Republicans are so funny!

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Republicans are sooo funny! I hope they never regain any political power, not merely because their incompetence at governing is legendary, but because as a minority they are so absolutely hilarious. As comedy like this is not easily come by, sometimes I think they must be doing it on purpose, but apparently not. Consider their recently announced plan for Health Coverage, four pages, no numbers. None. I guess their four page stimulus package sans numbers was so successful they decided to try it again with Health Care. I know they are pretty dumb, but are they dumb enough to think that anyone else is dumb enough to take them seriously? Then I saw part of an interview with Republican Lamar Alexander who presented his view of what it would take to achieve universal health care. It’s really simple, according to him, you just find the people who can’t afford health care and give them four or five thousand dollars so they can buy health insurance. In case he might be misunderstood he repeated this solution several times. Poor Contessa Whats-her-face on MSNBC was so dumbfounded she was having trouble even trying to pose the next question. One might have thought that Alexander was just putting her on, but he seemed perfectly serious. Republicans are seemingly unaware there even is a problem with health care. Of course they are getting big bucks from Insurance and Pharmacy to be oblivious. It’s the American way.

I don’t know what is going on in Iran, except there is a lot of chaos and confusion. I (perversely, I guess) have a lot of respect for Iranians and Iranian intelligence. Thus I cannot figure out why things could have happened the way they are being reported. For example, I have seen several times that the results of the election were announced before the ballots could even have been counted. Now, if one seriously wanted to steal an election, would you do that? Of course not, that’s so stupid no one would believe they could get away with it, unless, of course, they felt they were so powerful they could repress any dissent. Then I saw where in some 30 towns the votes counted exceeded 100%. Again, that is so stupid no one would believe it could have been honest. All I know is that there are apparently some very high-level talks taking place and it is at least possible that the reigning powers may change. If they were as dumb as the above examples indicate, they certainly ought to be replaced.

George W. Bush, our only ex mildly retarded President, who has previously said he would not speak out about Obama, has now done so. In a speech last night to some business people he criticized Obama’s policies, although not Obama personally. Most of the comments I have seen about this seem to suggest that Bush, like Cheney, is trying to upgrade his legacy. While criticizing Obama’s policies, he attempts to put his own failed policies in a much better light, as if his policies have not already been revealed as dismal failures. Being of a most suspicious mind I don’t believe this is just about embellishing his legacy. I think he is taking a cue from Cheney and trying to make their criticisms all about politics. That is, if Obama were to act against them, they could make it appear to be entirely political, he’s going after them for political reasons rather than for the obvious war crimes they committed. And no doubt some segment of the public would buy this nonsense. They can’t very well go after Obama personally (although that too might conceivably work for them it would be seen as petty), and they can’t make much of a non-political fuss as that would leave them more vulnerable to investigation, so they make it all political, all about Obama’s policies. They could become political prisoners rather than major war criminals.

LKBIQ:
Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health; everything unconditional belongs in pathology.
Friedrich Nietzsche

TILT:
Domestic pigs are known as sociable and intelligence and can be trained to do simple tricks and tasks.