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A frightening right-wing extremist, the $5k a plate DC crowd, and our own "independent" Kelly Ayotte:
A group of Republican Senate candidates including Sharron Angle of Nevada are gathering in Washington tonight for a $5,000 per person fundraiser, party officials confirmed.
Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire, John Boozman of Arkansas, Dan Coats of Indiana and Marco Rubio of Florida are set to benefit along with Angle.
On my way home on Friday I was listening to All Things Considered, the NPR afternoon news show. One of their more annoying segments occurs in this time period, it's the look at the political scene (apparently only from the DC environs!) which usually is a brief sound-bite-type roundtable with E J Dionne and David Brooks. I sometimes get so annoyed I turn the radio off, the questions have none of the well-thought-out, researched quality that I still insist on associating with NPR. Instead, the anchor simply repeats the mantra of the day.
My latest op-ed for the Conway Daily Sun.( I only wish I'd had enough space to include the tea party candidate for governor of Colorado, who thinks a bike share program in Denver is part of a UN plot.)
This could have been a boring mid-term election season, but thankfully, we have the tea partiers to liven things up. Rand Paul, Sharron Angle, Sarah Palin - the fun just never stops. Tea Partiers complain that they're fed up, and they're a legitimate political movement, but it's difficult to take them seriously when they appear to be channeling the Mad Hatter.
CW says (and yes, I think this is true even outside of dirty hippie land) that US Senate GOP nominee from Nevada Sharron Angle is a Crazy Person, for example:
"You can make more money on unemployment than you can going down and getting one of those jobs that is an honest job but it doesn't pay as much. We've put in so much entitlement into our government that we really have spoiled our citizenry."
And then you have Judd Gregg, whom CW dictates both here and nationally to be a Very Serious Person (He's even on the Catfood Commission, he's so Very Serious!), for example:
Because you're out of the recession, you're starting to see growth and you're clearly going to dampen the capacity of that growth if you basically keep an economy that encourages people to, rather than go out and look for work, to stay on unemployment.
So, what's the daylight between those two statements, anyway?
