Kit Bond calls for John Brennan's resignation. I call for Kit Bond to go f*ck himself.

I second that motion.

If any person in government, not to mention a Senator, does not know a suspect being held & questioned by the FBI is going to be read Miranda rights then they are either stupid or grandstanding for the Tea Party crowd. So either these Republicans are idiots or liars. I don't know which is worse.

Bond is retiring at the end of the year. Sorry he is going out on such a sour note.

What's a grown up Republican? An oxymoron!

What's a tea bagger? Just a regular moron.

No Steve, there are NO grownups left in the GOP. None. Good lockstep soldiers never break ranks.

They let a talk radio show host dictate their policies, and they let a braindead 1/2 term governor become their most visible spokesperson.

All because they are still sulking like babies over losing the election.

There should be a house-cleaning in the national security estalishment, starting with Brennan. Have each of them raise their right hand and recite the Pledge of Allegiance. Any that gag are liberals and should be fired immediately.

Grown-up Republicans? Oxymoron.

Just heard Terry Gross interviewing journalist Jane Mayer and she spelled out nearly all the ways the GOP is blatantly lying about Obama's "war on terror" and how it is being conducted. Basically they're unhappy that Obama is following the consititution while continuing many of the policies followed under Bush. (It was a good interview, totally worth listening to: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123493667)

Who is the biggest lying hyprocrite of all? Dick Cheney. Shocking, eh?

The people you are calling Republicans are not: they are ideological fruitcakes, reactionary radicals. The real Republicans are known as Blue Dog Democrats.

There have to be some grown-up Republicans hiding somewhere, feeling embarrassed by what's become of their colleagues. Do they dare stand up, act like statesmen, and tell fools like Bond to enjoy a little quiet time?

Not until the President can make it clear to them that such behavior has negative electoral consequences.

There have to be some grown-up Republicans hiding somewhere, feeling embarrassed by what's become of their colleagues...

Sorry, Steve, but this says more about the state of our country than the state of a political party. This shit goes on (and will only get worse) because the mainstream press tolerates it, the general public is unaware, and the rest are a significant part of the population possessing shit for brains that enjoy gulping ideologue kool-aid all day long.

Al, @16:58,

Which version? The original one or the one where you're expected to get under God?

Where are George Bush Sr., Howard Baker, Bob Dole?
What are they frightened of?

Al,
I pledge allegiance to the Constitution, thankyouverymuch.

P.S. - why do conservatives hate Jehovah's Witnesses?
http://towerwatch.net/Witnesses/Beliefs/their_beliefs_pfv.htm

"There have to be some grown-up Republicans hiding somewhere, feeling embarrassed by what's become of their colleagues."

No. There are not. At all. They all have abandoned the party or are intimidated by something I cannot imagine and probably do not want to know about.

I suspect though it has soemthing to do with the erxpression "Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition!"

Meanwhile

Try googling "Republican Lenin Stimulus"

Have each of them raise their right hand and recite the Pledge of Allegiance.

If we required the TeaBaggers to do that, I bet most of them would keep their lefthand fingers crossed behind their backs. There's that teensy little word in there about the Republic being "indivisible", I'm sure those good patriots wouldn't want to be oath-breakers when they discuss secession.

I don't think it's too harsh to say at this point that the Republican party (and those corrupt Democrats who work with them) have officially become an enemy of the United States and of the American people.

Yes, they are the opposition party and it's their job to oppose the party in power. But they long ago jumped over the cliff to Crazyland and are now bent on making the country literally ungovernable by anyone except one of their own. And if that happens the country is doomed anyway, as eight years of George Bush have already demonstrated many times over.

This scorched earth policy by the Republicans represents a clear and present danger to representative democracy as we know it, and the Democratic majority is going to have to deal with it as it is and not how it might once have been in less outrageous times.

And that's all I have to say about that.

For an example of a grown-up Republican, see the interview that Miss McCain gave in which she explained how Tancredo and the rest of the Tea Party movement are a bunch of closet racists. When she is the symbol of maturity, the Repubs have a lot of explaining to do.

Texas Aggie, @ 20:29,

Isn't it awful how John Sidney McCain (the Third of the line) can't even control his womenfolk? First Cindy, coming out against DADT, now Megan sassing Tancredo... It's no wonder JSMcC's primary opponent is making hay, for all he's worth, out of the situation (just got Arpajo's endorsement, in addition to DeMent's).

A cock ought to be able to rule his own dunghill.. erm... roost but JSMcC seems to be past it. Instead, he's... what's the English term... "pussy-whipped", I think (is it something that happens when you swing a cat in a small room?)

"There have to be some grown-up Republicans hiding somewhere, feeling embarrassed by what's become of their colleagues."

No, there aren't. Don't hold your breath. The Repubs won't be happy until America is like Somalia.

Ask Bond which he thinks is the most likely to happen

1) being killed by a bolt of lightening
2) dying from a slip in the bathtub
3) dying from terrorism

Answer - slipping in the tub is most likely to haapen, then lightening strike.