Last night Sen. Joe “clean and articulate” Biden tells David Letterman that he’s definitely in the running for the Democratic nomination. Letterman looks a little incredulous. Biden responds “Yeah, all I need to do is raise $25 million—not $100 million like some of the others—to get my message out there.” Like it’s nothing: “All I need is $25 million.” That’s how crazy U.S. politics has become, the ten candidates for president in each of the two major parties raising at least $25 million dollars a piece, campaigning two or three years to win a four-year term… and meanwhile the coffers to conduct the governing are empty. There’s no money for schools or for renewable power or to clean up the Ninth Ward and build levees in the hurricane zone. We just can’t afford those things. The American idea is to not pay taxes in order to contribute to campaigns in order to continue not paying taxes and contributing to campaigns. In other words, we like to pay for politics and not for governance. Thanks for underlining the facts for us again, Joe.