One Man's Pork:

When Sen. John McCain complained about pork, he wasn't talking about the massive Bush give away programs that funneled billions to private contractors, often without any bidding or oversight. He was talking about funding for states that might benefit Democratic constituencies. McCain wasn't even talking about funding a bridge to nowhere in Alaska. After all, Alaska got that money anyway, they just used it for some other project.

And now there was poor John McCain from Goldwaterland forced to stand next to the new president while the latter announced no more funding for Blackwater et al. (Read the transcript of Obama's announcement, furnished by The Washington Post.)

In the meantime, the Republicans are dancing like barefoot boys on hot coals while they try to figure out what their strategy is for the coming midterm elections now that the two men left standing in their party are a black man and a pompous, drug addicted, fat southern wannabe good ol' boy. Oh, and let's not forget the discredited former Speaker of the House who pretends to be an historian. Uh, what's his name? (See Perry Bacon's Washington Post story.)

Right now, the best thing that could happen to the Republican Party is disbandment.