Now it’s people who are afraid of majority rule and want to avoid it.

There is much crowing among Democrats that the teabagger upsets mean defeat for the Republicans and salvation for the Democrats who seemed poised for a plunge into the abyss.

Teabagger Joe Miller’s lead over incumbent GOP U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski has contracted today, as most of the remaining ballots are now being counted. Miller’s lead has dwindled from 1,668 to about 1,294. Murkowski is getting 57% of the votes counted today. She needs 55% of the remainder to pull ahead.

On Sunday, the North Carolina-based polling firm, Public Policy Polling published their findings about Alaska’s current political climate. The poll concentrates on possible two-way and three-way matchups in Alaska’s November 2nd U.S. senate seat election, 63 days away. According to PPP’s report, “PPP surveyed 1,306 likely voters on August 27th and 28th.”

Professional left Sugardaddy speaks out on Robert Gibbs baby-Gap foot stomping tirade

Teabaggers

BP says cap closed as of 7/12/10. Calculate leakage of 60K Barrels daily. What’s volume of Gulf, how bad is it? Oh uh, google to me to Teaparty site. Oh lord, what have I stumbled into. Sigh, it hurts, it really hurts. Science is HARD!

The lobbyist-funded teabag wing of the Republican party machinery is working in close consultation with telecom companies and organizations like the American Cable Association, AT&T, Comcast, and the US Telecom Association to stop the FCC’s planned protection of net neutrality, which was announced last week.

Having lost the insider lobbyist battle within the FCC – Chairman Genechowski announced he would move forward after a recent court case invalidated the FCC’s authority to protect net neutrality and roll out broadband access for millions of Americans by reclassifying broadband Internet service, allowing the FCC to protect the Internet – the opposition has gone reactionary. Funded by millions by big corporations, teabag front groups like Americans for Prosperity and Grover Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform are getting involved, hurling charges of marxism, socialism, and the laundry list of laughable right-wing complaints.

When it comes to the economic response to Arizona’s discrimination, we need more than just boycotting the state.

You all, I hope, have read Paul Street’s and Anthony DiMaggio’s piece on MRZine, “What ‘Populist Uprising’?”, about the actual identities of the participants in “Tea Party” movement. This actually reveals something interesting about Street himself — that someone who actually wants to “resist empire” is willing to admit that the only resistance to make it to the TV screen is, in fact, a charade.

(crossposted at Docudharma)