It didn't take long. That old viral meme featuring Hitler, as portrayed by Bruno Ganz in the film Downfall, going postal over something or other, has been applied to the recent special election in Massachusetts to fill the late Edward Kennedy's Senate seat.

The drollest bit, aside from the general incongruity of accepting Hitler as a liberal Democrat: "Health care was supposed to be done by August, now it drags on forever, like Stalingrad!"