What happened in Las Vegas REALLY should stay in Las Vegas.

What can you say about last night’s Nevada senatorial debate/debacle between Harry Reid and Sharron Angle? Voters saw two of the scariest people in Las Vegas since Bugsy Siegel and a fat Elvis. But what did we learn?

• The only thing scarier than Angle and Reid debating is Angle and Reid holding public office.
• If Sharron Angle were hooked up to lie detector, Hoover Dam would’ve exploded.
• We’re not sure how Harry Reid became Senate Majority Leader, but there couldn’t have been an oral exam.
• The person translating the debate for the hearing impaired is still washing her hands.
• Before you criticize politicians in your state, watch some of this debate (either on C-Span or “TV’s Bloopers & Practical Jokes”). Reid and Angle will make your local candidates for dog catcher look like Lincoln and Douglas.

Democracy in action (kind of)

Economist Peter Diamond won the Nobel Prize in economics, but Republicans are blocking his nomination to a seat on the Federal Reserve because he doesn’t have enough experience. It’s a great feeling to know the fate of our economy is in the hands of people who are barely qualified to say, ”Do you want fries on that?”

In her one and only Delaware senatorial debate, Tea Party favorite Christine O’Donnell could not name a recent Supreme Court decision. However, she was able to quote the entire ruling of Potter v. Hogwarts.

Not so wild about Harry – Senator Harry Reid is so unpopular in Nevada he’s still running neck-to-neck with Tea Party loony, Sharron Angle, who suspects Cougar Town is governed by Sharia law. It can’t be fun living in a state where your top two candidates would lose an election to Hannibal Lecter.

NY Republican gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino, who has managed to offend more gay people than love handles on a Chippendales dancer, once collected rent from two gay clubs located in buildings he owned. He was also part owner of a Greek nightclub called Hypocrites.

W. Virginia Republican U.S. Senate candidate John Raese says the federal minimum wage is an outdated and unnecessary concept that should be abolished. He also favors making Black Lung Disease the official state cough.