Laughing Wolf has a nice little rant on the Dietary Supplement Safety Act and the nanny state.

S722 really does look like a step in the wrong direction, even for a left-winger like me. What's going on here? Aren't the Republicans supposed to be against this sort of thing?

I don't think that Republicans know what they are supposed to be against any more, if they ever did.

The Republican Party has mostly turned into the political party of religious zealots. The ideal of minimum government has vaporized within it. I don't even bother to vote anymore because I can't stand either of the major parties, and Libertarians have no chance in hell of ever winning.

While there are there are some Republicans who could pass as zealots, I don?t think we would hear them saying nice things about Islam if the party was run by the zealots.

Jordan

The same logic that applies to the gene pool also applies to the electorate, and I think we just got a slightly improved electorate.

Yeah, Bush and his fellow Republicans are just great. They've probably spent more money in the last five minutes rebuilding Iraq and Afghanistan than the Clinton spent his entire eight years in office. And all of that after Bush promised no "nation buildling." Republicans are easily the most philosophically inconsistent political party on the block. They live up well to their "stupid party" reputation.

Kevin McGehee your right, considering all of the inane twits who voted for Bush, the gene pool of the electorate definately needs a lot of improving. But I think even the twits are beginning to see the true colors of the neo-con Nazis we have running the show right now.

Huh-huh-huh! You said "Nazi." Huh-huh-huh!