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" Where&amp;#039;s the money? Charlie went down to Occupy Wall Street to find out: &amp;quot;The economy has been turned into a casino and the house always wins, and we are not the house any more.&amp;quot; Which the president didn&amp;#039;t disagree with in his press conference. Neither, surprisingly, did Tim Geithner on the Hill. (As for CNN and the mortgage lenders and the champagne toasters and the gentleman from Uncomprehension, don&amp;#039;t get us started.) Where are the jobs? Stuck in the mud, which is the new normal, apparently. Ditto for the jobs bill, which could be a-filibusterin&amp;#039; soon, loopholes and all. Paul Ryan will be a-wanderin&amp;#039; somewhere, too. And Eric Cantor will be on the Acela to Crazyville, co-habited by &amp;quot;politicians&amp;quot; like this. Where are the campaign dollars? While the Koch brothers were vacationing in Iran and padding Dick Armey&amp;#039;s wallet, Ron Paul stepped up as third-quarter donations came in, prompting Charlie to ask: &amp;quot;Why not?&amp;quot; As for Mitt, he&amp;#039;s treading finely-combed water. At least he wasn&amp;#039;t making like Rick &amp;quot;Governor Goodhair&amp;quot; Perry, who managed to &amp;quot;attach himself to the worst idea in the history of campaigns.&amp;quot; (Poor soul. Where&amp;#039;s pig vomit when you need him?) La Bachmann? Again: Don&amp;#039;t get us started. But, hey, at least Palin&amp;#039;s out: out, out, out. So is Marco Rubio, or so he says. And Scott Walker is on his way. The president, meanwhile, will campaign on &amp;quot;shifting the Center back into the middle where it belongs.&amp;quot; Maybe. Where are the opinions? Tom Junod went looking for Tom Friedman&amp;#039;s in a different kind of Center, and found a house of cards. (Charlie, too.) Maureen Dowd, in case you hadn&amp;#039;t noticed, is insane. George Will, of course, has a &amp;quot;perfect combination of tea-cosy courage, sherry-sipping macho, and lace-hanky contempt for everyone who isn&amp;#039;t himself.&amp;quot; Where is the justice? Not at the voting booth, where there is a war on suffrage, about which Charlie wrote at length: &amp;quot;This is cheap and wrong and it&amp;#039;s damnably un-American. It&amp;#039;s also not surprising.&amp;quot; Just ask 96-year-old Dorothy Cooper. Whatever you do, just don&amp;#039;t ask Dick Cheney. Not that the current administration isn&amp;#039;t hand-picking people to kill. Speaking of which, why do gangsters always win? Also: Fred Shuttlesworth passed, and the Nobel folks passed on Dylan. Shames, both, but nothing, argued Tim Heffernan, compared to ten years in Afghanistan. And there are only 396 days till the election. And 88 till Iowa, the Republican party will announce on Monday. See you then, smart people. Follow The Politics Blog with Charles P. Pierce on RSS and the Twitter &amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;gt;  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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