Does anyone else think the Republicans know they have nothing beneficial to offer the country and worse, that they readily acknowledge that they only intend to govern for their core supporters and no one else?

After reading the Sunday Post piece on Karl Rove, it seems apparent that they have nothing but clever slogans and prepaid voting machines.  The story noted that Rove's strategy for the midterm elections is to make the election a choice between the philosophies of the two parties, especially on national security, rather than a referendum on Bush's performance.

Senator Specter, you should be ashamed of yourself.  Anyone who tries to use legislation to legalize hate and discrimination embarrasses themselves, those they represent and the Constitution itself.

If this is genuinely a serious issue confronting all Americans, and not a slick political move to stir up a restless base, why did you choose to have the debate essentially behind closed doors?  The American people have a right to know what their representatives are doing in their name.  If this is a bill that you truly oppose, why let it even reach the Senate floor?  Assuming you do not vote for this bill, 12 Democrats have to vote for it to pass.  Good luck.  You know for a fact this amendment has less than no chance of passing the Senate, let alone being ratified by 3/4 of state legislatures.  Why waste the Senate's time?  So you can continue to do nothing and continue to flush more hard-earned taxpayer money down the toilet?

It has been my experience that when people get as mad as you did yesterday (saying "good riddance" to a fellow Senator during a Senate hearing), it usually means you know you are on the wrong side of the argument, even though you may not have had a choice in the matter.  It must be frustrating to be forced into supporting such embarrassing legislation, though Jim Crow did fly for quite some time.I suppose desperate times call for desperate measures.  How does it feel, knowing you will be remembered as the Senator who allowed this hateful amendment to reach the Senate floor?  I didn't think you could sink to the level of the other Senator from your state, and right now, he knows the meaning of desperate.  A few more stunts like these, and you might have the same problem as Senator Santorum in a few years.  Do Republicans really stand up for what they believe?  I don't think so.

Why don't I feel encouraged by the Democrats?  In spite of 29% approval ratings for Bush, Tom DeLay's resignation, Rick Santorum backed into a corner and numerous corruption scandals threatening many incumbent Republicans, I don't think the Democrats are much closer to regaining a majority in either chamber of Congress, or even of substantially narrowing the margin of the majority.  Why?

Democrats still feel the need to rail Bush every chance they get.  This great, but it still does not seem to provide any "light at the end of the tunnel" or confidence of any sort of gain in the November elections.  I think a lot of people still feel very unsure about our chances and feel that the best route is to attack Bush at every opportunity.

Just when I thought there would finally be some honest debate and inquiry into 9/11, the media reverts back to business as usual.  I got pretty excited watching The Situation Room (for once) when Wolf said that a new video of the Pentagon on 9/11 emerged.

The video shows nothing, it is simply the same video that originally sparked the conspiracy theories.  It's not really clear what is hitting the Pentagon.  I'm not saying it is not a plane, just that the video proves nothing. By calling it the official video now released by the Pentagon after the Moussaoui trial, showing the heavily pixelized video and recycling old footage of witnesses claiming the saw an AA jet crash into the Pentagon, the conspiracy theories are supposedly debunked.  Isn't it really another example of the Bush administration attempting to make something true by saying it is true?  And isn't it really another example of the administration spoon feeding reporters a story and the reporters repeating it verbatim?  Still, if no one is willing to ask any questions, no one needs to give any answers.

"Kids, for whatever reason, think they're entitled to go right to the top with $50,000 or $75,000 jobs when they have not done anything to earn their way up,"

Now that Hilary Clinton's position on the "don't know what work is" youth of America is, I wonder how she feels about her own daughter.

This blog is dedicated to the fact that Kansas can be, and sometimes is, a blue state.

I moved to Kansas to be with my girlfriend after growing up in Minneapolis and living in Eugene, Oregon and Madison, Wisconsin.  At first, it seemed like I was moving to the Deep South.