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It's funny because it's true.

American politics is a lot like a killer standing at the border clutching a bloody chain saw. With fundamental questions about the conduct of the Iraq war still looming, along with the specter of widespread pension failures, layoffs at GM, a suspiciously low settlement with Big Tobacco and rampant congressional corruption a la Tom DeLay, you'd think the border guards could manage more salient questions than: "Why is Howard Dean saying mean things about Republicans?"

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