What seems to be going on is that the Republicans are now paying the price for not paying attention to substantive policy matters for all these years.  Now that we've got a Dem. President and Congress, the GOP is reduced to standing on the sidelines, whining and stomping their feet.  They don't even have the wherewithal to be a useful and legitimate opposition party, because they have nothing to say.

It might be possible that the fools have lost their minds and are playing with their toys in the attic. But, agter watching the talkies this AM, I have to tell ya- the gindals, the sanders, the wills- they are simply evil. They have chosen to represent the insane ones that believe that it is OK tp see thousands if not millions of the citizens of this country sleeping on the steam grills of our cities. They have chosen to represent the insane ones that appear to be ok with the idea the markets will fix themselves without any assistance whatsoever.
  I wonder what the insane ones will say when the crime rate skyrockets and the lppting begins and the tent cities spring up all over this country.
 Oh, I know- build more prisons! Then we can employ more people!

"The lunatic is on the grass.
The lunatic is on the grass.
Remembering games and daisy chains and laughs.
Got to keep the loonies on the path.

The lunatic is in the hall.
The lunatics are in my hall.
The paper holds their folded faces to the floor
And every day the paper boy brings more.

And if the dam breaks open many years too soon
And if there is no room upon the hill
And if your head explodes with dark forebodings too
I'll see you on the dark side of the moon.

   They don't run the asylum anymore and they have all but burned it to the ground. Still the lunatics try to set more fires.

"We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; now we know that it is bad economics;" - Franklin Delano Roosevelt

that it appropriates nine billion dollars for their education system alone.

For the love of Pink Floyd...these bastards have decimated the California education system.  As of this latest budget, California will become No. 50 down from No. 47 on school spending per child.  They should be praying we get more federal aid.

`Why do you sit out here all alone?' said Alice, not wishing to begin an argument.

`Why, because there's nobody with me!' cried Humpty Dumpty. `Did you think I didn't know the answer to that? Ask another.'

`Don't you think you'd be safer down on the ground?' Alice went on, not with any idea of making another riddle, but simply in her good-natured anxiety for the queer creature. `That wall is so very narrow!'

`What tremendously easy riddles you ask!' Humpty Dumpty growled out. `Of course I don't think so! Why, if ever I did fall off - - which there's no chance of -- but if I did -- ' Here he pursed his lips and looked so solemn and grand that Alice could hardly help laughing. `If I did fall,' he went on, `The King has promised me -- ah, you may turn pale, if you like! You didn't think I was going to say that, did you? The King has promised me -- with his very own mouth -- to -- to -- '

`To send all his horses and all his men,' Alice interrupted, rather unwisely.

`Now I declare that's too bad!' Humpty Dumpty cried, breaking into a sudden passion. `You've been listening at doors -- and behind trees -- and sown chimneys -- or you couldn't have known it!'

This is so sad.  Look what happens when you don't get a Head Start.  

What a curious thing it is to watch the Republican Party march down the road to collective suicide. Their leaders for the most part refuse to acknowledge their present situation and the profound part they played in the economic-banking-military-industrial-diplomatic f..k up that the USA has become.

For my part I say good riddance to these selfish and evil people.  I hope they don't take down the rest of the country with them.


Suppose you scrub your ethical skin until it shines, but inside there is no music, then what? Kabir

Crazy, Over the rainbow, I am crazy,
Bars in the window.
There must have been a door there in the wall
When I came in.
Crazy, over the rainbow, he is crazy.

Delivering a speech before the Young Republican National Federation yesterday, George P. Bush -- the son of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush -- ripped current Florida Gov. Charlie Crist (R) for being a "D light" (Democrat light). "There's some in our party that want to assume that government is the answer to all of our problems," Bush said. "I'm not going to name any names," he added, but told the crowd, "You know who I'm talking about."

Ask Meg. Whitman, x-eBay (founder and CEO) why she wants to run for Gov. of CA in 2010.

she has toys in her attic.... maybe those she bought from the leftovers on eBay.

Well, "You can't vote for war and disown the results"

Thanks very much booman for the sunday morning laugh!

More threatening, Ernie Konnyu, a former Bay Area congressman, has launched a campaign to recall Maldonado

I'm guessing the LAT doesn't know much about Ernie except that he was in congress once. Maybe they could have looked at wiki or something. Maldonado has made some enemies obviously, but Ernie Konnyu isn't any threat.

He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1986 ...Konnyu's one term in Congress was scarred with several claims of sexual harassment. A female member of his staff complained that Konnyu told her to remove her nametag because it drew attention to her breasts which he was said to have described as small... The numerous controversies cost him the Republican primary in 1988 to Tom Campbell, who went on to win the general election.

That district was a safe moderate-Republican one, back in the 80s when there still was such a thing as a moderate Republican. Two redistrictings later it's now very safely Democrat; Mike Honda was reelected with 72% of the vote IIRC.


The Four Horsemen of Bushism: War, Corruption, Hypocrisy and Greed

How can I post this to my facebook profile?  This rocks!

I think I've figured out what those whacky Repubs are doing: They are laying the groundwork for an insanity defense when they're brought to court for corruption, tax evasion and/or whatever crimes they know they've committed.