The Superior Finale

At least for the next two years; God willing, for-evah!

***I've pretty much said all I have to say about Barney Frank's near-political-death experience.  I leave it to you, dear readers, to draw any conclusions from the anecdotal prognosticatory tea leavings this vid inspires within your fertile cerebellums:

Folks, when your "secret weapon" is Michael F'ing Dukakis, a pathetic loser twenty-two years ago (and who clearly still hasn't gotten over blowing that seventeen-point lead against Pappy), doesn't that suggest that Lollipop is already, um, shooting blanks?

***Ya know, when I contemplate Representative Betty McCollum (D-MN4) now, I picture those old Barbie Dolls where you pulled on the cord that stuck out of the back of its neck and it would play a recorded line - "Let's go to the beach!" or "Math is hard!" or "It's hard to stand up straight with a sixty-nine inch bust and an eighteen inch waist!" or "Did you know Ken has no genitalia?" - only in McCollum's case it's foolishness like, "ObamaCare is not a government takeover!" or "ObamaCare will reduce the deficit!" or "Barbara Boxer is the new George Patton!":

Three self-evident conclusions to be drawn from this cavalcade of lunatic doggerrel: (1) Betty McCollum really, truly believes this drivel; (2) Betty McCollum is dumber than a box of Nancy Pelosi's old used botox; (3) she's in a tsunami-shelter district, which is the only reason why she wasn't dragged out of that debate in a straitjacket.

***Deathbed conversion, indeed:

New Jersey Democratic Senator Robert Menendez said Sunday that Democrats are open to temporarily extending the Bush-era tax cuts for Americans earning more than $250,000 per year, which are set to expire at the end of this year.

“I certainly believe that there may be some opportunity for a temporary approval of some of these cuts,” Menendez, who chairs the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, said during an appearance on ABC’s This Week. “But we’ll have to see what can be worked out.”

Menendez made clear that Democratic leaders were completely closed to the idea that the tax cuts for households earning more than $250,000 be made permanent, citing the $4 trillion impact on the national deficit.

So instead of simply permanentizing the Bush tax rates a year and a half ago instead of squandering a trillion Hogzilla dollars, Donk "leaders" like Senator Menendez wait until forty-eight hours before what's shaping up to be their largest congressional election wipeout in over eighty years to grudgingly concede that instead of crushingly raising taxes now to turn a chronic recession into a permanent depression, they'll wait until the economy finally starts to recover for real and THEN crushingly raise taxes to kill said recovery and bludgeon said economy back into chronic recession - when hopefully they can blame the GOP for it to get Congress back.  Does that about sum it up, Senator Menendez?

You're welcome.

***Big Labor is starting to publicly project their own rampant psychoses upon their enemies, and it's giving them nightmares:

“Republicans are likely to pursue a version of what Samuel Gompers often said: ‘Reward your friends and punish your enemies,’ ” said Joseph McCartin, a labor historian at Georgetown University.

One bill that is popular among Republicans would prohibit employers from ever agreeing to unionization through “card check,” a process often used today in which an employer recognizes a union as soon as a majority of workers sign pro-union cards — without holding a secret-ballot election. Another bill would severely crimp labor’s campaign spending by barring unions from using any portion of a union member’s dues money for political purposes unless the member first gives written permission.

A Republican-led House or Senate is expected to be more eager than a Democratic-controlled one to approve free trade agreements that unions oppose, and to be more reluctant to enact stimulus plans that unions have supported, like the recent bill that gave states $26 billion to help save the jobs of teachers, police and other government employees. A Republican-controlled House or Senate would probably block a labor-backed bill that would give firefighters and police officers in every state the right to unionize.

“We fear that the Republicans are on the march, and that’s why we’re doing everything we can to stop them,” said Gerald McEntee, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, which is spending $91 million in the two-year campaign cycle.

Mr. McEntee praised the $26 billion jobs bill. “That saved literally thousands of public-sector jobs,” he said. “I don’t think we’ll see something like that passed under John Boehner,” the Ohio Republican who is expected to become House Speaker if the Republicans win control.

Your fears are....well founded, Mr. McEntee.  And more delicious than a pallet of McRib sandwiches topped off with a dozen teriyaki/mushroom New York steaks.  May you never wake up from the nightmare you are about to enter, and may you never die within it, so that your torment lasts....for-evah!  MWA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!