Sarah Palin Will Win Her Debate With Joe Biden

If Sarah Palin can avoid actually be-shitting herself on national television, it will be a victory for John McCain and the Republican Deceit. Expectations haven’t been this low for a Vice Presidential candidate ever. Not even Dan Quayle, who is Winston Churchill by comparison. No. If Beavis or Butthead were somehow to manifest themselves in the flesh, either of them would make a more viable candidate for a 72 year old demented war monger with a history of four bouts of cancer. The very fact that people still argue otherwise is testament to our nation’s decline. She’s a hockey mom! Yay! My worry is that Joe Biden will come off to the people who are energized by a woman with not a lick of national experience in anything besides mismanagement, opportunism and shooting things, as a typical chauvinist jerk no matter what he does. If he knows more than her than he’s an asshole. If he’s too deferential than he’s a sexist. If he does anything at all he loses. Our only hope of this country not plummeting almost immediately into a new Dark Ages is that more people choose to vote for a person ready to restore our country to pseudo legitimacy and not for the person that reminds them of the woman they meet in line at Wal Mart. On every single question posed to American People, Barack Obama comes out ahead. Except for the one about who they will probably vote for. I agree with everything about him, people say; one third, however, admit they still won’t vote for him. We need to look to the future; we need to choose between a bleak future and a future of unremitting misery. And to do that, Joe Biden has to not say anything stupid. Or appear too smart. Which could prove impossible.

Republicans prove themselves to be bad at math again

The bailout/rescue plan failed to make it through the house yesterday because, once again, Republicans proved themselves to be bad with numbers. Needing 70 votes to pass, house Republicans, who worship needlessly at the alter of Milton Friedman and Ronald Reagan, could only garner 67. Whenever numbers are involved, Republicans wind up losing. They spend more than they take in; they borrow less than they spend; and then wonder where all the money went. And then have the audacity to go on television and tell the American people that they are fiscally conservative. Which is sort of like Rambo going on television and claiming to be a pacifist. They are the party of the Jedi mind trick. And yet they win more often than they lose, which is truly perplexing. Every time they go into office, bad things happen. Eisenhower got us into Vietnam and Korea. Nixon expanded Vietnam after promising to get us out. Reagan deregulated everything, promising “Morning in America,” and then, when it all fell apart with the Savings and Loan Scandal in 1987, he was in the Oval office talking to a monkey. Bush saw his numbers free fall after the first Gulf War when voodoo economics wrecked the economy again. Bush 43 was given a yearly surplus and he immediately cut taxes, fought for deregulations, started some wars, chided China for human rights violations while borrowing billions and billions of dollars from them, and rode his bicycle while the whole thing fell apart. And then yesterday, house Republicans had the audacity to derail the bailout to take care of the mess they created and claim that they wouldn’t back a bailout bill that didn’t lower taxes further and get rid of more regulations. Perhaps it’s time for people to wake up and realize that their party platform of smaller government and conservative values is a front for twenty years of criminality. If this were a different time and a different place they would be ousted from office and pilloried, tarred and feathered; stoned and burned; before having their heads lopped off. Their day is done. Reagan is dead and, while he had a fabulous head of inky black hair and was a decent person, he was economically reckless and far from the hero the right likes to pretend he is. Enough!

John McCain Accidentally Endorses Obama at Ohio Rally

Yesterday, Senator John McCain, perhaps realizing his Presidential chances were dwindling every second, took the unusual step of endorsing his rival, Senator Barack Obama. “We need a President,” McCain said, “who will tell the American people the truth.” McCain’s chief strategist immediately released a statement flatly denying that McCain said such a thing and accused the microphone that recorded the words as being an inanimate member of the liberal elite. “That microphone should be ashamed of itself,” the statement continued.