The Norm Coleman / Al Franken Recount

One unresolved Senate race seen through the eyes of Matt Taibbi, here.

Taibbi points out

Coleman ... lost a humiliating gubernatorial race to wrestler Jesse Ventura 10 years ago, he now sits on the verge of becoming the first politician in American history to lose a major office to two different TV entertainers.

Ouch!

Make sure you read the entire article - on page 3 there is a mention of the unintentionally funny name of a device Coleman's wife invented.

My Campaign Memories by Matt Taibbi

Rolling Stone writer Matt Taibbi spent more time than a human should on the road over the past two years. After writing several incredible articles from the campaign trail covering nearly every candidate he wraps it all up with a best of style article.
I read most of this today on the bus ride into work and was actually LOL (I rarely mean it when I type it, but seriously I was LOL).

excerpt:

"Romney was, in his way, the worst of the bunch. His plan, apparently, was to run out the clock — to hold his breath and rely on his superior Mormon moral conditioning while he waited for all the other mutants in the race to die of their genetic vulnerabilities. Not a bad strategy. What undermined him was that if you weren't already a Romney supporter, it took about five seconds in his toothy, celluloid presence before you started feeling a profound urge to wizard-kick him in the face. You could see that phenomenon everywhere, even in the eyes of the other Republican candidates."
read on

The Sarah Palin Files, Pt. 46

Thank God!

I have been waiting for Matt Taibbi's take on the Republican Air-Head "It-Girl." He does not disappoint.

On all of the revelations about Palin:

She's a puffed-up dimwit with primitive religious beliefs who had to be educated as to the fact that the Constitution did not exactly envision government executives firing librarians. Judging from the importance progressive critics seem to attach to these revelations, you'd think that these were actually negatives in modern American politics. But Americans like politicians who hate books and see the face of Jesus in every tree stump. They like them stupid and mean and ignorant of the rules. Which is why Palin has only seemed to grow in popularity as more and more of these revelations have come out.

On the difference between Obama and Palin:

Barack Obama might be every bit as much a slick piece of imageering as Sarah Palin. The difference is in what the image represents. The Obama image represents tolerance, intelligence, education, patience with the notion of compromise and negotiation, and a willingness to stare ugly facts right in the face, all qualities we're actually going to need in government if we're going to get out of this huge mess we're in.

Here's what Sarah Palin represents: being a fat fucking pig who pins "Country First" buttons on his man titties and chants "U-S-A! U-S-A!" at the top of his lungs while his kids live off credit cards and Saudis buy up all the mortgages in Kansas.

His conclusion on what Palin's popularity means about American voters:

The truly disgusting thing about Sarah Palin isn't that she's totally unqualified, or a religious zealot, or married to a secessionist, or unable to educate her own daughter about sex, or a fake conservative who raised taxes and horked up earmark millions every chance she got. No, the most disgusting thing about her is what she says about us: that you can ram us in the ass for eight solid years, and we'll not only thank you for your trouble, we'll sign you up for eight more years, if only you promise to stroke us in the right spot for a few hours around election time.