You see, here in California we're embracing the modern world -- we can't be worrying about all the nonsense that keeps Fox News viewers up at night when they should be in bed adjusting their sleep apnea mask. Our state motto is, "We're Too Busy for Your Bullshit." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-maher/bill-maher-california_b_3999675.html

They watch fox news so long each day, that the Fox logo has been implanted on their optical support systems (glasses).

...and although the Democrats kept the White House and the Senate, the tea party is still exerting outsized influence, as evinced by the current hellish state of affairs.

That is not to say Matt Taibbi's article shouldn't be shared far and wide, particularly this passage:

[url]http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/matt-taibbi-on-the-tea-party-20100928[/url]

Vast forests have already been sacrificed to the public debate about the Tea Party: what it is, what it means, where it's going. But after lengthy study of the phenomenon, I've concluded that the whole miserable narrative boils down to one stark fact: They're full of shit. All of them. At the voter level, the Tea Party is a movement that purports to be furious about government spending — only the reality is that the vast majority of its members are former Bush supporters who yawned through two terms of record deficits and spent the past two electoral cycles frothing not about spending but about John Kerry's medals and Barack Obama's Sixties associations. The average Tea Partier is sincerely against government spending — with the exception of the money spent on them. In fact, their lack of embarrassment when it comes to collecting government largesse is key to understanding what this movement is all about — and nowhere do we see that dynamic as clearly as here in Kentucky, where Rand Paul is barreling toward the Senate with the aid of conservative icons like Palin.