Ken Mehlman, RNCmail and the State of the Union

In this week's RNCmail, your friend and mine, Ken Mehlman, exhorts the mindless Republican masses to party like it's 1482 on the night of the State of the Union to celebrate the triumph of Our Glorious Leader and Big Brother over the forces of tyrrany.

I, for one, see little about which to party. Our economy stinks; no one wants our treasury bills (which will have the long-term effect of raising interest rates and further collapsing our economy ... yay!); Iraq is a morass of mixed news, violence and uncertainty; the Democratic party is full of simpering "maybe" men (and women) rather than the righteous swords of justice it should be; the Bush administration asserts the justifiability and efficacy of torture (even though America was at the forefront of pushing for its banishment from the world just two or three generations ago); and they're tapping our phone calls and reading our mail (no, not just the terrorists -- dissident groups and peaceniks, too).

Details are at gop.com, if you feel like hosting a guerrilla house party. Not that I would encourage such a thing.