Link of the Day: How They Operate – Left v. Right

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“Talking Points”….followup

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May the Cinco be With You

You’ll need to be familiar with the song “El Paso” to fully enjoy this.

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Wisdom of the Day: Recusal Newspapers Fire Singles Loathing

Obama Warned Us – What We Need

With the magnitude of the challenges we face right now, what we need in Washington are not more political tactics — we need more good ideas. We don’t need more point-scoring — we need more problem-solving.

BARACK OBAMA, press conference, Mar. 17, 2009

“Ironically, this speech itself is a political tactic that just scored 3. Nuthin’ but net! BOO-YAH!”

The Lamest Duck

Aw, have you seen poor little Obama lately? That special guy just seems so scared and confused about all the scandals going on. And he doesn’t know anything about any of them! I mean, he’s just the president; it’s not like its his job to know what’s going on with the government.

And Obama’s all like, “Well, I guess you’ll have to talk to the Attorney General, Eric Holder. Oh, he doesn’t know anything either. I guess you’ll have to talk to his supervisor. Wait, that’s me. I guess you’ll have to talk to my supervisor then. I think that’s Bush.”

And now some people are worried that all this incompetence and lack of accountability will cause people to lose faith in government. Of course, conservatives have always said we shouldn’t have faith in government because it will constantly fail, but no one believed us until we were smart enough to get a bunch of incompetent liberals elected to demonstrate it. Now we can just point at the Obama administration and say, “See. This is why you don’t trust the government to do things. Wait… what? You already turned health care over to it?! Idiots!”

And I bet Obama had big plans for his second term — probably all drawn out on construction paper with crayon and everything. Well, maybe he can turn things around and get a huge majority in Congress in 2014 and ram through his agenda again — that would probably finish the country off. More likely, though, Obama will just flounder around lamely for three and half more years. And that’s the best case scenario for the country right now.

But 2016 will come, and then I can be elected president. And I will not tolerate any scandals in government. If I hear of one guy doing something wrong in the IRS, I will blow up the entire headquarters. I will drone strike it. And by the end of my term as president, we will have built multiple new prisons just to hold all the politicians and bureaucrats I will be prosecuting. That’s my promise.

Frank J. 2016: Make them pay. Make them all pay.

The Walking Brain-Dead Part 3

[The group is now back at their campsite. Rick, Glenn Beck, Ted Nugent, Carl, Barack, Michelle and her pets are surrounding their campfire, a spontaneously and perpetually burning Chevy Volt.  Bill is tied to a tree and muzzled to prevent his escape.]

BARACK: How can you live like this-is-is-is? Your community? It’s not even organized-ized-ized-ized.  Father?  Father? Father? Is that you? What? You want your dreams back? The AUDACITY!

GLENN: Michelle, I don’t want to be the prophet of doom.  Oh, wait a minute.  Yes I do.  But, anyway, this plan of yours is suicide. 

TED: He’s right.  One does not simply walk into DC. Its black gates are guarded by more than just scraggly hippies. There is evil there that does not sleep. The great eye is ever watchful. It is a barren wasteland, riddled with fire, ash, and dust. The very air you breathe is a poisonous fume. Not with ten thousand men could you do this. It is folly.

GLENN: Have you been to DC since this all began?

MICHELLE: Well, no.  Like usual, we were all on vacation at the time.

GLENN: (setting up a blackboard, pulling out his chalk and preparing his exposition) Let me give you a history lesson.  Here is a recap of what happened in DC while you were away.  Mistake number 1: You left Joe Biden in charge.  When the crisis hit, his first action was to invoke the DC Emergency Preparedness Protocol which recommended that the citizens evacuate their homes and gather in the local schools.  Mistake number 2: He insisted on maintaining the schools’ gun-free zone policies.  Anyone turning up at the evacuation site with a gun was arrested and put into temporary holding camps.

TED: I was in one of those camps.  I was in town helping with an NRA lobby group.   But they weren’t able to arrest me.  I was too wily.  I broke into the camp for my own good.  Safest place in the city.

GLENN: Needless to say, the schools were rapidly overrun.  They held out as long as they could, but those big red dodge balls just weren’t lethal enough.  And since in DC dodge ball had been banned in schools for so long because it was considered too violent, everyone pretty much sucked at it.  Meanwhile, Joe Biden had barricaded himself in the White House.  Mistake number 3: When the zombies arrived, he got his shotgun and shot them through the door.  That gave them the breach they needed, and they broke in and the White House has fallen.

TED: But that’s not the worst of it.

GLENN: You better tell this part, Ted.  It’s hard to swallow.

TED: I’ve seen it.  There is something leading the zombies in DC.  It’s smarter.  Faster.  More ideal.  It is a zombie John F. Kennedy.

BARACK: I’ve seen myself.  And I, sir, am no JFKKKKKKKK.

MICHELLE: That’s impossible.  JFK was shot in the head.  The brain was destroyed.  He couldn’t rise as a zombie.

TED: Impossible or not.  I’ve seen it.  I put three arrows directly into its head, and it didn’t go down.  I’m not throwing my life away on your silly mission.  I’m not going back there until we can figure out how to kill this thing.

RICK: So how do we kill this thing? How do we kill a zombie JFK?

CARL: Does anyone know where Lee Harvey Oswald is buried?

GLENN: (crying) And a little child shall lead them.

To be continued, maybe if I feel like it.

[Not cross posted at Nuking Politics since it may violate Keln’s decency and good taste policy]

Random Thoughts: Gremlins, Holder, and the IRS

Decided to try a red eye at Starbucks (espresso shots in coffee). Just tastes like coffee like how my dad used to make it.

They’re finally doing a Gremlins reboot? That seemed like the biggest no-brainer; I can’t believe it took this long.

It’s still a well-known franchise with lots of merchandising opportunity. Hard to believe there aren’t a dozen Gremlins movies by now.

Double secret recusal.

Somehow I’m getting the feeling the guy selling guns to Mexican drug cartels isn’t very trustworthy.

I just can’t understand how anyone could do what the Nazis did, but then again I did thumb up a Nickelback song on Pandora.

I’m just saying we’re all capable of horrible things.

I don’t trust anyone who trusts in government.

Maybe we could get more environmentalist on board with drilling if we just label crude oil as organic and pesticide free.

President Biden is going to be much more on top of things in 2017.

My son has until Friday morning to come out or we’re going in after him.

New Law: Politicians must inhale helium before speaking to further emphasize how we shouldn’t take any of them seriously.

Obama: “Please don’t politicize the government targeting Republicans.”

So, someone got fired for the IRS thing. But who is going to prison?

Conservatives are overreacting to all this. All their crazy, paranoid fears about government are only about 75% true.

Does there really exist people somewhere who watch Chris Matthews and says, “This guy is smart!”?

That’s as hard for me to understand as anyone who took Keith Olbermann seriously.