"...now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country..."

I've typed that a million times - like many of you, probably - while practicing typing skills, under my mom's tutelage. I've always liked that it ended with "country", and not the original wording of the phrase, which is "party."  

Glimmer of Hope for US Policy Towards Iraq and Iran

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Wednesday night I participated in the briefing of 14 members of Congress, a majority of whom would be labeled as liberal Democrats by most Republicans (but a couple of classy Republicans did attend that session). The following day I briefed 12 Republican legislators, who by Democratic standards, are considered libertarian to ultra conservative. The topic was the same–Is War with Iran Inevitable and What are our Options?

Many of us get into arguments discussions over at dKos and elsewhere when Edwards supporters tout the fact that his apology for his IWR vote absolves him of all sin. In fact they go a step further by slamming Hillary for standing by her vote. Personally I don't care whether she apologizes or not. To me it was the original vote that was the sin, and no amount of recanting (when things turned to sh*t) will wipe it away.

According to this NYTs article, the expectation from the business community is for congress to work in a
bipartisan way and perhaps moving in baby steps in the area of taxes and bolder steps regarding drug price negotiating
for medicare. It would be good to see sweeping changes in the first 100 days in terms of the economy, but consider
that most of the new Democrats elected to congress come from pretty conservative places and are likely to be "blue
dog" Democrats. So long as all the people working on our economy understand "We're all in this together" and give

 I've got to hand it to Garrison Keillor, he typically nails it, and in a fashion that leaves a person smiling, even though they may be seething inside.  This essay is no exception.  My loathing for the GOP has regularly tied my stomach in knots.  I'm not so sure this is keeping me forever young, however...LOL!  (Which is prefferable to being a snarrling, crotchety old conservative any day of the week!)  :) 

Miracle drug of anger
Raging against Republican hypocrisy is the tonic that keeps us old liberals forever young.
By Garrison Keillor