Politicians… their flunkies evidently can’t help lying. The fruit doesn’t fall far from the tree of course.

At a gathering in Washington today, McCain domestic policy adviser Douglas Holtz-Eakin was asked about his candidate’s grasp of high-tech matters. Holtz-Eakin held up his BlackBerry and, in a nod toward McCain’s onetime tenure as head of the Senate Commerce Committee, said, “He did this.”

Well, really, what can be added to that? Time would fail me to point out the hubris, arrogance, stupidity, and idiocy inherent in that little gesture. Chalk it up to yet more proof of both Total Depravity and political chicanery.