They've managed to blow the bottom out of the ship. They've run her out of fuel. The ship is in bad shape.

And they themselves have been airlifted off by the helicopter on the aft deck. As they say in Texas, they have "vamoosed".

Leaving Obama and company to sail it back to shore and try to beach it.

I PREDICT: Endless criticism from the Conservatives about the desperate efforts to get that ship back to port. The very USS America which has been so badly damaged by the Conservatives, the one which will be taking on more and more water for the foreseeable future. Smugness will reign, the smirk will bloom into smiles, and the neocons will glory in the problems the adults have trying to fix the folly of the children who have been in power.

Not a hard prediction, though. A hard one would have been prediction Arizona over Carolina last Saturday.

Arf