The 'everybody does it' response is hardly enough here...

Perspective? Gimme a break!

As a matter of fact, Sen. Reid was over-the-top today in a television appearance -- he's so pathetic!

And yes, former Repub Majority Leader Trent Lott said something stupid about a former segregationist -- and he was forced out of his position for a time after a huge hullabaloo.

Yet Sen. Robert Byrd, a former recruiter for the KKK, was the Dems' Senate leader for 12 years (1977-1989) -- with nary a peep from the media!

You really don't want to get into a conversation about 'perspective' when the modern Democratic Party has become so beholden to the Hyperbolic Imperative, do you?

This is what you've come up with?

Quite frankly, I'm not sure which is worse, people who don't believe in Theory of Evolution, or those who think the Bush tax cuts have caused our national debt (I'm not directing this specifically at you)...

And don't even try and put the funding for abstinence education at the top of any list for goodness sakes.

You wanna talk disgusting political posturing?

Why do the Dems oppose real education reform in a country where 26 of the largest 50 school districts graduate less than 60% of their kids?

How can the Dems continue with their focus-group directed rhetoric about Social Security when the average SS recipient lives on about $1,100 per month (it's because it polls well, not because they're protecting the middle class)?

And that's just the tip of the iceberg...

The Repubs are far from perfect, but the Dems ran this country for 68 years, and some of the worst of their ideas from the end of that reign are now being feted as 'new' ideas from a Chicago pol who has convinced a coalition of the young, our educational establishment, government workers, and his ethnic group of black voters that he is a 'change candidate.'

What nonsense. What utter nonsense...

What educational reform have the Dems offered?

Other than more money (ignoring the fact that real spending on education has more than tripled in the last four decades), nothing.

Zip. Nadda. Zilch.

Other than protecting their interest group, the teacher's unions, that is.

As for SS reform, the Dems are an absolute and total disgrace -- other than to demagogue the issue, what have they offered besides another tax increase (15 of them so far since the program started)?

The average SS recipient gets $1,100 per month in benefits; 20%-25% of all recipients receive SS as their sole source of income; and another 40%-45% have it account for at least half of their income.

This is a national disgrace... because we know how to do it better (like, say, a program like government workers have .. ya know, containing those risky things like stocks and bonds; I know: The Horror!)