This election day was greeted by the news that the Newt was more of weasel than a lizard with a piece in the rightwing  National Review Online that reveal Gingrich’s strange obsession with President Obama and a kooky theory involving Obama being “programmed by his absent father.” Here’s what the newt said is "the most accurate, predictive model" for the President: "What if [Obama] is so outside our comprehension, that only if you understand Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior, can you begin to piece together [his actions]?"

Oh, crap. Now we have to penetrate the Conservative fog of imperialism, colonialism, neocolonialism, no taxations without representation, manifest destiny, teabaggers and birther conspiracies.

In his column today, Eugene Robinson wrote that “Gingrich, who is thinking of running for president, is trying to lure attention away from a recent unflattering profile in Esquire — the one that charts his three marriages in excruciating, and embarrassing, detail. But it hardly furthers his ambitions to pretend to be so nuts.”

“And there’s a thread that connects his outbursts: They all fit into the idea that American democracy — indeed, the whole Anglo-American-Judeo-Christian enterprise — is under attack in a titanic clash of civilizations. In this view, we are threatened most acutely by the Islamic civilization.”

But then tonight, we get the truly nutty news of today. Teabagger-backed long shot, Christine O’Donnell, a candidate so nutty that even the GOP lame-stream rejects her, stunned the RepubliCant establishment by defeating nine-term Rep. Michael N. Castle in Delaware’s GOP Senate primary in what may become an omen of disaster for the rightwing tidal pool. O’Donnell, an anti-masturbation enthusiast (take my word for it and try not to touch yourself when you listen to one of her speeches), is so far out there that even the GOP is ready to concede the state to her Democratic opponent.

Primary election night wears on with one teabagger favorite leading in New Hampshire and a Palin-backed fav losing in Maryland, but for my money, the truly big election night story is Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) RepubliCant plan to permanently extend an array of expiring tax breaks that would deprive the Treasury of more than $4 trillion over the next decade, nearly doubling current projected deficits.

McConnell’s plan would permanently extend the George W. Bush-era income tax cuts , which significantly benefit the wealth,  limit the alternative minimum tax and restrict the estate tax to estates worth more than $5 million for individuals or $10 million for couples.

Of course, all of this aside, we do have a general election coming up and it is to be hoped that common sense will prevail and that sensible voters will select for intelligent, sensible representatives.

Dream on, me. Dream on.

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