You guys missed the best one. Grassley telling Iowa's if they want better health insurance, they should go work for the govn't. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzZwAhuqzAw

yeah.

It's funny how Obama pretends that "naysayers" tell him to stand pat, when in fact they tell him he's simply doing the wrong thing.

But, as David said earlier "we're talking amongst ourselves here...".

I'd probably replace "amongst" with "to", but the meaning is pretty much the same.

Also of note, the slow re-treat of Powell away from Obama. Does he always turn whichever way the wind blows?

I really don't care what the politically craven loser, who whistles when he talks, thinks.

Anyone know where I can find one of those rockin Republican 4th of July teabag lickin parties?

It's pathetic. Watching John McCain struggle to maintain relevance in spite of it becoming clearer to more and more americans that he doesn't give a damn about us; for him, just like George Bush, it's only anout himself. Sarah Palin's crashing should only serve to tar him the stupid fool that he is. When he dies before january 2013, we'll know for sure what he intended to do to this country.

forget whatever you hear praising palin.

no one in power in the republican party believes she is capable and i doubt if many people trust her.

the problem is they must all walk a fine line because they dont want to alienate her supporters.

you know the hard core racist skinhead types.

she actually does believe she can become president.
as offensive as she is i find the media even more offensive for not exposing her .
do we really want to respect people that believe science is not valid?

or cant answer simple questions?

palin represents a thinking that embraces ignorance and hate.

she is very skilled at manipulating the people who believe in that. shes been doing it her whole lifefor personal gain.

but, the more she is in front of the public the more exposed she becomes.

she is a liability politically to the republicans and my guess is we can expect many more revalations coming from "insider' leaks aimed at undermining her.

CBS News has a particular story on Palin with this jewel:

"This is to provide notice to Ms. Moore, and those who re-publish the defamation, such as Huffington Post, MSNBC, the New York Times and The Washington Post, that the Palins will not allow them to propagate defamatory material without answering to this in a court of law."

The Witch of Wasilla is planning to attack the First Amendment both free speech and press. Too bad everyone has their heads stuck in the sand over Jackson's suicide.

I think McCain is the strawman here in this response to political announcements on the 4th of July. I, for one, find it to be particularly reprehensible instead for Obama to adopt the cloak of the patriots in his remarks.

The Declaration of Independence was a declaration against the tyranny of the government of King George. Nowhere did it mention health care reform (or, as is more cynically accurate, health insurance "reform"). Nowhere did it mention an energy policy. Nowhere was it presented as an outline for a business-as-usual political policy agenda.

No, the Declaration of Independence was fighting words! I would encourage all to read the Declaration of Independence within the context of what should be our proper response to the many abuses of power introduced by the Bush Administration and now sanctioned by the Obama Administration. The Declaration of Independence leaves little doubt about just how urgently Jefferson and Adams and the others would have responded to revelations about war crimes and Gitmo and CIA "Black Sites" and warrantless wiretaps and the suspension of habeus corpus rights and the murder of detainees and other such extreme human rights abuses.

McCain is a clown, and his ridiculous, denture-clattering pronouncements are to be expected.

Obama is another story. He is our President. Furthermore, he was elected in main part to restore the principles of governance spelled out so beautifully in our Declaration of Independence. He has failed miserably in this regard.

If he would now choose just a modicum of honor before political expediency, he would find the decency to at least lay low and not show his face around here during our celebration of the 4th of July. But who needs honor when there are so many lobbyists requiring servicing for a fee, eh? Obama chooses instead to continue with the very lucrative "business" of governing instead of defending our Constitution, and thus blasphemes our Founders in the process. We should all feel ashamed for allowing it to happen.

Bite me, Colin Powell. I don't recall you saying "we can't pay for it all" about George's wars and tax cuts, which had a larger price tag than all of Obama's initiatives, not to mention that most of the money went for destruction and lining the pockets of the rich, producing no benefit for the country.

I guess that proves you really are a Republican -- you're "fiscally conservative" -- but of course military spending and tax cuts don't count.