Yep!

People don’t like Mitch McConnell. That’s why Alison Lundergan Grimes still has a shot.

The Kentucky Senate race comes down this: whether voters are more willing to vote against a Barack Obama who is not on the ballot, or a Mitch McConnell who is.

Now I'm not saying I would vote for anyone to get Mitch McConnell out of office. But yeah, close to that...and I feel just about as strongly about getting a challenger to Rand Paul. I am embarrassed by the senators from my state--terribly embarrassed anytime I see the headlines.

I should watch this tonight

I know where my vote's going (and you can pretty much guess if you read this blog with any regularity). Still, I'm interested in how they do.

WATCH LIVE: Kentucky Senate candidates debate issues

Kentucky’s major party candidates for U.S. Senate will meet for a moderated conversation on Kentucky Educational Television’s signature politics program Monday, Oct. 13, at 8 p.m. EDT, in what is expected to be their only face-to-face event before the Nov. 4 general election.

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R) and Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes (D), who are embroiled in one of the most contentious national races in the country, will appear live on “Kentucky Tonight” with host Bill Goodman. Libertarian candidate David Patterson will not be present, following a short but heated legal challenge against KET.

You can watch the livestream online thanks to KET (Kentucky Educational Television), if you don't get the station (although it does cover the entire Commonwealth, I believe, being one of the largest public television networks in the country, if I remember from when I was an employee there). Then there's this:

Tonight’s debate will not be open to an audience, but viewers with questions for the candidates may send them via e-mail to kytonight@ket.org or use the message form at KET.org/kytonight. Viewers may also submit questions on Twitter via @BillKET or on KET’s Facebook page. The phone number for viewer questions during the program is 1-800-494-7605. All messages should include the first and last name and the hometown or home county of the submitter.

I really hope we can vote this guy out of office next time

But it was nice to see him with some egg on his face:

McConnell move on debt ceiling backfires

The political posturing, and theater, related to the fiscal cliff continued Thursday as Senate leaders squared off over whether to make it harder for Congress to block future increases in the debt ceiling.

At issue was a move by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, and meant to put Democrats in a tough spot, that backfired. McConnell pushed for a vote on an idea he first proposed last year as part of the debt ceiling standoff.

Turns out he wound up having to filibuster his own proposal because Senate Majority Leader Reid moved to take the proposal at a 51-majority vote, confident he had enough support to do so in the Senate.

I am embarrassed as a Kentuckian that I have Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul as senators. I certainly didn't vote for them. I hope the Dems can get a viable candidate (and I'm not sure that's Ashley Judd) in who can give Mitch a run for his money. As past campaigns have declared, it's time to 'Ditch Mitch'.

What I want in office are people who are less concerned with political posturing and more concerned with what's best for the people--all the people--of this nation. I'm not entirely sure either party has the ticket to that, but the Democrats seem to be more in touch with the country than the Republicans, for now, in my opinion.