If you click n' read only one political-type link on this blog this month, make it Amanda Marcotte's article about…
- …how so much of the money that Conservative voters donate to political causes is going into the pockets of the folks running the PACs and groups instead of being used to bring about political change and…
- …how so much of what candidates and pundits are doing when we think they're building a mailing list to bring about political change is compiling mailing lists they can sell to businesses that sell phony Alzheimer's cures and "doomsday" supplies.
Follow the money. That's what so much of this is all about. Sarah Palin isn't giving speeches to change America into the vision she expounds. She's enriching the Palin bank account — with the speeches and with donations to SarahPAC.
The dam is bursting on this stuff and we're going to hear a lot more about it. It wouldn't surprise me if John Oliver and Jon Stewart were both working on lead features at this very moment…and it won't stop with them.