A quick weekend roundup: in my home state, Rand Paul debated Jack Conway, and some coverage — inasmuch as Kentucky has become a major political battleground, is worth reading.  I wonder how the legions of Tea Party supporters riding around on scooters will like being told that they have to work longer before drawing some of those socialist benefits they like to carp about.  But Matt Taibbi in Rolling Stone tells you why that doesn’t really matter, in a long, thoughtful, righteous analysis of how Rand Paul ended up doing Mitch and Rove’s bidding and why the tea party is more of a tempest in a tea pot, or destined to end up as one.

UPDATE: read the New York Times‘ coverage here.