People do not want to be disillusioned by the new president [Barak Obama]. The liberals felt, finally, this is our time. Now they're worried. Now what they see is more business as usual. We all want to give him the benefit of the doubt, we know it's a tough job and he inherited a mess, but at the end of the day, is it really change we can believe in when there's no public options and Wall Street reform has no teeth in it? It really looks a lot like we just changed the color.

It would be kind of a tragedy if we got to the end of four years of Democratic rule without having really tried any Democratic policies.

I don't understand why the police are infallible. They remind me a lot of the Catholic Church.

I'm worried about a permanent Republican majority. That's what I'm worried about for the future.

They are having a panel look into the intelligence failures in Iraq. It is a seven-person panel and it will include Senator John McCain, but the findings from this panel will not be issued until after the election. President Bush says the commission can go off and report back in a year, you know, the same way it works in the Texas National Guard.

Our mistakes from the past are just that: mistakes. And they were necessary to make in order to become the wiser person we became.

France... What can you say about a country that was too stupid to get on board with our wonderfully-conceived and brilliantly-executed war in Iraq?