The folks celebrating Jim Bunning are seeing him as an anti-government, anti-spending activist. But to embrace Jim Bunning is to embrace a strange record, if you really are a libertarian, if you really are a deficit hawk, if you really care about spending and responsibility.

"Associated Press columnist David Bauder said Rachel Maddow's "[Keith] Olbermann's political soul mate" and the Olbermann-Maddow shows are a "liberal two-hour block. ISBN 978-0-307-46098-1. Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power.

Her syndicated talk radio program of the same name aired on Air America Radio. She hosts a nightly television show The Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC. Rachel Anne Maddow (/ˈmædoʊ/ rhymes with shadow; born April 1 1973) is an American television host political commentator and author.