Here I am surfing the BOTF of a Sunday morning, and the next thing I know, I have coffee coming out my nose! "The Smithsonian of sixth century thinking" - not even Churchill came as close as that. Thank you for a wonderful description.

And I agree that the GOP bailed out in '08, leaving the Democrats to clean out their Augean stables of corruption, debt and financial mismanagement, not to mention two wars that need never have been undertaken.