Romney Ryan...nuff said

It’s here — in Ryan’s views and policy judgments — we find the true ideologue. More than any other politician today, Paul Ryan exemplifies the social Darwinism at the core of today’s Republican Party: Reward the rich, penalize the poor, let everyone else fend for themselves. Dog eat dog.  
Robert Reich "The Ryan Choice"





For more on Paul Ryan's budget:  http://www.barackobama.com/romney/ryan/

Tweets and Twits: SCOTUS

Herman Cain: Adios M.F.

There is no other way to express it, Herman Cain is an egotistical, narcissistic, womanizing, lying disgrace for a human being whose "campaign" succeeded only in wasting tax payer money (body guards), debate time, tv time and the collective conscience of a certain demographic and psychographic constituent who actually considered voting for him.  Not that I care about their loss.

Rather than carry on with the rant, I'm re-posting tweets from Andy Borowitz, whose humor makes the whole thing almost palatable.   

Some Andyisms:

• BREAKING: As Cain Drops Out, Pro-Adultery Voters Switch to Gingrich http://bit.ly/sKnH9D
  
• Cain has suspended his campaign after his wife refused to suspend her disbelief. 
• BREAKING: Cain Quits Race; Comedians Declare Day of Mourning #Cain
  
• Gingrich is the intellectual of the GOP field in the same way that Moe was the intellectual of the Stooges.
• POLL: Majority of Americans Beginning to Think Republicans are 'Just Kidding'

I said "almost". 

NY Times, SNL Like Minded: It's the Presentations That Differ

nytimes.com has a short informative video on "The History of the Debt Limit from WWI to Today".




Here's the SNL skit re: US $800 billion dollar debt owed to China. 




Not so far apart are they? 

Andy Borowitz sees it this way:  "China puts US on ebay". 

Andy Borowitz Keeps Me Rivetted to Twitter

Andy Borowitz is a comedian who makes great use of email and Twitter to put out his brand of comedy: political and social satire.  Today's sample:

Majority of Congressmen No Longer Remember Which Deal They Like

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) – With less than one week until the President and Congress run out of time to make a deal, most experts agree that the debt ceiling crisis is like Y2K all over again, only with assholes instead of computers.


He's appearing on stage in NYC with Alec Baldwin and Calvin Trillin.

 
Boy would I like to see that.

Let's face it, short of raging about the idiots in Congress who can't stop gerrymandering we should be able to make fun of them til they're so embarrassed they do something or lose their next election.

Nothing Like a Good One Liner!

 February 28, 2011

Unemployment Rose Last Week By Two and a Half Men


Jobs ‘Gone Forever,’ Says Labor Department

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) – The economic recovery received an unexpected jolt today as the Labor Department announced that unemployment increased last week by two and a half men.

The 2.5 jobs were lost in the Los Angeles, California area and are “gone forever,” a Labor Department spokesman said in a surprisingly downbeat assessment.

But in a possible boost for the California economy, pharmaceutical giant Pfizer today announced plans to begin marketing a new blockbuster drug called Charlie Sheen.

A bill is already moving through the California State Assembly that would make the drug Charlie Sheen legal for medicinal purposes.

But Carol Foyler, a spokesman for a leading antidrug group in the state, warns that legalizing Charlie Sheen could have “disastrous effects.”

The drug Charlie Sheen is a gateway drug that leads to harder stuff, like the drug Mel Gibson,” she said.

In other news, the big winner at the Academy Awards was James Franco’s dealer.