I read this observation by Helen Smith the other day.

I'm here in DC on business and everywhere I look, fat cat government workers and others are partying in local restaurants and bars, and the hotels are booked solid, apparently with conferences. Too bad Las Vegas isn't doing this well. No recession here in DC.

The Marie Antoinette dynamic is simmering there, just below the surface, masked by so much dissatisfaction with the rest of the Obama's Marxist Revolution, but its every bit as explosive as mucking around with people's health-care--perhaps more so. Class warfare is the gift that keeps on giving, and Big Government Liberals are heading for a political lynching. In my state, where three term Senator Bob Bennett is in a battle for reelection, the perception of him as having 'gone Washington' is as much a problem as all the other hits on him combined.

Harry Reid is in far, far, far worse shape, in fact he should probably just resign his seat now and stay in Maryland. Nevada is not a safe place for him these days.

The employment department’s published jobless rate doesn’t include discouraged workers who’ve stopped hunting for jobs, and it doesn’t count underemployed Nevadans who’d like to work full-time but can find only part-time jobs.

If you factor in the discouraged and the underemployed, Nevada had a 12-month average of 15.2 percent joblessness in the second quarter. McDonald said he suspects the rate is even higher now — perhaps nearly double the stated unemployment rate, and certainly close to 20 percent.

Probably nearer to 25%. Its the worst economy since the WWII, and what's Reid and the gang doing? Wasting 18 months of a fruitless and ill-considered health-care jihad.

Only Rhode Island and Michigan are worse, although not much worse.

Better hope that Andrew Breitbart doesn't start filming the good times in the D.C. area. The next march on Washington might be with pitchforks and torches.