Now THAT's how you run a debate.

In case you didn't know, last night there was a Republican Presidential Debate on Fox News. Also in case you didn't know, there were eight (COUNT 'EM: 8!!) candidates who think they're serious about wanting to be president (i.e. taking down the current president, Barack Obama).

And that doesn't even include two other people who seem to be running the whole sideshow without showing up at these things.

Here's a list of videos highlighting the debate (CLICK HERE).

We definitely should give credit to Fox News for showing the other networks how a presidential debate should be done.

For those of you who are not so familiar with the race, we'd like to give you a brief rundown of the candidates in order of most to least likely (vaguely, it's not set in stone, alright?) of winning the Republican nomination.

More after the jump...

This is what failure looks like

We had one or two things to say about the current state of the U.S. economy. Here's a summary, for those of you who don't peruse the political blogs every day.

1. This is what failure looks like:


2. This is also what failure looks like:


3. This is what our government failing us looks like:


In short, we are failing. What is our government doing, you say?



Oh that's right. They're on vacation.