George McGovern, tanned, rested, and ready to speak to Congress!

There is no escape from the 1970s--and from Muggeridge's Law, the inability of a writer of fiction or satire to compete with real life for its pure absurdity.

That's one of our blog categories that should fill up rapidly over the next two years or so; as Glenn Reynolds wrote yesterday, "Say what you will about the elections, but I think the Democratic Congress is going to bring us a lot of comic relief".

There's a certain amount of gallows humor to be found here, as well.

Update: Not surprisingly, Ed Morrissey isn’t too thrilled by the sudden reappearance, like bell-bottom cords and tie-dyed peace symbol T-shirts, of the bard of 1972:

McGovern was proven spectacularly wrong on Viet Nam in the last half of the 1970s, when Congress' failure to come to Saigon's aid allowed our ally to collapse in 1975. That set off a round of atrocities that took the lives of millions in Southeast Asia and brought a flood of refugees to America. Now he wants to repeat the same strategy in Iraq, in an area of vital strategic importance, and the new Democratic majority hangs on his every word. The Democrats learned nothing about global security over the last 30 years, and they're about to prove it all over again.