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Even as all these tea partyers seem to be knocking out the
incumbent republicans and some democrats, it is interesting to
consider that this is what those ‘leaders’ of the of the facade of 2
parties want because it is reported that the senator from alaska
who lost the primary to a tea partier has decided to run on a
‘write in’ which the repubs still insist on support the tea partyier.

Says way more than I would like to hear or know as it is
tantamount to them wanting those tea partyers to win and gain
office because they know once those lobbyyists start pushing
through the doors of those newly elected tea people with all
them bribery dollars, any sense of ‘taking their government back’
will quickly become just part of who was before in that office,
gone.

Those tea partyers made be adamant about their current cause
but money will soon quell that.

For these Democrats to glory in the Republican’s discomfort shows a complete lack of progressive policies in their own ranks and an absolute failure to offer the American public, experienced, competent candidates who are able to understand and deal with the ongoing problems that are currently confounding the recovery within the USA.

oh well these are the same morons who eat dead animals and think nothing of it
so what do you expect

I for one will not assume that the anti-incumbent and
anti-government mood will not turn out dim-o-crats that
failed their mandate and not reward s**tbag teaparty
candidates. Our current government model is beyond
broken and is not salvageable because the corporations
are the republicrats.

ITW—At this point I don’t see a Hitler type on the stage or in the wings.

If the Teaparty victories cost the GOP their chance at taking over the House and even the Senate, and, better still allow the Dems to maintain similar majorities going into the future, then the GOP will be forced to do another 1964 evaluation.  If, however, they win smashing victories in the fall, History will record this as America’s 1933: when Democracy voted itself out of existence in favor of fanatical reactionaryism, that led to the most infamous dictatorship in memory.

We need to vote out all encumbents, Democrat and Republican.

Many of these fossils are overdue for retirement anyway.

“It is not good news for the cause of good government.”

Assuming Republicans are in the government. There is no law requiring them to be, and we control whether they are or not.

PUNISH REPUBLICANS.

Vote Democrat.

There is another reason for Marcus to be despondent about O’Donnell’s primary victory.  The electorate’s anger at “establishment” politicians is so great at the moment that it is entirely plausible that O’Donnell, along with Angle, Paul, Buck et al., may be elected.  If so, then we will have a Congress with a sizable contingent of Senators, along with some Representatives, who don’t believe in government.

“It is not good news for the cause of good government.”

Hasn’t this cause been lost long ago? We have a political class whose primary
motivation is being elected and then staying in office as long as possible, the
needs of the nation be damned. We have an electorate that is becoming less
well informed each day as the world becomes more complex and our role in it
more difficult. We are losing the ability to rationally protect our own national
interest.

As a consequence our political system (a misnomer) has not been as
dysfunctional as it is now in my seven decades of life. Too many of our political
leaders are unable to talk with their counterparts in the other party about the
issues while being mutually respectful, and there are those in the electorate
who want only their way without any compromise. Politics is the art of
compromise and compromise is seen s weakness.

The politics of anger, blame, and narcissism is grinding our nation into the
ground at a time when other nations are emerging and growing their
economies. Arianna Huffington makes a compelling case for changes that are
within our power to make in her new book “Third World America.”

At my age, I am in the protected class with a comfortable income and access to
health care so I am reasonably secure for the rest of my lifetime, but I worry
about the world that my grandchildren are growing up into.