The U.S. is not an inherently divided country split between two ideologies. Nor do American voters actually want a two-party system; they don’t believe this offers a sufficient set of choices. This dichotomy is a result of our election system’s structure and will not change until are election laws are changed.

Lots of chatter today about the new Pew Poll that shows the public’s growing dissatisfaction with government. What I found interesting was that Democrats and Independents are pretty consistently skeptical no matter who is in the White House, but Republicans trust government far more than any other group when Republicans are in charge.

Mark Critz, in his first TV ad, is basically telling voters that Democrats aren’t to be trusted and they shouldn’t hold the seat. He contrasts an ad put up by Republicans saying that Critz would vote the “liberal agenda” in Congress by saying “That ad’s not true. I opposed the health care bill. And I’m pro-life, and pro-gun. That’s not liberal.”

Glenn Greenwald has been attacked for making the case against Elena Kagan as a nominee for the Supreme Court on policy and ideology grounds. But neither Greenwald nor the Kagan supporters have addressed the fact Kagan would be effectively the first justice in the history of the Supreme Court to have had no experience whatsoever in court as either an attorney or judge, a critical deficiency in her already thin background.

Jason Leopold at Truthout writes that a number of intelligence sources have described a hitherto unreported second taping system that was used on Zubaydah at the black site CIA prison in Thailand where the interrogations took place in 2002-2003. The new finding corroborates reports of experiments done on prisoners held in the CIA’s black site program.

The last 72 hours have left Goldman Sachs with a shattered reputation among the people who matter to them, their customers and the politicians they have courted. The SEC’s civil fraud suit over one of their synthetic CDO deals is bad enough, but it’s just getting worse and worse for them.

The New York Times has a potentially explosive story today indicating Goldman Sach’s top executives personally oversaw the mortgage-securities trading unit that created the Abacaus deals and had decided to go short the market. But what did it tell shareholders?

• The bell tools for thee, Goldman.
• Defensive much?
• The terrorist VOLCANO!
• Obama’s pick for SCOTUS?
• The Shrill one on Goldman.
• The man who was almost President.

Because the myth of the liberal media is just not fictional enough.

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