Tom Carnahan, somehow managing to spend $300 million despite erecting the windmills himself.

Moe Lane points out that the success of Tom Carnahan’s Wind Capital Group project depends to a great extent on both stimulus money and the passage of cap-and-trade legislation, and wonders:

I’d ask why Russ Carnahan felt comfortable voting for legislation that would directly benefit his brother, except that I already know that Democratic legacy politicians typically don’t believe that they have to obey the rules that they expect the rest of us to follow. Given the incredible amounts of deference that the rest of their party gives them, they may unfortunately have a bit of a point.

Don’t forget that sis might be in the Senate soon, too.

UPDATE: From the comments, Mitch writes:

OK, let’s see if I can connect the dots. Tom Carnahan gets enough money to finance a windmill farm (whered he get the financing?) Then uses his family connections to legislate that the electric company buy his electricity at above market rates. Sounds like a good business plan!

Around 200 people appear for a protest planned fewer than 24 hours earlier. (200 is the number from the Post-Dispatch. That seems low, but they are infallibly correct and fair so I won’t challenge it.)

My favorite sign is “I’M DIS-ORGANI-SEDD.”