Seen at the Air and Water Show in Chicago today:

McCain is trying to appear as though he wants to solve the energy crisis with good ol' fashioned American Ingenuity, the lack of which surely got us into this mess. His idea:

Unlike most Americans, my financial prospects are rising. I am flush with cash, and it is with smug satisfaction that I look over my numbers for the second fiscal quarter '08.

If you want to know a little more about what financial success looks like for regular people, come take a look!

I'm really getting sick of the crap around here. Many have expounded upon this theme, I'm not here to rehash. The discourse has disintegrated to the point where it isn't worth commenting on anything. Discussions have deteriorated to the point where it isn't worth having one.

But I really look here first for good political news without the MSM slant. I know about the obvious places, but I'd like to know where good political discussions are still happening in conjunction with political news from the perspective of the left.

Clicking around the Free Republic website - which I almost never do, I immediately happened upon a little gem that I just had to share.

prayforgeorgewbush.com is "Celebrating 7 Years of God's Faithfulness." At first I thought it was a grammatical error. Does anyone actually hold a religious conviction that it is God who believes in us, as opposed to the conventional Judeo-Christian belief that it is we who have faith in God? Apparently someone does. I looked around and it seems that there is no mistake. George W. Bush is apparently a deity, and God himself merely numbers among the faithful.

I don't see this diaried anywhere else - If I am clueless and missed it I'll delete immediately.

With 97% of precincts reporting, Pera has 29% to Lipinski's 50%

http://www.voterinfonet.com/...

More to follow:

If you are a progressive in this country, there is a peculiar intellectual task that we as a group have not managed to wrap our collective mind around. This task, should you choose to accept it - is to figure out just what the heck to make of Republicans.

Sure, it's easy enough to dismiss them as evil or psychotic, sub-normal or mentally ill. Many of them are. But then again so are many of us.

Today Congress will veto the SCHIP expansion again. I am posting a diary for the first time to tell my family's story, and what this veto means for us.