By Neil the Ethical Werewolf

Yeah, the title was too rhymeriffic to resist. I liked this description of a NRSC fundraiser:

The tables were loaded with untouched platters of food as Senator Elizabeth Dole rose this week to introduce her party’s Senate candidate from Nebraska. Sixty people were supposed to be at the fund-raiser, but Mrs. Dole, the host and leader of the Republican effort to hold the Senate this fall, found just 18 people scattered across an expanse of empty carpet.

I’m annoyed with Chuck Schumer for sticking us with Bob Casey when Rick Santorum was weak and pro-choice candidates regularly win statewide office in PA. But given that the DSCC has $37.7 million while the NRSC has only $19.9 million, it looks like he’ll be able to buy us a pro-choice Senator or two to make up for it. Now I know how Republicans, with their funding advantages, have been feeling all these years… it’s pretty nice!

Ezra Klein is a former Prospect writer and current editor-in-chief at Vox. His work has appeared in the LA Times, The Guardian, The Washington Monthly, The New Republic, Slate, and The Columbia Journalism Review. He’s been a commentator on MSNBC, CNN, NPR, and more.