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If you ever feel like slapping Junior, don't feel bad; it's completely natural.

I love that line

Save the planet, Kill yourself

Hmmm, berry berry interesting. lol

I heard Rick Santorum say that Casey had been dodging any debating and that the two campaigns could only agree on Labor Day weekend. Humm, how good are ratings on this particular Sunday?

Another crystal clear example of the lack of ideas that the Democrats bring to the table!

Bob Casey:

Will cut government spending by cutting consultants.

Believes Social Security is "a problem" and thinks we can grow our way out of the social security problem.

He has solved the budget deficit and the social security problem by repealing the tax cuts on the top 1% and the death tax.

And, he's for fiscal responsibility...

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice.

Hey, I'll also give, so far, Russert some credit - he has attempted to corner both Casey and Santorum. Although, it is much harder to corner Santorum, since he knows and understands why he does things.

If there is any doubt in a voter's mind that Bob Casey, if elected, is just going to go to Washington and become another nondescript, do-whatever-the-Dem-leadership-tells-him-to-do- Senator, then the voters of Pennsylvania are dumber than I thought.

But, if that's what your electorate wants up there, so be it. He will never distinguish himself, but he'll probably provide pretty good pork back to the state, and he'll be a reliably Liberal vote for Hillary, Schumer, et.al. And if you're a pro-life voter who leans D, and you're voting for Casey b/c of his pro-life stance, I'll bet you a weeks salary that in a few years, his views will "evolve" and he'll be just another former pro-life Democrat.

While Santorum may lose this election, he at least can do so honorably, and knowing that he stood up for what he believed in. Because you can tell that Santorum actually believes the things he says, it's easy for him speak in a debate. It's obvious Casey has to think about the talking points he's been given and must try very hard to stay on the D point.

I don't know what Casey believes in here any more than any other Democrat.

Pennsyltucky Politics:

http://www.pennlive.com/politics/patriotnews/pennsyltucky/

Santorum, Casey go toe-to-toe on familiar ground
For those watching Pennsyltucky’s U.S. Senate race for the last 18 months, the impression — outside of the partisans — is that little new ground was unearthed now that Rick Santorum and Bob Casey Jr. have finally debated.

They sat two inches apart for an hour on today's "Meet the Press" without scratching one another's eyes out.

Yet the early consensus is that, if there was a winner of this morning’s debate, it was Casey.

I am so over Liddy Dole representing us. Asking(?) for a dinner with Chuck Shumer? geesh. If she is all we have on our side, then I give up. What ever happened to AMERICA and that being what mattered. That is why Joe in CONN is so important. Someone who will stand up for AMERICA!.

I for on do not want to be a muslim. I am a proud CHRISTIAN who happens to be a proud AMERICAN. Unfortunately I am an older AMERICAN who cannot go to war and defend our country and NOT our body politic.

I thought we were getting that with GWB when he was elected. Liddy Dole is not an answer but symptomatic of the government's problems.

I;ve been reading an article about the effect the rhetoric developed and popularized by the Sophists harmed Classical Greek civilization, and Rome, as well. The object was to persuade, which they disconnected from discovering truth. They were the first postmodernists, arguing that truth is whatever you want it to be. Gorgias, for example, was said to have worked out a method for speaking "offhand on any and all subjects, and to prove or disprove any point on demand." They were able through their oratory to debate both sides of every question and convince the listeners. They became the rock stars of their day, traveling and demonstrating their skills, and took fees for teaching their techniques.

The reason I mention this is the charge that the foiled plot to blow up airliners shows that we're no safer than we were before 9/11. What would he say if they'd succeeded? He's establishing a standard that's impossible to meet, even by Democrats, but you're not supposed to ask what he'd do better.

The thought of Democrats demanding fiscal responsibility should give everybody a case of the titters. They claim to have an agenda, but they know they've got nothing. Their real agenda is to hold hearings to investigate the Bush administration, bail out of Iraq, repeal tax cuts and convince us that Iran can be trusted with nukes, but getting them to admit it is something that nobody in the MSM cares to do.

Pundits, political consultants, lawyers, newsmen, academics like Ward Churchill; they're all Sophists, and we're a nation whose idea of critical thinking is what we learn watching TV commercials. Not every Republican can make a cogent argument, but the Dems on this morning's shows are masters of the art of the Big Lie. Unless the Republicans wake up and start making the case for Bush's policies, they're going to be on the outside looking in.