Admit it.  You're not going to get much work done between now and Nov. 4 anyway.  So take time to read this absolutely scathing piece on McCain by Tim Dickinson in Rolling Stone.  It reveals McCain to be sort of like George W. Bush, a whiny, small, entitled jerk who has ascended to power based on family connections and a studiously crafted myth.  But it shows that in many ways he's worse that Bush -- in his recklessness, uncontrolled anger, cruelty, and misogyny.  It's 11,800 words long, and covers everything, from Annapolis, to Vietnam, to tail-chasing trips to Rio, to the S&L meltdown.  A small but revealing snippet about McCain's "kick-down" attitude toward a subordinate (and that helps to explain McCaingry's attitude toward the much taller Obama) follows:

McCain is sensitive about his physical appearance, especially his height. The candidate is only five-feet-nine, making him the shortest party nominee since Michael Dukakis. On the night he was elected senator in 1986, McCain exploded after discovering that the stage setup for his victory speech was too low; television viewers saw his head bobbing at the bottom of the screen, his chin frequently cropped from view. Enraged, McCain tracked down the young Republican who had set up the podium, prodding the volunteer in the chest while screaming that he was an "incompetent little shit." Jon Hinz, the director of the Arizona GOP, separated the senator from the young man, promising to get him a milk crate to stand on for his next public appearance.

A must read.  Your boss told me it's fine.

The Republicans are trying to cast off onto Democrats the massive political costs of an economic disaster that is largely attributable to the Republicans' deregulatory policies.  They are the Party of Buck-Passing -- from blasting Clinton for adopting painful policies to correct Republican deficits in the early 1990s; to attacking Obama and Democrats in Congress for wanting to end the disastrous Republican war in Iraq, and now this.

Obama's task will be to make them own both their initial failures and their utter lack of politica courage in rn.   My money's on him.