Yeah, turning the Republican party into a party of doom and gloom and ceding the message of Reaganesque optimism and patriotism to the Democrats sure is, um, a bad thing for the Democrats, I guess.

I go into everything expecting to hate it. That way, I'm always either proven right or pleasantly surprised.

And Dan Castellaneta's delivery is absolutely pitch-perfect.

DAVID MIRKIN: That's true, because even these… we'll do commentaries about these old commentaries in about ten years.