There's a story on the wire today about how the U.S. has already captured bin Laden, but the Bush administration is holding him to trot out right before the general election. Is it true? Who knows. Maybe. Maybe not. But the story has legs because this administration has no credibility and it's very easy to believe that if they could, they would pull off the exact thing that the story is alleging.

In a related story, I had a dream last night that I was at picnic fund raiser where Dick Cheney had picked his running mate for the 2008 election. I talked to Bill Press (where have you gone, Bill Press?) about whether or not there was a precedent for and running mate in one undecided election to have already picked his own running mate for a future contest, and of, course, he said no, The precedent is for the arrogance of this administration. It's either pretty funny or pretty damn scary.