Just because.

Few deserve it more. Trust me. As promised, the armadillo is now once again free to dance (or, you know, not)… **** update* update 2**

Levin, reacting to Richard Baehr’s American Thinker piece that argues, eg., OUTLAWism is “Stalinist” — the analogy being that idealism-based voting is a call to “purge” the party of “moderates”: I oppose Mark Kirk, the only Republican I oppose in the general election, because he was 1 of 8 Republicans in the House who voted for cap-and-trade (Baehr’s favorite Mike Castle was another). It was a hugely imprudent act based

Guess they are among the 61% of Americans who favor repeal. — And that’s before rates sky-rocket, and before more than just late-state breast cancer sufferers are told they’re too much of an economic burden to live that extra half year. But hey, dead people don’t vote. So there’s always that that the government has going for it…

Major Garrett, writing in the National Journal: “Americans Want Their Leaders To Stand And Fight”: Nearly half of America — including nearly two-thirds of Republicans and 53 percent of independents — admires political leaders who refuse to compromise. This is further evidence that the current political atmosphere is not merely contentious, but hostile to any hope of negotiated settlements to the many political and policy differences that define the current