The mad genius behind this is, of course, Iowahawk.

...The Star Wars Holiday Special!

I will miss the heck out of Dick Cheney.

Ace:

Bear in mind, of course, Sarah Palin was a moron for taking on the less-spectacularly corrupt Alaskan political machine. See, if she had been as brilliant as Obama, she wouldn't have needed to respond with crude measures like fighting corruption and defeating corrupt politicians; she could have employed nuance and smarts to finesse around it, and even profit from it.

[sigh]

This is the culture from which our great new political messiah emerged. Hope everyone who voted for Obama is ready for Illinois-style politics on a national level:

Illinois Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich and his Chief of Staff, John Harris, were arrested today by FBI agents on federal corruption charges alleging that they and others are engaging in ongoing criminal activity: conspiring to obtain personal financial benefits for Blagojevich by leveraging his sole authority to appoint a United States Senator; threatening to withhold substantial state assistance to the Tribune Company in connection with the sale of Wrigley Field to induce the firing of Chicago Tribune editorial board members sharply critical of Blagojevich; and to obtain campaign contributions in exchange for official actions – both historically and now in a push before a new state ethics law takes effect January 1, 2009.

I seem to recall a certain party campaigning against a "culture of corruption" in Washington a few years back. They'd better HOPE that Obama wasn't corrupted by the ultimate culture of corruption - Chicago, where he learned the game and earned his political stripes. I'd say hope is all they have at this point.

God save America.

Awesome. Language warning. But still Awesome.

Good news from Georgia.

Time flies, doesn't it?