The haphazard travels of the Straight Talk Express

The Straight Talk Express has not had the best of weeks. I'm talking about the actual bus, not the pissy senator it carries around inside. First there was the Obama bumper sticker that got stuck on the back. Mildy funny, no doubt the result of those damn teenagers that do that twisting dance McCain hates so much or the ones that refuse to get of his damn lawn. Then the ole bus got into a little traffic accident in Miami. The police decided the car that got hit was at fault despite the fact that the bus made a right turn from a left hand turn only lane and sideswiped the van in the right hand turn only lane. Old people...florida...driving...accident...blah blah...joke....McCain is old...hilarity.

The actual funny part is that Joe Lieberman was in the bus at the time of the accident servicing oil execs two at a time as they got their $28,000 dollars worth out of him. No, in reality he was sitting in the back practicing a hangdog expression and different begging techniques for when the Democrats up their majorities and don't have to put up with his bullshit anymore. Staffers were celebrating a birthday and handing out cake, when suddenly the accident happened sending a large chocolate cake hurtling through space and time, right into Lieberman. Unfortunately no cameras were on hand and no staffers had cued up the sad trombone music, so YouTube is denied it's greatest video.

So we are left to imagine this weapon of mass deliciousness toppling through the air, the low pitched, slow motion "Nooooo" as Lieberman looks up at his chocolaty doom. The cake smashes into him as if fired out of a cannon, Lieberman recoils as if hit by a shotgun blast, his suit ruined, Joe looks into the camera all sad, then makes the type of quip they gave to the precocious kid in eighties sitcoms, the sad trombone plays, the audience "Awwwws" and the credits roll.