John McCain won an honorary Wriggly Rex Hypocrisy Trophy against stiff competition for his performance in the 2008 election. Picture this scene in your mind. In June, Barack Obama had just clinched the Dem nomination. To welcome Obama to the presidential campaign, Senator McCain spoke before a sickly green screen in New Orleans. See it here.

In this speech, McCain listed all of the blunders and sins of the Bush Administration and blamed them all on Barack Obama—before he had even been elected!

The GOP has followed McCain’s lead faithfully ever since, trying desperately to make America forget that the ballooning deficit and all of the other mementos of their eight years of rule are a Republican legacy.

This is truly a gift that keeps on giving.