It takes a big plunger to plunge a big load of . . .

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  1. It is pleasing to know that this fine news and commentary site has returned to its intellectually rich heritage in modern thought. The metaphorical use of the septician plying his trade to remove the blockage from our political system subsumes both directness and charm, goodness and accuracy. A more excellent description of our current electoral contest cannot be imagined.

    Again, thank you for doing your part to preserve civil discourse.

    Expect, however, for those hypersensitive partisans on the left to find some unforeseeable fault even with this harmless and artful presentation.

  2. Why is Peggy Noonan all over Palin from the beginning? She tried writing an article called Palin’s Failin. In it she posited that after 7 weeks we do not know what she stands for.

    I gave up reading Peggy quite a while back because she’s a windbag with no essential content. I read this article because of the relentless attacks on Palin. Here are some salient points about her article.

    -1- We still do not know much about Obama the Dem’s presidential candidate. Why is she worried about Palin?

    -2- Biden thinks Roosevelt went on TV in 1929 and spells a the 3 letter word J-O-B uh-oh S. So why are we talking about Palin again? I need to be reminded at this point.

    Noonan has been negatory about Palin since the beginning with her slippy comment that got outed during a break. I think she’s just catty jealous.

    Palin is fine. Noonan is who is needing to be sent to the glue factory.

  3. Wish I could believe the plumber could help McCain-Palin but I’ve given up hoping that they will win. This is a democratic year and we will all have to suffer an Obama administration for four years. I have been depressed ever since there was no surge after Palin beat Biden in the debate and I’m tired of seeing Republican columnists bag on Palin’s intelligence. I hate giving up but anyone who thinks we still have a chance to win this election based on the way the battleground states are polling right now is living in a fantasy world.

  4. So many worst-case, gloom and doom comments! What about the Best-Case senario?

    Working class men and women, enraged by Obama’s elitest dismissal of one of their brothers-in-labor, Joe, and the relentless assault by the MSM on the same; leads to the largest landslide in American history.
    Democrats loose control of both houses of congress. Any Democrat who served in Congress for more than 1 term is arrested for treason on general principles.
    Anyone who drew unemployment or welfare for more than 6 weeks in the last 6 years and who doesn’t currently possess at least 2 artificial limbs is put to forced labor building
    a Stone wall 50 ft high between the US and Mexico.
    Anyone with a funny accent or name and less than 4 valid forms of ID, including birth certificate, is marched, Trail-of-Tears style, to the nearest border, (or beach).
    Any senior executive of a large company that recently went bust who isn’t smart enough to have fled the country by this time will join the work gangs at the wall. Only they have to work on the south side of the wall. If they want to return, they’ll have to tell us where they hid the money they ripped off.
    Any lawyer arrogant enough to object to these measures will be buried under the wall, like in that latest mummy movie.
    Oh, then we Nuke the Moon!

    Did I forget anything?

  5. Best-Case-Scenario #2

    On November 5th, 2008, President Bush, after secretly consulting with Rev. Billy Graham and the Pope, proposes the “If 10 Percent Is Good Enough For Jesus, It Ought To Be Enough For Uncle Sam” ammendment to the Constitution, setting the upper limit of all taxes on any individual citizen or U.S. based corporative entity at a flat 10 percent of yearly income.

    The lame-duck Democrats, still reeling from their historic pounding by the overnight ground-roots movement know as ‘Plumbers And You; Pogrom Against Liberals’ (PAYPAL), are unable to resist and the bill passes. All 50 states ratify the ammendment and by Inauguration Day, January 20th, 2009, the Dow Jones Average tops 25,000 for the first time.

    Knowing that 90 % of their pay is theirs’ to spend or invest as they like sees charitable giving increase to all time highs, eliminating all need for government welfare programs.

    GM, Ford and Chrysler offer free hybrid mini-cars as an optional alternative to the spare tire on their lines of full-size SUVs and Pickups, which begin flying off the lots. Homeowners pay to have their houses burned down and rebuilt, just for the fun of it. George Baily, of Baily Savings and Loan, is appointed the new Treasury Secretary and old man Potter is hauled away in a straight-jacket, frothing at the mouth, wheelchair and all.

    And another angel gets its wings!

  6. Best-Case-Scenario #3

    On February 11th, 2009, while making an inspection tour of a nuclear submarine near Hawaii, President McCain suffers a momentary ‘flash-back’ episode and orders 6 nuclear missle strikes on Hanoi, Vietnam. 1 for each year of his imprisonment and 1 more “because I can, D*mn it!”. Every other nuclear power on earth, caught completely by surprise by this move, begs for peace and offers their complete and immediate surrender.

    President McCain is led away by kind people and Vice President Sarah Palin becomes POTUS. (on her birthday, no less!).

    Thinking fast she orders all foreign nuclear materials and weapons surrendered to American forces to be delivered to Alaska, where they are stored in the old gold mines near Juneau. Sensing the way the wind is blowing, the Nobel committee awards President McCain (ret.) the Nobel Peace Prize. Jimmy Carter and Al Gore are hauled away in straight-jackets, frothing at the mouth.

    Once the dust settles, (American generosity and unmatched prosperity rebuild Vietnam better than ever) President Palin signs an executive order giving Alaska the right to secede from the union and appointing her husband, Todd, to be it’s first king. King Todd promises that ‘relations’ between his kingdom and the Palin administration will be ‘warm, cordial, satisfying and frequent’.

    Following Alaska’s simultanious secession from the Union and elevation to the 2nd most powerful nation on earth (remember all those nukes in the gold mines?) northern Michigan, the Upper Penninsula (or UP), secedes from Michigan and files for statehood under the name, ‘Superior’; although a small but vocal group wanted to call it ‘Yooperland”. Flag manufacturers rejoice because they won’t have to retool to make 49 star flags.

    Getting in on the Reimergence of States-Rights bandwagon, San Francisco closes the bridges and subways, and digs a trench separating the city from the mainland. Before they can officially announce the name of their new country, nine people, led by Michael Savage and his dog, and comprising the total remaining straight population of the city appear on an Oakland, Ca TV station and advise everyone to look away from the city for ‘just a minute, trust me!’ and something about pillars of salt …
    The Golden Gate and Oakland Bay bridges become known as the Golden Gate and Oakland Bay piers and life quickly returns to normal.

    And there was much rejoicing! Yaaaay!

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