Thank you, G W Bush:

For making the road to the White House so much smoother.

Let's hear it for $4 gas and for our love of the SUV.

Apparently Chris Matthews was hungry because he ate conservative windbag Kevin James for breakfast. This isn't unique to this one. These conservative pundidiots are all the same. They all know exactly fuck all. It's just most of them don't get caught out like this. Normally they control the mic like Hannity, Limbaugh, etc. O'Reilly goes so far as to pre-tape so he never gets caught out and edits to his hearts content. The amazing thing is he still looks like a jackass on his show.

I think this cuts to the heart of the Republican/Conservative movement:

I've always been amazed at poor people who vote Republican. It's an addiction to the American Dream. The idea that it's ok to weight the economic scale entirely to the benefit of the rich because someday they will be rich too. When in all likelihood they will leave the world in the same economic bracket they were in when they came into the world (sadly.)

We like to think that you can become whatever you want in America, and you can, but most people don't. It's less an issue of drive than it is one of comfort. Going up or down completely in social class means a whole new social group with an entirely different lifestyle. Sure, you can go from lower middle class to upper middle class, or vice versa, with relative ease. But the lifestyle shift between working middle class and genuinely independently wealthy is extreme. There are those who do it, but they are the exception case.