When did bi-partisan become a naughty word?

You know what I like about the 2008 election campaigns on the Democratic side? They've been relatively devoid of acrimony and slash and burn tactics. Sure there've been a few barbs here and there, but for the most part Clinton and Obama have been composing themselves.

What's with the 'conservative' lashing at McCain for his past bi-partisan efforts? It's like some members of the GOP are pissed because he didn't sequester himself in a room with other GOPs and only worked on initiatives with GOPs. Does democracy exist, or rather, is it sustainable in a vacuum? I don't think it is.

When Ann Coulter says she'll vote for Clinton if McCain wins the nomination I think, 1) she's full of ess, 2) I wish the mothership would pick her up and simply note that the experiment was a failure, and 3) what's so great about Huckabee and his carefully nuanced claims to bring Church and State closer together?

And what's wrong with building consensus? We're a nation of many different viewpoints. Shouldn't a consensus builder be considered an asset and not a liability, especially since we're going to be cleaning up the mess left from the Bush dynasty?

It's like neo-cons are so polarized that they might need to come out from the shadows and actually touch a member not of the GOP.

You know what...Jenna and Barbara Bush date Independents...oh the scandal. Their babies will be Independans...or Republidents. Either way, they'll party a lot and have progressive views. Yeah...that's what's going to happen...we're going to breed out all the religious fundamentalists and clinically repressed people everywhere.

The Dead Zone 2: Romney's Finger on the Button

McCain's bit is relatively middle-of-the-road, but Catcher Mitt's blathering about Guantanomo Bay prison "doubling", is downright evil. There's not doubt that if this guy won the Presidency, he'd don garb similar to Darth Vader, and he'd start laying a cruel pimp hand on the populace.

Mitt Romney. Wow. He reminds me of a certain Stephen King character in a certain book about a certain man who starts a certain war if elected President.

And apparently, the war effort has become so strained in Iraq that the White House has decided to force military reenactment participants to enlist for combat duty overseas...coming to you from the brilliant minds at theonion.com.

In The Know: Our Troops In Iraq