Laugh of the day

Yes, great political discourse is really dead, especially in the case of the devastating insult. If you have a Wall Street Journal subscription, check out this article which decries the low level of political insult advertising in England today, and looks back to the Golden Age of wit. Here's a snippet:

Labour's Denis Healey replied to an attack on his budget proposals by his Conservative opposite number saying that: 'Being criticized by him is like being savaged by a dead sheep.'