So of the commonly named 2012 GOP candidates so far, who is your pick? I’m still hoping we go with my unnamed Republican idea — mysterious conservative Republican in a wrestling mask. I’m not sure if Constitutionally we can elect a president that no one knows who he is, but people don’t care that much about that sort of thing.
Archive of entries posted on 20th January 2011
Invisible Tanks
A British weapons manufacture is working on an invisible tank. This is a great idea. Once we have them, here’s what we do: We announce we’re leaving the Middle East. We’ll be all like, “We have to get out of here. Muslim terrorists are too tough.” So we head away and all the terrorists will be like, “Yay! We defeated the infidels!” But unbeknownst to them we left the country filled with invisible tanks! As soon as the terrorists start celebrating — BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! (that’s the sound of big tank guns).
Our military should keep working on more and more hideable weapons, like mortars disguised as goats and jeeps disguised as rocks and dinosaurs with rocket launchers on them disguised as trees. Then the enemy will never know for certain if America has invaded or not. He could just be paranoid… or he could be surrounded with invisible tanks!
Yeah, invisible tanks could be pretty useful. I’ll have to add that to things that could lead to a peaceful world along with nuking the moon.
Repealing Obamacare
The House voted 245-189 to repeal Obamacare. That’s three Democrats joining all the Republicans, making the repeal already more bipartisan than the passage. Now it’s on to the Senate where Democrats will try to keep whether or not they want repealing the super-popular Obamacare coming to a vote.
This is neat because it gets Democrats having to argue the advantages of Obamacare which only ever gets people trusting them less. Like the argument that creating a giant new government program is going to save money. That’s like someone arguing stuffing his face with cake will make him less fat (Michael Moore commonly makes both those arguments). And then there are their Constitutional arguments for Obamacare which only better demonstrates Democrats don’t understand much about the Constitution. For some reason, Democrats trying to come up with Constitutional arguments for their bills reminds me of how dictators these days feel the need to have sham elections.
Anyway, the repeal isn’t going to happen straight like this when Democrats have a majority in the Senate and have the veto power of the presidency, but both of those could change in 2012. Then it’s repeal time, and it will be awesome. All that political capital the Democrats expended, and it will be all for nothing. It will be even better than the Democrats never passing Obamacare in the first place. It’s like if you never not got a kid a toy he wanted versus getting him the toy and then smashing it in front of him before he gets to play with it. If you’ve ever done that, the kid is much sadder in the latter scenario.
And once we get rid of Obamacare, we can pretend these four years never happened and move on to prosperity. The prosperous decades of the last century were the 20s, 50s, and 80s. Going by that pattern, we’re kind of due in the 10s.
Random Thoughts
Looking at the left’s reaction to Lieberman, you’d think it was Emmanuel Goldstein who was retiring.
Are there really people who watch Hardball because of how bright and astute they think Chris Matthews is?
So repeal of Obamacare already more bipartisan than passage?
Johnathan Coulton’s “You Ruined Everything” is a great song describing the transition to parenthood. Your old self gets smashed apart pretty quickly when you get kids, though I feel I still have a bit to go. Only way to get stronger.
