Oh Come On!

From the AP:

Voters dressed in chicken costumes won't be allowed inside Nevada polling places this year.

State election officials on Friday added chicken suits to the list of banned items after weeks of ridicule directed at Republican Senate candidate Sue Lowden.

The millionaire casino executive and former beauty queen recently suggested that people barter with doctors for medical care, like when "our grandparents would bring a chicken to the doctor."

Democrats responded by setting up a website, "Chickens for Checkups," and by sending volunteers in chicken suits to her campaign events. * * *

This Is Going To Be Way Too Easy (With Update)

Rand Paul's victory in the Kentucky GOP Senate primary is nothing short of a disaster for the Republican Party. The guy is a nut case. He recently restated his position that he would have opposed the 1964 Civil Rights Act, he believes businesses should have the right to engage in racial discrimination, and he thinks that the Americans with Disabilities Act should be abolished. Even right-wing extremist and Rand Paul supporter Jim DeMint had to distance himself from Paul today. He's too radical even for the likes of Jim DeMint!

Paul has since tried to reverse himself on some of these issues, but the Kentucky Senate race should definitely be a fun one to watch. According to a Rasmussen poll that came out today, Paul currently enjoys a 25-point lead over his Democratic opponent. We'll see how long those numbers hold up.

UPDATE: Rand Paul -- a gift that just keeps on giving.

Quote of the Week

"If you can't win a seat that is trending Republican in a year like this, then where is the wave?"

-- Tom Davis, a former Republican congressman from Virginia, commenting on the GOP's loss last night in the special election in Pennsylvania to fill John Murtha's seat.

It is certainly a good question, given that John McCain carried that particular district in 2008. Indeed, the Democrats must be feeling pretty good today. Mitch McConnell basically got his ass handed to him last night when Tea Bagger Rand Paul defeated McConnell's hand-picked candidate in Kentucky's Republican Senate primary.

Arlen Specter's loss in Pennsylvania may, at first blush, look like a set-back for the Democrats, but Sestak will be a far more effective candidate in the general election than Specter could have been. And I couldn't be happier that Senator Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) failed to get anywhere near enough votes to avoid a run-off in Arkansas' Democratic Senate primary. Let's hope she loses to Halter in the June run-off.

Even Politico thinks that the Republicans were the big losers yesterday.

Most Hilarious Video Ever

Here it is.

I guess a little background is needed: The Republican Congressman in this pro-abstinence video -- Mark Souder -- just announced his resignation because he had an affair with the female staffer who played the part of the interviewer in the above-linked pro-abstinence video.

I've asked this before and I'll ask it again: What the hell is wrong with these people?

The Folks In Arizona Pay A Hefty Price For Being Dicks

Good thing this didn't happen during tough economic times:

Several days before Gov. Jan Brewer signed Arizona's controversial immigration bill, Congressman Raul Grijalva called on the rest of the nation to boycott his home state if the new proposal became law. National organizations, Grijalva said, should cancel upcoming conventions slated to be held there.

"If the state follows through with this, the cost will be high," Grijalva warned.

Turns out, he was right: so far, the state has lost between $6 million and $10 million in projected business revenue, with 23 group hotel bookings--from small meetings to large conventions--having been canceled in protest since the stroke of Brewer's pen, according to the Arizona Hotel & Lodging Association.

Hotels don't want to disclose which clients have canceled, for fear of alienating businesses. So far, the most widely publicized cancelation has come from the American Immigration Lawyers Association.

"It's clear that the bill has had an economic impact on the state. It's impossible to say that it hasn't," says Glenn Hamer, CEO of the Arizona Chamber of Commerce. * * *

By the way: Good one, Arnold.

This Pretty Much Says It All

From Think Progress:

Everyone keeps talking about how badly the Democrats are going to get their asses handed to them this November, but this jobs creation chart has to be scaring the hell out of the GOP.

Oh For Christ's Sake

What is it with these people?

Bad News For Republicans

More folks are thinking that the economy is getting better:

Americans are more optimistic about the future of the economy than they were last month, according to a new CBS News/ New York Times poll. Forty-one percent of Americans now say the economy is improving, up eight points from April and more than at any time during this recession. Just 15 percent think the economy is getting worse, according to the poll, conducted April 28 - May 2.

There has also been a small bump in President Obama's approval rating on the economy. In a five-point increase from last month, 48 percent now approve of the job he's doing on the economy. That's the highest approval rating on his handling of the economy the president has seen since last November. Forty-seven percent disapprove of his handling of it. * * *

Just the other day, House Minority Leader John Boehner stated that the GOP could win 100 additional seats in the November midterm elections. But that could be hard to do if the economy continues to improve over the next six months.