To say things have not been going well for Republicans would be kind of an understatement. How bad is it? Let's just do a short list:

     Remember that inspiring story a while back involving that guy who had shot a couple of people in a Georgia courthouse, then had taken a lady hostage only to release her some time later after she had readto him passages from the huge Christian inspirational moneymaker 'A Purpose Driven Life'?
    Yeah, it was a heartwarming news story wasn't it?
    It just wasn't true.
    It turns out that while she may have indeed read him said religious text, the thing that really helped turn the tide was the fact that she gave him some of her meth stash.
     I had wondered about that story. It seemed weird to me that a crazed just-killed-two-people-today gun slinging maniac who now had a hostage to take care of, would let her bust out her current reading material and read a few passages aloud to him. I've seen the movies, and hostage situations usually involve, say, being bound to a bedwith extension chords and masking tape. Less book club, and more fight club. And as it turns out, SHE WAS bound to a bed with extension chords and masking tape. I don't know about you, but I find it hard to read when my extremities have been bound the posts of my bed. Nothing to hold the book up.
    It seems that the way she managed to get herself freed from the bed, was that the crazy gun slinging maniac wanted some weed. Further proving the old adage, always give a homicidal maniac what he wants, she felt compelled to comply. Except that she didn't have and weed. To rectify such an embarrassing social blunder, she offered him some of her crystal meth supply instead. A real ice breaker. Soon they were higher than Rush Limbaugh, she busted out the reading material, and she was on her way to being the living example of the redemptive power of faith that she is today. Its just that she left that whole part about the meth out when she told the cops, only choosing to include it in her new book, ON SALE SEPTEMBER 30TH.
    Not to diminish the power of the book any, I haven't read it, nor have I ever taken any methamphetamines, but it seems to me that a man in that state of mind might have just as easily had a religious experience based on readings from The Cat In The Hat Comes Back. He was F'ed up. He was crazy. The headlines from the Wall Street Journal might have done the trick. Maybe it was just because she was nice to him, and he was high. The story just isn't so clear cut now, that's all I'm saying.