“News this week of the first departure of a Cabinet secretary from the Obama administration comes amid a wide-ranging effort under the new chief of staff, William M. Daley, to repair badly frayed relations between the White House and the Cabinet.”

In another quote, Daley said he’s heard Cabinet members’ complaints. “You hear the same thing: ‘I don’t think we’re used well. I don’t think we’re consulted enough,’ ”

So it keeps stacking up. He’s a go-it-alone president, do his own thing dictator president. One who decides without the help of the Supreme Court what’s constitutional and what’s not, as in deciding not to enforce the defense of marriage act. And we’re talking about a law passed by Congress and signed by Democrat Bill Clinton.

The would-be-dictator president rolls on until the steam roller hits a wall, then backs off – briefly – until he figures a way around it.

No wonder Patriots have always realized that government is the problem. And not only the problem, but in many ways the worst enemy the American people have.

As Thomas Paine put it, “Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil” –The Rights of Man (1792)

via White House moving to repair troubled relationship with Cabinet.

What country does that sound like? Could it be the U.S.? The line is taken from a NY times article on Egypt. But it could just as well apply to today’s America.  Politicians – those already elected wouldn’t agree. They’d object to the patronage and bribes part. But that stuff by any other names, such as outlandish contributions, pet local projects that cost billions and government contracts for things we don’t need? What else are they?

The U.S. has been running for years on the same stuff every other corrupt country has been running on. And “change” has just made it worse. Like a debt we can never pay off growing larger for stuff we don’t need. It’s like a couple I know who always talk the woe-is-me talk because of their credit card debt, and say they’re taking steps to reform,  but continue to charge lavish vacations. Like Obama charges lavish vacations. Yeh, we know he pays for his personal accommodations, but Air Force One, his entourage and security runs into millions. And it’s all charged to our national-debt credit card.

Then there are the protest demonstrations in Wisconsin. Are they just a precursor to the demonstrations to come in Washington if we ever really start cutting back the mess that’s been building  for decades? And someday we will have to.  Either when the bill comes due for the Social Security money we’ve been spending by the billions for things other than benefits for the people who are supposed to get it, or the trillions we’ve borrowed from China.

Yeh, it’s coming due in pieces already. But so far we’ve been able to borrow from one credit card to make payments on another while the interest keeps building.

But one day that stops. And the day Washington gets stopped down due to protest crowds like those in Cairo and Madison Wisconsin, look out. One state government can come to a standstill for a while and the rest of the world can live through it. But a really shut-down Washington?

As Thomas Paine said back in 1792, “Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil” –The Rights of Man (1792)

It was a Democratic rally without a Democratic politician, featuring instead two political satirists, Mr. Stewart and Mr. Colbert, who used the stage to rib national journalists and fear-mongering politicians, and to fake-fight each other over dueling songs about trains.(NYT)

FINALLY! A Washington Rally that shows it like it really is. A comedy show that would be funny if it weren’t true.

A congressional committee has Colbert actually come before them and testify, and he proceeds to make even bigger fools of them. And who would have thought that possible? They all run around blaming each other for the huge pile of garbage they’ve made of the system, while nobody’s done anything they want to take credit for. Yet they all claim to be fighting for us.

More billions are being spent than ever to get jobs that pay well, but not well enough to get rich… though many of them do by some “miraculous” means. Like Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Harry Reid, ad infinitum. All who make Congress a career can retire early with a stack of bennies that no private job can come close to.

Careers? That’s the objective. Get a seat of power and prestige you hold for life, no matter what the original intent of the founders of this great country. The idea, remember, was that states and districts would send some of their own to represent them in government. But they stay in Washington so long that they lose all touch with what’s really going on back where they once lived.

So who are all those “Fat Cats” Obama is so fond of blaming for everything he is’t blaming on Republicans at the moment? We’ve seen the Fat Cats. And they are the government.

So is it really unusual to see a comedy bunch gathering in the name of what’s real? In Washington? That’s just normal in our government-gone-wild state of the nation.

Sadly.

Thomas Paine had it right: “Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil” –The Rights of Man (1792)

Problem is, we can’t get anywhere close to its best state with a gang that keeps on pulling every trick in and out of the book to get re-elected for life.

Tribal warfare looms over push for cig tax (NY Post) …Duhh! White man tryin’ t’put down the Indians again. New York trying to collect cigarette tax from a sovereign nation? Pardon them while they circle the state capitol an fling a few arrows. Jist proves gummint’ll do anythang t’feed its hunger f’other fokes money.

Michael Brown, the former FEMA director, took his Denver radio show to New Orleans for the fifth anniversary of the storm that made him famous. (NYT) Same Brownie at Bush said wuz doin’ a good job cleanin’ up after Katrina? Same one. Still tryin’ t’do a good job at sumpm? Duhh! Like ‘ey say, criminals always return t’the scene uv the crime.

Ken Mehlman, who ran President George W. Bush’s re-election campaign in 2004 and then became the party’s chairman, said in an interview in The Atlantic this week that he is gay and is working to support a campaign for same-sex marriage. (NYT) Look out, Junior! If ey’re takin’ over the Republicans, next thang ye know, ‘ey’ll be takin’ over yore militia supply store!

Paul Krugman, the Nobel-winning NYT columnist at likes t’preach about the economy says, “After its last monetary policy meeting, the Fed released a statement declaring that it ‘anticipates a gradual return to higher levels of resource utilization’ — Fedspeak for falling unemployment. Nothing in the data supports that kind of optimism. Meanwhile, Tim Geithner, the Treasury secretary, says that ‘we’re on the road to recovery.’ No, we aren’t. ”

Duhh! When ebm ‘ey’re buddys at the NYT are callin’ thair hands, y’thank maybe it’s time t’stop the fairy tales? We all know at’s how Obama got thair, but one’a these days y’d thank somebody uppair’d learn at only people believe fairy tales. Economies do thair own thang unless somebody acshully does sumpm. Or stops doin’ sumpm stupid. Duhh.

Like at ole boy Thomas Paine said back air in 1792, when fathers wuz first bein promoted t’forefathers, “Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil” –The Rights of Man (1792)

An, speakin uv the law, a body cain’t hep but be drawn to this headline: Outsourcing to India Draws Western Lawyers. Thair ye go. It ain’t enough at we gotta put up with customer disservice fokes we cain’t understand, now lawyers are bein’ outsourced t’India.

Now, I gotta wonder if at case I jist won wuz done by one a’them outsourced lawyers. Or maybe a gang uv’em.

Thair I wuz, opnin’ a envelope at obviously had a check in it. I could jist feel the extry spit formin a drool. How much could it be? It wuz from one a’them big lawyer gangs at specializes in class-action lawsuits. An since I git a lotta invitations t’join in on’em, I figgered one had jist come through. At maybe I’d won the lottery.

The big fat check was fer how much? $13.42… Thirteen Dollars and Forty Two Cents? Ye gotta be kiddin. At’s a insult! But the insult gits deeper. At big check can only be used it says t’buy more travel through Expedia. Well, Expedia couldn’a thunk up a better promotion. Git sued, lose and distribute coupons t’git fokes t’do bidness with’em.

Well, first, I don’t remember suin’em. But I find out at all I had t’do wuz nuthin, an iss big law firm would fight fer me anyhow. If ‘ey ebm asked me t’begin with, I probly threw the junk mail away. So I got a law gang t’say they’s my lawyers an I been cheated or sumpm an at’s a travesty, so somebody needs t’git paid fer that? An who gits paid in real spendin money? Would anybody guess it might be the lawyers?

So, Ms Kagan — scuse me, Justice Kagan — I’d say y’got y’self a job right off the bat. Cause lawsuits like at shore affect my daily life. An probly raise prices on everthang jist t’pay lawyers t’git rich while claimin’ e’re fightin fer us foke out here in the trenches.

Like at ole boy Thomas Paine said back air in 1792, when fathers wuz first bein promoted t’forefathers an women wuz jist keepin’ house an bein’ mamas. “Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil” –The Rights of Man (1792)

Another question at’s botherin me. Anybody ou’tair got any idea why we call iss a democracy, when one judge kin vote down millions uv people? Kin anybody figger out how we call it three equal branches uv gummint when one branch kin overrule the other two an ebm the fokes whut elected the other two, but we don’t git to elect the one at overrules everbody? Don’tat make a fedral judge sumpm like a emperor, or at least a king?

Yeh, I know one judge kin be overruled by five others, cause ‘ey happm t’be a majority uv the Supreme Court. But still at’s only five fokes. An back when ‘ey taught school children about stuff like at, ‘ey said the three  branches uv gummint wuz equal. Fur as I kin tell, at’s false teachin. Either that or gummint’s doin’ it all wrong. An ‘ey ain’t never spose t’be wrong are thay? Least nobody upair ever admits it.

Whut brangs it up is a judge in California jist overruled the majority of the people uv California an said ‘ey cain’t keep gay fokes frum gittin married. Now iss ain’t no attempt t’figger out whether Gays deserve g’git married. Bubba ain’tat smart.

Some fokes back home use ta say bein gay wuz a sin, an at the Bible says so, but since I ain’t never read the whole Bible I ain’t in much uv a position t’prophesy. So thair ain’t gone be no judgement here on the merits or demerits uv gay marriage. I’m jist askin whether it’s right fer one dude t’decide over millions whether sumpm’s right er wrong. An if so, how kin at be a majority rules situation? An ain’tat whut a democracy is?

Yeh, dummy. I know the forefathers set up the judge part. But since the big daddies whut set this all up also said the people have the right to abolish it, don’tay have the right t’abolish any part uv it?

Ole Andrew Jackson, at good ole boy frum Tennessee whut fought wars, became the hero uv New Orleans an took a turn as president, use’ta say the court makes a decision, let’um enforce it. Y’see, he believed in equal branches uv gummint. Not one branch at’s the boss uv’em all.

An ain’tat about whut Obama wuz sayin’ when he insulted the Supreme Court in front uv everbody over a decision he didn’ agree with? Did it right thair when he had’em all together fer his State Of The Union speech, an with the whole country watchin on TV!

I thank I’m gonna take iss up with my friend Junior. He’s got a lotta militia connections. An since the second amendment says a well-trained militia is necessary, an at they kin carry guns an all, maybe they got sumpm t’say about it.

I jist hope ‘ey don’t start pullin’em guns an startin on abolishin gummint right away, cause I ain’t had my vacation yet. An’ I shore don’t wanna git called back t’comment on no gummint takeover.

We all jist gotta remember whu’tat ole boy Thomas Paine said back air in 1792, when fathers wuz first bein promoted t’forefathers. “Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil” –The Rights of Man (1792)

Headline: Fired USDA official receives apologies from White House, Vilsack (WP)
Ain’t it fun t’watch people eat crow? Specially them puffed up fokes in the gummint whut spends s’much time with CYA? An the puffed ups at talk about’em on whut passes fer news on TV? One day everbody jist falls in line an’ joins in with some blogger who’s railroadin’ at nice lady, Shirley Sherrod frum the agriculture department. Next day, crow gobblin’ time. Duhh.

Quote frum NYT: “The Library of Congress recently announced that it will be acquiring — and permanently storing — the entire archive of public Twitter posts since 2006.” Now ain’t we all jist s’proud uf our liberry uf congress? An don’t we all look forward t’our children an our children’s children bein’ able t’go t’the liberry an read all at Twitterin? An’ don’t we all jist enjoy hearin about our tax money bein’ spen so wisely? Could we git a double Duhh? DUHH-H-H!

Headline: Facebook Tops 500 Million Users
Now wait jist a minute. Didn some pollin’ outfit jist say Facebook wuz voted most hated? An wouldn’ at mean 500 million fokes love t’love whut thay hate? An’ could all ‘em fokes spendin’ s’much time doodlin’ on Facebook have sumpm’ t’do with s’many people bein’ outta work? Duhh.

Three of every four oil and gas lobbyists worked for federal government (WP) Whut!? Fokes at use’ta work for the gummint are now pullin down big salaries workin’ fer big oil, gittin’ gummint favors fer’em? Well, I never! Who would’a thunk it? Ye don’t spose thairs any former gummint fokes lobbyin’ fer big pharma or big ag (them big cumpnies at passes fer farmers) do ye? Does at mean the smartest people git outta gummint? An if so, whut kind uv gummint workers would be left t’dream up more paperwork fer us t’fill out? Duhh!

We jist hafta git back t’that ole boy Thomas Paine on this’un. ‘Member he said back air in 1792, when fathers wuz first bein promoted t’forefathers, “Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil” –The Rights of Man (1792)

Well! Off this light stuff an on t’some fightin. After all at’s whut makes th’world go round. ‘Member at ole boy Hugo Chavez? He’s a president, y’know, an presidents is awful powrful. He took over all the oil cumpnies in Venezuela an put his gummint cronies t’runnin’em a long time ago.

Turns out his oil cumpny ain’t doin’ so good distributin chickens an powdered milk, which of course made perfect sense fer a gummint run oil cumpny t’do. After all the gummint can do anythang better, ‘member. Problem is ‘ey been lettin’ all at stuff lay aroun s’long the chickens been rottin’ an smellin an the babies ain’t gittin no milk.

People might be able t’put up with at, but now Hugo Baby has jist gone TOO far. He’s threaten’in t’take over whut? BEER! Now he’s done it! The people are risin’ up. The workers are blockin the gates. Oil an chickens an powdered milk might be one thang, but don’t mess with m’beer, boy. Y’got a fight on y’hands now! The worker people are gonna block at deal  ‘ey say. An ‘ey are! Hooray fer bustin’ up the beer takeover! At’s a fight worth fightin’ ANY day!

But deep down, don’t we know air’s sumpm wrong thair somewhere? Jis thank about it. Presidents is always fightin’ fer workers, an here’s workers fightin’ aginst a president? Don’tay know whuts good fer’em? Why, the worker people in America would never git mad at our president. Everbody knows how he fights fer us ever day. Like standin out thair on at dirty beach in ‘is shiny shoes an white shirt riskin gittin ‘is Sunday go t’meetin clothes dirty. An all cause he’s fightin’ fer us? How much fightier could he git? At’s whut makes it s’hard t’understand why anybody could git upset that a president is takin’ over sumpm.

Why, our DaddyO fights fer us ever day in other ways too. Like he went ahead an appointed a Harvard dude name uv Donald Berwick t’run our health care an did it while congress wudn’ lookin. They wuz off fer the July 4th holidays an he knowed they wudn’ likin his choice, so always fightin fer us, he went ahead an’ sneaked iss dude inta the job. An iss new Czar blieves in redistributin the wealth by the way he runs health care. At means all you pore people are gonna git all the money of all the rich people. An the gummint ain’t gon take a dime in commission f’arrangin all at fer you.

I thank he also has a bridge he’d like t’sell us fer a right fair price. Ain’tat nice a’him?

Like at ole boy Thomas Paine said back air in 1792, when fathers wuz first bein promoted t’forefathers. “Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil” –The Rights of Man (1792)

Well, lessee now. The NYTimes says, “…after weeks of intense lobbying and months of debate, Congress in the end stopped short of prohibiting some of the practices that led to the crisis two years ago, betting instead that a newly empowered regulatory regime can rein in the big financial players without shackling the markets and drying up the flow of credit to businesses.” (I specially like at lobbyin part, don’tchu?)

But hang on’air! It’s a bet? Wuzn it bad bets on crazy ways’a them gamblin with our money whut got us i’niss mess t’begin with? I thank I ‘member everbody in Washinton blamin Wall Street, an Wall Street blamin’ Washinton. At’s a good fight t’watch, bu’tchy mean ‘ey passed the biggest money law since the depression – at’s whut Obama the DaddyO called it – an it’s sposed t’fix everthang, but it don’t find out who dunnit an don’t fix nuthin? Jis places a bet that bureaucrats’ll gitit handled later?

Come on fokes. I did’n fall off no turnip truck yestiddy an’ I bet you did’n neither. Could I git a big duh? All together now, fokes. DUH––UHHH!

Course ‘ey say all the cost uv doin’ everthang at new law stirs up is gone be paid by the big fokes on Wall Sreet an other assorted banks an’ credit card outfits. Huh? Could at be why our credit card interest an late fees an over-draft fees are already goin’ up? Could at mean us reglar people’s the ones ats gonna pay fer it all? Nah! ‘Em big fokes fightin’ fer us in Washinton wouldn’ do such a thing to us little fokes, would’ey?

But wait. I found out that them big bank stocks shot up in price right smartly over this thang! Why would Wall Street celebrate like at if they’s the ones at got screwed? Could it be they’s the ones still in control? Could it be they know who’s gonna pay? An it ain’t them? It’s us? Agin?

Like at ole boy Thomas Paine said back air in 1792, when fathers wuz first bein promoted t’forefathers. “Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil” –The Rights of Man (1792).
But whut’id he know? We’re a whole lot smarter now. Ain’t we?

Wait a minute. Did somebody down thair say IN A YEAR OR TWO!? WHUT ARE WE SPOSE T’DO FER A LIVIN’ BETWEEN NOW’N THEN? DUH–H, DaddyO. Whutchu talkin’ bout? Does yore talkin’ machine maybe need some maintenance?

But in case you fokes ain’t satisfied with at preachment, DaddyO’s gonna preach one’a his famous speechs at it tonight. An this one’s gonna be frum the Oval Office. Zow! FRUM THE OVAL OFFICE. At’s only fer serious stuff. So now, 50-some days after this greasy stuff started, DaddyO’s gittin serious. Look out oily waters. You’ve met yore match now.

Besides at, Congress is gonna crank up some BP people at their hearin’s. An at’s gone happm today! NO MORE DELAY, fokes.

An’ with all at goin’ on, the New York Times has the gall t’print stuff like they might be a lack of organization concernin anything about the gusher in the gulf problem. Ey’re sayin’ stuff like “From the beginning, the effort has been bedeviled by a lack of preparation, organization, urgency and clear lines of authority among federal, state and local officials, as well as BP.” Ye thank ‘ey came up with at profound pronouncement all by they selves?

Now really, NYT. Don’tchy remember Obama sayin’ he’s engaged an’ concerned an’ doin’ everthang he can? Ain’tat enough fer ye?

An’ you fokes down air on the Gulf. Cain’t you be satisfied with anything? DaddyO’s talkin, Congress is hearin, your beaches will be made whole in a year or two. At’s a pronouncement by DaddyO. Whut more could ye ask? D’you really spect some kinda organization out of the gummint? Duh––h.

Like at ole boy Thomas Paine said, “Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil” The Rights of Man (1792)