McCain obviously has a lock on the pasty white guy vote.

They don't look particularly happy, though. At least they can spell.

It smells like victory.

And with that rallying cry, let the witch hunts begin anew!

I pray to all that's holy that a landslide victory allows us to sweep these kind of knuckle-dragging wannabe tyrants out of the halls of power and back into history's dustbin from whence they came.

They also apologized to anyone offended by the burning cross printed on the back of the fake bill.

"We're Christians and we weren't offended," the party's spokesman observed obtusely.

Is can we please, PLEASE, get rid of the bellicose, power mad TSA Barney Fife on streoids rent-a-cops at the airports and just keep our goddamned shoes on when we fly? And stop with the 3 ounces of liquid in plastic baggies nonsense, too.

Oh, yeah. And I guess it would be a good thing if the Federal government could actually respond effectively and in a timely manner to hurricanes, earthquakes, fires, and floods. You know, like they used to before the country was run by rightwing ideologues.

To see which way THIS wind is blowing.

McCentury will be using every bit of Ayers smoke and every single Rev. Wright mirror in his arsenal to to avoid talking about his bankrupt economic platform.

To see Palin's political career going down in flames.

It usually occurs at the Obama rallies right after the singing of the Internationale.

And right before the recitation of the leading principles of Marxism.

In reality, not so much...

for a landslide?

Although it's wonderful to experience the feeling of the shoe finally (at long last) being on the other foot, in the immortal words of Han Solo-- Don't get cocky.

About his parents.

They must be so proud.

As long as I keep hitting Obama's fist with my face, I've got him right where I want him.

Just wait until I thrust my balls into his knee repeatedly. Then you'll see something!

dropped 700 points yesterday and opened down 500 this morning.

Yeah, Obama's drug use as a youth is what everyone needs to talk about.

And pay no attention to the cranky, erratic, clueless old man behind the curtain...

of desperation, I too am afraid that-- if not responded to in kind (and not just by trying to brush it off)-- we might just see a GOP victory in November.

This is just exactly the kind of thing the GOP excels in-- mudslinging diversions that take the focus off the issues (where they would most certainly lose) and re-frame the debate towards wedge issues that allow them to divide and conquer the electorate.

I believe the Obama team is too savvy to allow that, but fear it may work in spite of their best efforts.

A Republican lying? Really?!

I'm at a loss for words, so I'll refer back to the Great White Moose Hunter:

You betcha!

The best argument for spending the better part of a trillion taxpayer dollars on a solution that may or may not actually work is that "it's better than nothing?!"

How exactly?

Why not go back to the frigging drawing board and craft a bill that actually WILL work? After all, that's what these guys get paid for.

If the Democrats had any actual balls and political acumen (I know, longer odds on that than on this bailout actually solving anything) they'd craft a bill that trickles UP and pass it on a party line vote. Then go to the American people and say look what we did for you (or ya, as Sarah Palin might say)-- real homeowner relief for every Joe Sixpack in trouble which will, coincidentally, fix the whole banking problem. Yeah, it's pricey, but it puts YOU at the front of the line and Goldman Sachs back in the rear where they need to be. We did it because the Republicans refused to and that's what we get paid to do.

Yeah, well, dare to dream.

and I'll say it again-- Let the Wall Street robber barons crash and burn. They'd do the same for you or me.

Hell, they've been doing it.

I'll watch the polling over on Daily Kos. All the polling and none of the doom-and-gloom so apparently beloved of Salon's War Room scribblers.

If I wanted only worst-case-- albeit totally specious-- scenarios, I'd just watch CNN.

"He was smiling... That's right. You know, that, that Luke smile of his. He had it on his face right to the very end. Hell, if they didn't know it 'fore, they could tell right then that they weren't a-gonna beat him. That old Luke smile. Oh, Luke. He was some boy. Cool Hand Luke. Hell, he's a natural-born world-shaker."

Rest in peace. The world is less for his passing.

Have to refer to him by his full name in every sentence?

Will he become the new Bob Dole and start referring to himself that way?

"John McCain is getting testy. John McCain is tired of looking Presidential. John McCain needs his nap."

Do you need to be hit in the head with a brick to know that he's just not that into you?

He's aloof, never said he loves you (well, you can't fault him for his honesty, at least) and now flies off to a week with some internet bimbo.

Run, don't walk, away from this erstwhile relationship. Life's too short to be bothered with knuckleheads like this.

Bite me.

get to pull the horse? The guys whining loudest for the bailout "won't allow" bankruptcy modification of the loan terms?!

Again, I say let the whole rotten mess collapse. A pox on these greedy rat bastards and their whole house of financial cards.

Just say no... to robber barons.

That this country will have President Cariboo Barbie (she is only a 70-something heartbeat away, after all) to preserve us from witchcraft and Vladimir Putin.

Oh yeah, and the Canucks too.