The Week in Doug

From the audio files:

1) “…”This is how propaganda is accomplished. Exactly how. There are central planners, they make a decision and decide how you should feel, how people should express themselves…”

2) “…The White House aides of Obama, and Obama himself, no doubt, were making this calculation [about choosing the jobs speech date] that Obama would win this and look presidential by comparison to John Boehner. And again, what does he look like? He looks inconsequential…”

3) “…[The progressives] don’t like [Obama] either. They’re very disappointed that he is not radical enough. That he’s not in-your-face enough. That he’s not accusatory enough…”

4) “…Of all the places on the earth that [Biden] has to go to talk about expensive energy, is a place [Las Vegas] that NEEDS energy…”

More audio clips here.

And for those who would rather read than listen, gems-a-plenty:

1) “The only thing Obama really seems to know, deep down inside himself, is how he wants America to be – and he wants it to be powerless under the weight of big government.”

2) “Obama has zero understanding of the American people. The only thing this idiot administration knows how to do is blindly throw money at any problem.”

3) “Obama’s speech is now scheduled to go toe-to-toe with the Saints-Packers game on Thursday. The Saints and Packers, by the way, have created more jobs in one night than Obama has in the last two and a half years.”

4) “If DC politics is comparable to playing chess, what we learn about Barack Obama is that he has trouble even playing checkers. Maybe he prefers Chinese checkers.”

5) “If Perry and Obama switched jobs, would Texas be better off, or would the rest of the country? Just asking the question.”

6) “I’m sure everyone up and down the East Coast was very relieved to know that Obama was personally directing the hurricane response efforts. Right… This is a guy who isn’t even qualified to organize a trip to the men’s room.”

7) “When Bernie Madoff does it, they call it a Ponzi scheme and throw him in jail. When the government does it, they call it Social Security and force you to throw your money into the pit.”

8) “When the New York Times says that MSNBC is less a news provider than a carousel of liberal opinion, do they say this with a touch of envy?”

9) “This country can’t afford 4 more years of Harvard brilliance from Obama. How about 4 years of Texas common sense, instead? I’m not trying to push Perry, but I’ll bet Perry at least knows how many states there are.”

10) “We have no problem denouncing Hitler’s fascism, but this monstrous ideology that caused 9/11 is not allowed to be mentioned.”

Smacked!

It’s not that I don’t know how to talk smack. It’s just that my college football team sucks.

Georgia came off a 7-loss season, and the pollsters saw fit to rank them. Of course, these are the same pollsters that ranked Notre Dame, so there you go.

If you expect me to say that Boise State’s a better team than Georgia, then you’d be right. Of course, last night didn’t show me that. Watching Georgia for the last few years showed me that.

Boise State wanted respect. Some will give it to them now, though grudgingly.

I’m sounding like a sore loser, aren’t I?

Okay. I don’t like losing. But, I shouldn’t rain on the parade of the winners of last night’s game. The Boise State team won and the Boise State fans should be happy. And, with a Mountain West Conference schedule, they should run the table. So, maybe they’ll get a chance to play in a really big game at the end of the year. If so, I wish them the best. Unless they play the SEC champ (which won’t be Georgia).

Last night, Boise State spanked Georgia. It’s like they were punishing them for wearing such ugly uniforms.

Of course, other than talent and execution, Georgia was the best team on the field. Or, one of the top two teams playing in that game, at least.

I still don’t understand Georgia’s strategy of drive downfield, sputter, miss field goal or punt. Sometimes I wonder if Mark Richt is a double agent. And if Mike Bobo isn’t his accomplice. And whoever the Bulldog’s fashion designer is. They ought to fire all three, starting with the person who let Nike design the uniforms. Must have been somebody from Oregon.

Georgia has a lot of problems, from the president of the university down. But, they are problems they created themselves, so they must find a way of dealing with them.

Getting spanked by Boise State isn’t the way to do it.

I have no faith that Georgia will turn it around. And, replacing Mark Richt and staff won’t do it either. Until the president of the university is run out of town on a rail, things won’t get better at Georgia.

Though Georgia likely won’t benefit from last night’s loss, perhaps Boise State will.

They earned it.