EXCERPT: Hey, after days of the customary out-of-power whining and the macho  chest-beating to woo the Teabaggers, the results of CPAC's Straw Poll Vote were finally announced and the crowd booed:
Ron Paul            31% of the vote Mitt Romney      22% Sistah Sarah        7% Tim Who?       6% Undecided       6%
The crowd booed --...

EXCERPT: After endorsing Rand Paul for U.S Senator from Kentucky (yes, he's related) Sistah Sarah had to cope with this story in today's NY Daily News:Sarah Palin has found a down-low way to stay atop the bestsellers' chart: she's quietly using her political action committee to buy up copies of her memoir.Thousands of copies of "Going Rogue" were snatched up last year by Sarah PAC, the former GOP vice presidential nominee's PAC, for distribution to her supporters, according to records reviewed...

EXCERPT: On Friday, President Obama addressed the House GOPher Caucus and took questions. Even in this informal, history-setting context, the House GOPhers couldn't wean themselves of their Talking Point-Blame Trips. Here's what the President had to say about that:That's why I say if we're going to frame these debates in ways that allow us to solve them, then we can't start off by figuring out, A, who's to blame; B, how can we make the American people afraid of the other side. And...

EXCERPT: Today, 60 Democratic Senators passed statutory Pay-Go rules for the Senate's legislative business.
First enacted in 1990, the original Pay-Go legislation expired at the end of 2002. That's when the budget deficits returned -- Congress enacted Bush's 2003 tax cuts, then the Medicare Prescription Drug Act. At the time, even the White House acknowledged that the new Medicare Part D would not have met the Pay-Go requirements.Oh, did I mention that 40 Senate GOPhers voted against the...

EXCERPT: Advocates of economic growth ran into some squishy. low-info teabaggery in Scottsdale last week. 
Sunday's AZ Republic article, TASK FORCE CONSIDERS CURB ON CITY SPENDING, describes a proposed amendment to the Scottsdale city charter which would require voters to ratify, a priori, proposed tax breaks or subsidies to private entities.   Seems logical -- until when one realizes that such projects often have a drop-dead time period that's too short for a public...

EXCERPT: Who'da thought it?  A-dumb's cornerstone of authority and knowledge has been deemed a dirty book and pulled from a Southern California School District's shelves!
After a parent complained about an elementary school student stumbling across "oral sex" in a classroom dictionary, Menifee Union School District officials decided to pull Merriam Webster's 10th edition from all school shelves earlier this week. School officials will review the dictionary...

EXCERPT: According to J.D. Hayworth, the circus has 99 44/100th begun. Last night on Hardball (first link below):Common-Sense Consistent Conservative? Lessons From Being Out Of Office? The Economy? Stimulation? Bailout? Islamofacism? Geneva Conventions? Waterboarding -- Torture or Enhanced Interrogation Technique? Beheading? McCain from Secretary of State Timber to Too-Old To Serve As Senator? A Birther? "Well, gosh, we all had to bring our birth certificates to show we were who we said we...

EXCERPT: What if you gave a tea party and nobody came -- even with Sistah Sarah as the headliner?  Talk about trickle down!
From Mother Jones: [...] According to internal convention planning documents obtained by Mother Jones, Palin will be paid $115,000 to address the attendees—as they dine on steak or lobster. To some Tea Partiers, this lavish affair sounds suspiciously like an exclusive GOP fundraiser and a betrayal of their grassroots movement. (In mid-January, Palin told Fox...

EXCERPT: The analyses of Scott Brown's victory will consume all available oxygen in the media today and beyond. 
By Sunday, the Democratic and Republican political talkshow panelists will be armed with enough  conclusions to choke a horse. Yet, the underlying causation is clear -- BROWN MADE A PACT WITH THE DEVIL! This morning, Mitch McConnell, in full euphoric rhetorical flight, admitted even he doesn't mention his party affiliation when he campaigns. I'm...

EXCERPT: Postie's teabag waving on the heels of the Senate vote on its Health Care Reform Bill is one step ahead of the Whackadoodle pundit chest-thumping proclaiming the national economy a safe haven for collusion in the health insurance sector while the daily death toll mounts because folks can't afford the premiums for health insurance.  Postie may be excused because he can't see beyond his letter-sorting machine whereas the obstructionist GOPhers and the...