41 Comments

• maloney | Nov 29, 2010, 07:34 PM EST

  When it comes to obama & his madness you are 100% correct hollowbutt. No will do until the impeachment & treason conviction take place.

• hollabackgurl | Nov 29, 2010, 05:44 PM EST

  Nacy Regan should be the GOP's real mascot: The Party of Just Say No.

• Monsoonman | Nov 29, 2010, 11:52 AM EST

  How do you compromise between food and poison? Just where is the dividing line? Many did not vote for McCain just because he is a compromiser, in spite of the voting day rallying cry coming from the McCain camp: "Slice a vein and vote for McCain". Many chose not to vote at all, rather than to let another rino lead us down the road to perdition.

• AengusOg | Nov 29, 2010, 10:32 AM EST

  Partisanship is hurting the national interest, and has been since Bela Abzug and her liberal cohorts used character assassination and innuendo against Robert Bork. Strident partisanship is destructive of the democratic process, which requires collaboration and compromise. John McCain was attacked by the 'Right' because he led a group of GOP senators who broke legislative stalemates. This may have cost him the Presidency, and the nation a far more qualified leader.

• maloney | Nov 22, 2010, 07:59 PM EST

  Just exactly what is it that obama, pelosi, reid, frank, grayson & crew actually represent other than taking my money & giving it to anyone who won't work?

• mayoman | Nov 22, 2010, 02:23 PM EST

  Politics over governing. The Party over the Nation. Mitch "Dr. No" McConnell is a bane to this country. He maybe the US Senator from Kentucky, but in truth he actually represents Wall Street. As do most of his GOP cronies in the Senate.

• Monsoonman | Nov 22, 2010, 11:58 AM EST

  I could not think of a better word to describe obama, nancy pelosi, bernie sanders, sheilah jackson lee, henry waxman, alan grayson and most of the far left democrats with their kensian/socialist economc policies in the white house and congress: IDEOLOGUE. 1: an impractical idealist : theorist. 2: an often blindly partisan advocate or adherent of a particular ideology.

• plasticpaddy | Nov 21, 2010, 04:46 PM EST

  left-wing ideologues monsoonman - that is more than being disingenuous, it is misleading. Where do you come up with these things?

• Monsoonman | Nov 21, 2010, 02:13 AM EST

  Here ya go dennis me boy: For someone who had no interest in keeping the colonial status quo in Vietnam, Kennedy did a poor job of hiding it. On November 2, 1963, the president of South Vietnam Diem and his brother Nhu were assassinated on President Kennedys orders. Two weeks later, Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. During Kennedy’s 3 year tenure in office the number of American military advisors grew from 800 to 16,700.....I would consider that quite an investment.

• DennisQ | Nov 20, 2010, 08:10 PM EST

  A Google search of "bouvier michelin vietnam" turns up nothing, Monsoonman. Your theory sounds pretty fanciful to me. You did better when you denounced the Tonkin Gulf incident as a phony. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's later admitted as much.
  
  Anyone who's waiting for a similar admission from Bush about phony WMD's in Iraq has been disappointed by "Decision Points." Bush still dishonestly maintains that he was misled by faulty intelligence. At least McNamara had the decency to man up to his own misdoings.

• Monsoonman | Nov 20, 2010, 01:34 PM EST

  "Presidents (both Democratic/LBJ and Republican/Bush) tend to make military decisions on a non-political basis (thank God).".........Better read up on the Vietnam war. JFK's wife Jacqueline Bouviers family was heavily invested in the Michelin rubber plantations in Vietnam and were not about to even consider giving them back to the people of Vietnam, no matter how many people got killed....Then read up on the Gulf of Tonkin resolution and see what political shenanigans were behind that in order to get LBJ elected....Then get back to us.

• seamusmoore | Nov 20, 2010, 09:29 AM EST

  hollabackgurl: Mr McConnell, just like yourself, didn't get what the 2006 election was about: Republicans spending money like Democrats (2001-6)give people no reason to vote Republican. Judging from Sen McConnell's agreeing this week to put a moratorium on earmarks, I think he may have finally gotten the message this past election day. See this country worked for over 200 years because there has always been a difference politically on fiscal governance. In the beginning, it was Federalists (strong central government) vs Democrats (states rights); today it is Democrats (big government) vs Republicans (less federal govt, more local). That's what separates the US from say Mexico (PRI Party ruled for 70 years) or Ireland (the only real difference between Fianna Fail and Fine Gael is where they stood on a civil war that ended 87 years ago). If you thought 2006 was about Iraq (like Sen McConnell), you are mistaken. Independents (40% of the electorate)ultimately decide elections and they vote more on economic issues than anything else. They tend to be fiscal conservative and socially liberal. BTW, the President is the commander-in-chief of US troops, not the Senate majority leader; regardless of McConnell's (misguided as it was) political advice to the President, Presidents (both Democratic/LBJ and Republican/Bush) tend to make military decisions on a non-political basis (thank God).

• hancock | Nov 19, 2010, 11:54 PM EST

  I am not A Republican and didn't support the war until troops were deployed. Anything else whinygirl?

• Pittsburghkid | Nov 19, 2010, 11:01 PM EST

  Mr. O'Doherty, I do not know where you find the time to concentrate on American Problem with the current Irish mess. If America takes your advice, then we will be the next Ireland. Let the Republicans be Republicans.

• hollabackgurl | Nov 19, 2010, 10:58 PM EST

  No one here has denied that Mitch McConnell put the good of the Republican party before the United States and the U.S. soldiers in harms way. Until conservatives admit that fact (and George W Bush makes it clear in his book) all their brave talk is just posturing and bluster. McConnell lied to the American people. He helped prolong a war he didn't believe in.

• porkheaven | Nov 19, 2010, 10:19 PM EST

  we americans are a bunch of dumb asses. You are fighting a warre about and worry more about our image. the Demo run away and the repb worry about their image

• borefield | Nov 19, 2010, 09:06 PM EST

  Why do you have this half-witted idiot on your staff. He is a disgraceful socialist.

• vincem13 | Nov 19, 2010, 08:33 PM EST

  I feel for you, Cahir. I have significant organic memory loss, so your not being able to remember the last four years of crushing Democrat majorities in the House and Senate, not being able to remember all of the important legislation that HIGHLY Partisan Democrats pushed through while ignoring all of the many GOP attempts to work out more bipartisan bills I can understand. Poor fellow.

• clancy4unc | Nov 19, 2010, 08:25 PM EST

  I am a third generation Irish-American, and you guys in Ireland don't get it. The democratic party has almost detroyed the USA. I am shocked at the lack of knowledge about what is going on here. They are socialist/communists. Most Americans DO NOT support a generational welfare state or taking from those who work hard and giving their money to people who do nothing. You liberals make me ashamed to be called an Irish-American. And by the way the press in America is so pro liberal you will never read a bad word about them, but they will bash every conservative until everyone thinks they are evil incarnate. Take the blinders off, the truth will set you free.

• allentown | Nov 19, 2010, 07:49 PM EST

  It took Bush 8-years to destroy the Republican Party. Obama destroyed the Democratic Party in four. The Republicans returning from Greenland have left the lights on for the incoming Democrats. Burrrrr

• Monsoonman | Nov 19, 2010, 07:16 PM EST

  The Republicans admit they didn't earn the landslide victory in this last election, the voters just resoundingly rejected obama and the left wing idealogues who have seized power. The Republicans will have to abide by their promises to the voters or they will get booted too...and to the ninny who wrote: "At least California showed it itself not to be receptive to this delusional bunch in the mid-terms." California is beyond broke from have 30 years of democrat rule, you can't get any more upside down financially than Cali is, thanks to the democrats and the unions who own them.

• willieboy | Nov 19, 2010, 07:05 PM EST

  some people should keep their noses out of things that they know nothing about. Appearently you are one of them...

• DennisQ | Nov 19, 2010, 04:20 PM EST

  The Republicans won big in an off-year low turnout election. They are misinterpreting this outcome as an endorsement of their obstructionist policies. The '12 election will give a better indication of how voters feel about what their government has been up to.
  
  If the Republicans continue to high-five each other for what they were able to impede rather than what they've accomplished, they're likely to be disappointed. Half of the new members of Congress are rookies, and if they want to get re-elected they'll have to show their constituents they're not just keeping the seat warm. Republican leaders are planning to write these people off, but it may not be as easy as it sounds.
  
  Voters are tired of talk - that's why they voted so heavily for the opposition party. The Republicans seem ready to face the voters in '12 having accomplished nothing more than two more years of talk. Good luck with that!

• francisquinn | Nov 19, 2010, 04:08 PM EST

  I think BO learned from McConnell...do you recall all the closed meetings Harry, Nancy and BO had abou the Healthcare disaster in Feb and March? Even the forced vote with lots of Bribes going to Ben Nelson and Mary Landreau for their votes...Remember he was the one who said "I will change the way things are done in Washington " Yeah more BS..

• FastEddy | Nov 19, 2010, 03:28 PM EST

  "Excessive"? ... LOL ! Get a life outside of the "progressive" wish list. "... there's a difference between partisanship and taking leave of one's moral center, or at least there used to be." Like what? The difference between the liberal lefty looney moral center and one's moral obligations to the US taxpayers as a whole?

• sirgillis | Nov 19, 2010, 02:58 PM EST

  Thank God that McConnell represents a dying breed of politician from both parties, embedded in thinking that the deal no matter what it is supersedes our National defense and honor. He is typical of most on the hill since the contract with America, a whore who would sell himself over all else. It is time for Kentucky to rid themselves of this scourge

• 1IrishMedic | Nov 19, 2010, 01:42 PM EST

  Well whomever Hancock is, he shouldn't be. He belongs in the same camp as McConnell a doble-faced bastage. McConnell does not care about the USA nor the all the troops sevrving so gallantly. He should be in the Koregal valley and try to shake hands with the Taliban. I've had it with the Right wing conservativee, the only thing they conserve is money for their own Pockets. Thanks Pres. Bush for outing this traitor. He should be impeached from the senate.

• patrickesq | Nov 19, 2010, 01:25 PM EST

  Mr. McConnell is very skilled at speaking out of both sides of his mouth, always championing the cause of his Party and the wealthy special interests, while posturing that he is for the little guys and small business. Thank you Mr. President for shedding more light on the true character of Mr. McConnell.

• hollabackgurl | Nov 19, 2010, 12:55 PM EST

  Right, the GOP sent U.S. troops to fight a war they supported in public but undermined in private, putting their party ahead of the nation - and all you can do is call that whining? You're a disgrace and a two-faced patriot hancock.

• hancock | Nov 19, 2010, 12:50 PM EST

  What a joke you whiny lefties are. Maybe we should ban Republicans like Fox.

• haikued2 | Nov 19, 2010, 12:14 PM EST

  OMG...kind of like the Democrats, isn't it. Both parties harm the nation by extreme partisanship. But what is new? As far as a moral center is concerned, the US managed to can that many years ago in the increasing attempt to impose a secular agenda on the population. Political Correctness is an invention of people who do not face reality and is used to indoctrinate and persecute. McConnell is not the right man to speak for Republicans. He seems to be as ideologically broken as the current Speaker of the House.

• MalcomAC | Nov 19, 2010, 12:05 PM EST

  He has stated that his goal is to make Obama a one-term president. I thought he was supposed to work with the president on behalf of the country. I've actually met this creep.

• jflanagan | Nov 19, 2010, 11:13 AM EST

  One of our better times, if you listen to the pundits, is when we had a Democrat President, Clinton, and a Republican Congress. The government got smaller and everyone was confident in investing in business without the unknown taxes, confiscatory policies and swollen programs that make investing more risky and less likely to give a decent return.

• hollabackgurl | Nov 19, 2010, 11:09 AM EST

  There's nothing Republicans won’t do to deny Obama a political success at home - even if it means jeopardizing U.S. national security. Just look at Senator Jon Kyl, he's trying to kill the new strategic arms limitation treaty between Russia and the United States for God's sake.

• kevinhayes | Nov 19, 2010, 11:05 AM EST

  McConnell and his mob are off in a parallel universe where the USA is the only country in recorded history where tax increases supposedly leads to less revenue. The GOP is all and only about power and policy matters not at all if it does not conform to their rigid ideologies. This is all the more so as the Hitleresque Half Governor and her crowd of like-minded half-wits police the orthodoxy. It is not surprising to hear that McChinless was acting differently to what he was spinning when you understand it is all about power. At least California showed it itself not to be receptive to this delusional bunch in the mid-terms. Alaska is also showing the way, rejecting Palin's original man, Joe Miller, who had at least had the good sense to run away from her towards the end as he realized she was political poison in her own state.

• feeneycj | Nov 19, 2010, 10:37 AM EST

  we have enough to worry about at present. healthcare is looming and opt outs are growing. someone will have to pay the bill, but not the favored ones.

• kevinjscanlon | Nov 19, 2010, 10:18 AM EST

  Put a fork in us, we done

• Fran Connor | Nov 19, 2010, 10:09 AM EST

  Cahir, Where have you been for the past two years? When the greatest president in history would not even talk to the other side? His answer to the GOP was "Elections have consequences. We won." Nice, real nice.

• FatherVol | Nov 19, 2010, 09:52 AM EST

  And the Democratic partisanship of the last two years didn't hurt the country? You liberals really do live in your own little universe, don't you.

• tomgallagher | Nov 19, 2010, 09:31 AM EST

  Much like the party that was a branch office of MSNBC, the New York Times and the Washington Post.

• TheOldPerfessor | Nov 19, 2010, 09:15 AM EST

  Back in the days when I was young, there were two parties who both wanted the same thing for America but had different ideas of how to get there. Now we have a party that has made the House of Representatives a branch office of Fox News. They have more interest in the fate of their own party than the welfare of the nation. They are goverment employees hired to solve the obvious problems confronting our nation, so every time they cash a pay check they are ripping off the taxpayers.