John McCain

Find a friend to see the Robert Schmiegel cartoon from tonight's Saturday Night Live if you can. It may be one of his best: a searing look at John McCain's about-face in supporting George Bush after the way Bush and Company treated him, saying words you know McCain did not mean.

I keep wondering what's in it for McCain, unless he figures that's the only way he can stay viable. Cross the Bushies in any way at any time, and the whole machine turns against you, regardless of your political affiliation. Ask the fellow who was bribed then threatened to get his yea vote on Medicare before congress. Ask Arlen Spector. Ask Chafee of Rhode Island and Collins of Maine. And those are the Republicans.

As Karl Rove is wont to say, "I'll fuck 'em like they've never been fucked before."