Current mood: wistful

In what conceivable way is it better for conservatism / classical liberalism in the long term to have, say, Republican Mike Castle — and not Bearded Marxist Chris Coons — vote for this? Answer: (h/t TerryH)

Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe: For months, voters have been signaling their discontent with the president, his party, and their priorities; in less than a week, they appear poised to deliver a stinging rebuke. Yet rather than address the voters’ concerns with seriousness and respect, too many Democrats and their allies on the left have chosen instead to slur those voters as stupid, extremist, or too scared to think straight. Well,

I noted this in a comment last night, but because some of you may not have seen it, let me point out here that many of the voting “glitches” (which of late have a remarkable habit of accidentally benefiting Democrats) documented thus far in this year’s Nevada election, have a distinct air of worry about them. To wit: Did you know that the SEIU represents the voting machine technicians in

Michael Barone: The mainstream press hasn’t shown much interest in reporting on unions’ campaign spending, which amounted to some $400 million in the 2008 cycle. And it hasn’t seen fit to run long investigative stories on why public employee unions — the large majority of which work for state and local governments — contribute so much more to campaigns for federal office. Nor has it denounced the Supreme Court’s Citizens