And now for a little happy hour comic relief.

A GOP Senate candidate in Louisiana who used to be a Democrat has flip-flopped on Social Security, saying he now supports privatization when news reports indicate that he opposed it back when he was a Dem.

GOP candidate hews to party line on Social Security -- no surprise there. But here's the odd thing. The candidate's flack is saying that pointing out the flip-flop is a Dem talking point -- without refuting the flip-flop.

John Kennedy, the Republican candidate for Senate in Louisiana, endorsed President Bush's plan to privatize Social Security at a campaign stop yesterday. The problem: Kennedy used to be a Democrat, and when he ran for Senate in 2004 the Shreveport Times quoted him as opposing it (via Nexis).

So we e-mailed Kennedy spokesman Lenny Alcivar, with an open-ended question about what Kennedy's position is. He simply replied that we were "falling hook, line and sinker for the dem state party spin."

So we asked him why we were wrong and how this was falling for spin. "You don't know what you're talking about," he answered, repeating that we "fell for their spin directly."

So we asked him yet again why this wasn't a flip-flop, and why it was merely Dem spin. Not surprisingly, he didn't answer that either. Oh, well. We tried.