Here is my problem with a good deal of the political commentary, both sides like to take an extreme statement by someone on the other side and then proceed to make the grand statement that “all” of the others believe the same way. This is nonsense, a good number people can hold a variety of views and do not fall into any convenient category. For example I believe fervently in gun ownership, that makes me a gun nut conservative right? At the same time I can se a valid argument for universal health care, so I am a tofu liberal. I don’t like deficit spending an can see the elimination of the entire Dept of Education, back to gun nut. I think that government should stay out of determining who gets married to who [gay marriage], back to the tofu side. In short don’t “fit” with either side. I despise Michael Moore and Rush Limbaugh as poisoning the political debate and making debate of honest disagreements virtually impossible. If you are going to bomb throw at the Stalinists that’s fine but you might want to make clear who your target is and that you are not condemning all for the actions of a few.

And here we are in 2008, reaping the whirlwind of reform, counter-reform, and an ever deepening sense of ennui on the part of the average voter who is sickened by the bickering, the sniping and carping that goes on between the two parties.

Federal politics is possessed of an innate quality that demands the lion’s share of any aspiring politician’s decency and humanity. Perhaps it’s always been like this, but I would venture a guess it’s become several orders of magnitude more pernicious since, in the wake of Watergate, journalists appointed themselves the sole guardians of “truth” in the political arena.

In any case, most of these people I wouldn’t even want living next to me, let alone controlling more than $3 trillion of the nation’s wealth. At the end of the day, however, we get the government we choose, not the one we deserve.

There hasn’t been much news lately that has excited me . A hit piece on the administration is commonplace these days. Republicans and Democrats at each others throats in Congress is becoming a yawn and all the polls on endless subjects just lea…

“There have been few sparks generated in the debates – except the ones that lit Ron Paul on fire and sent his campaign up in smoke.”

I thought that it was a shame that his point in that debate was so roundly misconstrued.

Football and hockey are for sissies. PJM’s Rick Moran introduces us to the Afghani national sport, in which death is common and broken bones are just part of the game…….