As I walked to get some lunch, I got a glance at the Baltimore Sun’s headline story. “Call for Change,” it said, in big bold letters, showing a picture of McCain underneath.

I wondered, How can anyone take this seriously? You Republicans do realize that you’ve been in power for pretty much the last 8 years, right? You’ve held the presidency since 2001, and you’ve had a majority in Congress since before then. You only completely lost that majority in 2006. You’ve spent all the time since in filibuster mode, all the while decrying a “do-nothing Congress.” You’re the ones doing nothing. You’re the ones who did nothing when Iraq was going to hell; you’re the ones who did nothing when Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans. Your party is proudly incompetent. And yet your recipe for change is four more years.

To illustrate how absurd this is, how can we have John Sidney McCain III decrying Washington insiders? McCain has been in the Senate LONGER THAN I’VE FUCKING BEEN ALIVE. He’s been in the Senate since 1986, and I was born in 1987. He was also elected to the House in 1982. But it’s not like he lived a quiet life in Arizona beforehand. No, he was a carpetbagger. John McCain is a creature of Washington.

My friends, that’s not change we can believe in. A call for change? I call shenanigans.