The first thing the Democrats have to do is set hearings into how Congress was lied to and how information was withheld at the direction of the man who is now BigPharma's head lobbyist in order to get this fiasco through Congress. Subpoena his ass along with his chief lackeys, bring in the actuary who was told to lie and who was then kept from testifying, subpoena the heads of the drug companies, put everyone under oath and as that asshole Chris Matthews says: "Let's play Hardball!"

The Democrats CANNOT go back to being what they were. All this posturing by Obama about a phased withdrawal is bullshit.

Here's my plan for a phased withdrawal:

1. Phase One - tell everyone they have two hours to get into formation;

2. Phase Two - march to the waiting ships and aircraft;

3. Phase Three - flip Iraq the bird as it fades into the distance.

When the Marines were forced to leave Beirut in 83 after the suicide bombing they weren't attacked as they left the country and made their way to the ships. The Druze and Phalange were too busy figuring out ways to kill each other and the PLO who were left were trying to figure out how to attack Israel; Israel was waiting to attack all the rest who were left, including the UN peacekeepers.

The American people will not forget at the polls in 2008 if ALL troops aren't home by then. There is no need to negotiate a withdrawal, just get the fuck out!

And if impeachment isn't an option after these past 6 years on the road to fascism then I have to rethink my voting choices in 2008.

Get some friggin' balls and go on the offensive. It's obvious from stories like this one that the puppet media and the runp GOP smell blood and are ready to pounce like wild dogs. Don't give them the chance.

And the first time that blowhard Carville opens his fucking mouth someone ought to lay his ass out.

Screw Carville and the witch he rode the night before.

Both he and Begala showed their true colors after Jon Stewart's appearance on CNN when he smacked down Tucker-poo. Carville completely dissed Stewart not realizing that the tide in the Democrats was turning away from people like him to people more like Stewart.

You had a nice run James now go try overthrowing Hugo Chavez again, another indicator that you are just another one of Bush's ass boys.

I understand how you chose the list and will ask just one thing: Now that the Democrats in New York have decided John Hall in NY's 19th is a viab;e candidate to oust Sue Kelly will you take dirt on her, such as serving on the Page Board with Kolbe throughout the Foley scandal from day one?

Well said!!

I'm 55, Marine combat veteran of Vietnam, retired NYPD captain. This is an exact replay of what went on in my high school in the late 60s. The National Review crowd defending LBJ and the war while the rest of us bitched about it and defended our rights to disagree with the government. Well, we know how many of them went to the war and came home with nightmares.

Now they use the same wedge politics to divide this great country along cultural lines instead of class lines, class lines that have never changed since the days of Haymarket. People who don't know there was an America before Ronald Raygun looking down on folks who dare to disagree with a despot.

It's no mistake the Bush family is personal friends with the Somozas of Nicaragua going back to the earliest days of that obscenity of a dictator. They've got a lot in common: disdain for regular people and an absolute loathing for any sort of dissent whatsoever.

It's important that we keep focused on removing these people and bringing some respect back to this country by getting out so many people to vote in November that the machines can't be rigged, and if they are, by refusing to accept the results. Enough is enough already.

I disagree with that statement.  Look at the level of education among the rabid right, the base that opposes abortion, supports guns, the death penalty, huge amounts of corporate welfare, and the number of times they've voted against their own class interests. There was actually a story in, I think, Business Week last week that touted the revolt of the investor class. The representative member of the investor class was a 26 or 28 year old pet groomer/walker who identified unequivocally with GOP politics and who was adamant in support of the ruinous fiscal policies of the current junta.

The guy didn't own the business, he was a dog walker, yet because he invests in mutual funds, Business Week found it expedient to make him emblematic of a constituency that supports policies that are driving us to bankruptcy.

I agree that the education levels are just as high in the GOP where people with graduate degrees and other professional qualifications are sucking up, as we speak as it were, to the powers that be. Their degrees aren't any less valid because of their beliefs, but I wonder who taught them critical thinking if they took a course in that at all.

This poll will be seized upon by the Limbaughs and Hannitys to trumpet to the world that the left is made up of elitists, people who have nothing better to do than gripe in cyberspace because their relative wealth gives them the luxury of not working for what this wonderful country has given them.  I can already hear it.

We have to use the education we have to force the democrats to fashion legislation that will roll back the excesses of this criminal unelected cabal starting with the Executive Order that gutted the Presidential Records Act of 1978. We then have to hold their feet to thed fire and make them accountable to the people instead of the special interests who still prowl the halls of congress baiting the traps.

And the first thing we should demand is that people like Carville are marginalized. Let him go to work pimping for Cheney like his wife does. I will not support a party that retains the likes of him.

I tan pretty damn good under the sun on the Outer Banks and my politics are pretty radical, do I have to stay a white guy forever?