How Bad Is It?

So Bad,

++that John Podhoretz writes in the New York Post that the GOP presidential candidates actually start acting like they are candidates for the President of the ...United States.. of America and not entertainers.

++that David Frum. former George W. speechwriter, says that the GOP has totally burned its brand by obsessing about the poor not paying their taxes while advocating for more tax breaks for the rich.

++that Senator Lindsey Graham is so embarrassed by the 9% approval rating of Congress that he now claims he is a lawyer when he meets people. A lawyer--being better than a Senator. That's low.

++66% of those earning over $1 million a year actually do want their taxes raised.

++Mitch McConnell couldn't block the University of West Virginia from joining SEC 12 when he was lobbying for Louisville.

++Herman Cain has to slow his campaign and that Washingtonmonthly actually found he had five separate opin ions on abortion.

++Mitt Romney reversed his position on climate change again. Now he doesn't know whether humans are involved. This literally means that Mitt Romney has agreed with all your positions about anything within the last year.

++Ricky Cantor has persuaded 60 Minutes to do a segment on him to show he is human and a nice guy--really.

++Paul "Voucher Care" Ryan has expressed concern that the safety net is shrinking.

++The House Republican "jobs" plan last year led to the loss of 324,000 jobs.

++The House Republicans will work all of 109 days in 2012, something like 40% of normal Americans. But who would know?

++Former head of the KKK and Republican candidate for Louisiana Governor David Duke backed Occupy Wall Street.

++The AFL-CIO is actually using union pension funds for infrastructure projects because Congress will not approve any funding for our deteriorating infrastructure.

++Rick Perry is so bad at debating, he actually is going to skip a few debates and actually campaign instead.

++John Boehner actually rejected completely the Democrats plan for reducing the national debt by $3 trillion, which means he rejected Obama's $4 trillion plan and another as ambitious. He claims these measures are not serious. But doesn't have a clue about anything more serious.

++Ron Paul won't rule out a third party candidacy.

++ Occupy Wall Street has had more Google hits than the teabaggers.

++The Tea Party Nation petitioned Michelle Bachmann to withdraw from the GOP presidential race.

++Former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson actually did get to New Hampshire and file for the Republican nomination for president.

++The Vatican endorsed Occupy Wall Street in a papal letter calling for reform of the global economic system.

++The House Republicans want to ensure the defeat of Obama's Jobs Plan because it would cut unemployment to a level below that when Obama took office by the date of the election. That is the long and short of it. Party uber alles.

++Karl Rove himself admitted to his Crossroads America staff that Occupy Wall Street was winning the political debate on the inequality of wealth in the country.

++Recent polls show that all the Republican freshman teabaggers are vulnerable in 2012 even with redistricting.

++The Hispanic Caucus called Marco Rubio a laughingstock and dismissed the problems he has over explaining how his family were economic refugees from Cuba. The Mexican-Americans said it didn't matter anyway because he didn't represent Hispanics.

++Republicans concede that Obama will retain the high percentage of support among black voters but say that it won't matter if they can't vote.

++GOP pollsters are actually concerned that the economic news from yesterday may indicate that the economy really is improving despite the Republicans best efforts to sabotage it.

++Under President Obama the private sector in the last 14 months has created 2.1 million jobs,twice the number of all jobs created under George W. Bush for his entire term of office. Naturally, no one will tell you about this.

++that President Obama's sagging approval rating is 5--that's right 5 times the approval rating of Congress.

++Washington is going to have a snow storm as I have to drive to Ohio.