Republicans are using their machine to tell ordinary Americans to do what Vice President Cheney once told Sen. Patrick Leahy (D) to do: go f*** yourself.
How is it possible that these insulated dolts do not understand that the longer they wait in their thumb-in-the-wind position, the more they reinforce public perceptions that the party stands for nothing?
Let's get it on. Let's have the debate about taxes that those arrogant conservative elitists like Grover Norquist think they control.
For the love of god, Democrats will bellow, how come no one thinks we are strong, and take strong positions? What a hilarious, laugh-out-loud, piss-your-pants joke it would all be - if it wasn't so sad.
We should fear that Democrats early on showed a willingness to capitulate to the Roberts nomination even when they knew it would dramatically shift the court to the hard right.
Our energy assets are vulnerable to natural disasters, and need infrastructure to protect them. Will the Bush administration ask taxpayers to pick up the tab, or will he force the profiteering energy industry to protect itself?
America has a golden (but as-yet-untapped) opportunity to use its own resources to both improve the environment with a cleaner fuel, and get us off foreign oil.
Take a look at the GOP's top priorities in the wake of the worst natural disaster in American history.
