Phrase of the Day: “protection-racket politics”

Judgment Day -- I mean, Election Day -- is fast approaching.  And rather than take up your time with anything I might write, I defer to the expert pen of Mr Krugman:

The Blackmail Caucus

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/02/opinion/krugman-the-blackmail-caucus.html?src=me&ref=general

“Nice country you got here. Shame if something were to happen to it”

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Other Republican criminal activity:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/decision2012/virginia-voter-fraud-case-expands-to-focus-on-gop-firm/2012/11/02/76285252-24eb-11e2-ac85-e669876c6a24_story.html?hpid=z2

Va. probe of dumped voter registration forms broadens

Officials are reportedly probing whether a company tied to top GOP leaders had engaged in voter registration fraud.

More significant are the criminal connections of Romney’s major backer, Sheldon Adelson, who made his billion in the gambling-and-prostitution demimonde of the Chinese enclave of Macau:

http://worldofdrjustice.blogspot.com/2012/08/meanwhile-in-macau.html

He’s a “backer”, but is no dim figure in the background:  He accompanied Romney on the campaign trip to Israel, and will be one of the figures bringing you a new MidEast war if the neocons have anything to say about it.