As They say in Texas, "Politics is Sport, Sport is Religion, and Religion is Politics

What sort of "Democrat" have we elected? Pres. Obama acts more like what was once a Conservative Republican than any Democrat I've ever known -- and our super-intelligent-right-wing thinks he's a "Socialist" (as well as a Nazi, Communist, Muslim, and what have you).

Do any of these people have a @#$&^%# clue?

Go read "Some Assembly Required" for your Daily Chuckle -- follow link.

Here are some teasers. As I said, follow link, then link to the originals -- it's lots of fun:


Reincarnation: Obama, channeling Clinton, Summers and Rubin, is planning to use a “regulatory review” as an opportunity to embrace even more of the Republican economic plan, dismantling more of the regulatory protections that have so far escaped gutting. Under the guise of being a “fiscal conservative” he will use the State of the Union address as a forum to praise “American innovations”. You know, innovations like writing sub-prime adjustable rate-option mortgages, bundling them into MBS, chopping them CDO and writing CDS, and bringing down the global economy.

Pay to Play: Last year the US shipped $337 billion overseas to pay for oil imports. This does not include several hundred billion on the US military's efforts at keeping the world's petroleum available.

Who's On First: President Obama has chosen GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt to chair the President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, saying “Jeff's somebody who brings a wealth of experience to the table," referring to the money he got from TARP for GE, the profits GE made by shipping thousands of jobs overseas and his conviction that “what is good for our country is good for General Electric, and vice versa.

Competing Views: Before Team Obama gets too far into a training regimen for The Competition, we should do well to decide what the event is, what the goal is, where the goal posts are and who keeps the score. Or is this a Special Olympics event?

Multiple Choice: Clarence Thomas's failure to report over $680,000 of his wife's income over five years was (1) lying (2) accidental (3) inadvertent (4) an oversight (5) deliberate falsification of a federal record.