Ego-politics

I really don't mean to go on and on about Sarah Palin, but apparently David Letterman just won't let her rest. Over the last couple days, Letterman has made several jokes about Palin. He's beginning to look like an awkward prepubescent boy who's got a secret crush on the Cute Girl in the senior class, but doesn't know how to communicate this -- except by punching her or calling her names. Or maybe it's male menopause.

More interesting, really, is Pazzo Pelosi's ongoing conflict with the CIA. Now she has other congresscritters making things up about the CIA. What kind of an idiot is Pazzo Pelosi? Let's review.

She tells a reckless lie to cover her butt, simultaneously smearing the CIA.

Her lie is exposed.

Now she's apparently actively recruiting her friends to support her lie, as if that would make her story true. I suppose every time any one of them passes the CIA HQ in Langley, they honk and stick out their tongues. Mark my words, one morning all the trees outside the building will be draped with toilet paper.

I haven't seen so much drama since my freshman year in high school. And Pazzo Pelosi's reputation surely is much more important than the United States Central Intelligence Agency. It's ego-politics. Save her butt at the expense of the nation. Like good ol' boy Bill Clinton, a living monument to sociopathy.

Pazzo should probably get together with David Letterman. They could exchange information about their neuroses and discuss their medications.

Anyone else suspect that Warren Buffet, who is calling for a second Stimulus, is getting just a leetle bit senile? Or maybe he's cashing in on the down stock market and wants to keep it down. That is where hedge funds cash in.

Another compatible couple: Warren Buffet and George Soros. They can sit together in the park by the lily pond and play checkers until their attendents come and gently guide them to the dining room for a supper of overcooked chicken, mashed carrots, and tapioca pudding.

Anyone notice that Comrade Osama has been overseas? Anyone miss him? See what I mean about the government becoming irrelevant? Who needs him? In fact, he represents such an onerous burden on U.S. citizens, we're much better off without him. What would it take to keep him in Italy?

Watched C-SPAN coverage of the House for a while. Steve King (R-Iowa) and Gohmert or something like that (R-Texas). They railed about socialized medicine and raised some very good points. King talked about going to Arizona and looking for health care facilities. He says most of them south of Tucson are closed. Mainly they served illegal aliens for "free," so they went out of business. He also told a story about a Mexican gang-banger of some kind who was knifed in a fight in Mexico, brought to Tucson for emergency care, then flown to a hospital in Phoenix via helicopter for longer-term care. All at the expense of US taxpayers.

Gohmert -- and I probably don't have his name correct, but he represents Tyler, TX -- said that last year, the US government spent enough money on Medicare and Medicaid to give every household in the US more than $9,000. He suggested that the feds actually give every household something like $9,000 and let them buy an HSA (health savings account) and catastrophic insurance. And you know what? It wouldn't cost $1 trillion, and they'd still have money left over.

Sounds better than Ted Kennedy's plan. Speaking of getting just a leetle bit senile....

Why do people respect Teddy Kennedy? I guess memories are short. I clearly recall the time he went some on kind of drunken bender with a campaign worker named Mary Ann Kopechne. They were drving -- apparently drunk and recklessly -- and Darling Teddy ran the car off a bridge.

Then apparently he panicked and dog-paddled like a madman to the closest shore. Leaving Mary Ann to drown.

As if that doesn't paint a scuzzy enough portrait of Darling Teddy, he refused to admit that he had anything to do with the whole event. I mean, he was still married at the time. And his mom was Catholic. Apparently the family lawyers finally convinced him that even if he was a Kennedy, he couldn't hide at Hyannisport forever, so he finally 'fessed up. Gosh, he was sorry.

Nothing happened. Mary Ann Kopechne was still dead. Teddy went back to Washington. Apparently the good citizens of Massachusetts actually like lamebrain idiots; they've re-elected him continuously for more than 40 years. Or maybe it's just their way of keeping Teddy in Washington and away from their daughters.

I suppose the Kennedys paid off the Kopechne family in some way. They should at least have paid for Mary Ann's funeral.

Teddy was a drunken lout all his life. The quintessential spoiled little rich kid whose daddy and family connections were all that kept him out of the penetentiary. His wife finally got fed up and dumped him. Then apparently he woke up in an alley with his wallet and shoes missing or something (I'm making this up) and got religion. Joined AA or something. When he was like 70 years old. Took him a while to figure things out. Darling Teddy always was a little slow....

So now he's an elder stateman and we're supposed to believe his opinions have credibility. Darling Teddy never had any credibility. And now the man has brain cancer, for pity sake. That's not a compelling argument in favor of the lucidity of his thoughts and ideas. And I wonder who's paying for his health care. Experimental treatments, no? Think he could get that under socialized medicine?

Enough is enough.