"A new Washington Post/ABC News poll found that a majority of Americans
wouldn't even consider voting for her if she ran for president, and 60% said
Palin isn't qualified to be president."

Incredibly, while only 40% found Palin unqualified to be president, 46% said that they would at least consider voting for Palin if she ran for president.

Question: Who are those 6%?

God damn Dick Cheney's shit-filled soul to hell.

correction: only 40% found Palin QUALIFIED to be president.
Still, who are the 6% who find her unqualified, but would vote for her anyway?

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D) has a new, minute-long ad up in Nevada, touting his position as "America's most powerful senator."

An by "most powerful Senator," Reid really means "utterly incapable of guiding legislation, unable to stand up to even slight resistance, both unable and unwilling to even attempt to rein in Joe Lieberman, and generally completely craven and cowardly even when there is no cause to be."

Feh!

Funny, I can hardly say that I ever pictured Reid as the Legislative equivalent of the Hulk. The image that always seemed to come to my mind was that of a doormouse.

And in 2012 news, right-wing activist Liz Cheney suggested her father, Dick Cheney, might consider a presidential campaign in three years. She may have been kidding; it's hard to tell.

I keep waiting for the greatest political criminal in American history to truly serve his country and die of a fatal heart attack, but that's impossible - you can't harm what you don't have.

Reid really means "utterly incapable of guiding legislation, unable to stand up to even slight resistance, both unable and unwilling to even attempt to rein in Joe Lieberman ...

I'm not quite ready to pull the plug on Reid since the game isn't quite over, and Obama for his part has hardly been cracking the whip and laying down a firm line in the sand.

We'll see. This a.m. on the radio, lib Dem Sen Harkin seemed confident in three things which I hope are well-founded: 1) Holy Joe is likely not to block a floor vote on the bill, as he intends only to vote no on the substance not the procedural vote, 2) The senate plans this week to bring the bill to a floor vote while forcing the opposition to pull all-nighters, including over the weekend, to maintain their filibuster posture, and 3) the final vote after the House-Senate conference bill is worked out should occur roughly in mid-Jan.

Of course, it wasn't spelled out exactly what Harkin thinks will be in the final bill, and if it's a trigger, well, some folks on the D side are going to be quite unhappy ...

As majority leader, Reid has all kinds of power. Unfortunately, he's too scared to wield it.

Useless.

neill - if there's a heaven, I'm thinking they will greet you with a "dude, you cracked us up every time you posted that. no worries, he'd been on the other list for a long time."

Harry Reid is secretly Joe Lieberman?

"America's most powerful senator."

He's only powerful if he actually uses his power. In the meantime, the most powerful senators seem to be Droopy Lieberman and the Blue Dogs.

Qwerty: The Blue Dog caucus is actually part of the house. Calling them powerful congressmen or representatives would be accurate; calling them senators isn't.

I didn't realize "powerful" was a synonym for "flaccid".

Cheney for President! He can shoot international leaders in the face and then get them to apologize the next day!

What you fail to understand is that the ideal republican ticket in 2012 will have Jeb Bush at the head of the ticket.

Of course, he will need to appoint Cheney to run his vice presidental search efforts. Cheney can then select himself again.

What part of Bush/Cheney would not meet the approval of the Amerikan voters?

Jeb is an original PNACer, along with Cheney.
Jeb is loved by the religious right.
Jeb is loved by Grover Norquist.
Dick knows how to rule.

Everyone knows that the only problem that existed with the Bush/Cheney rule for the previous 8 years was that it was supposed to be Jeb (the smart one) who was president. In 2012, we can correct that mistake while turning our country's rule back to true, white patriots.

Before you complain about republicans not being able to govern, remember that 'government is the problem and not the solution' and that republicans are very good at ruling.

If Dick Cheney runs in 2012, I will have to start believing in God; how else to explain such a gift to the Democrats?

Cheney once said, defending Bush's growing deficits: "Reagan proved deficits don't matter." Heh, how many teabagger/Repug/secessionist/Palinauts etc. would give a crap about the inconsistency with their new-found hatred for deficits?

Liz has also mentioned once, that she might consider running herself. So, is it gonna be Cheney/Cheney in 2012? And which of the incestuous duo will be on top?

38% of those polled believe that Palin is qualified to be president?? Based on what? Her ability to spy on Putin from her kitchen?

OK, the poll question didn't say "POTUS," so maybe people thought it was "president of the Wasilla Booster's Club."

Just 9 percent say they would definitely vote for her

I can live with that.

America's most powerful senator.

Reid has his work cut out for him, I'll hold comments until he (bends over and cuts deals with lobbiests to) get HCR done. If this is what a self described "most powerful" can do, the bar has been lowered.

doormouse, maybe
doormat, yes

Before you complain about republicans not being able to govern, remember that 'government is the problem and not the solution' and that republicans are very good at ruling.

Republicans are very good at hating government while running to be in charge of it (?!) as well as lying, screaming and fighting. Not good at ruling at all (ie. Bush years) but they are very good at fighting-- when they're in charge they don't even pretend they're interested in the other side and no one expects them to. When they're not in charge they're good at manufacturing outrage over anything and everything. At the end of the day they're a hollow, angry party that doesn't have a vision for the country that isn't extremely narrow and limited.