"I thought that his [LeBron James' s] little one-hour special was a punk move. I thought them dancing around on the stage was a punk move, and I thought he should've stayed in Cleveland. Him joining Dwyane Wade's team was very disappointing to me." - Charles Barkley, yesterday on ESPN Radio.

UPDATE: Speaking of LeBron, watch him lose a three point shooting contest to a teenager at a theme park in Ohio. It packs all the excitement of a one-hour special into just one minute and eighteen seconds:

That would normally be good news for the Democrats. Unfortunately, this time voters think they are the extremists. Specifically, Rasmussen Reports found that 57 percent of likely voters surveyed indicated that they believe the congressional Democratic agenda is "extreme" and, thus, bad, vs. only 34 percent who said that Congress's agenda is "mainstream."

Republicans fare a little better. They still have a slight plurality of voters on the mainstream vs. extreme question: 45 to 40 percent. That leaves 15 percent undecided. In a heavy turnout year, the undecideds would be likely to swing the election. But this is a midterm year, and midterms are usually decided by passion and turnout, so we'll see.

This being Rasmussen, the results are then further broken down into "mainstream" vs. "political class" voters. Survey says...

The Political Class, however, has dramatically different views of the agendas of the two parties from what Mainstream voters think. Ninety-one percent (91%) of the Political Class say the Democratic agenda in Congress is in the mainstream, but 70% of Mainstream voters see that agenda as extreme.

While 53% of Mainstream voters see the Republican congressional agenda as in the mainstream, 81% of Political Class voters regard it as extreme.

Data released earlier showed that 67% of the Political Class believes the country is heading in the right direction. Among Mainstream voters, 84% say the nation has gotten off on the wrong track.

On RCP, Scott Conroy reports on Mike Huckabee's impact on Republican primary races across the country, and Thomas Sowell takes on "bean-counters" who claim racism is behind nearly every racial disparity.

And on RCS, Art Spander writes about the dust-up between Corey Pavin and Jim Gray over whether or not Tiger Woods will be on the Ryder Cup team.

On RCP, Tom Bevan writes about Wisconsin Sen. Russ Feingold's tough re-election battle. David Paul Kuhn writes that America, thanks to a weak economy and rampant joblessness, is about to snap, just like flight attendant Steve Slater.

On RCW, Meir Javedanfar argues that Hezbollah may be preparing to make a power grab within Lebanon or take on Israel militarily.

On RCM, Diana Furchtgott-Roth writes that the recently passed $26 billion state aid bill rewards states that have been fiscally irresponsible.

Finally, on RCS, Jeff Neuman documents Isiah Thomas's record of failure.

This official noted that even Bush balked at attacking Iran's nuclear facilities, and discouraged the Israelis from carrying out the attack on their own. (Bush would sometimes mock those aides and commentators who advocated an attack on Iran, even referring to the conservative columnists Charles Krauthammer and William Kristol as “the bomber boys,” according to two people I spoke with who overheard this.) - Jeffrey Goldberg in The Atlantic.

On RCP's Election 2010 page, Scott Conroy recaps last night's primaries, including Sen. Michael Bennet's win over Andrew Romanoff in Colorado. On RCP, Tony Blankley argues that the "ruling class" doesn't understand the public's outrage over the Obama administration's policies.

On RCM, Louis Woodhill describes how sustained economic growth would help solve the debt crisis. Steven Malanga writes about the failure of government-sponsored job training programs.

And on RCS, Art Spander writes that Tiger Woods still has a sense of humor after his disastrous performance in the WGC-Bridgestone last weekend.

A new poll from Marist shows that a majority of registered voters in New York City oppose the construction of a mosque near Ground Zero in Manhattan. Fifty three percent of those surveyed, including 50% of Democrats, 74% of Republicans, and 52% of "non-enrolled" voters, don't want to see the mosque built, while 34% fav0r the project and 13% are "unsure."

A nearly identical 50% saying that building such a structure "offends the memory of thge 9/11 victims and their families."  Thirty-four percent say the project will "help people better understand the teachings of Islam and the Muslim religion."

Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who made news last week by blasting opponents of the mosque and saying they "ought to be ashamed of themselves," sees his job approval rating under 50% in the Marist poll for the first time in five years.  Forty-nine percent of registered New York City voters give Bloomberg a rating of either "excellent" or "good," while 33% rate the Mayor as doing a "fair" job and 16% say he is doing a "poor" job.

Asked further about Bloomberg's legacy, 12% of voters think he'll be remembered as "one of the best Mayors" of New York City, while 5% think he'll go down as "one of the worst." Thirty-three percent think he'll be remembered as "above average," 11% say "below average," and a 38% plurality believe his legacy will be simply "about average."

RCP's Election 2010 page has news on the latest polls in the Connecticut Senate and Governor primaries. On RCP, Scott Conroy reports on the New Orleans Saints' visit to the White House this morning.

On RCM, John Tamny argues that though Congress should extend the Bush tax cuts, it won't do much for the economy without a strong dollar policy. Bill Frezza writes that Social Security is already bankrupt.

On RCS, Jeff Neuman writes that with Tiger Woods struggling and Phil Mickelson seemingly unable to pass him, golf has no true No. 1 player.

The left has been having a heyday with Sharron Angle's comment last month that her run against Harry Reid was a calling from God, but she's not alone in feeling the presence of the Almighty in her political life. Charlie Rangel added some bipartisan flavor to the theme yesterday when he suggested to a crowd that God had told him not to agree to a plea bargain in his ethics case.

"How lucky are you when God tells you that you don't have to take a plea..." Rangel told the crowd.

Later, however, Rangel backtracked on the notion of divine intervention, saying, "I exaggerated. I really didn't talk to God ... I said that in the heat of the campaign but no, she hasn't spoken to me recently," he said.

Why don't we just leave God out of it altogether, shall we?

This, apparently, is what the photo editors at the Washington Post believe is the representative face of the Tea Party. Not too flattering, eh?