Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) has had enough

WaPo reports that Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) will not run for re-election. I am sorry to see this moderate Republican go .. she continued to poll at 70%+ approval .. would have won easily. And we’re losing another woman’s voice .. she and Sen. Susan Collins (ME) recently broke ranks with their party on the birth control issue.

“Unfortunately, I do not realistically expect the partisanship of recent years in the Senate to change over the short term,” Snowe said in a statement. “So at this stage of my tenure in public service, I have concluded that I am not prepared to commit myself to an additional six years in the Senate, which is what a fourth term would entail.”

Public service takes another back seat to partisanship .. those who got into the game to serve the public are slowly leaving it. Before you know it, the only folks in Congress will be corporate hacks, home-schooled science-hating theocrats, and law school grads looking for a few years in the House to stoke their lobbying careers.

But this is what a nation that hates pubic servants deserves.

Santorum Replacing Church & State with ‘Sturch’

“Santorum Proposes Replacing Church, State with New Entity Called ‘Sturch’

Would Offer Salvation, Motor Vehicle Renewals on Sunday

LANSING (The Borowitz Report) – Telling a crowd of supporters that the separation of church and state “makes me want to throw up,” GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum today proposed replacing church and state with a new entity he called “sturch.”

“Merging church and state into sturch will benefit all Americans,” he said.  “Except maybe Jews.”

Mr. Santorum said that the combined entity would offer greater convenience to the American people than the separation of church and state currently does, since Americans would be able to get salvation and motor vehicle renewals at the same place every Sunday.

Turning to another campaign theme, Mr. Santorum told the crowd, “I support the rights of the unborn child until it is born and wants an education.”

He contrasted himself with President Obama on the education issue, stating, “Barack Obama speaks in complete sentences.  What a snob.”

In other campaign news, singer Kid Rock endorsed Mitt Romney, which means that his music is no longer the worst thing about Kid Rock.

An upbeat Mr. Romney visited the Daytona 500, where he told a reporter, “I love this stuff.  I’ve always been a big NASDAQ fan.”

From The Borowitz Report ….

Kid Rock!? What the hell?

Except when you’re wearing a diaper …

…getting spanked by an expensive hooker.

From Maureen Dowd’s NYTimes Column:

“IT’S finally sinking in.

Republicans are getting queasy at the gruesome sight of their party eating itself alive, savaging the brand in ways that will long resonate.

“Republicans being against sex is not good,” the G.O.P. strategist Alex Castellanos told me mournfully. “Sex is popular.” ….[..]“

Also: “Santorum, …went on Glenn Beck’s Web-based show …and offered this lunacy: “I understand why Barack Obama wants to send every kid to college,” because colleges are “indoctrination mills” that “harm” the country. …[..]“

I swear, every time I think the Republican presidential candidates have hit bottom, they somehow manage to come up with more crazy.

I don’t understand why the Republican establishment, who are supposedly disturbed by this lunacy, doesn’t speak out, get involved, organized and do something to stop it? It’s not just happening; they are *letting* it happen.