It's been a good week in politics:

1.  Former Bush speech writer Mark Thiessen appears on MSNBC's Morning Joe
to discuss interrogation techniques and other terrorism related matters.
Appearing with Thiessen is some half-witted lunatic named Lawrence
O'Donnell.  As is tyical at MSNBC, the host, his co-hostess and O'Donnell
all try to talk at the same time with Thiessen sitting there not saying
much.  At one point, the word "Marxist" comes out, to which O'Donnell
responds, "we are socialsts, not Marxists."  When Theissen gets around to
saying something, the apparently enraged O'Donnell talks over him to the
point that eventually the show's producers cut off his microphone.  Folks,
this is AR-KAY writ large.  The "we are socialists, not Marxists"
comment is
Ottoesque in its stupidity.

2.  Michelle Princeton Harvard Obama says that she discussed obesity with
Malia and Shaniqua's pediatrician during which she learned that portion size
has something to do with gaining weight.  I am not making this up.  Maybe
this obtuse broad ought to contact Bob Klan about portion size; I bet he's
an expert.

3.  Meghan McCain appears on The View to discuss the Tea Parties.  We learn
that she "is like, ya know, a Progressive Republian and junk and, like, some
old man talking about like literacy tests (pronounced tahsts) is like, ya
know, innately racist and stuff and like revolutions don't come from old
people but like young people or whatever.  They like SOOOOO do."  (Flips
hair)  I bet Meghan has like a KITTEH and stuff.

4.  Patrick "Patches" Kennedy (D-Hic) has decided not to seek
re-election in
Rhode Island, ending a 50-year stretch during which there has always been at
least one Kennedy in Congress.  Patches wants to spend more time with his
family, he says.  Right.  Of course.  His dismal poll numbers have nothing
to do with it.  You bet.  Patches' biography is littered with stays at
dry-out and de-tox facilities around the country.

5.  There's not a lot of Obama news this week as President Hopety Change
fades quickly into nothingness.  Oh wait, he raised the country's debt
limit - again.  Well done, Mr. President!

6.  Howard Yeeeeeaaaaah! Dean says that Republicans don't like science, and
Bill Nigh the Science Guy says that people who question global warming
science are "unpatriotic."  Global warming.  No snow validates the theory
and a lot of snow validates the theory - which means that we are not
discussing scientific theory, but religious dogma.

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