With all the torture confessing and historical revisionism coming out of Cheney recently, it was easy to miss this little glimpse into the mind of Dead-Eye Dick.

Of course, the usual delusional-or-lying caveat applies, but either way this is simply hilarious.

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Tonight, we have a rendevous with history.

I believe those words were originally spoken by Ronald Regan in 1980, but I think it behooves us to take them back 28 years later.

Many moving diaries have been artfully written today. I certainly am unable to contribute, as I feel that electronic words fail to capture the monumental nature of what is set to transpire (starting) in less than 3 hours.

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So, call me crazy but if the number one criticism about you is that you act erratically and it's sticking because, well, you're undeniably acting erratically, wouldn't it be wise to stop? To start acting with purpose, with some modicum of discipline? Wouldn't that just be Politics 101?

Not so much for the McCain campaign. Here's TPM's rundown over the past couple days:

Despite a top surrogate's suggestion over the weekend that McCain would be unveiling new economic proposals, we  learned this morning  that in fact John McCain wasn't planning to announce anything of this kind today.

Now it turns out the whole plan all along was for McCain to offer new proposals. Tomorrow, that is.

That's what the McCain campaign just announced on a conference call with reporters moments ago, a few hours -- coincidentally, we're sure -- after Obama made headlines with proposals of his own.

It was just yesterday, mind you, that McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds insisted that no new plans were forthcoming.

No wonder then that the right wing is in full meltdown mode over the inept handling of John McCain's campaign.

This is your schadenfreude break for the day:

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