I am certain you have spent much of today thinking wistfully of the days when, not so long ago, we indeed were an octopus of mayhem. I know that when I remember those halcyon times, I, like Ringo, want to be under the sea, in an octopus’s garden. Alas, those days are over for all of us.

But they have been noted, as they were last night, by Chris Matthews on Hardball. When I heard him say it, I did not believe my ears; it passed into the ether: Had I truly heard him say what I thought he said? Was he there when we blackened the streets of Istanbul in protest? Had he seen the welts on the skins of our enemies, or examined the destruction we wrought? Was he with us when we tearfully parted ways? No, he was not. So how did he know?

Then, today, the transcript was released, and I understood:

We‘ll be right back with Susan Schmidt and Andrea Mitchell talking about this incredible scandal [Jack Abramoff’s pleas of guilty], this octopus of mayhem, coming down the road here in Washington.

No, it is not that he was there; he could not have know our triumphs so well. What it means, my friends, is that we are Legend!

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