Why hasn't anyone called Carter a Traitor yet?
 

Please. Calling Dems soft in this way is just the flip side of showing that you're more ready than the next guy to use force on foreigners.

Why hasn't anyone called Carter a Traitor yet?
 

Then these people are astronomically stupid when it comes to assessing risk. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that, if you die before you reach your gender's life expectancy, it won't be from a foreign soldier or terrorist.

Chappa-what-ick?
 

I suspect they are exceptionally principled, and that one of their principles is that the idea of a moderate, fiscally conservative wing of the Republican Party is an amusing little bit of history as relevant to life today as evolution.

Why hasn't anyone called Carter a Traitor yet?
 

You and I don't agree on much, but you have my proxy on this. I have never been able to understand how Dems would be worse on protecting us than Republicans. Other than that silly argument Hank makes about Clinton not taking out bin Laden when he had the chance. I think this is a case where perception clouds facts. That the GOP's leader took us into a pre-emptive war doesn't prove they're the better protector. It proves they've got a wild foreign policy agenda.

Al Gore would have bombed Afghanistan just as ruthlessly. He just wouldn't have gone into Iraq.

And we'd all have higher taxes.

Chappa-what-ick?
 

Still, voting for someone who shares your delusion doesn't make you irrational. Maybe Frank Rich just needs a better Thesaurus.

No, I take that back. He's just a dick.

Idiotic McCain Feingold Bill
 

I haven't read the case, but I am pleased about this decision:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070625/...ign_finance_12

Bong Hits 4 Jesus.
 

If you're going to post today about free speech, why that decision and not also the one involving the Alaskan teenager? Together, the two cases stand for the principle that rich people have the right to buy politicians, but high-school students can't piss off their principals.

Bong Hits 4 Jesus.
 

I'm not aware of that one. What are the facts?

In other free speech news, I'm displeased about the Bong Hits for Jesus case.

Bong Hits 4 Jesus.
 

The Bong Hits For Jesus case is the Alaskan teenager case.

Bong Hits 4 Jesus.
 

If so, then the law hasn't changed a bit. These are two fairly well-established principles of our democracy.

S_A_M

Why hasn't anyone called Carter a Traitor yet?
 

I dunno. Half a trillion dollars spent in Iraq - we could build a lot of solar power facilities for just a fraction of that.

Bong Hits 4 Jesus.
 

Yes, that one.

http://bp3.blogger.com/_YOw3nSLCVDs/.../s400/bh4j.jpg

Why hasn't anyone called Carter a Traitor yet?
 

We'd all have hot showers on sunny days, but it would cost more to drive to work. That's the plan, right?

Why hasn't anyone called Carter a Traitor yet?
 

Or off-shore wind farms.

What's the matter with Central Park West?
 

You may well want to slap Frank Rich, but the book "What's The Matter With Kansas?" was written by a journalist/historian named Thomas Franks. http://www.amazon.com/Whats-Matter-K.../dp/0805073396

I think that his argument is a stupid one, frankly (hah!) -- people vote "against" their economic interests all the time, and the it was lampooned quite nicely as a bit of hand-wringing condescending drivel in Walter Shapiro's piece in the Atlantic Monthly called What's the Matter With Central Park West?

• Why, then, does Central Park West cling so stubbornly to irrational Democratic Party loyalties? The most plausible explanation is that the prickly voters of CPW feel that their traditional moral values (getting into Yale on merit, reading books other than the Bible, cherishing things from France) are not fully embraced by President Bush . . . CPW is an insular and hidebound neighborhood, brimming with cultural resentments unfathomable to outlanders.