Lunch links

The Hendersonville Tea Party helped host a rally over the weekend in Greenville, South Carolina, that raised the bar on crazy. According to TalkingPointsMemo:

There’s a pretty high bar on Tea Party Crazy. But down in Greenville, South Carolina over the weekend, I think we had what was probably the craziest, most violence-strewn Tea Party event so far: repeated calls to march with guns on Washington, Tom Tancredo asking to send Obama back to Kenya and, well, just a lot more.

Make us proud, Hendersonville!

For those more stable minds the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities blog has a patient explanation of how health reform will reduce our long-term deficit.

Also in the realm of patient explanation, economist Dean Baker describes, once again, how the recession happened and why collateral debt obligations are not (entirely) to blame.

As the May 4 primary draws near we’ve seen a bevy of endorsements — Eva Clayton for Ken Lewis, Pam Spaulding for Elaine Marshall, Sierra Club for Cal Cunningham, it’s difficult to keep up.

ProPublica and Dome report on Rep. Patrick McHenry’s favorite pastime — being shady.

And, finally, if you think your office coffee is bad, maybe that’s because it hasn’t passed through a civet’s digestive tract.