McSame, yesterday:

My friends, we have to drill off shore. We have to do it. It's out there and we can do it. The oil executives say within a couple of years we could be seeing results from it. So why not do it?

Really? He’s gonna go with the appeal to authority logical fallacy … to oil executives? That’s like asking child molesters what we should do about kiddie porn.

Memo to the McSame campaign: people really, really hate oil companies. Pimping their agenda is politically retarded.

"What is it, some kind of Hell Mouth?" asked Teddy.

I guess so:

Conservative columnist Bob Novak hit a pedestrian at 18th and K this morning, then tried to escape but was stopped by a bicyclist, Politico reports. Novak claims not to have known he hit the pedestrian, but according to the cyclist, Harkins Cunningham partner David Bono, the pedestrian was "splayed onto the windshield", and that after stopping, Novak "[kept] trying to get away."

Novak was already an aggressive driver who told the Post that he hates "jaywalkers" and would like to run them over, "but as a compassionate conservative, I would never do that."

Trying desperately to get home before sunrise, no doubt.

Karma seems to have played a role here, because this is the guy who chased him down, who could be helpful in refuting the claim that Novak "didn't know he hit him."

Somewhere, Joe Wilson is laughing.

Joke Line, on McCain's statement "Obama would rather lose a war in order to win an election:"

This is the ninth presidential campaign I've covered. I can't remember a more scurrilous statement by a major party candidate. It smacks of desperation. It renews questions about whether McCain has the right temperament for the presidency. How sad.

Is McCain's base turning? Is their narrative shifting from honorable to scurrilous, from barbecue to temperament, from war hero to sad?

Separately, McCain mocks the media:

Mock your base, McCain. That always works.