"Centrist" Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA)and his ilk that maintain "the deficit as a bigger threat than a stagnant economy" have been the problem these last two years; their ideology got us into this economic mess.

GOP idiots on Capitol Hill: Republican Study Committee (the ultimate oxymoron) recommended cutting welfare program that already expired.

Presidential commission on Gulf oil catastrophe: a systematic problem not a one-time disaster...lax oversight, inadequate regulation and inattention to detail.

Wall Street cashing in on taxpayers' money as the financial engineering promises aka scams made to state and local governments failed.

Bush flogging his book: "For countless sentient beings around the world, the alignment of the words "Bush" and "book" [his ghost written book] in the same sentence requires a suspension of disbelief."...Dubya, the former "boy emperor" persists in his line of defense for his illegal and insane acts....."I was just following orders" - orders from subordinates."

"....when Democrats spend 16 months on a landmark health care law, and the first data after passage is that the ranks of the uninsured went up, it threatens public support for the law, already at a low level."