BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

There were a series of candidate forums in Casper yesterday. I guess they'll be broadcast at a later time (they weren't yesterday, LAME), so for now I only know what the newspapers report. In the mean time, I'm keeping my eyes open for a complete transcript.

It looks like Cynthia Lummis may be planning for a new career in the event she loses the upcoming election to Gary Trauner, given what I can only guess is an attempt at comedy:

Lummis proudly declared her Republican pedigree.

"I believe my party stands for limited government, low taxes, for keeping spending under control, and for balancing budgets," she said. "As a member of the Wyoming Legislature for 14 years, we did exactly that."

While the Republican Party, at the state level, has certainly been a part of Wyoming's current time of success (note: state-level Republicans can still go above and beyond), the Republican Party on the national level has become a Bizarro-style inverse of what it was supposed to stand for. An additional $4 trillion to the national debt is not my idea of "under control." The last balanced budgets we've seen were under President Clinton; George H. W. Bush (aka Bush the Elder) and Saint Ronnie Reagan, that shiningest of stars in the sky of modern Republicanism, never submitted one. And I guess we still have "limited government" after the PATRIOT Act, Bush's expansion of the executive branch, and stuff like No Child Left Behind - but you kind of have to compare it to IngSoc.

Of course, Lummis could just be another mindless Republican rubber stamp in waiting or a complete idiot (not that the two are mutually exclusive), but calling her either would be so much worse than suggesting she's just an aspiring comedienne. So let's give her the benefit of the doubt and go with that, shall we?

So Dubya, Cheney, and a duck walk into a bar,
Regis