Simply proving once again that the GOP is not concerned with truth getting in the way of accusation.

If Tuesday night was an example of the best and brightest the GOP has to offer, all I can say is God save the Republic

Florida Debate Re-dumb

Rochelle, I believe we are related. I'm Ed Donahue's cousin, Dan.---Dan

Rochelle, I believe we are related. I'm Ed Donahue's cousin, Dan.---Dan

The View From My Office Window, by Dan Giallombardo Hey, I'm back! And more confused than ever by the political scene. Who exactly are these people who are so convinced they were elected to insure the ultimate fall of the United States of America and who seem to think they can blame everything on Obama? Has anyone besides me read Cheney's book? Sure it was prosaic and self-aggrangizing, most political autobigoraphies are. But Cheney's admits to the fact that the economy was largely ignored. Well, duh. I'm not an economist but it occurs to me that if something is left unattended or allowed to roll without regulation for eight years, guess what? It's gonna run amuck. So, before anyone with an elephant lapel pin starts badmouthing the Dem's for their fiscal policies they might want to take a quick look back at the people who went so far out of their way to drive us all into insolvency. What kind of mind thinks you can run a war AND cut taxes? Huh? Clinto left us with a Budget Surplus. What this tells me is that just because you print the money doesn't mean you have it to spend.The ultimate bill comes to the American people, and given the value recieved during those years, I think the taxes were worth it. The Tea Party, according to several political pundits, is DOA during the next election. I don't think so. I see "individuals" like the current speaker of the House, running scared. What's he so afraid of? The same people the GOP encouraged in the '10 elections: the Tea Party faction. Joe Walsh-who beat Melissa Bean-stated that he needed a weapon to protect him from his government. That,ladies and gents is the same government he was running to become a part of and the same government he was elected to help run. Now YOU figure that one out, it's beyond me. OH WAIT! I know, he was being...oh, what's the word....pandering.He was pandering to the people of Illinois. The ancient Roman leaders once believed that if you gave the people bread and the circus they'd become managable,which meant they wouldn't be paying much attention to the affairs of state.Or how corrupt their so-called Republic had become. This was,oh, let's be charitable and simply call it a mistake. The peopleof the United States of American are here to be served by their government. Not the other way around. "Provide for the common good" doesn't mean helping millionaires become multi-millionaires.The common good is just that: the COMMON GOOD. If they want to make us all millionaires, we'd all be equally poor. Anyway, I digress. This is going to be a brutal election. Probably as tough as the one Truman faced against Dewey and in politics as in life, there just ain't no guarantees. We will need to work hard to re-elect Obama and a predominantly Democratic Congress. Only then will we see the type and quality of progress the election of Obama offered. Or at least, that's the view from my office window.