Way too much to cover with too little time, but the following thoughts ran across my brain in the last few days.
DNC liars - if you got the Howard Dean e-mail showing video of John McCain saying we should be in Iraq 100 years, congratulations! You've officially been lied to by the DNC! Seriously - reading Dean e-mails pleading for money is a laugh a minute. We expect politicians to lie, but Dean doesn't even pretend to be truthful - and there's the nasty hint of collaboration between the DNC and the presidential campaigns. It's going to be a lot nastier than 2004.
RNC internet neophytes - the RNC put up YouTube videos in an effort to be viral, and used names like asdf, and jkl;. yep - those grassroots Republican types name asdf are the RNC's secret new media weapon.
Bob Frank's piece in the Washington Post says housing prices rose because of two income families. The Volokh conspiracy says that bunk, and points out that the biggest increase on the middle class has been a rising share of the tax burden. The tax burden of a family in the 2000 rose by over $13,000 over that in teh 1970's, almost double the rise in mortgage, car and health insurance combined.
Think about that for a moment. The tax burden rose twice as much as car and house payments. When we talk about the middle class being squeezed, how come the costs imposed by government aren't discussed more often? Why is it that the government always wants more money, but no one ever talks about what we're getting for what we already pay?
And finally, the Supreme Court upheld Indiana's Voter ID law. It turns out that asking someone to show a photo ID to vote is not considered voter suppression, which is good news for Blockbuster, who now rents movies to people with driver licenses but not utility bills.
This is big news for Missouri, which according to Nanette Laughrey and Robin Carnahan, has no vote fraud. While vote fraud still tends to fall into the absentee ballot and campaign worker genre, at least Missouri voters won't have to worry about undocumented non-citizens voting.
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