republican Party's 'Throwing Stones From Inside the Glass House' brigade, Dick Armey, for the fraud and hypocrite that he is. On the latest edition of his Journal, Mr. Moyers started with a re-cap of last weekend's protest in Washington, D.C. and then launched into Armey:"For most of his adult life their leader has benefited from just the kind of government, tax-supported health care he's fighting...

Oh what a tangled web we weave..."The Washington Post ran a full-page instigating ad in today's paper from Fox News that asks: "How Did ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC And CNN Miss This Story?" referring to the D.C. tea party protests on 9/12."Wrong on all counts:"NBC News had crews on the mall...A Nightly News spokesperson tells TVNewser, "and more than 5.2 million viewers watched our coverage." It was Weekend Nightly's best Total Viewer delivery since April....

Two of the most-heard reasons from the Tea Party protesters as the explanation for their discontent (those who aren't screaming Marxist, Muslim, alien, that is) are that their taxes are too high and government spending is out of control. Crooks and Liars has a list of Ten Lessons for Tea Baggers, here are three which prove how misguided the protesters are on those two counts, not that they would let something like facts get in...

It's funny, but sometimes when we think about civility in politcs we often consider our times to be the least civil. I was listening to America Left on XM yesterday and they reminded me of some things I had forgotten. Everyone knows about the famous duel between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton. Fewer know about the beating done in South Carolina (yup there they go again. I hate using Wikipedia, but it is a well-known...

The long-awaited Senate Finance Committee version of health care reform (photo at left), better known as the Baucus Bill because he is about the only person who likes it, was finally released yesterday, raising the question--this is what we waited so long for? But then again, I guess something this completely and thoroughly bad can't be written overnight. Rome wasn't built in a day and neither was the landfill where this particular piece of...

Never one to let an opportunity to spew his hatred and play upon the ignorance and bigotry of his listening audience pass by, Republican Party spokesman and race-baiter-in-chief Rush Limbaugh said on his radio program yesterday about the incident on a Belleville, Illinois schoolbus:"It's Obama's America, is it not? Obama's America, white kids getting beat up on school buses now. You put your kids on a school bus, you expect safety but in Obama's America...

I tend to be a big picture kind of guy most of the time. That is why so many kind people send me emails about words that have been misspelled. I do the best I can, but I often get so wrapped up in the whole presentation that I get lost in the details. My wife makes the same complaints. I suppose there are some areas where I am detail oriented, but for the most...

Part of the argument against the public option is that the private insurance companies won't be able to compete and will be driven out of business. My response to that is "GOOD." And CIGNA should be the first to go:If for just 5 minutes we could get the Republicans to stop saying "No," and the Blue Dog Democrats to stop counting campaign contributions from their insurance company masters, they might be able see what this...

As a sideline to Scott's earlier blog, it turns out some of those aerial photos of the protesters that descended upon Washington, D.C. this weekend might be fake.  At least one is.  The photograph shown here was touted by Say Anything, a conservative blog, as reasonable justification for the claim of 1,000,000 attendees.    A sharp reader on the site posted the following photograph, proving that the above picture was taken before the National Museum of the American...