The Republicans are calling the Democrats' plan to have a deadline for US troop withdrawal from Iraq an 'admission of failure', as opposed to the Republican plan which is 'failure without admission'.
Here in the U.S., we've made democracy into a science. A cold, impersonal science.
Sarah Palin has been tagged and released back into the wild.
The last thing we'll hear is some scientist saying 'It works!'
Thus, I've created humour.
The press is our immune system. If it overreacts to everything, we eventually get sicker.