No sleep this month. Teething is everything people warned me it would be. Three in, two coming in, omfg… at least she’s getting it out of the way, right? I can’t see straight, I’m so tired.

I haven’t been posting much about politics lately, mostly because I’m too tired to do more than grunt to my husband about how angry I am over Obama’s secrecy bullshit and his unwillingness to hold anyone accountable for the United States’ torture policies during diaper changes. I’m furious enough to reconsider my own party membership. The lesser of two evils just isn’t lesser enough for me anymore.

These are rants I need to launch when I’m properly caffeinated, and have had more than 4 hours of sleep.

A ray of sunshine peeped into my political consciousness today when it was announced that Arlen Specter jumped ship. A little bit of funny I saw on the Huffington Post today:

Arlen Specter, the newly minted Democratic Senator from Pennsylvania, let his hair down in a freewheeling press conference at the U.S. Senate today, making this comment about his former Republican colleagues: “Now I can say it: what a bunch of fucking assholes!”

Mr. Specter had a bounce in his step and lilt in his voice as he tore into members of his former party in a press appearance that appeared to set records with its body count.

“This is something I’ve wanted to say for years: is there a bigger dick on this planet than Mitch McConnell?” he said. “I know he thinks he’s doing his job, but please, what a fucking turd.”

Observers who are accustomed to the much-ballyhooed collegiality of the Senate were taken aback by the jaw-dropping profanity of Sen. Specter’s parting shots, many of which were breathtaking in their anatomical crudeness.

“He must’ve had a lot of rage bottled up over the years,” said Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA). “Suddenly he was talking like a Somali pirate.”

While Mr. Specter’s tirade had many high points – or low points, depending on one’s party affiliation – he reserved some of his harshest words for House Minority whip Eric Cantor: “Eric fucking Cantor? Please. That douche can kiss my goddamn stimulus package.”