Uncle Bud and I were having our last beer for night in the Select Taproom Room, an undistinguished establishment (OK, run down dive) in Southeast DC that he’d bought in his retirement. It was a quiet, out-of-the-way place for the GOP crowd to meet below the radar of the media and any other nosy types. It was early in the morning, around 4 a.m., and the debris from Karl Rove’s going away party still littered the old, battered place. The partygoers had wandered off. It had been a fine send off for the Brain, but Uncle Bud was unhappy. He’d never liked Rove much, and had little use for the whole Grover Norquist wing of the GOP. I know he was glad to see Abramoff out of circulation, and wanted Ralph Reed to go down with him. As for Bush, I’ve always suspected that one of Uncle Bud’s assignments when he was working as a Republican operative was to kept tabs on the young W. I’ve heard Bud say, more than once, that “the boy needs several keepers on duty ‘round the clock.”

(crossposted at BlueGrassRoots)

The new Survey USA poll is out, and it's very bad news for Mitch McConnell.

Mitch has a record low approval rating of 48% and a record high disapproval rating of 44%.