Month: November 2008

This is it, which I’m sure will make some readers happy — specifically, those readers saying “Gone for three months and when he comes back he writes all this nasty political stuff?!” Yeah, I know. Anyway, some random thoughts:

:: I hate that California passed Proposition 8. I hate that. Hate it. That is probably the single most disappointing result from yesterday’s elections, as far as I’m concerned. Not only did the most populous state in the Union decide in favor of continued bigotry, but they did so in a way that will tell thousands of married people that they aren’t married anymore. What crap.

:: For once, the New York State legislature isn’t split into one house controlled by Republicans and the other controlled by Democrats. What does this mean? For me, it means that there is absolutely no excuse for the state Democratic party to not at least get some kind of wheels turning toward New York’s re-emergence. I’m glad that maybe we’ve got the start of the end of the “three men in a room” stuff that dominates New York governance, but it’s got to get moving now.

:: Local races: I just voted a straight Democratic party line. Lazy? Maybe. But I’m damned if I’m rewarding any Republicans any time in the foreseeable future.

:: Did the general success of the Democrats herald a shift in the country to the left? Possibly, but I think, not quite yet. The Democratic success heralded a willingness in the country to try some liberal policies, but the only way this will turn out to be an actual election of realignment is if those liberal policies produce results. If the economy is still stagnant in 2012, look out. It’s tempting to see 2008 as the Democratic version of 1980, which saw the beginning of nearly three decades of Republican dominance, but if Reagan hadn’t had a nicely humming economy to run on in 1984, things might well have fizzled for conservatives back then. So, Democrats, let’s get working, shall we? (Matthew Yglesias makes the same point here, and he made it before I did, but I’m slow.)

:: When the new Senate convenes, and the Republicans start using the filibuster in order to block things, I hope that Democrats will actually force them to filibuster.

:: What to do with Joe Lieberman? Bust him from his committee chair position, and then tell him to go do whatever he wants. Who cares?

:: I found the mechanism for the network coverage last night hard to follow. The electoral counts would only be updated on the hour, unless the states coming in were “small” states that weren’t likely to add anything substantial to the ultimate result. NBC had Obama stuck on something like 210 electoral votes for an hour, and then, all of a sudden right at 11:00, they went ahead and called the whole race for Obama. Now, that’s obviously how it turned out, but it just seemed really weird.

:: In Buffalo, Channel 2’s coverage of local races was almost amateurish. At times, it just looked silly. I don’t know if the use of greaseboard-like effects was supposed to be some kind of tribute to Tim Russert, but it was just annoying, and it seemed as if every time one of the anchors said that they were going to update a certain local race, the station people would put up a wrong graphic some other race. And I’m not sure why they had laptops sitting in front of each anchor; this was pure cosmetics. Plus, they made the NBC results marquee almost impossible to read by reducing the amount of screen devoted to NBC by almost one fourth to get the local results in there.

:: I didn’t watch any election coverage at all until about 9:45 pm, after I’d put The Daughter to bed. When I turned on the teevee, they’d already called Ohio for Obama. My jaw dropped at that moment, because I knew he was on his way.

:: Less than eighty days remain in the worst Presidency since James Buchanan’s. George Bush can’t go away soon enough.

:: Finally, here’s Leonard Cohen:

It’s not coming, though. It’s here.

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UPDATE: One reader has already pointed out that this post is significantly more caustic in tone than is usual for this blog. I make no apologies for this, because I see no reason to not express my annoyance with John McCain, who made the choices he did in this campaign and now has to live with them. My goal here is never to offend, but on the rare occasion when I have anger to express, I’m going to express it.

It’s tempting to continue with the assumption that John McCain’s just an admirable, stand-up guy who somehow blundered into surrounding himself with people responsible for his awful campaign, but the thing is, folks, organizations tend to reflect the managerial approach of the people at the top, and the McCain campaign is no exception to this rule. Nobody held a gun to John McCain’s head, nobody forced him against his will to run the exact kind of campaign he cried about being run against him back in the 2000 primaries. What was done by the McCain campaign, and on behalf of the McCain campaign, was done with the full approval of John McCain.

I really hope, once all is done, that McCain’s inevitable attempt to show contrition for his campaign’s nauseating behavior and salvage what’s left of his honor comes to pass, the national media doesn’t let him get away with it. Lots of people have acted as though somehow McCain was convinced by his advisers to suppress his honorable instincts; lots of people have assumed that the McCain of 2000 was the real McCain, while the disgusting 2008 version was an anomaly. Well, folks, what we saw this year was the real McCain. And this was the management style he would have brought to the White House.

Anyway, the 2008 John McCain campaign will surely be remembered for years to come as the worst Republican national campaign since…well, I don’t really remember a worse Republican campaign. So what were the worst things McCain did or said this year?

11. “Obama’s a Socialist who’s gonna take your money and give it to someone who doesn’t deserve it!”

First of all, this is obviously nonsense to anyone with any functional knowledge of what Socialism actually is, unless one is some kind of Libertarian who worships on the altar of the Market That Can Do No Wrong No Matter Who Gets Screwed and who believes that anytime the government does anything other than wiping itself after going to the bathroom it’s an instance of Socialism. Second of all, the question never seems to come up: “Hey, even if he was a Socialist, would that necessarily be a bad thing?” And thirdly, coming from McCain, who put on his ticket the governor of a state that literally taxes the shit out of the profits of the oil companies and then redistributes that wealth en masse to everybody living there, the charge of Socialism is pure hypocrisy.

10. “I’m reluctant to discuss my experiences as a POW.”

Yeah…that’s why back in the period between the primaries and the conventions, McCain brought it up every chance he got. Remember how Rudy Giuliani couldn’t utter a sentence without a noun, a verb, and 9-11? Well, McCain for a time couldn’t utter a sentence without a noun, a verb, and POW.

9. “Holy Financial Crisis, Batman! To the McCain-mobile!”

Has there ever been a more transparent bit of grandstanding than McCain’s “suspension” of his campaign when the financial crisis began to unfold? What a bunch of play-acting that was: “Debate? Don’t you know there’s a war rerun of Matlock financial crisis on?!”

The financial crisis that hit in September was quite the disaster for John McCain, wasn’t it? Before that, he was holding steadily even with Barack Obama, because for the first couple of weeks after his convention, the topic of conversation wasn’t on things that matter, and lots of people were on a “Wow! A not-bad-looking woman who shoots guns for Vice President! Who cares what she’s done in politics or if her views on issues are just this side of the John Birch Society!” high. But then the real world intruded with an actual problem, and while Obama’s approach was to react with calm and rational talk aimed at the American people, McCain’s was to basically shit his pants. And boy howdy, did he shit them but good, thus proving that if you want your President to be the nation’s Pants-Shitter-in-Chief, why, McCain was your man! He tossed around any way to blame the problem on Democrats that he could think of, he flip-flopped yet again (this time on economic regulation, which he’d never been for), and then threw up his hands two days before the first Presidential debate and said “I must be in Washington at this terrible time!”

Of course, McCain was only a Senator at the time and not any of the chief economic officers of the Administration; nor are any of his committees devoted to those kinds of concerns. And of course, McCain had to that point missed over 400 (out of a possible 600) votes in the Senate this term, making him the most-absent Senator currently working. But now, it was essential that he be there! Even though, once he got there, he didn’t do much of anything and messed everything up and anyway then the crisis got worse a few weeks later he kept on campaigning instead of going all “steely-eyed muscle man” on us again.

I can actually understand the impulse for him to grandstand; he’d been able to do some play-acting earlier in the campaign when some unpleasantness erupted in the Ukraine. But this time he bit off more than he could chew. It wasn’t a case of “Fly somewhere and look like a concerned Presidential type”; here he set himself as the one person who could DO something, and then he simply didn’t deliver what he never could have delivered anyway.

8. “I’m still the same guy! I never once flip-flopped!”

Whatever you say, John.

7. “She sold the state plane on eBay for a profit!”

No she didn’t, you nitwit. She didn’t sell it on eBay (its listing didn’t sell), and it wasn’t sold for a profit. Facts? Why check them before citing them? That’s for guys who were never POWs.

6. “I’m not President Bush. I just really like his policies, I voted for them more than just about any other Republican, I plan to continue the worst of them, I’ve filled my campaign with Bush loyalists, and I will almost certainly staff my White House with people from his administration seeing as how that’s where all of the Republicans with any experience at doing anything are. But I’m not President Bush, all right? Because I’m all mavericky and stuff.”

Well, that says it all, I guess. Moving on:

5. “I don’t really know much about economics, but….”

No. You don’t say. I can’t believe that, John. I thought for sure that a guy who’d married a filthy-rich heiress and then with that filthy-rich new wife bought himself more than a half-dozen houses would surely have his finger right on the economic pulse!

4. “He pals around with terrorists!”

Yeah, but look at the bright side, Senator McCain: at least Obama’s non-existent connection with some guy nobody gives a shit about gives you something to talk about when you sit down to coffee with your convicted felon friend, G. Gordon Liddy.

(By the way, thanks to the Charles Keating scandal and Troopergate in Alaska, this year the Republicans offered up a ticket where both people had been found to have committed ethics violations in their respective offices. Country first!)

(And I know, he didn’t say it, his running mate did. Tough. He put her on the ticket.)

3. “I wouldn’t have had to run a nasty campaign if Obama had just agreed to all those town-hall debates I wanted!”

That was the choice, was it? Debate my way or I’m going negative? Were there no other options available to McCain, such as, oh, I don’t know, maybe not going negative when Obama refused the town-hall debates? If Obama had had those debates, McCain wouldn’t have run incredibly noxious robocalls or provide scripts to callers that were so obnoxious that many of the callers simply walked off the job rather than read them? If Obama had done the town halls, McCain wouldn’t have had to send out mailings designed to scare the shit out of Florida’s Jewish voters? If Obama had done the town halls…well, you get the idea.

Nah, that’s just crazy talk. McCain the Maverick had no choice in the matter. For a steely-eyed maverick, John McCain sure found himself in a lot of powerless situations this year, didn’t he?

(Oh, and David Broder? You suck. The Dean of pundits, my ass.)

2. “What we need is some salt-of-the-earth type so we can prop him up as the symbol of our campaign! So let’s take, er, that guy! He looks plumbery! And Joe-like!”

Joe the Plumber? Seriously? I wonder if that idea came from Phil Gramm, who tried to ride “Dickey Flatt”‘s coat-tails all the way to…whatever state it was where Gramm ended up dropping out of the 1996 Presidential race when he completely tanked, years before he ended up becoming one of John McCain’s most trusted advisers. Citing some guy or some woman who would be affected by policies is a tried-and-true rhetorical trick in modern campaigning, but McCain turned SuperPlumber into a fetish object, even going so far as to say that Joe the Plumber was his “role model” — and this after Joe the Plumber was all over the media saying one gonzo thing after another.

And the worst thing John McCain said or did in his campaign:

1. “I can think of no one in this entire country better suited to take over if I drop dead than this person who’s been a Governor for less than two years, who has never given a single thought to any major issue of national import, because I’ve talked to her for an hour or so and I’m just that good a judge of character.”

Folks, Sarah Palin was a complete and utter disaster. I’ll quote John Scalzi here:

[T]he Palin pick did firm up the support of the GOP base, a fact which should terrify anyone with a working brain. Palin is indisputably the single worst major party candidate for high office in living memory, a proudly ignorant political automaton whose only notable qualities are a pretty face, a sufficient lack of awareness to blind her to her own incompetencies and a quality of ambition that can only be described as voracious. The GOP base should have been insulted that this was all it was given by the McCain campaign; instead it embraced her and has declared her a frontrunner for 2012. Which tells you that the GOP base has learned nothing in the last eight years; Palin, in every way that matters, is nothing more than Bush with boobs. The GOP base doesn’t want a president, it wants a mirror.

It’s appalling that the GOP base holds up Palin as the sort of person it wants as president of the country, and it points to the sort of intellectual and moral vacuousness that party has that the rest of us simply can’t afford anymore. McCain’s decision to pick her as his running mate is something politics wonks will discuss for decades, one of those credibility-destroying moments that in retrospect simply defies belief.

As for how I felt about it personally, let me put it this way: before the Palin pick, I was going to vote for Obama. After the Palin pick, I was also and most emphatically voting against McCain. The only way Palin should be in the White House is on the public tour. Shame on McCain for proclaiming she’s competent to actually be president. He deserves to lose for that single decision alone.

That about sums it up. Not a single day went by since her arrival on the scene that she didn’t turn with something new and stupid coming out of her mouth. Did anybody believe it for one second when McCain said that he had sought her advice on any number of issues? Did anybody believe it for one second when he said that she was one of the country’s foremost experts on energy? Does anybody think she’s an expert on, well, anything? Her only major accomplishment was looking more telegenic and less gaffe-prone than Dan Quayle, but how hard is that, anyway…and she did commit a number of gaffes, so many that she eventually got cocooned off away from any possibility of being asked a question that couldn’t trigger a talking-point response. It’s worth noting that the only reason she managed to get through that debate without making a serious error was that Gwen Ifyll didn’t ask any follow-up questions. Remember, the most famous debate gaffe of all time – Dan Quayle’s “I’m as experienced as Jack Kennedy was when he ran for President” line, which prompted Lloyd Bentsen’s devastating rebuttal – came as an answer to a follow-up question. And as Katie Couric proved, if you hit Sarah Palin with a follow-up, she’s dead in the water, unable to come up with anything better than “Uhh, all of them!” when the question is some kind of liberal-MSM gotcha question like “What newspapers do you read?”

Everything I read about Palin’s governing style nauseated me. She had the gall to claim that she’d be an advocate for parents of special needs children, despite having done pretty much nothing to advocate for parents of special needs children in her own state. She filled her gubernatorial administration with people she’d known from high school and before. She showed zero evidence of ever having thought about a single issue at all; her every interview was like one of those drumming machines teenage rock bands use, the ones where you push a button and a pre-programmed drum beat comes out of the speakers. It was ask-question, get-memorized-talking-point, all the time, even if the talking point she remembered wasn’t even related to the question that had been asked. The Right swooned over her ability to read a speech before the Republican Convention, a speech that had been mostly written before the person who’d be giving it had even been determined.

The worst thing is that McCain didn’t even want Sarah Palin; he wanted someone else, but his advisers told him he couldn’t have who he wanted, so he and they basically grabbed the first name they could, in an effort to make the Christian Right happy and win the news cycle the day after Obama’s acceptance speech. When the chips were down, once again, the steely-eyed Maverick bent his knee and said “Yes, my Christian Right overlords!”

By picking Sarah Palin, John McCain made clear that the only thing John McCain cared about was John McCain becoming President, by hook or by crook. One thing he said last night in his concession speech was absolutely true: the failure of his ticket was his failure. Too bad he almost certainly doesn’t understand how.

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WARNING: This post contains naught but political snark. If that annoys, move on. This mood will pass quickly, and I’ll be onto other stuff to snark about.

One reason I went into an extended hiatus was that I felt my mood becoming more and more political, and I almost certainly would have seen my content skew that way much farther even than it did during the 2004 election, and I would almost certainly have been authoring political rants not much different from the better-written rants you’ll find elsewhere in Left Blogisan; and my political output would have been nothing but rants seeing as how my own level of policy knowledge isn’t that high. When, during the election cycle, it turned out that the stories that had me most tempted to chuck the hiatus and return to blogging with all guns blazing were political ones, I decided that I’d made the right decision to sit out the whole thing.

Not that I wasn’t mildly entertained by watching Republicans make asses of themselves, over and over, repeatedly. That is always fun. Here are the ones that I thought were their Greatest Hits for this year’s version of Republican dumb rhetoric:

10. Michelle Malkin and the Rose Tosser of Doom.

When Barack Obama appeared alongside John McCain at Ground Zero in New York City to pay tribute to the people slain in the attacks of 9-11-01, both men laid roses on the site. McCain apparently stooped over to gently lay his rose, while Obama did the “light toss” of the rose that will be familiar to anyone who’s ever been at any kind of such event where flowers are being laid. Michelle Malkin, however, decided as she always does, to find symbolism, and thus absurd amounts of Hissy Rightie Rage, in Obama’s tossing of his rose. How that woman gets angry at so much stuff and somehow doesn’t suffer coronary events on a regular basis is beyond me (unless, of course, she isn’t human, which is always possible).

9. Foreign Policy Talking Point Follies!

Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has never visited Russia, nor has she ever weighed in on a single issue pertaining to anything at all to do with Russia, nor before her selection as Republican Vice Presidential nominee did she ever show any evidence in her career of having ever much thought about Russia. None of that mattered, though, because the GOP was there to tell us that merely living near Russia (because at their closest points, Alaska and Russia are about fifty miles apart, even if Juneau, where Palin actually does her job, is nowhere near the part of the state that’s close to Russia) counted as serious foreign policy street cred. Well, OK. For a time the last couple of years I lived one apartment building away from former Buffalo Bills defensive end Anthony Hargrove, and during the football season, I can sometimes hear the cheers of the crowd at Ralph Wilson Stadium, as it’s all of two miles from Casa Jaquandor (as the crow flies). That should count as football experience, by GOP logic. I expect my call from FOX Sports for my commenting purposes immediately!

8. The Bridge of Nowhere County

There are songs that come from the fresh-slain moose, from the spatter of a thousand oil wells. This is one of them.

Once upon a time there was a lonely woman named Sarah who lived in a little town in Alaska. Somewhere nearby, nearer than Russia at least, some rich powerful people wanted to build a really big bridge, and a photographer came from National Geographic to photograph it. He was disappointed to learn that the bridge hadn’t been built after all, and in fact wouldn’t be built because lovely Sarah had called up Congress herself and said “No thanks!” (she called 1-900-CONGRESS and spoke to a fine man named Brett Longhandle, who thought she’d called to talk about something else entirely). But this photographer was thrilled that lovely Sarah’s husband was out of town, hunting wolves from an airplane, and he and she enjoyed a thrilling affair. Alas, neither could tear themselves away from their lonely real lives, and thus they parted, heartbroken but in love forever. Their love might have been consummated by that beautiful Bridge of Nowhere County – but alas, she’d been for it before she’d been against it.

7. “Where is John Galt when you need him?”

The other day, Glenn Reynolds’s wife “Dr. Helen” wondered why someone doesn’t “go John Galt”, as in, just pick up their marbles and go live somewhere to forge a new Libertarian free-market paradise. I suspect that this hasn’t happened, and isn’t likely to happen, because this is the real world and not a VR-simulation for the ejaculative pleasure of people who can’t quite figure out that maybe, just maybe, the real world doesn’t work quite the way it did in Ayn Rand’s novel, because Ayn Rand’s novel was, you know, a f***ing novel. Go ahead and fantasize about somebody fulfilling the dream of being John Galt or whatever, folks. I’ll indulge my own fantasy of a farmboy from a desert planet being revealed as the last in a line of monastic Knights with mystical powers which he’ll use to save us all from death at the hands of a giant space station.

6. “Introspection? I got yer introspection right here, pal!”

A prominent teevee political commentator the other day lamented the tone of our political discourse today. That would be completely unremarkable, except that the commentator so moved to a bout of reflection over the “tone” these days was…

[wait for it]

[still wait for it]

Bill O’Reilly.

Bill “Maybe San Francisco should get hit by terrorists” O’Reilly? No way! Shut up!

Yeah.

5. Rudy Demonstrates His Amazing Familiarity With Urban Life!

Rudy, who was Mayor of New York on 9-11, gave a speech at the Republican National Convention in which he reminded everybody that he was Mayor of New York on 9-11, just in case anybody forgot that he, Rudy, was Mayor of New York on 9-11. Rudy. Mayor. New York. 9-11. In his speech he decided to give the faithful a bit of red meat, tearing into Barack Obama’s resume, openly mocking the idea of a “community organizer”, saying that he didn’t even know what that was. You’d think that a Mayor of one of the world’s largest cities would be passingly familiar with the idea of community organization, but you have to cut Rudy some slack here; in the seven years of his Mayorship prior to 9-11, he was able to do little else other than prepare for 9-11, since he knew he’d be Mayor of New York on 9-11. “Mr. Mayor, there’s a community organizer from the Bronx here to see you.” “Don’t bother me with that! I’m gonna be Mayor on 9-11!”

4. Musical Taste is Shaped By Wartime Trauma!

At one point, the subject of the candidates’ favorite music came up, and John McCain admitted to liking ABBA. Now, I like ABBA a lot myself, so I thought, “Hey, cool, maybe I’ll vote for him.” Well, OK, no, I didn’t really say that; I’m one of those silly people who vote about issues and stuff, not who looks best aiming a shotgun or whatever. But liking ABBA’s fine by me; same with George Bush the Elder’s famed dislike of broccoli. I didn’t vote for him, either. So what’s the problem here? The way the McCain people managed to make this about McCain’s favorite talking point about himself, by claiming that McCain can only claim ABBA as his favorite group because the evolution of his musical taste was stunted by, you guessed it, his years as a POW. Wow! I had no idea he was a POW! You’d think that little tidbit would have turned up once or twice during the campaign, wouldn’t you? How about that. Say! I like ABBA too! Do you suppose I could have been a POW and not have known about it?

3. Brother Jonah Explains It All To You!

There was a brief flap back in September when the Obama campaign released an ad portraying John McCain as being out of touch, the main content thereof being the fact that McCain, by all reports, is not especially tech savvy; he has no idea how to send his own e-mails or pick his own websites, for example. As attacks go, this wasn’t all that biting (although you’d like a President to be at least a little bit familiar with the driving infrastructure of the current economy of the country, assuming that the guy vying for that job has any notions of what the current economy is like in the first place, a notion that McCain went to great lengths to disavow), but in charged Jonah Goldberg, on whom one can always count to say something laughably dumb about anything. The reason John McCain doesn’t send e-mails or use any technology whatsoever? Why, because of his injuries sustained when he was a POW! Really? He was a POW? Holy shit! Who knew! Of course, a photograph surfaced almost immediately of John McCain using a BlackBerry, making Jonah’s argument look about as stupid as…well, a Jonah Goldberg argument. I literally laughed out loud as soon as I read that one.

2. Rich Lowry is Buyin’ What Bob Dole is Sellin’!

I had Jonah’s “Being a POW forever froze McCain in 1977” argument at number one on this list, until someone else interceded. And really, it took a lot to dislodge Jonah from the top spot, because it’s frankly a Herculean task to look dumber than Jonah Goldberg. But someone pulled it off! Who? Well:

To judge by the polls immediately after the Vice Presidential debate, most people were more impressed by Joe Biden’s obvious command of what he was talking about than Sarah Palin’s attempts to show how she’s “one of us” or whatever that fake folksy act of hers is. Whatever. Most people saw through Palin. But not Rich Lowry, God bless him! He saw Sarah Palin and, well…remember in the movie Wayne’s World, when Wayne first lays eyes on Tia Carrere, she’s suddenly surrounded by a halo of glittering starlight and the soundtrack plays “Dream Weaver”? Well, that’s apparently what Rich Lowry saw when he looked at Palin and saw naught but right-wing talking point hotness:

I’m sure I’m not the only male in America who, when Palin dropped her first wink, sat up a little straighter on the couch and said, “Hey, I think she just winked at me.” And her smile. By the end, when she clearly knew she was doing well, it was so sparkling it was almost mesmerizing. It sent little starbursts through the screen and ricocheting around the living rooms of America. This is a quality that can’t be learned; it’s either something you have or you don’t, and man, she’s got it.

I assume that by the way his Little Private was saluting, Lowry rushed right off to enlist in the Alaska National Guard, so he could answer directly to Governor Palin and answer her call to defend the shores of the Aleutians from the onrushing hordes of Russian invaders.

Over at Kung Fu Monkey (follow the above link), John Rogers described Lowry in this moment as “the guy who thinks that the stripper really likes him.” Or, as Wayne and Garth might say, “Shuh-wing!”

1. “With our combined strength, we can rule the USA as father and son!”

So after I had to bump Jonah Goldberg from the top spot on this list, I figured Rich Lowry would have it for the rest of the election season. Surely nothing dumber could erupt from the increasingly deranged right wing in this country that Lowry’s public act of erectile function, and maybe, in fact, nothing dumber did, because there’s a critical point at which one leaves “dumb” behind and crosses the border into “sheer batshit lunacy”. Well, there sure was a lot of that, too: Obama’s a Socialist, Obama’s gonna take all your guns and your money, Obama likes terrorists and hates Israel, Obama was born someplace other than the place his birth certificate says, yada yada yada. Crazy stuff, and laughably crazy stuff, but still garden-variety lunacy from the party of “Bill Clinton’s a murderer!”. The grand prize in Crazy was still to come, though, because I’d forgotten about…a little blog called “Atlas Shrugs”.

Enter Pam, the generator of that blog’s fountain of lunatic rantage, who uncorked the hypothesis — incredible if true! — that Barack Obama is actually the son of Malcolm X!

It’s a good thing it’s a long time to 2012, because they’re going to need some work to get dumber between now and then. But for now, thanks for the entertainment, Republicans! We’ll see all of you in 2012.

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