Jim Hightower is pretty good,but is having a hard time getting airtime or radio play,according to his office.

And Vidal has a humdinger of a piece called “America the Great….Police State” over at Alternet. Although new,it’s Vintage Vidal.

He was on Bill Maher at the close of the show’s last season. Just Bill and Vidal -the entire hour. You can probably go to the Showtime website to download it.

Ah,Mencken..now that’s music to my ears,especially:

“It’s hard to get a man to understand something when his paycheck depends upon not understanding it.”

Is Gore Vidal still alive?
Frank Zappa could take on anyone but he is no longer with us
Quoting G.B. Shaw, H. L. Menkin and Oscar Wilde always helps.
Throwing in A. Hitler for quotes that they agree with also helps
Only one I can think of is……….
Kinky Friedman that’s the ticket, just make sure that he can smoke his cigars.
And for G-ds sake don’t get offended by his non-political correctness.
After all Fascism from the left is as bad as fascism from the right.

He couldn’t articulate a real policy matter, a concern of the American people (especially his SC constituents), a positive move forward, any sort of progessive program if you held a gun to his head. He’s a regressive, nasty politician. He epitomises the “party of no.”

*Remember what in Arabic Al Qaida means? It means “the Base.”

Where’s my dinosaur? I need to saddle up for an afternoon ride…

“Israeli fascist,”… “Tel Aviv’s man in the White House, who is tryin ta give these fascist bastards the field.”

Gitchegumee: “The Israeli DINO in the living room.”

What does Israel have to do with this?

Is there any sense of irony that as Mike Stark points out how Republicans and Conservatives are so quick to play the race card (not to mention all the Nazi allusions that are now happening) that people here are doing the same?

There are a couple of ironies here but the biggest is that it is Obama and the Democratic leadership that can give these crypto-Nazis victory from defeat.

Sufilizard2: The Fasc-racists are following the brownshirt/blackshirt playbook to the letter

Nazis? Brownshirts? Fascists? Tell me, have any of these people set up concentration camps where they’re planning on murdering millions? Practically no one involved in these efforts are Nazis or brownshirts. I know a guy who survived the Warsaw Ghetto, and until we start walking by countless people lying in the streets, murdered by true Nazis, we have no business just throwing that term around. We decry them for bandying about those expressions when talking about us, but some on our side seem to have no problem hurling it back at them. Irony? Anyone?

And why don’t you just say you dislike Rahm Emanuel? What does Israel have anything to do with this discussion? Is it that Rahm happens to be Jewish?

The anti-Israeli sentiments that tend to creep into these discussion is the same as the stuff we’re supposed to be fighting. It’s fraught with racial subtexts that many victims of fascism and the Nazis know all too well. Just because we’re angry doesn’t mean we have to be stupid. The other side does that quite well.

russ is more like hitler then he could ever realize.

the facism right wing is alive and well.

it will get worst much worst before it gets better.

if it gets better.

america is on a down ward spiral.

imperialism has a price

economic decline

it is all around us but we americans live in complete denial and only blame others for our decline.

have a nice day :-)

now lets invade iran and have three wars for profits

blackwater needs the money for lawyer fees.

I for one am glad that President Obama is doing things the right way – pushing or waiting for legislation and giving the opposition every opportunity to engage themselves in the process. The fact that they choose not to participate shows them for what they are – bullies who want to push “their way or the highway”.

It takes longer this way – but in the end, I believe the results are much more substantial.

Seal does an extraordinary reprise of that song,btw.

Say it plain,Sufilizard,say it plain!