"It's class warfare and my class is winning." Warren Buffett

The value of any commodity, ... to the person who possesses it, and who means not to use or consume it himself, but to exchange it for other commodities, is equal to the quantity of labour which it enables him to purchase or command. Labour, therefore, is the real measure of the exchangeable value of all commodities. (Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations Book 1, chapter V.)

The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works....(Barack Obama)


Wednesday, February 03, 2010

Tea Bagging Candidate Crushed in Illinois Primary

Tea bagger Republican candidate for the US Senate (Illinois) Patrick Hughes lost his primary bid in a landslide that was so large it can only be regarded as a repudiation of his reactionary, tea-bagging orientation:

Mark Kirk handily won the GOP nomination for U.S. Senate from Illinois, defeating his closest challenger Patrick Hughes by a landslide.

With 98% of precincts reporting, Kirk led with 56% of the vote to Hughes's 19%. (link)

The next time tea baggers or tea bagging fellow travelers "predict" that tea bagging candidates will sweep the elections in November 2010, just repeat "56 percent to 19 percent" and then laugh uproariously in their benighted faces.

Posted by Delaware Watch at Wednesday, February 03, 2010