The Week in Review "Twenty-three years ago two men shook hands [on screen: an '83 photo of Donald Rumsfeld shaking hands with Saddam Hussein]. No one then could have guessed how closely their fates would be intertwined, or that this week would be kind of a crappy week for both of them. Just days after Saddam Hussein was sentenced to death, Donald Rumsfeld was dealt an even crueler punishment -- irrelevance." --Jon Stewart

Irony always strikes when you least expect it, of course. A week ago, the conventional wisdom was that Saddam's conviction would bolster the Bush administration, and their boy Donnie, in the run up to the elections. Today, we see it for what it is, something whose primary effect has been to further radicalize the Sunni minority in Iraq. And the once mighty Rumsfeld has had his metaphorical throat slit, Bush's sacrifice to the deity that is the Democratic takeover of Congress.

"And don't think you're off the hook, voters, you're the ones who made this bed. Now you're the ones who are going to have to move over so a gay couple can sleep in it. Tomorrow you're all going to wake up in a brave new world, a world where the Constitution gets trampled by an army of terrorist clones, created in a stem-cell research lab run by homosexual doctors who sterilize their instruments over burning American flags. Where tax-and-spend Democrats take all your hard-earned money and use it to buy electric cars for National Public Radio, and teach evolution to illegal immigrants. Oh, and everybody's high! You know what, I've had it! You people don't deserve a Republican majority. I quit." --Stephen Colbert

I appreciate Colbert setting the bar unrealistically high for us Democrats. If we do not acheive what he has outlined above, how will we be viewed by the rest of America? Only time will tell.  ¶ 6:12 PM