"You have reached the offices of John McCain for President, nobody is here to take your call..."

I should mention that John McCain had no comment on the President's obstruction of justice in ensuring the silence of convicted felon Scooter Libby. I'm assuming McCain had nothing to say because he doesn't have any campaign staffers left to make a statement.

The presidential campaign of Senator John McCain, the Arizona Republican who once seemed poised to be his party’s nominee in 2008, acknowledged yesterday that it was in a political and financial crisis as a drop in fund-raising forced it to dismiss dozens of workers and aides and retool its strategy on where to compete.

The campaign said the decline in contributions had left it with $2 million. It said it had raised just $11.2 million over the last three months, despite Mr. McCain’s promise to do better than his anemic $13 million showing in the first three months of the year.

Excuse me, anemic? Howard Dean raised $50, total for his entire campaign. In the comparable quarter in 2003, he raised $7 million or so. Hell, McCain raised more than John Edwards, and nobody's writing his epitaph.

The astonishing number is McCain's $2 million CoH. How is that possible? What has he spent $22 million dollars on? Has he even produced or run a single solitary ad? How many fucking staffers was he paying? What kind of caviar were they buying for lunch?

That's just mismanagement on an epochal scale. This is from the guy who's supposed to be the porkbuster. Can't even run his own campaign budget raising $4 million a month, an incredible number for any time in history but this campaign year.

I was really looking forward to beating McCain in a general election. His downfall has been fun to watch, but a little sad and pathetic, in a way.