The satellites could spy on enemy troop movements, spot construction at suspected nuclear sites and alert commanders to militant training camps.

But, mainly, we’ll spy on our own citizens.

Many appeared to be in the terminal stages of Campaign Bloat, a gruesome kind of false-fat condition that is said to be connected somehow with failing adrenal glands. The swelling begins within twenty-four hours of that moment when the victim first begins to suspect that the campaign is essentially meaningless. At that point, the body’s entire adrenaline supply is sucked back into the gizzard, and nothing either candidate says, does, or generates will cause it to rise again…and without adrenaline, the flesh begins to swell; the eyes fill with blood and grow smaller in the face, the jowls puff out from the cheekbones, the neck-flesh droops, and the belly swells up like a frog’s throat…The brain fills with noxious waste fluids, the tongue is rubbed raw on the molars, and the basic perception antennae begin dying like hairs in a bonfire.

And that’s exactly what Gibson looked like as an interviewer questioned the relevance of his line of questioning. He blathered some stock line about “electability”, which even my handy-dandy spell-check feature assures me isn’t a real word. No, Gibson, like Stephanopolous has been strong-armed by his network. Now they are paying the price — especially Gibson. Just take a look at him sometime soon before the Disney execs shoot him full of botox to cover it up.

Karl Rove personally recruited Mary’s Republican opponent, John Kennedy to switch parties and challenge her for the Senate this November.

And now, Rove’s former boss, George W. Bush — the same President who tried to block Senator Landrieu’s efforts to rebuild the Gulf Coast — is raising a million dollars for John Kennedy.