Bible Spice sucked up a lot of attention and air time, and that was the kooky McCain campaign's strength, but also its undoing.  By the time people had taken in her full freak show two or three times, and especially after Katie Couric, they were ready for Tina Fey to eviscerate the ignoramus.   

So with health care also; way too much time on the boob tube with nothing to say,  i.e., Republicans have made the same strategic error.  Overexposed loudmouths who have nary a thing to offer.  That hideous Coburn has made a fool of himself, indeed a Scrooge, and so now has Cantor, in similar and all-too-predictable ways. Got no solutions, and that has registered. 

Americans listened to envenomated Republican surrogates and their bizarre invective, gave them every chance.  And finally concluded  that they are naught but a bunch of bigots and buttholes.  Enter President Clinton as relief pitcher, and he is throwing smoke.  (Go dawg!) 

The polling shows that Americans may be unhappy with some of Obama's leadership, but they are moving away from these ignorant haters and corporate stooges.  The nabobs claim (incoherently) that giving Americans what every industrial country already has now is excessive, and the voters think, "Overreach THIS!"   Voters won't move back because Republicans have taken their best shot, and people reached the conclusion that they're peddling snake oil:  accordingly, we are going to win. So we can decide for ourselves if the public option really is a good idea, because we are going to get it, and we will all try it out together. 

McCain wanted these town meetings all along (we just didn't realize what devilry he had in store), remember that?   He got the rough equivalent with Palin and her idiocy.  Now GOP has staged the real thing, and Americans were shocked but not impressed.   Republicans can try the same tactic in 2010, of course:  put a bunch of screaming people on the news night after night, who don't have one intelligent thing to say.  So far, it has failed twice.

Some people change careers, and Chris Wallace was a journalist until 2003.  He got his start by trading on the name of his overrated father, Mike Wallace, though he did well on his own. 

Since 2003, he is unburdened by the strictures of journalistic discipline, and works, as Obama did, as a community organizer.  But he has funding from billionaire wackaloon Rupert Murdoch and Fox, and together they toil to create a pro-assassination environment and bring down the government by extra-Consitutional means.  Whenever they get into trouble, Wallace is paraded out in a silly reporter's costume and tries to convince himself and others that he still has his old journalist job, and is not a front-man for a corporate sponsored sedition (domestic terrorism?) movement.  This weekend, one week after the Fox-organized insurrection rally with its Hitler signs and gun threats  in Washington, Wallace had the breathtaking temerity to quip, "Every president is thin-skinned, but I wonder whether this administration, this White House, has a particular problem with criticism."  (I.e., blaming the people they are spending millions continually to attack for defending themselves.)  They try to hide behind double talk about how the paid insurrectionists are not from the news division of the news department, or some utter malarkey:  No real journalist would ever dream of working as such a 1984-style corporate stooge, and he is no more a journalist now than were the KGB officers who wrote op-ed for Soviet newspapers.  But Chris Wallace is unfazed and he pronounces the ludicrous words above as though he of all the low, disgraceful individuals had the standing. 

I'm tempted to be more nuanced and say tar-and-feather him (and surely boycott), but I honestly can't bring myself to pull the punch.  RECOMMEND PLEASE, if somebody oughtta wipe that smirk off his face by giving Wallace a GOOD SOCK IN THE MOUTH.  

Thank you,

O.T.