Hey, here is a fucking terrible idea: take an angry old publicity whore who has decided that hiring an intern to fart out cheap 140-character anecdotes on a three-year-old Interwebs Technology is the route back to political glory, and have that person do an interview with George Stephanopoulos. On Twitter. [George's Bottom Line]

You know what John McCain hates, even more than trollops and socialism? EARMARKS, which generally constitute a very small amount of any budget bill. Yesterday he threw a fit on the Senate floor about how Barack Obama did not hate earmarks enough, and then he introduced an amendment to banish all earmarks from the government funding bill now making its way through Congress. That amendment failed, of course. MORE »