Your snarky answers and name calling don't do anything to further your opinions, and they turn off people who are interested in intelligent conversation. Conveyor of The Truth | 7.31.09 @ 5:30AM Linda, Rest assured I understood your point the first time around. In regards to your question of control, for starters the Repubs had control of everything all through the Bush years; that's how that un-American, unpatriotic, C-average, illiterate, deceitful, ex-alcoholic redneck piece of Southern trash was able to push through some of the outrageous legislation to which I have alluded above, and to subsequently bring this country to the ruins we find it in today. Now, maybe the Republican control in congress was not as strong as the Democratic control is today, but that only speaks to the degree with which the majority in this country are disgusted with the conservative Religious Right and everything it represents. And for that, you only have your own party to blame, with special thanks to George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. As for the "name-calling" here, it was going on long before I arrived; just scroll up and see for yourself. Heaven forbid the kooks who populate the Right, and whose goofy, mangled, and laughable rants litter this board, are called the wackos that they are. But they are free to call Obama everything from a rat to a snake to a traitor to a communist to an elderly-killing, body-burning Nazi. And I didn't see you bellyache about that. As a