As I Was Saying...

Here's a good thing to remember:

"When you first learn to use a hammer, everything begins to look like a nail."

I think Morton Downey, Jr. taught the right how to use a hammer and since then they've been using it against everything and everyone that disagrees with them - programs for the poor, social security, foreign policy, you name it.

Jean Schmidt took the hammer to the House floor and thankfully was shamed into recanting.

Today you can't scan the television channels or the radio dial without running into Bill O'Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Michael Savage, or someone like them. I'm too young to remember, were we this rude in our public debate before the eighties?

Another Indicator Bush is Losing It

Lots of talk in blogtopia about Bush hitting the bottle and wheels coming off and so forth.

Funny, I was thinking about this while watching this clip from C&L. Check the chin at around 3:50 into it - in the little clip that starts with "It is courage that liberated blah blah blah". I could swear the little chin quiver betrays a man trying not to cry.

Political Compass

I'm -5.50, -4.36.

How Much is Too Much?

The government is threatening churches because they oppose unprovoked war.

The Executive Branch of our government is arguing that it should be okay to torture people.

The FBI is building a permanent detailed database of information on US citizens and disseminating it freely amongst federal agencies.

How much more of this can we take before impeachment will be called for on the grounds of self defense?