Politics and other nightmares

Lots of chatter about what a post-Tim Russert "Meet The Press" might look like:

Michelle ("I'm proud of this country for the first time in my adult life") Obama has apparently found a kindred spirit in -- John McCain:

“I'll admit to you

I'm sure my liberal friends will be glad to say when they stopped taking the right seriously. Perhaps it was the Schiavo case or maybe just the idea of Rush Limbaugh on the radio. Maybe it was stem cells or global warming. I can pinpoint exactly when I thought the left had very little I wanted to listen to anymore -- the Elian Gonzalez case. Let every illegal immigrant in this country have a pass, but chase out this kid whose mother died getting him here. Glad to see it's worked out so well?

Anybody who thinks about it for more than 30 seconds knows that "no child left behind" is an impossible goal, a stupid promise to make and a federal law doomed to failure. The only possible way for everyone to succeed is to dumb down the definition of success to the point where it is meaningless. Here's one way that works:

This editorial says the Electoral College is bad because it disenfranchises some voters. If John McCain wins Indiana (as the paper assumes), it means "a Hoosier vote for Obama essentially won't count." That's a pretty lame argument -- anyone who votes for the losing candidate, no matter what system is used, has that vote rendered meaningless.

A good old boy from Texas who hasn't gotten out much:

HOUSTON

Change, change, change. But it turns out that John McCain's tax plan is a familiar Republican one that would make the system more regressive, and Obama's is a familiar Democratic one that would make it more progressive:

Don't ever think Paul Helmke will stop going after our guns (especially if he gets Barack "reasonable controls" Obama as an ally in the White House). He just thinks losing in real court will eventually help him in the court of public opinion:

Ever think we're maybe going too far in asking not to be bothered?

INDIANAPOLIS - A dispute over whether a state law can ban prerecorded telephone calls in political races is about to be in the hands of the Indiana Supreme Court.

The justices were scheduled to hear arguments Monday over a lawsuit by the state attorney general's office against a Washington, D.C., group that made the so-called "robo" calls during a 2006 Indiana congressional campaign.

There might be a campaign dispute out there somewhere that is stupider and lamer than the one being carried on by the Third District congressional candidates, but I can't for the life of me figure out what it would be:

With the national average of a gallon of gas well over four dollars, Democrat Mike Montagano says his Republican opponent in Washington is partly to blame. But, now the way he went about showing that is being questioned.