[High Praise! to Monster Hunter Nation]

I’m an accountant. Everything Joe Biden just said about taxes and business just made blood shoot from my eyes.

If you couldn’t hear any of Biden’s answers during the tax/budget portion, that was because every single CPA in America was standing up and screaming at their televisions. It was frankly nuts. Social Security is fine. Medicare is fine. Everything is fine. The jobs numbers aren’t rigged! Look how awesome we are doing! The stock market is doing great, unless you want to allow younger people to put their personal SS in the stock market, then the stock market is stupid and lame! We inherited the worst mess EVAR! Democrat congress? I do not know what these words mean! We’re doing awesome, so awesome in fact that we don’t need to pass budgets for four years! Budgets are for chumps.

Wow… Just wow.

Also this part:

There was a bit here where I think Ryan could have answered better (if he hadn’t gotten interupted literally seven times in one minute). Yes. Ryan, as a representative of Wisconsin, asked for federal funds from a federal program. People in Wisconsin send money to Washington. Washington then screws with it, makes up crap, and sends some of the money back. It is a congressman’s JOB to get that money back for his people. That is their tax dollars. You can fight a program and think a program is stupid, but once the program is in place, and they are funding it with YOUR money, you are an idiot to not try and get some of it back.

Asking for money from a program you opposed isn’t theft, it’s restitution.

Had she survived Ted Kennedy’s war on women, Mary Jo Kopechne might just have ended up in Romney’s binder full of women.

— Kevin Eder (@keder) October 17, 2012

Yes, that’s it, Mr. President. Really hammer Romney on the way his staff organized their paperwork a decade ago.

— jimgeraghty (@jimgeraghty) October 17, 2012

Well, at least when they’re babbling about binders, they’re not babbling about Big Bird. That’s a step… up? I think?

— Jim Treacher (@jtLOL) October 17, 2012

First thing I’d teach my child is that green peppers make for gross cold pizza leftovers. Plan ahead. Be greater than I was.

— Sean Thomason (@TheThomason) October 17, 2012

[High Praise! to The Hutch]

Painful debate tonight, just because I hate hearing the candidates accepting the stupid premises of the average joes in the town hall style forum. I would have preferred that Mitt Romney say, “If business owners can really hire a woman to do the exact same work for only 72% of a man’s wages, then women is all they’d hire. They’d save a bundle. But that’s just the nonsense that you learned in college from a women’s studies professor who would be out of a job if she admitted it’s all statistical malarkey.”

The last line in the post is a good stinger, too.

So there’s lots of talk of Obama starting to triage. He’s pulling out of North Carolina and maybe Florida and Virginia are next. As usual it all comes down to Ohio. Basically, for either of them, if they have Ohio, they’ve basically won it because the other states they need are less likely to flip than Ohio. And Ohio is neck and neck. Why is Ohio always so important? I don’t even know where it is. Or what they do there. But the fate of the nation on whatever live in the state that’s name sounds like an awkward greeting. I guess I should consult Harvey and find out more about the state.

If it even really exists. Cleveland is in it? I always thought that was a made up place like Narnia. Something is fishy here…

So the big issue for Democrats: binders full of women. They’ve clung to a number of distractions so far, but this is probably the least coherent. When I heard Romney use the phrase “binders full of women,” I immediately made fun of it because it was so inartful. But the Democrats contention now is that its actually offensive somehow. How… they can’t really explain. They seem to act like Romney wants to physically put women in binders… but even they know that doesn’t really make any sense. So it’s somehow offensive Romney was looking at resumes of women… because its pandering? So the party who treats women like vaginas that vote and need nothing more than some free birth control thrown at them are offending by pandering?

Anyway, have you seen the recent Gallup poll? Romney is up by 6. They are desperate. They don’t have time to be coherent. They just have to attack and attack and hope that it makes sense to someone somewhere. The 47% things was a bust. Big Bird just made them look silly. I don’t know why they think a focus on binders is going to work better for them… but no time to think! Act offended and yell and stuff!

What’s the alternative? Talk about Obama’s record over the past four years? If they even mention a serious issue like jobs, they risk just making people think of how useless Obama has been on that throughout his presidency. So binders. Big Bird. Seamus. Something about Paul Ryan washing a dish. If they were more inventive, they’d turn their random, wacky attacks on Romney into some sort of variety show.

Hey jobless claims shot up — unexpectedly! They better get more binder costumes out there and fast.

We only got a few more weeks left and it doesn’t seem it can get much dumber, but I guarantee you that if polls keep going Romney’s way we’ll look back on this binder issue as one of their intellectual high points.