Tuesday link dump: Burn on

John McCain is doing that thing Republicans do where they are like "oh the government is spending money on silly things," like research into drug addiction and animals.
How do you write honestly about fiscal matters when your job is funded by the most powerful deficit hawk in the nation?
This is a surprisingly good editorial in the New York Sun of all places defending Charlie Rangel.
Goldman Sachs promises not to spend corporate funds on political campaigns.
Republican Bob Inglis lost his primary, and now he is speaking out against the Tea Parties.
You can still hang a member of Congress in effigy outside the Capitol, but you cannot beat the effigy.
Hey, the elite children of the ruling class are all super-worried about the deficit!
Andy McCarthy wrote a humdinger of a new book.
Rep. Paul Ryan: Is he actually dumb?

How to symbolically hang a politician and not get arrested, defending Charlie Rangel, and deficit hawks