Silent Jen is correct: the long winter of marxism has descended upon us. The gallows-humor jokes are already rolling in. And funny that I read your post after watching the clip of Ari Fleischer performing a methodical intellectual vivisection of MSNBC's other spittle-flecked barking moon-bat. I never watch that network, mind you, but the web clip came recommended from National Review so how could I resist. The host's brazen dishonesty is somewhat disturbing, but Ari totally takes him to school.

Follow the links. The video clip is total political snuff, and the jokes are depressingly funny. Ask Jenia if he's ever heard jokes like this back in Russia:

* America is capitalist and greedy - yet half of the population is subsidized.
* Half of the population is subsidized - yet they think they are victims.
* They think they are victims - yet their representatives run the government.
* Their representatives run the government - yet the poor keep getting poorer.
* The poor keep getting poorer - yet they have things that people in other countries only dream about.
* They have things that people in other countries only dream about - yet they want America to be more like those other countries.

As they say, they'll turn us all into beggars because they're easier to please. And control.

Feel better yet, comrade? Don't worry, you will.