1. This person might be the next Senator from Nevada...
Via Yglesias. This comment in the thread nails it.
Sure, barter can work. It worked well before industrialization. But the idea that you go to your GP, and pay him a sack of potatoes, but you need x rays, and the x ray guy wants the GI Joe with the kung fu grip for his kid, so you find someone who has that and trade him potatoes, but then the blood test guy wants neither, so you give him literally the shirt off your back, and then you promise the specialist that you’ll mow his lawn for two years…
2. The new Senator from Florida, Marco Rubio, will be a tax cheat/imbezzler under investigation by the IRS for ripping his own party off. In Arizona, McCain has to fight off one of Abramoff's cronies, J.D. Hayworth—an acknowledged windbag who guest hosts for Laura Ingraham.
That's three certifiable teabagging maniacs with a good chance of joining the already crazy ranks of the GOP caucus. They aren't going to be pulling them in the proper direction.
And if those candidates, and others like them, win races, it will only embolden the rest of the freakshow.
UPDATE: Booman does a nice breakdown of two of these races...
1 comment:
The comments at Yglesias are pretty funny.
There is talk of sending Chickens as a campaign contribution, a central chicken depository like Fort Knox and mass Chicken exchanges, including CDS - Chicken Default Swaps, which really need ot be regualted.
Funny stuff.
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