I’m having this thing lately where I read something so delightful I have to run and post it before I even finish the article.
Apparently, not trying to slaughter your girlfriend is insufficient qualification for public office, even in Illinois, and even at a time when Sarah Palin is considered a serious presidential contender.
From here. With a beginning like that, this thing has got to be awesome.
UPDATE:
Okay, I have to quote another part, just because it’s the first time I’ve seen in print the same thing I rant about myself to anyone who will listen to me, which means Monica, and Peaches:
Consider the incoherent platform of the tea party’s new “Ensuring Liberty” PAC. It will “choose candidates based on their fidelity to … the ‘first principles’: less government, fiscal responsibility, lower taxes, states rights and national security,” Ensuring Liberty spokesman Mark Skoda told The New York Times. Really? How do you reconcile the demand for less government with a right wing vision of national security that includes a federal bureaucracy empowered to monitor our travel, our reading habits (on and offline), and our communications (enlisting the aid of telecoms in doing so)? How do you reconcile less government, fiscal responsibility, and lower taxes with support for continued war, not to mention a government that “keeps its hand off” Medicare and Social Security?
Hands off my Medicare indeed.