Rational Nation USA

The people throughout the land, hearing of the anointed one's legendary wisdom, grew anxious and hungry to hear his sweet words. The promise of Hope and Change proceeded him as he visited villages and metropolises all across this land of ours. The long night of Bush the Terrible had left the people weary and wondering if America, the beloved country, would, indeed could, ever be the same again. The years of Bush the Terrible, who had kept the people free of terrorist attack, had taxed the people's patience and they longed for the promise of Hope and Change. As the wisdom of the anointed one spread  his following grew. Millions listened, and the glimmer of Hope and Change grew brighter almost by the day. The anointed one, with words as sleek as silk promised the people of the land peace when he brought our tired men and women home from their long night of  discontent. Seei...

President Obama and his administration are apparently finding it useful to attack the Fox News Network. As Fox tries to remain journalistic by presenting both sides of issues in the news, the Obama Administration apparently either dislikes, fears, or both, the conservative editorial statements made on Fox. Obama and his administration have come out and called Fox News an arm of the Republican Party. Gosh, while this is unlikely, it should surprise no one that Obama has taken such a position. Follow the link here to the breaking news video. The following is an excerpt of a statement made by Anita Dunn, an Obama Administration spokesperson. " What I think is fair to say about Fox -- and certainly it's the way we view it -- is that it really is more a wing of the Republican Party," "They take their talking points, put them on the air; take their opposition research, put them on the air. And that's fine. But let's not p...

ADVERTISEMENT HEALTH Dems Start To Push Back Hard To Prevent A 'Waterloo' Wednesday, July 22, 2009 by Anna Edney, with Kasie Hunt and Peter Cohn contributing A telling episode recounted by Senate Finance ranking member Charles Grassley reveals the Obama administration might be more worried than they are letting on that a Republican senator's comparison of the healthcare overhaul to Waterloo might be dangerously close to the truth. Grassley said he spoke with a Democratic House member last week who shared Obama's bleak reaction during a private meeting to reports that some factions of House Democrats were lining up to stall or even take down the overhaul unless leaders made major changes. "Let's just lay everything on the table," Grassley said. "A Democrat congressman last week told me after a conversation with the president that the president had trouble in the House of Representatives, and it wasn't going to pass if there weren't some changes...