Well, I was going to do a lot of ranting and commenting and hair-pulling about the bloodbath election on Tuesday--and in fact I have done quite a bit of that on Twitter. But I found this quote (from one of my Twitter followers) that sums everything up far better than any long-winded commentary:

"The American people is the only animal that can be ( Read more... )

One of the Tea Bags on my Twitter followers* said that she will be praying to the Flying Spaghetti Monster for a big victory tomorrow. While she is praying, you all need to get off your asses and go vote so that she has no victory to celebrate ( Read more... )

Alaska Tea Party Republican Senate candidate Joe Miller worries that he "might"--just might--have child porn on his computer. And according to some speculation in Democratic forums, he just "might" have fabricated a scandal to deflect interest from the child porn he "might" have on his computer ( Read more... )

Paul Krugman--who won the Nobel Prize in economics, remember--has a must read article about how we're all being mugged because of so much phony outrage over debt. Even worse, the moralizers are holding back sound economic policies that could start getting us out of this mess.

On a related note, NPR's Marketplace aired an interview last week ( Read more... )

We all know the narrative: We voted for change in 2008, change didn't materialized fast enough--because somehow Democrats were expected to fix years of Republican failures in 18 months--so now the voters are going to put the Republicans back in charge. Because the American voters, are, to put it bluntly, stupid. Not to mention being manipulated ( Read more... )

Two great articles tonight about shadowy money and who is cashing in on the Tea Party movement.

Mother Jones has a good report on the high-pressure scam artist tactics of Goldline, one of Glenn Beck's few remaining sponsors. Also a great history of goldbugs throughout American history. And the important question of whether Beck's gold fetish is ( Read more... )

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Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell said the Republicans' first priority if they take over Congress is to make sure that President Obama is a one-termer. No doubt so that sane and balanced people like Christine O'Donnell can run DC ( Read more... )

Republican/Tea Party-er Sharron Angle, candidate for Senate in Nevada, finally filed her campaign disclosure forms that were due on the 15th. And in this age of high-tech electronics, her filing is not electronic, but rather 9,112 pages of scanned paper. Which naturally becomes a major pain in the ass for anyone trying to go through these filings ( Read more... )