In response to Newt Gingrich's characterization of this election being a choice between the party of food stamps and the party of paychecks, Nancy Pelosi was heard to state the following:

"It is the biggest bang for the buck when you do food stamps and unemployment insurance — the biggest bang for the buck," she added.

I honestly don't ever recall a time when both parties apparently agree about the nature of an election. Pelosi isn't some back-bencher, she's third in line for the Presidency and generally recognized as the most powerful Democrat in Washington. She is clearly agreeing with Gingrich's distillation of the policy disputes between the two parties.

Your choice is between a European-style welfare state where historically unemployment rates have hovered around 10% for decades, or historically American-style prosperity. No quibbling about gun-rights, abortion or gay-marriage, just the straight-forward proposition of whether you'd like to live in subsidized housing and present your foodstamps when buying groceries at Walmart.

New York's Mayor Bloomberg refines the point even further, but suggesting that you won't be able to buy soda with those foodstamps. The government is paying the bill, so it has the right to tell you want you're going to eat, and what you're not going to eat.

I'm really to fill out that ballot right now.