I've been busy. Regular blogging will resume eventually, possibly up to my one-post-a-day marathon from the last half of February. I'll leave you with this from the IMAO archives:

On whether there would be a backlash against Jeffords when the Republicans take the majority in the Senate, Fleischer said, "Are you reporters all retarded? Of course we'll seek vengeance. We have a mandate from the people to hand out punishment to all our enemies. He is going to wish he was never elected to public office. Originally, we were going to have Trent Lott beat him up on the floor of the Senate until the president pro tempore would finally yell, "Finish him!" Then Lott would rip Jeffords head out along with his spine and hold it up for a nice photo op and warning to all other potential Judases. Unfortunately, we found out we would need a two-thirds majority in the Senate to do that.