Can't hardly click on a web link nowadays without seeing something about Republicans leaving guaranteed government sinecures for more bucks (thus imperiling the Federalist Society's plans to fascisize the Federal Judiciary), or leaving the GOP because they can't take Bush and the neocon bullcrap any more, or repenting because they can't take Bush and the neocon bullcrap any more (or don't want their complicity in Bush's actions permanently affixed to

If you'd asked me six months ago what I thought I'd be doing right about now, I would've speculated that long-shot candidate Ned Lamont would've been defeated in the August primary by Joe Lieberman (acknowledging that there was value in the effort and still licking my wounds over the "thanks for fighting the good fight" post I had to write when it was over).