Exhausted

This must have been the most exhausting week in politics of the year...if not for America, at least for John McCain.

He's seen his stature drop due to his ill conceived running mate pick -- she has effectively boxed him out. BAGnewsNotes is the link, and compares his obvious discomfort with his chosen self-damnation to this photo of McCain with politicians with whom he actually enjoyed tooling around.

His running mate also bring more baggage than just husband, children and imminent teen-mom grandchild -- she's forcing his campaign to work up fresh, failing lies daily with her to cover her burgeoning scandal back home.

And the economic scandal that has us all "a little panicked," as Barack Obama now credibly refers to McCain is a boulder he can't outrun, not when he has his name on pieces coming out like this:

Opening up the health insurance market to more vigorous nationwide competition, as we have done over the last decade in banking, would provide more choices of innovative products less burdened by the worst excesses of state-based regulation.

Ah, the secret of great comedy.

Timing.