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Over the weekend the Republican propaganda machine went into high gear with their new defensive mantra about the Democrats having nothing to offer for the country except criticism of Bush. Even the liberal San Francisco Chronicle, had a front page story by Marc Sandalow it's so called Washington correspondent, re-gurgitating these Republican talking points. How gullible the mainstream media is. Sandalow should be writing about the gross incompetence of this Republican administration and how they have mis-represented and mis-managed everything from the war, to taxes, to the economy to the environment, to the prescription drug bill, the energy bill, the transportation bill, Hurricane relief, seperation of church and state, and now, Tom Delay, Karl and Scooter and Harriet Miers. If the mainstream press was doing it's job instead of being sucker punched by Republican propaganda, the Democrats could get their message out. Instead the Demos have to try to expose the blatant hubris of this corrupt, self-serving, Administration.
Talk about invisible men; how about John Kerry and John Edwards. I saw Edwards for about 5 minutes on the Bill Mahr show Friday night. He's taken the Jimmy Carter potential replacement role, spending his time helping the poor. An admirable cause and you have to respect his desire to help, but this guy got 53 million votes in the last election. Shouldn't he and Kerry be on every newscast, in every magazine, on the internet, even on bumper stickers saying to the red state voters, we told you so?
My ticket for 08, either Hillary and Wes Clark or Gore and Clark. In either case experience and a warrior.

If you haven't been watching Rome on HBO, you're missing terrific adult entertainment. Larry David hasn't missed a beat in the new season of Curb your Enthusiasm, and Extras the new show from the "Office" creater Ricky Gervais is really funny, but it takes you about half the show to understand their English dialects.

San Francisco had a 36 hour free open house for it's spectacular new De Young museum this weekend. The weather was perfect and there were around the clock very long lines even at 3 am waiting to get in. Say what you want about San Francisco political values but I would certainly trust the political judgement of a city that has long lines waiting to get into a museum rather than a red state city with long lines waiting to get into a Nascar race.
This elaborate and expensive museum was built for $200 million. We are spending $5 billion a month in Iraq directed by Bush and Rumsfeld. Shouldn't we be seeing some new buildings and infastructure going up rather than increased bombings for our investment?