So it turns out that when the Repub­li­cans were chant­ing “Drill, baby, drill” during Sarah Palin’s speech at the RNC, what they really meant was “Booze, coke, and sexual favors.”

I sup­pose it’s com­fort­ing, in a deeply per­verse way, that even in the midst of Pal­in­ma­nia the one thing we can count on to remind voters what’s at stake in this elec­tion is the unadul­ter­ated cor­rup­tion and venal­ity of the Bush Administration.