"Because the president will be under the effects of anesthesia, Bush has elected to implement Section 3 of the 25th Amendment to the Constitution, making Cheney acting president until Bush indicates he is prepared to reassume his authority."

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8QGINM80&show_article=1

I can imagine the liberal hand-wringing on this one.

Herb

So, straight from the pages of Xaviera Hollander's long running and popular column, Dick is in charge when Bush is passed out.

Apparently, a team of doctors will be gathering information about shrub's thought process, belief system, and his ability to retain information.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonoscopy

Actually President Bush has been under anesthesia his entire terms in office. This is no big news story.

What the fuck is a "leftist?" Is that the direct opposite of "fascist?"

Yes.

See also: "critical thinker"

See also:

An adherent to the failed system of socialism who cannot accept any alternative views.

Herb

Socialist?

Ah, I see.

Funny thing, it doesn't say that anywhere on my voter registration card.

Any Socialists here?

Beuller?

Beuller?

Beuller?

Beuller?

"An adherent to the failed system of socialism who cannot accept any alternative views."

Kind of reminds me of you Herb.

*Plonk!*

Better get you some more good stories Chris. It's starting to show. I'll be digging for you this weekend!

Herb,
I am an American, a very proud one to boot. I assume you are as well. Stop with the "leftist" shit, it make you look like an ass.

I may have some alternate views than you, but that what make America so great. I am no "leftist." Got it?

I have no problem being called a conservative, neocon, RINO, Republican, whatever. Why are you lefties so sensitive?

I do. Conservative in this day and age means to me:

Backward
Closed Minded
Homophobic
Warmongoring
Wanting to impose religion on everyone

Shall I go on???

And Deane before you blow a gasket, keep in mind this is the perception, which means this is how the movement presents itself to me, it isn't what I think of you. Remember, Rush and O'Reiley are your voice.

For me, it's really very simple. Framing somebody with a lable like that, really is demeaning. Done over and over, while equating that label to everything bad plausable is really just a back door insult.

All shallow, slippery stuff, IMHO.

Besides, not everyone here is a leftie. That's manufactured bull shit, aimed at once again, framing anything not well aligned with the current GOP line, as bad, wrong, etc...

So, it must be countered, or it stands. That's how labels work.

(which is why using them, in this fashion, is generally a bad idea. If being a tool is your thing, well --enjoy. Remember the lube though.)

So, Missing, how do you differ from a leftist?

So, DJ how do YOU distance yourself from the EXTREME RIGHT WINGED BIBLE THUMPER neo-CON fascists that have ruined our once great way of life?????

Do you use KY??? We ALL wanna know....

Thanks Missing. Need to take more of my own good news medicine.

No doubt.

@Deane: A "leftist: is some contrived characterization. I am not. Simple enough?

The term "leftist" is a term that describes no one here.

It is a term that people on the right use to sway the debate their way by applying an emotional label to someone that is derogatory in context.

It's the same tactic Tom Cruise uses by claiming that psychiatry is a form of "pseudoscience."