BuzzFlash's Sour 16 wrapup for the second week in the Republican Race to the Bottom

We've come to the end of the first round of BuzzFlash's Sour 16. We had 8 grueling matches with evil spilling off the court.

Last week, Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, Alberto Gonzales, and Bill O'Reilly advanced to the next round. This week, we needed to find the four who would take on these GOP dominators.

On Monday, we had the most complex game of the tournament so far. Tom DeLay, plenty evil, had to take on four, all at once, the SCOTUS Federalist Foursome (Roberts, Alito, Thomas, and Scalia -- RATS). The foursome dominated the inside game, taking care of DeLay 73%-27%.

Tuesday's battle was the closest of the tournament: Ann Coulter vs. John Boehner. We figured Coulter would run away with this, but it turns out being the House Minority Leader allows for plenty of evil. Coulter squeaked it out on a last-second shot (she did have a significant height advantage over Boehner), 54-46.

We hid some of the more intriguing names for the last two matches of the first round. Wednesday marked the debut in the tournament of George W. Bush. Mitch McConnell's chances looked better than his home state school (Kentucky, which missed the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 1991) but worse than the highest-rated school in the state, #1 Louisville, still in the tournament). In the end, Bush trounced McConnell 81-19.

Finally, yesterday, perhaps the two most intriguing names in the first round, names to make blood boil just thinking about them: Rush Limbaugh and Sarah Palin. Unlike Limbaugh, Palin is in basketball shape and has experienced with an outside shot. But Limbaugh proved to be several men in the middle, playing dominating defense by blabbering about nothing yet talking for three hours. Limbaugh took the final match 79-21.

This coming week, we have four more exciting races: Monday will spotlight two of Bush's people battling head-to-head in Karl Rove and Alberto Gonzales. Tuesday's event showcases two people who are scary and evil in Dick Cheney and Bill O'Reilly.

Pundits and forecasters are pumped over Wednesday's extravaganza: George W. Bush vs. some of the people who put him where he was: the SCOTUS Federalist Foursome. And on Thursday, a pundit battle to the finish, a battle of windbags in Ann Coulter against Rush Limbaugh.

As always, your vote determines who advances on to the Fallen Four. We continue with 4 great battles next Monday-Thursday with another wrapup on Friday. Check out BuzzFlash.com every day for updates. There are no Diebold machines involved. All votes will be counted, and you decide the winner, er, the more evil one.

Your favorite basketball team may already be eliminated from that other tournament, but with our Sour 16, there will always be evil Republicans to root against.

Check out the original bracket and play along

Game 5: SCOTUS Federalist Foursome v. DeLay 73-27

Game 6: Coulter v. Boehner 54-46

Game 7: Bush v. McConnell 81-19

Game 8: Limbaugh v. Palin 79-21

Summary of last week's results in Round 1. 

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