Hey Republicans, It Could’ve Been Worse; McCain Could Have Won

Dan Larison reminds all of us that things wouldn’t be all that much different today if the other guy had won last November: It seems to me that implicit in a lot of conservative criticism of the stimulus bill, the mortgage plan, and Obama’s cap-and-trade scheme, among other things, must be the odd notion that things would have been very different had McCain won the election. While we can be sure that McCain the crazed earmark-hunter would still be with us (no doubt keeping us safe from volc