I had this strange dream last night. I was work­ing in an office build­ing, and my job is some mid-level staffer for a Repub­li­can orga­ni­za­tion, maybe I work for a Con­gress­man. I am Repub­li­can myself. Work­ing busily away, I glance out the win­dow and see a bus sud­denly trans­form itself into a 30 foot tall robot mon­ster. It begins squish­ing, shred­ding, and fling­ing pedes­tri­ans and vehi­cles. Peo­ple are scream­ing and run­ning. The noise is awful. The stains on the side­walk will take weeks to come out.

I open my office win­dow and, lean­ing out, hear the robot boom out a demand for money and Democ­rats for sacrifices.

Think­ing quickly I picked up the phone and called another Repub­li­can staff per­son. I breath­lessly explained what was hap­pen­ing and told him "You orga­nize some bus tours from the ACLU and Peo­ple for the Amer­i­can Way. I'll set up a credit line!"

Then my alarm went off.