Originally Published at www.EntertainedOrganizer.com
In the political news system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: the Republicans who do insane things, and this blogger who mocks them. These are their stories:
Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-CO) issued an apology to President Obama if he was offended that he called him a "tar baby". Which impressively is a better non-apology than Pat Buchanan gave for calling the President "boy" earlier in the week. You would think with all of his practice, Buchanan would have gotten better at apologizing for racially insensitive remarks.
Sarah Palin's Alaska hairdresser is getting a reality tv show "where the personalities of the owner and her staff are as big as the hairstyles they create." Count on Palin to claim this as job creation if and when she runs for President.
It turns out that Newt Gingrich paid an advertising firm to create a million fake twitter accounts to follow him so that he could claim to have more twitter followers than the rest of the Republican field combined. I'll be honest, I can't decide between a joke about him overcompensating by stuffing a sock down his virtual pants or one about Newt Gingrich having imaginary friends. Just pretend I picked whichever one you think is funnier.
In a sure sign of confidence, the RNC is asking reporters to ignore next weeks recall elections in Wisconsin. Besides watching the Republicans getting their ass kicked, if reporters actually paid attention they might notice that GOP affiliated groups have been running a voter disinformation campaign, telling Democrats to turn in their ballots after the election is over.
Dick Morris claims Obama is going to lose reelection in a landslide, which pretty much guarantees he'll get reelected. In case anyone has forgotten, Dick Morris predicted that Hillary Clinton would lose to Condoleezza Rice in 2008, before creating this gorgeous map a month out from the election. I wonder what color he thinks the sky is?
The Republicans learned a valuable lesson from the debt limit deal: namely that they can get what they want by 'holding it hostage'. Oh, and then they can act offended when anyone compares them to terrorists.
Here in California our own budget compromise with the hostage takers has led to huge cuts to firefighters in the state. I'm sure it'll be fine, it's not like we've had any major fires in the past few years.
Fox News went off this week on how Obamacare covering birth control for women would turn them all into sluts. While reducing unwanted pregnancies does sound pretty good to me (and I'm not really sure how bad 'unrestricted, unlimited sex anytime' would be either), can we at least be "Fair and Balanced" and not cover men's Viagra prescriptions? If we're not going to cover women's birth control costs, it seems to me that keeping Rush Limbaugh from getting an erection is the least we can do for woman-kind.
Oddly Eric Cantor and I actually agree on something: Cutting corporate taxes doesn't do anything to help consumers. So maybe he can take that thought to it's logical conclusion and raise corporate taxes so that he doesn't have to follow through on his current plan to eliminate Medicare for young (55 year old) people.
Wisconsin GOP recall candidate and Tea Partier extrodinaire Kim Simac admitted that she believes US public schools are indoctrinating children like the Nazis did. Presumably she's trying to get a place on the Presidential ticket with Rick Santorum who wants to eliminate Federal funding for pre-schools because they are brainwashing our kids.
Finally I just want to say hello to Michele Bachmann who is apparently a reader of this blog. She took my advice and hired country star Randy Travis to sing for her campaign. My next piece of advice Michele? Keep doing what you're doing, it's certainly working for me.
Have a great weekend everybody, see you next week!