While the media hung on drama queen John McCain's on-again, off-again tryst with a debate, other stuff was going on in the world, like: Murray Waas revealed that George Bush directed Alberto Gonzales to make the infamous hospital visit attempting to coerce an ill John Ashcroft into approving the warrantless wiretapping program. A rare piece of good news in the current economy: GM will build a $57 million plant in Flint, MI, to build the rechargeable electric Chevy Volt. Check out this incredible site, The Living Room Candidate, which has political commercials archived all the way back to 1952.  Reason #4,612 to love Barbara Boxer: