Yup, Tom Delay is still crazy. He's as crazy as a birther. Wait, no, he is a birther. Appearing on Hardball with Chris Matthews on MSNBC today, former House Majority Leader Tom Delay (R - TX, out of his mind) talked about dancing with stars, shoes, guns, and well, demanded to see the President's birth certificate:

Cross posted from The People's View.

I have been following the national health care debate closely. Well, only some of it is debate. A good chunk of it seems to be angry mobs manipulated by a disinformation campaign by the right wing and its health insurance company allies, and people on Medicare yelling taking offense at government run health care. I have to be straight with myself. I have been of the mind that while I personally support a single payer health care system (or better-put, Medicare for All), it is not possible to pass such legislation in the current political climate, so we have to settle for a compromise known as the public option - one that allows any American to buy into a government-run insurance option. But I have been somewhat disillusioned. The fervor and nastiness with which the insurance companies and the political right is fighting giving Americans that choice has made me think twice. Perhaps we should have pushed for a single payer system to begin with, since the moneyed interests have no intention to compromise whatsoever. Their goal is to kill any and all health care reform legislation. Heaven forbid the average health insurance company CEO salary be less than $15 million yearly.

It's Sunday, and I am looking around the web on what is going on on what I consider as important as or more important an issue than this year's presidential election: protecting the right to marry the person they love for every Californian. On May 15, the California Supreme Court ruled that the right to marry was a fundamental right under the equal protection clause of the California State Constitution. Now, conservative reactionary right wing fundamentalist hate groups have put on the ballot something called "Proposition 8", a ballot initiative that would write in the Constitution of our state discrimination against same sex couples and remove this fundamental right.

What's more hideous is that these right wing fundamentalist groups see clearly that the future is free from their form of hatred and prejudice. Polls have found that two-thirds of young people in California oppose Prop 8 and support the right of all loving (adult) couples to enter into marriage, and so, they are putting on an effort to spread their hatred among people my age. They are funding this website, iProtectMarriage.com, where they have picked and recruited some young folk who either have sold their soul for money, or are too happy to have an avenue to spread hatred.

What a difference.  If you haven't yet, just first check out the Schwarzenegger State of the State speech Wednesday, January 5, 2006 - video, transcript (this video isn't really good, a much better quality one is available on CBS5.com).  And here is this year's Democratic response.  Now see/read his 2005 State of the State - video, transcript.

So this year's speech.  Wow, yeah, what a turnaround, right?  Oh whoa, he's embracing spending on public works projects including roads and schools and hospitals, increasing the minimum wage, emergency response facilities and building two new prisons.  Investments in flood protection.  Clean air and clean air technology!  Lot of Democrats - including Diane Feinstein - are signing happy tunes.  Ah, he is embracing the Democratic ideas.  Right? Right???