How will you control your spouse? met with that nasty Chillary laugh. Seriously, by now you’ve heard that ? so much it can’t be funny.

Oh man! Switched over to Celeb Apprentice. Vinnie just infiltrated the girls’ team! This season is awesome!

Here we go … I knew they couldn’t stay civil for an entire hour. The Hillary smirks and condescension have begun.

One of Hillary’s conditions for path to citizenship: "Try to learn English." How do you measure that?

The celebs are out in force. Throw in Jack Nicholson and this could be a Laker game.

Obama finally skipped an Edwards reference in favor of a Ted Kennedy reference. I’m guess Hillary won’t follow suit.

Oops … Spoke too soon. She slipped an Edwards reference in there right at the end of her comments on her Health Care plan.

15 min into the proceedings it appears that Hillary will be first to complete a statement without mentioning John Edwards.

Tweeting the Dem debate: Hillary … God, this lady is going to totally screw up the economy.

I must admit, ever since I read Iacocca back in college it has been my dream that one day, a businessman would forego the loads of money that he could make in the private sector for 4 or 8 years and put his business skills to use in serving his country from the Oval Office.  And no, this post is not a backdoor endorsement of Mitt Romney.  He is skilled, but I was thinking of a real rock star.  Iacocca at that time.  Or Jack Welch.  He would be the ultimate.  The kind of guy whose image precedes him and gives him the upper hand before he even sits down at the table.  The problem with our system had always been, I thought, that there is no incentive to draw the truly talented into the arena.

Today PowerLine’s John Hinderaker argues that in the world of politics, "successful politicians, on the average, are both ‘smarter,’ i.e. abler, and tougher than successful businessmen."  He makes a great case, and this is certainly true when it comes to the rigors of getting oneself elected to public office.  I remain unconvinced, however, that once elected a business star couldn’t do our country a world of good.  I understand that even in office the political gamesmanship continues.  At that point I think it becomes a kind of political give and take that a world class CEO is more used to.

By the way, after watching McCain’s sour, irrational debate performance last night, I believe this argument cuts both ways.  McCain is best suited, and had better stick to, occupations where one advances for a whole host of reasons that do not include merit.

Maybe this is why McCain and Romney dislike each other so.  Each takes one look at the other and thinks, "You wouldn’t last one week in my world, pal, and my world is the toughest there is."