[Editor's Note: Sometimes a story so wholly surreal comes along that just cannot be ignored; last night's political earthquake in Massachusetts was just such an event and brought Dillon out of his self-imposed blogging repose to relay the story in his own way.]

While crawling along the Freeway of Public Discontent, a year-old infant last night was struck and critically injured by a fast-moving truck in a team of ambulance chasers that had just left a tea party and were following reports of a crash farther up the road.

Could it be that George W. Bush, in part by serving as the most effective recruitment tool in Al Qaeda’s arsenal, also played the very same role in recruiting U.S. voters for the Democratic Party? If new research from Gallup is any indication, that seems to be a fair assessment.