Every woman knows what 'relax and enjoy it' refers to. Lieberman is a pig.

Posted at July 31, 2008 4:29 PM in response to Lieberman On Britney Ad: "Just Relax And Enjoy It"

minnesconsin - Yep - ol' Gabby Johnson will be hollering, "The sheriff's a (BONG)!" any day now

Posted at July 31, 2008 4:27 PM in response to Who's Really Playing The Race Card?

Getting closer to the "n" word every day.

Posted at July 31, 2008 4:20 PM in response to Who's Really Playing The Race Card?

Only proving once more that America is still a racist country and Republicans are still racist scum.

Posted at July 30, 2008 4:51 PM in response to Poll: Obama's Lead Slips In Michigan

How about something on the order of:

I used to make my living writing jokes. I even made jokes about politics. But with (housing crisis, banking crisis, inflation, cost of gasoline, 4,000+ dead soldiers, destruction of the rule of law - fill in the blank) nobody is laughing anymore. Now I'm running for the US Senate because Norm Coleman and his party have refused to solve these problems. It's time for a change, in America and in Washington."

Huh, not bad, maybe Al will hire me.

Posted at July 23, 2008 4:04 PM in response to GOP Senator's Ad Hits Al Franken's "Tasteless" Jokes And "Juicy Porn"

Not necessarily smarter - definitely better educated.

Posted at July 23, 2008 3:55 PM in response to Polls: Europe Hearts Obama

He wasn't jousting with social liberals. He and Mickey Edwards were explaining their theory of how Republicans should remake themselves. Bill Moyers would ask a pertinent question now and then regarding something one of them had said. Those were the times when Mr. Douthat would say something on the order of, 'Of course that can be a problem, but . . . ' and would sail into another abstraction. It was obvious that the day to day concerns of working people were not his concern.

Posted at July 16, 2008 6:13 PM in response to The Long Hard Slog

No one associated with the Republican party as it is today can possibly offer a better world. Theirs is a world of privilge, greed and disdain for the masses gullible enough to buy their lies.

Posted at July 15, 2008 6:16 PM in response to So Near, and Yet So Far

Mr. Douthat has yet to refute any of the criticisms of the commenters in his first post. Obviously, we the great unwashed are to be ignored as usual. That seems to be a common theme with Republicans.

Indeed, he did exactly the same thing on Bill Moyers.

Posted at July 15, 2008 4:09 PM in response to Feminism and the Family

Yes, take them at face value - greedy narcissists who have no concern for people who are not in their world. If you saw Douthat on Bill Moyers you saw his disdain and unconcern with gas prices and housing prices and food prices, he can still afford what he wants - you don't matter except as a mark to be drawn into the circus tent.

Many years ago a debate in the House of Representatives made it very clear to anyone watching the difference between Republicans and Democrats. The issue had to do with children; Democrats held up pictures of children affected by the issue, children of their constitutents, to argue in favor of the issue. Republicans held up pictures of their children and grandchildren and complained that they would have to pay for it.

As for conservative Catholics; I've known them all my life. My very devout, but seriously practical mother called them 'pillars of the church.' I call them 'uber-Catholics', more concerned with letting you know how holy they are than with living the gospel.

Posted at July 15, 2008 3:55 PM in response to The Long Hard Slog