Catalog of Dumb Stuff Politicians Do, Pt. 126

• When the deficit becomes so great that the federal government has to stop paying certain bills, what gets cut? First it was No Child Left Behind, then it was body armor for troops in Iraq, then it was Walter Reed, then it was health insurance for children, and we were all sad. Now it's the wiretaps that the government uses to listen to you without legal authorization to do so, and somewhere, Chris Dodd is laughing his ass off.
  
  
• Remember when LBJ made up some story about a confrontation in the Gulf of Tonkin, and used it to get permission from Congress to get us hopelessly entrenched in a seemingly endless war that we couldn't win, even though we did reinstate the draft and were fighting a military that was considered vastly inferior to our own?
  
  
• Al Qaeda appears to have an early retirement plan, because apparently there are no terrorists over 50.
  
  
• So you know how people are saying that Barack Obama has no real legislative record from his time in the Senate? Yeah, well, here's the thing about that . . . (thanks for the heads up, Anna)
  
  
• D'oh! (and again, the nod goes to Anna for the tip)
  
  
• With presidential primaries, it's all about the loopholes: Obama and Edwards may still be able to squeeze some delegates out of Michigan after all.
  
  
• McCain is looking like he might be able to derail Huckabee.
  
  
• The pollsters all agree: they suck.
  
  
• The ground beneath Rudy Giuliani's feet is disappearing and he's going down in flames. Much like the Emergency Command Center that could have helped him properly manage the crisis on 9/11. In other words, tortoise and hare.