Previously came the news that California's dumber Senator, and in fact one of the dumbest Senators ever, is trying her hand at fiction: "She's a boxer, a fighter, and a bodice-ripping good read". This, of course, follows her two successful non-fiction titles: Governance for Dummies and If I Can Be A Senator So Can Anyone.

I now demand that you purchase a copy of A Time to Run: A Novel by this plucky Democrat. If she becomes a best-selling author she might decide to pursue that full time, thus saving California and the nation from having to deal with her decisions.

"Suffice it to say, this effort reads more like a cross between a bad romance novel and a soap opera script. The Congressional Record might be more entertaining. And it's free," noted the Sacramento Bee, which obtained an uncorrected proof of the novel last month but was prohibited from quoting directly from it.
According to Mrs. Boxer's 2004 financial records, she received an advance of $15,938 for the novel, co-written with Mary-Rose Hayes, a sixtysomething British author known for such feminine fare as "Amethyst" and "The Winter Women."

Well, it will make a great collector's item and conversation starter then.