REPLACE CONGRESS with names drawn randomly from a phone book?

Yes, and the comment says it all: “Preferably the Yellow Pages!!! At least they can run a business.”

WE HAVE ZERO TOLERANCE for butter knives in school classrooms but – as has been amply demonstrated in the government’s response to the “UndyBomber”- near-infinite tolerance for terrorists on airplanes. Why?

Is it because profiling is acceptable for the politically correct reasons?

AND I’M ONLY about 6 months from having Medicare as my primary health insurance.

A survey by the Texas Medical Association that year found that only 38 percent of that state's primary-care physicians were accepting new Medicare patients.

Gee, thanks, Mr. Obama.

OBAMBI’S SPIN FACTORY goes haywire.

Of course there was “no single piece of intelligence” that spelled it out. You have to put the pieces together, genius. Anyway, we’re not talking about a 5,000-piece jigsaw puzzle here. This was more like one of those children’s puzzles with four giant pieces that have to be laid out of the floor, and each piece gives you a pretty good idea of what you’re looking at.

I’ve been around the intelligence community long enough to know this response to the administration spin machine is a bit over the top, but the “no system is perfect; we’re doing everything we can; we must learn to live with the inevitability of one of these bombers succeeding” spin doesn’t cut it either.

Nor does it help to close the barn door after the livestock has escaped.

WHO WANTS TO BE A DEMOCRAT? “[T]he number of Americans who identify as Democrats has fallen to its lowest level in seven years.”

No one wants to be a Republican, either:

I see ... that Politico has a story regarding the GOP (especially the RNCC) having financial problems with fundraising. Of course they are spinning it as a huge problem for the GOP, but I have two words for them on this issue: “Dede Scozafozza”. After that fiasco it is no surprise that more Conservatives are holding onto their money so they can send it to the candidate of choice (emphasis added) and not to the candidate of the RNCC’s choice.

I think that’s right. My response to the last Republican National Senatorial Committee solicitation was along the same lines. Until I see evidence that the Republican establishment has gotten the Tea Party message, I’ll confine my political contributions to candidates, not parties.