Political Humor

Today, President Obama tapped former basketball great, Dennis Rodman to head a newly created committee,  as Czar of Federal Sports Oversight. This committee will fall under the Dept of Labor, but will be antonymous and only answerable to the President.  Rodman reportedly asked if the title Czar could be changed to Secretary. It is unknown at this time whether that request will be honored.

Obama, citing recent House hearings that showed the loss to the government of hundreds of millions of dollars each year due to the practice of allowing of states to issue tax-free bonds to large corporations, to build stadiums and other sports facilities, as the reason for this new Czar.

[The following are actual excerpts from House Of Representatives records]

Opening Statement
Of
Dennis J. Kucinich, Chairman
Domestic Policy Subcommittee
Oversight and Government Reform Committee
Thursday, September 18, 2008
2154 Rayburn HOB
10:00 a.m.
“Gaming the Tax Code: Public Subsidies, Private Profits, and Big League Sports in New York.”

This is the Domestic Policy Subcommittee’s third hearing in the last year and a half on the federal government’s subsidization of the construction of professional sports stadiums through the federal tax code.

The stadium project has already *benefitted from the issuance of over $940 million of tax-exempt bonds. The tax exemption on these bonds will save the Yankees well over $100 million in interest costs, a subsidy that will cost federal taxpayers almost $200 million in lost tax revenues…

*Les: see, it’s not just me, even Congress can’t spell.

This issue surfaced about ten years ago, but due to interference by Republican congressmen, little was ever done to solve this enormous leak in federal tax revenue. While the past eight years have seen a former, rich, baseball club owner in the White House.

The President said he would see that the government gets its fair share, since the banking bailouts went to institutions that have financial interest in these teams and facilities. These company’s  over-bloated, fat cat corporate, high roller executives -who’s salaries will be capped at $500,000- are just the first to feel cuts.

Rodman will be charged with ensuring that all owners of these teams and their players will be similarly capped at $500,000. The windfall profits gained by seizing the excess in salaries above the cap will benefit Climate Change research and trans-gender awareness programs.

Les James has more snide comments about the new admisnstration at Sideshow Mirrors.

Man, you Liberals are so whiny. You finally have your Presidential binky to go along with the slim majority in Congress you have enjoyed for the last two years.

Those would be the same 535 people who, contrary to popular opinion actually write the Federal Budget every year by the way. They also control most funding, or in other words our money. Funny how our deficits have jumped up in the last twenty four months isn’t it? It is all Bush’s fault of course. He sneaks into Congress late at night and changes the budget numbers just to f^^k with Pelosi.

It is true. I read it on AP.

With 60% of Americans admitting to being conservative you got damn lucky Liberals. If it weren’t for Bush being so terrible, McCain being months away from wearing an adult diaper, and Palin’s tipping-over of the GOP “move-to-the-left” apple cart, Obama would have lost.

I am not here, however to mimic the childlike complaining by the Liberals, especially when unlike them, bless their bleeding hearts, 45% of Americans did not get a Messiah for the holiday/ Kwanzaa/ Haunnakaa/ Three Kings Day/ Solstice/ Advent/ Little Christmas/ Yule Day/ Festivus/ Tau Ting Tang Day/ f^^k You I’m Calling it Christmas Day.

The right got political coal in their election stocking. Do you hear the Conservatives complaining? No because they see some moderate and somewhat conservative choices for the Cabinet and think that maybe an Obama Presidency won’t be Jimmy Carter’s second term.

It is all wishful thinking of course but the point here is optimism. You Liberals, well you aren’t very positive. OpenLeft blogger Chris Bowers had this to say about President Barack “Binky” Obama:

“Isn’t there ever a point when we can get an actual Democratic administration?”

For the next 8-10 years you are about to have your cake, eat it too, and when you get too fat your free health care will pay for a liposuction! You can even carry an ounce of pot around in Massachusetts and not get arrested!

Well, there was that Proposition Eight thing but what did you expect carrying the entire African-American voting bloc? Every great achievement comes with a sacrifice unfortunately and the homosexuals were the political lambs. Hell, they don’t even realize yet that they fell on the sword for the good of the party, no pun intended.

You should be dancing in the streets. You won the Super Bowl of politics. Liberals are the winning team and on the way to Disneyland as we speak.

But no, you have to complain about the Cabinet choices.

Oh no, Ken Salazar, the pick for the Department of the Interior favors offshore drilling interests! Please, that department gets abused more often then Tina Turner did in the 1960′s.

Obama is trying to change that however:

“What I want to put an end to is an Interior Department that sees its job as simply sitting back waiting for whoever has most access in Washington to extract what they want…”

Yes, because that would overlap with Rod Blagojevich’s job description and we can’t have any un-necessary redundancy.

See Liberals? You have nothing to worry about. Obama is already thinking efficient government.

Sleep well moonbats, sleep well.

Chris Cameron writes a weekly political humor column here at Radioactive Liberty every Thursday. He also has his own humor blog Angry Seafood.