> will the Republicans still quote with approval Ronald Reagan's witticism: "The most terrifying words in the English language are 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help?'.

Yes. Most card-carrying Republicans live elsewhere.

You'll have noticed too that the storm veered past conservative Georgia and the Carolinas and slammed into the liberal northeast, causing greater damage to ultra-liberal New York City than any previous Act of God.

If you see what I'm getting at.

But in a related development, a source favorable to the Syrian government reports that Sandy was generated by Iranian high-tech scientists to teach a lesson to the Great Satan.