Decapitation Strategy

Although headless torsos left behind in the desert by illegal aliens is, under the most charitable interpretation, at best a figment of the Arizona Governor's imagination, there out is an active group of headhunters at work throughout the country, spending vast amounts of out of state money from undisclosed interests trying to sever heads from the body politic.



In Nevada, the strategy is to kill off the Senate Majority Leader, much as happened to South Dakota's Tom Daschle in 2004. And so the election battle between "Landslide" Harry Reid (who has never won a by very large margins) and Tea Party favorite Sharron Angle (who in 3 terms in the 42-member state legislature never managed to enact a single bill and so often had opposed everything with even the widest bipartisan support, political reporters coined the term "41 to Angle" to describe the lone contrarian) has become one of the most important election races in the country... God help us all, because face to face they both looked like idiots.


Videos: MSNBC

So who won their first and only debate Thursday night?

Political pundits are saying that neither won decisively, but Jon Ralston of the Las Vegas Sun wrote that Reid lost the debate because Angle “looked relatively credible, appearing not to be the Wicked Witch of the West… and scoring many more rhetorical points.”

That gives you a sense of how low the expectations had been.

Jeff Danziger / New York Times

Democrat Barney Frank & Republican challenger Sean Bielat debated 10/11/10.

Meanwhile In Massachusetts Audio Embed: BBC, PRI & WBUR's Here & Now 10/14/10, Reporter: Fred Thys, WBUR/Boston

As chair of Financial Services, co-author of "Fin-Reg" and backer of Elizabeth Warren, Frank has been targeted for a hit by Wall Street.