An incumbent Tea Partier has been knocked off in the primary. Those opposed to spending will have to step up their political game, but this also shows that all politics is local. The farmers wanted (almost literally) their pork.

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This seems related somehow: Political moron Meg Whitman is joining forces with Hillary Clinton to defeat Donald Trump.

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This seems related, too: “The soul-sick leadership ‘elite’ in America.”

Scare quotes because there’s nothing elite about them at all. They’re incompetent vain greedy power-hungry hacks.