Prop 26 would designate regulatory fees as taxes, and make their future passage subject to the 2/3 majority vote that has hamstrung California's elected officials since Prop 13 passed in '78.

Nail, head: "The Republican argument of the moment seems to be that the difference between capitalism and socialism corresponds to the difference between a top marginal income-tax rate of 35 per cent and a top marginal income-tax rate of 39.6 per cent."

"You know the press is impotent at unmasking this truthiness when the hardest-hitting interrogation McCain has yet faced on television came on “The View.” ... In our news culture, Behar, a stand-up comic by profession, looms as the new Edward R. Murrow."

A truly righteous hack, if I ever saw one.

Ah, fuck it. I'll have to read this one later.