Ok, now I know times are dire.

How do you know the end times have come?  When you find yourself thinking "What the country really needs right now is Bill Clinton".

Lying under oath, pardons for sale, that wagging finger, Jamie Gorelick, Sandy Berger, letting bin Laden grow stronger for a decade, ...  Yeah, him.  I detest the man.

But congress has single-digit popularity for a reason.  They suck at everything they do - both sides.  We've got no one with the skill and recognition to go out and preach the sermon that the american economy is worth saving.  Reid and Pelosi are idiots.  Bush is too tired.  And Obama is just a joke hoping to make it to election day without getting pinned down by anything of substance.

If McCain really is a maverick, and really can forge alliances, he should pick up the phone and call Bill Clinton.  The talking points with him should include:

• This isn't a request for an endorsement.  This is bigger than the campaign.
  
• You understand this and you have good people at your disposal.  I'm not giving you talking points.  Just please go out there and explain this stuff to people.  Just be available.  Be a face for the American economy.  Argue for good governance and sound financial management however you see fit.

Bill loves this stuff - both the complexities of the problem and the being sought out as a senior statesman.  And dammit, he's good at it.

I have to go throw up now.