A rare foray by this blog into politics

The Beeb, in reporting on why U.S. Senators have traditionally made bad presidential candidates (only Warren G. Harding and JFK have gone straight from the Senate to the White House), says

Without the verbal rough and tumble of adversarial debates - the British Parliament is a blood sport by comparison - the Senate issues its members with a licence to bore.

And we wonder why Kerry can't even pull off the punch line of a joke, or why Bob Dole is seen muttering in the 1996 editorial cartoon, accompanied by the Tin Man et al., muttering, "I don't think we're in Kansas anymore..."

So here's to "unanimous consent to revise and expand their comments." Perhaps it will be enough to keep Clinton, Obama, and McCain out of the White House.