Well, it's official. We're screwed. The question I have is, has Republican control of the Exec. and Legis. branches so wacked our future fiscal picture as to be virtually unsolvable? Even Greenspan is fed up, apparently.

Thomas Kean of the 9-11 Commission continues to uninspire and dispirit. "'The take here is that Hamilton and Kean are just a little weak,' says one congressional Democratic aide. 'We're waiting for a formal extension request. But they need to make it. We can't do their work for them.'"

Dick Cheney's attempts to rehabilitate his image just get more and more palpably desperate. He's now quoting a leaked Defense Dept. memo as "the best source of information" on Iraq's WMD and al qaeda ties. And as Wesley Clark points out, claiming that a leaked document is accurate may be illegal.

More on Cheney, and the lovefest he engendered among the left-wing wacko business leaders in Davos, here.

Amy Sullivan is right. Josh Marshall is an excellent blogger, political analyst, and, generally, reporter. But his dispatches show that good bloggers do not necessarily make for good on the ground reporters. I'd much rather have him back in DC writing about New Hampshire then telling us what he's listening to as he drives around the frozen granite state.

I thnk the role of the blog is not to replicate the poor unfortunate hacks who must post a story a day from the campaign bus. The blogger needs to sift through the spin and the silly media events to draw conclusions, or simply raise an arch eyebrow over Dean's yawp.

More from Billmon -- from Davos -- on blogs, of all things.