4-15: Ramblings from the Wheel

The Tea Party is not new. It's the re-branded evangelical right we all remember from the '90's. These morons were willing to shut down the government and make us the laughing stock of the world over Planned Parenthood. That has nothing to do with budgets or deficits or fiscal responsibility. From now on here at the Hamster Paradigm they will be referred to as the + Party because it's all about their practice of religious myopia.

Speaking of things having nothing to do with budgets, did you catch Scott Walker's grilling on Capital Hill today? Dude got beaten up. Had to admit that his collective bargaining fight had nothing to do with money, except the money his benefactors expected. He even got nailed on his hiring of donor's kin, known as cronyism, and the punk'd Koch brother call. It was not at all what he was expecting 'cuz his face was the very definition of defeat. Pretty sure that's not the new face of the Republican Party.

Obama sounded pretty fired up tonight in Chicago. Good, I say. I want him a little pissed off and, like the rest of us, a little afraid. Maybe, just maybe, he might be starting the realize he's the President of the United States and he needs to lead, not be led.

Don't ever forget what Paul Ryan said when he introduced his Medicare destroying budget proposal: "This is not a budget, it's a cause." Oh, and it takes 75 years to attain it's goals. Yep. Won't be around to see that.

Comedians everywhere are mourning the passing of Glenn Beck's Traveling Sideshow. Oh, he'll end up somewhere, but I bet it won't be following Olbermann on Current this spring. Love Keith, but that was a pretty obscure place to re-surface. Then again, he might just be the thing that puts it on the dial. Beck's too ego-maniacal and maniacal in general to fade into obscurity. He's not done being kicked around.

The Governor of Montana, Democrat Brian Schweitzer did an amazing thing today. He vetoed every single piece of Republican legislation that had passed with a series of "veto" branding irons on the steps of the capital building. “These bills are either frivolous, unconstitutional or in direct contradiction to the expressed will of the people of Montana,” said Governor Brian Schweitzer. I copied that from his own website. Grandstanding? Yep. But effective. You Tube has the video, as does Rachel Maddow's bog.

That man, folks, is a Big D Democrat.

Good night, Hamsters,

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