Now this is armchair quarterbacking, I know. We writers pretty much won the strike. But I can’t help but think we could have creamed it. We could have walked away with multi-million-dollar paychecks, sweetheart stock options, huge tax breaks, jets and more. Each one of us. How?

Sure, Rove and Gonzalez are afraid of perjuring themselves, of exposing a much bigger conspiracy, and of implicating the president in the US Attorney firing scandal. But that’s not really why they are so reluctant to testify under oath.

It’s because taking that oath involves touching a bible, and neither man can safely do so without incurring second- or third-degree burns.

So the Republicans have decided that we should now be called The Democrat Party. It sort of sounds like "rat," so that's fun for them.

I've heard plenty of good retorts, from The Republic Party, to Republican'ts, But I say we should call them Republican Americans. And their party should be called The Republican-American Community.

It has that same awkward political correctness of "African Americans." And like that phrase, there’s absolutely nothing technically wrong with it. But used just the right way, it drips with the subtle condescension that says, "Hey, you’re Americans too, just like us, and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise." Not convinced yet? Let's see how it works in context: