Political Humor

Another Tuesday of bad choices when it comes to government? Who da thunk it?

There is no better day to pretty much cement a trillion-dollar Stimulus Plan into law after all.

Barack Obama even got things going twenty-four hours earlier. Just to warm up I am guessing.

At a speech in Elkhart, Indiana Monday our Grand Poobah was introduced by a laid-off worker of a company that makes RV’s.

Aren’t recreational vehicles, which get a half-mile to the gallon and leave a bigger carbon footprint than Al Gore’s house a no-no for the Global Warming people?

I could care less just saying. Seems like something Bush would do.

So Bad Choice Tuesday arrived and Obama had the bright idea of betting his second term on the Stimulus plan in his Town Hall Giveaway in Fort Myers:

“I’m not going to make any excuses,” Obama said at a town hall meeting here, in perhaps the most pivotal political state in America. “If stuff hasn’t worked, if people don’t feel like I’ve led the country in the right direction then you’ll have a new president.”

Way to go Negative Nancy. Imagine the same situation in the Steelers locker room before the Super Bowl…

Coach Tomlin: “Okay guys, these plays we drew up and practiced all week might not work. If that happens then we won’t win and someone else will be the champion. Alright on three, go Steelers!”

Hey, at least Obama gave away a house right? You can have one too but you better hurry because this offer from the government ends January 19, 2013.

Operators standing by now!

Meanwhile, back in Washington, Tim Geithner, our Treasury Secretary/Czar spent the day in the aptly-named Everett Dirksen Building trying to convince lawmakers he has a plan to rescue the financial system.

At one point he invoked the infamous Freddy “Boom Boom” Washington defense from Welcome Back Kotter:

Dirksen, by the way is the politician credited with a fitting quote, though it probably was not coined by him:

“A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you are talking real money.”

Just change that to trillions. A billion dollars is walking-around money these days.

Especially on Tuesdays.

Chris Cameron writes this political humor column every week here at Radioactive Liberty as well as his own brand of weirdness at his own humor blog Angry Seafood.