Oh dear God

'Nanny' state? Drescher eyes Clinton's Senate seat - Yahoo! News

Senator Fran Drescher?! Why does New York want to torment the rest of the country?! Why can't we have a serious person actually try to run for a position of office? Oh, I'm sorry, she's not. She's vying to be APPOINTED to the seat. She perhaps thinks she can't handle being elected, so she's going to bypass the whole thing and be perpetually selected in a system that by default almost entirely ensures that an incumbent is placed in office as long as they don't get convicted of a crime (though I may actually be proven wrong on that one).

I guess it could be worse. After all, Arnold Schwarzenegger seems to not suck massively as a governor, though I think several in California may think otherwise...