Republicans should demand significant concessions (e.g., phasing out the EPA and the Department of Education) in exchange for increasing the debt limit. When Obama refuses to sign, they can say they he is causing the government to shut down. When they increase the debt limit, they should only do it a few hundred billion dollars at a time so that frequent future votes to increase the limit will be necessary as the burgeoning interest rate on our current debt inexorably continues to push the debt limit upwards. This will give them many more opportunities for further concessions.

If we are lucky, 2011 will be a disastrous year for Progressives. If not, 2011 will suck!

Nothing like talking on national TV with a big box next to your head that reads "Psycho Talk"... but this is MSNBC and it doesn't disappoint.

Read the Constitution. It is not that hard to understand! What it doesn't say, it doesn't say. And it doesn't say anything about FEDERAL laws that constrain consensual sex or drug use/possession of any kind (or any requirements to purchase health insurance). Let us throw all the stare decisis crap aside and go back to the fundamentals. Under the Tenth Amendment, any US state may approve/outlaw anything that doesn't contradict the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

Qaddafi The Pathetic. He takes the 'what not to wear' concept to a whole new level. If you pick the right photo (there are worse than you show here), you won't even need to do any Photoshop work.

Merry Christmas and a thumbs up to all!