Frankly, this is what talk radio has given us...a world in which there's no respect for elected leaders if they're from the wrong political party. If we are to believe Limbaugh, Hannity, Beck, Savage and the rest of them, every single thing that's evil and wicked in this country is Obama's fault. During the previous eight years, the equivalent bloviators on the left, many fewer in number, blamed everything on W. Obama thought he was going to bring back bipartisanship, but he didn't count on the head of the Republican party (yes, that's what Limbaugh is) exhorting his slavish minions to pray for Obama's failure as a president, and for all the other right-wing talk-show hosts to fall in line behind Drill Sgt. Limbaugh. When people just talk past each other, when debate consists of personal attacks and insults rather than a factual appraisal of the issues, when lawmakers forget that the best laws this nation has enacted throughout its history were forged from bipartisan coalitions, you get what we have today...a lot of screaming and yelling, and very little meaningful work getting done.

One of the more comic/tragic things about American society today is to hear otherwise smart level-headed people endlessly parroting their favorite line from a talk-show host whose only qualification to be a talk-show host is their continuously running mouth. You know the type: "Wow, Savage is so right: liberalism IS a mental disease." "The only way we're going to fix what's wrong with this country is to kill George W. Bush." Some of these people can't even tie their shoes without some loud moron with a microphone in his hand telling them how. The cause of an informed electorate is not served by what passes for political debate in this era, where everyone is compelled to take sides and facts take a back seat to agendas.