A jaundiced look at the world we live in.
Two polls have come out in the last couple of days, showing the percentage of Americans identifying with the GOP at the lowest ebb in at least 17 years.
Depending upon which poll you believe/prefer, either 20% or 22% of Americans now self-identify as Republican.
The Specter switch is the big political news of the day.
Kos surveys the conservative reactions, and ends by recognizing the essential difference between the party's true believers and those few lonely voices who would like to win some elections.
In an essay at Huffington Post, Michael Rowe considers the reasons for Specter's defection:
Recently, Republican Representative John Shadegg suggested that "sun spots" might be an explanation for rising global temperatures.
Gail Collins is at her best snarkiness in todays NYTimes column, in which she notes–among other things–that prosecutors rarely make good chief executives.
Those of us who lived in Indianapolis during the Goldsmith Administration could have told her that.