David Broder gives us the lowdown on Improv Night at the GOP:

"The trash cartons in every passageway in the Xcel Energy Center here bore the injunction 'Recycle Only,' so it was natural enough that the organizers of the Republican National Convention -- forced to improvise their program because of the hurricane that cost them opening night -- did just that. They decided to treat the delegates and a national television audience to speeches by three of the most familiar and weather-beaten figures in American politics -- recycled into roles they had never been asked to take on."