You know a politician has stayed too long at the fair when a wide range of folks feels free to josh amiably about the practicality of his demise. That's what happened when sleazebag Robert Torricelli of New Jersey announced he was bowing out of an increasingly unwinnable re-election race in an effort to help save his Democrats' one-vote margin in the U.S. Senate. Republicans quickly offered up a legal memo arguing that the only way under Garden State law that Torricelli could be replaced on the ballot this late in the campaign was if he died. Democrats believe they have...