I think this is hilarious.

If this shit had happened 200 years ago, they would have met at dawn for a duel. It’s pretty refreshing to see politicians being direct with each other. If it was always like this, I bet they could really get some stuff done.

I’ll even offer up a concession that this article, along with the initial story and the Post’s “explanation” is pretty biased, although probably right in line with some of the Entertainment Weekly-style stuff they wrote during the Lewinsky affair.

Nonetheless, I’ll take any hay the Democrats can make off totally punking the Veep. Although it’ll most likely play really well in the Red states for just the reasons I mention above.

Today’s reason: sometimes a tax cut is a tax increase.

Al Strazzullo, a retired regional manager for the U.S. General Accounting Office, got the good news first. President George W. Bush’s $330 billion cut in personal income taxes put an extra $177 in his 2003 government pension.

In March, Strazzullo, 76, got the bad news. The gain was wiped out by a $538 increase in property taxes on his three- bedroom, brick-veneer house in Virginia Beach, Virginia. The bill went to $3,283 from $2,745.

Taxes and economics are more convoluted than politics, but without question Bush tax cuts are problematic because they (1) increased the deficit beyond any previous records, (2) ignored the cost of two wars, and (3) cut funding to programs that have to now be funded at a state level. As usual, Shrub never mentions these things when he trumpets the glories of his tax cuts.

My adopted city is joining the growing crowd of cities who are advising their employees to buy drugs from Canada and giving the FDA the finger. Pile it on, I say. The FDA is starting to run out of excuses and stonewalling techniques to hide the fact that US medication policy is controlled by a complex web of insurers, third party administrators, drug makers and pharmacy benefit managers. If more cities keep joining this grass roots movement, we may just see some progress in paying for health care for the first time in our lifetimes.

Most of these Spider-man rewrites are too juvenile to be funny, but this one cracked me up.