Yesterday in the Jeff Gannon Memorial White House Press Briefing Room, current spokesbot Dana Perino conceded that the press needs to be provided with more reality-show entertainment posing as politics. So they are thrilled that the next president, John McCain, may bring over the practice of "question time" from the UK (and Australia, Japan, Canada, et al). In the UK, the prime minister spends half an hour, once a week, before Parliament. But we can make it better! Just as we took the substandard Pop Idol from the U.K. and made it into the far more awesome American Idol, we can add an element of Thunderdome to this baby.

From the briefing:

Q: The New York Times editorial page commends Senator McCain for promising, if he is elected, to bring the hallowed British parliament's Prime Minister's question time to Congress. And my question: Would the President be willing to try this just once as a sampling before the election? (Laughter.)

MS. PERINO: As entertaining as that might be, I think we'll let -- the next President can decide if they want to do that or not.

Q: Well, the next -- don't you think that McCain is going to be the next President?

MS. PERINO: I do, and we'll let him decide --

Q: And he has decided, so why doesn't this President break it in? (Laughter.)

MS. PERINO: It's a great idea. It would be a lot of fun for you to cover.

It's a laugh riot up in there, right? But yes, we can only pray that the current president gives this a whirl. Still, McCain will be fun—we give it about three weeks into his new administration before he calls someone in Congress the c-word.