Dumping Geithner and Summers, for starters?

With the economic meltdown, Iraq, global warming, peak oil, health care, Sarah Palin, etc. all in full gear last November and December, it should have been obvious that there will always be plenty to write about.

Liberals have never been blind followers to the degree of conservatives.

Considering that the Internet is a dynamic medium, how on earth would writing about anything diminish?

Evolution demands change.

I have a suspicion that the right is stagnant and the left is the new evolutionary force.

You can always write about Republicans' commitment to funding schools and infrastructure.

I've been thinking a lot about a word that David Brooks used to describe the Republican Party a few weeks back: "nihilist." That's the word Brooks assigned to the Reagan era, anti-government rhetoric that Bobby Jindal had resurrected as a GOP response to the recovery plan that President Obama had laid out before the joint session of Congress.

I have been thinking about nihilism as I watch Republicans pick fights with Obama on virtually every issue, both large and small -- whether it's the budget, the stimulus, the appointment of a new Iraq ambassador, or the person to head the previously obscure Office of Legal Counsel in the Justice Department, even to the furor over Freeman at the NSC. I don't think I've seen anything like it.

Republicans seem to have gone way past opposition, loyal or otherwise, and straight to heel-in-the-sand, petulant obstructionism. It seems to be their intention, as they did under Gingrich, to bring the government to a halt or to tie it up knots over tangents. And at a time like this I think nihilism is the right word for the GOP's program.

Deep Thoughts
By Jack Handey

One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to Disneyland, but instead I drove him to an old burned-out warehouse. "Oh, no," I said. "Disneyland burned down." He cried and cried, but I think that deep down, he thought it was a pretty good joke. I started to drive over to the real Disneyland, but it was getting pretty late.

Deeper thought

And everyone was saying Jon Stewart wouldn't have any fuel...

Observation: As long as you have two republicans heads to rub together, their will be comedic fire.

here's something worth reading and talking about...in case you missed it...apologies, if this is old news to the monthly regulars...

Guest Post by Lawrence Wilkerson: Some Truths About Guantanamo Bay

http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/2009/03/some_truths_abo/

What's there not to talk about?

I have been delighted to discover that with Bushco gone, the rot that underpins modern conservatism is even more obvious. Where to start? We had the skirmish over Michelle Obama's bare upper arms. The no-nothing grandstanding over the stimulus package. Fox news morphing into Fake views. Conservative attempts to blame to fall of the stock market on Obama. Oh, and "going Galt!" That's worth many giggles. In Minnesota, of course, we have the gawp-inducing stalling tactics of Norm Coleman. Plus there are opportunities to cheer Obama as he starts to restore national dignity and the opportunities to boo and hiss at the conservative delusions in response to those changes in policy.

So much to write about, so little time. The big difference is that conservative delusions make me laugh now rather than tremble in fear.

What would there be to write about?

LOOK! SARAH PALIN!

Why haven't the war crimes trials started?

Apologize for being in the tank for Obama too much?

And, Jen F... really? Well, real progressives, perhaps not; but "Obamiac" wasn't an adjective that sprang up just for the heck of it.

Actual liberal progressives already knew that we were not about to suddenly have a liberal progressive government and, that there would be plenty to write about.

Obama doesn't provide as many laugh lines as Bush, but that doesn't mean he's the opposite of Bush. More like a watered-down version of the same kind of conservative idiocy that's been destroying our country for the last 30 years.

All Bush did was speed up the process and make it more obvious.

The country may be crying out for liberal progressive solutions, but Congress is still far to the right of America.