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Paul Krugman takes us through the Republican game plan to take back at least one house in Congress. What's interesting is that the people venting their rage at Obama are the rich and powerful:

Tea Partiers are relatively affluent, and nobody is angrier these days than the very, very rich. Wall Street has turned on Mr. Obama with a vengeance: last month Steve Schwarzman, the billionaire chairman of the Blackstone Group, the private equity giant, compared proposals to end tax loopholes for hedge fund managers with the Nazi invasion of Poland.

And if the Republicans do take control of Congress here's what we can expect:

We already know part of the answer: Politico reports that they’re gearing up for a repeat performance of the 1990s, with a “wave of committee investigations” — several of them over supposed scandals that we already know are completely phony. We can expect the G.O.P. to play chicken over the federal budget, too; I’d put even odds on a 1995-type government shutdown sometime over the next couple of years.

It will be an ugly scene, and it will be dangerous, too. The 1990s were a time of peace and prosperity; this is a time of neither. In particular, we’re still suffering the after-effects of the worst economic crisis since the 1930s, and we can’t afford to have a federal government paralyzed by an opposition with no interest in helping the president govern. But that’s what we’re likely to get.

Moveon.org makes an interesting call to arms. If every member of moveon.org (all 5,000,000 of us) contributed $42, we could match dollar for dollar the cash that big business uses to buy our government. We could be the ones financing political campaigns and lobbying for our interests: healthcare, education, child care etc. Now that's grass roots and I've made my $42 donation - before you have your next orgasm join me in supporting moveon.org.

Love you, John Stewart.