It is impossible to have a "civilized discussion" when one side refuses to acknowledge any rational acceptance of a truth greater than themselves. I take your listing of these comments and the Eugene gaffe as a way to attack the validity of the claims. I also notice Swift and Tester don't really defend Bachmann directly or refute the responses except to make smirky comments. Hardly civilized discussiion.

I think we could turn Bachmann's logical approach on anybody. We find someone...

Well that vote was a surprise to me. Can't wait to hear all of the "constitutional conservatives" spout off about a runaway court or something like that. The court just ruled that "Obama care " is constitutional. Considering how conservative this court has been in recent years, I would have thought the Repubs thought they had this one in the bag. Somewhere I read some comment from a conservative saying yesterday that after the court ruled the health mandate unconstitutional then the...

...kind of don't pass my "ick" test. I think calling these women "sex workers" as if it were a chosen profession gives the situation too much credit. Maybe in some ideal world where adults don't abuse and abandon their children, where poverty doesn't force one to act against their own sense of right and wrong, maybe in some Ron Paul dreamworld, legalizing the sex trade would make sense. I know the anecdotal evidence is that it seems to work in Denmark and Nevada but I have a hard time...

...as long as it opposes something Democrats believe or stand for. I would like to see Mr Bills take one of those tests the Republicans keep talking about to weed out incompetent teachers. This seems to be a case that cries out for correction to the seniority-first system of teacher tenure.

Since his sole selling point is that he is a high school economics teacher, I'm afraid we'll have to be hearing almost daily about his students and all their common sense answers. In keeping...