It's now being set in granite that the silver-tongued Mitch Daniels delivered the bestest response there ever was to the president's State of The Union speech last night, so I think it's worth pointing out one of my favorite lines in the speech:

One in five men of prime working age, and nearly half of all persons under 30, did not go to work today.

That may very likely be the case because, according to our calculations here of 2010 Census data, more half of the persons under 30 are also under 18. (To be precise, 58.9% of them are not yet officially adults.) So unless Governor Mitch is signing onto the N. Leroy Gingrich Custodial New Deal, his point is almost completely worthless as a metric, and he's pretty much as much of a dunce as the rest of them, whom he can join this summer at their pre-convention retreat in the new Bachmann-Cain Resort on the banks of...

...the great lake of Fail.

Charles P. Pierce Charles P Pierce is the author of four books, most recently Idiot America, and has been a working journalist since 1976.

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