We just had a locally notorious penile-encephaly case, and toe-tag Democrat, write to the local daily and weekly papers explicitly blaming George W. Bush for the bridge falling down -- and never mind that it's been found rickety since about 1990. The poor b
ustard tried to sell us on the idea that since GWB is engrossed in fighting a war that other people labored two decades to start with us, the bridges are all rusting out.

From this particular crank, whose name I'll refrain from mentioning -- nobody you've heard of anyway, but he writes letters to the editor as a hobby -- this is par for the course. Well, maybe below par.