Mine disaster, Abramoff, intertwined at their roots...

Attytood connects these seemingly disparate stories as being the fruit of the poisonous Republican tree.

Don't look past the big picture. The roots of the horrific events underneath the earth in timeworn West Virginia, and the scandal on the tony sidewalks of Washington's K Street, are as deeply intertwined as those aspens out west, maybe more so. It's a connection that can be summed up in three simple words:

Republicans gone wild.

But until people make that connection between the corruption on one end of the American political pipeline and the human misery on the other end, these problems will linger in the air like toxic coal dust.

After you read this, I'll bet your resolve to get rid of these bastards multiplies by an order of magnitude. Mine did.