Feel like getting involved in the political process but can’t because of that pesky house arrest ankle bracelet? Well, you’re finally in luck. No one has to know you’re doing this naked. That can be your secret, outlaw.

Hint: it involves an increasingly powerful unelected portion of government that the left consistently seeks to expand. Hint the second: it rhymes with “mederal poorocrisy”. Any guesses?

“Raw, brute force”. Bill Wilson, ALG: Baucus is inviting the IRS to reinterpret the 501(c) section of the law, apparently to even rein in activities previously allowed for under that section. For example, he complains about the activities of Americans for Job Security in Alaska for promoting a referendum campaign, even though these groups are legally allowed to engage in referenda processes without any public disclosure requirements. Under Baucus’ interpretation

Unhelpful. Keep it up, and we’ll never win over the moderates.

But when white people were helping to elect the first black president of the United States, I don’t recall people like Steven Thrasher proclaiming that white America had lost its mind. Which suggests to me that, per Thrasher, sanity is itself defined as “doing what people like Steven Thrasher tell you to do, you ignorant Biblehumping hickbillies!” Also of note: I suspect that all the white readers of the Village

In answer to any question about the economy and the 2010 election, Democratic candidates always seek to frame the debate in terms of when Barack Obama took office, not when Pelosi and Reid took office; and further that the entire economic mess was inherited from Bush. The economic numbers framed from this start date selection are the least bad for the Democrats. Barack Obama is not running in 2010. The

Will be back when I’m feeling less likely to spontaneously combust / cough up a large hank of kidney. I blame Bush.

And this time they really

Barone, RCP: Yes, the Pledge does include some procedural reforms (any House member can get a vote on an amendment cutting spending), as did the Contract (cutting the number of committees and committee staff). But the Pledge to America also addresses two central economic issues and makes commitments that will embarrass House Republicans if they gain a majority but fail to deliver. One is to roll back non-defense discretionary spending

…talks Tea Party. Then he smokes a cigar, enjoys two fingers of a fine single malt, and goes home to his mansion and bangs his hot wife. What could have been, America. Am I right?