Well it's sort of a slow news day on the politics front, and since we're tying up loose ends around here, I thought I might write a more general post in which we all consider the question: Who is the most appalling American of the Tomasky blog era (back to mid-2008, I think)?

After giving the matter a full three minutes' consideration, my list of the top five contenders would look like this. And this is limited to people involved in politics, which excludes not only murderers and such like but also Bernie Madoff and the heads of all those banks who helped ruin the country:
1. Certain former half-term governor
2. Donald Trump (with a bullet!)
3. Michele Bachmann
4. Andrew Breitbart
5. Karl Rove