President Obama Makes the Deal

Harry leaked it, ‘bout a secret

Rendezvous, Rendezvous

He says he found a hooker

She was a real looker

He found her on his tom-tom

And then put on a condom

He’s had it since last Christmas

He put it on his isthmus

You can, too

You can, too

Harry’s jock strap, Harry’s jock strap

It’s brand new, it’s brand new

He really started itching

And then he started bitching

How about a new one

As long as it’s a blue one

He tried to make connections

Feelings of dejection

Run and hide, Run and hide

Harry’s jock strap, Harry’s jock strap

It’s teal blue, it’s teal blue

He went to see the doctor

His name is Mr. Proctor

Maybe an injection

It gave him an erection

How about some ointment

What a disappointment

Run and hide, Run and hide

as performed at the Coitus International Ball Room by Captain Piccard and his female consort, playing the piano.

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Well, President Obama really feels triumphant these days waving the agreement with the Republicans around, like Neville Chamberlin waving a peace treaty with the Reich in his hand in an attempt to placate the British people that he'd made a good deal with Hitler. I was a little sick when I first read the terms of the deal. Nobody objects when you're passing out free money but really! Has anybody pondered for a second what this tax deal will do to the federal deficet? Some people like Bill Press and Thom Hartman say Obama made a bad deal and he threw in the sponge before the battle was even engaged. It's just like this President when the other side is trying to obtain a fifteen percent discount in a purchase, Obama gives them twenty percent off right off the bat. This deal will stimulate the economy all right, but it will balloon the deficet like nobody's business and our grand children will grow to resent us as they suffer from our incurred foolishness. To get to the specifics, we all get a two percent cut in our FICA tax. It is undetermined whether our employers can also take a two percent cut. This will mess with the formula Ronald Reagan worked out with Tip Oneil nearly thirty years ago. It will hasten the day when social security is insolvent, which is just what the Republican's want. It will make it harder for this President to ever think about raising taxes again, what with this precedent. The marriage penalty will be waved for two years. You can still take deductions on student loans, and the estate tax will be cut to only 35% after five million instead of the scheduled 45% figure after just one million. So there is a little something for everybody. When you're passing out free money, who complains. This is Jude Waninsky gone nuts. Haven't you heard? Obama's a democrat. It's his turn to play the grinch who stole Christmas. People like Randy Rhodes are Hi-fiving each other. This is because some on the right like Rush Limbaugh and Jim DeMint are still against this agreement. I won't trust anybody who's named after a liquer. Well, nothing is set in concrete yet and people like Bernie Sanders are vowing to oppose it. Rush Limbaugh has been raving mad lately but then again he's always balmy, particularly when it comes to economics where he doesn't know a thing. He says unemployment payments will "insure that these people don't look for a job". Unemployment is for only one year but the tax cuts for the rich are for two years. Rush thinks that during the oil leak crisis the President should have not ordered the shut down of the most dangerous oil platforms. Rush was against TARP but also against the "Government Motors" hand-out. Still in listening to Obama's press conference he reminded me sadly of a whiny little kid who tries to make justifications for his actions when there is none and he knows it. And that line about "this is just like with health care". When he said this my mind flashed to Captain Queeg when he said "This reminds me of the great cheese caper of 1937. You know Captain Queeg, with the strawberries and that line about "I proved to them with geometric logic - that the key to the mess hall ice box really did exist". It does the President no good to remind us of his Previous shortcomings and failure to draw a line in the sand. Now he says "I would have drawn a line over unemployment". He says that now, now that the incident is behind him. He didn't get anything the republicans didn't want him to have.

The other big news of the day is this wikkileaks.com morrass. Allow me to flip flop once more on this issue. I've thought about it- - - a little more and decided what wikkileaks did was a bad thing. If diplomats have a job of gathering intelligence also, this is none of our business and they are entitled to their confidentiality. We may have compromised them. If we get indignent about Valerie whats-her-name being outed from the CIA, we should be consistent and get just as indigient over this. John Kerry kind of turned me around on this issue when he said this case was not at all like the Pentagon Papers case in 1071 which exposed lies and government wrong doing. This outing interferes with the ongoing process of government itself. And like I say, it may have put lives in danger. Of course the founder of wikkileaks.com is in Britain waiting for extradition to Sweden on sex charges. Also we hear that amazon.com may be pulling their server services. And now there is a talk of a doomsday release of any and all government documents wikkileaks has. And all we need to get it is know the 256 character password. Are you sure you made it long enough? Speaking of doomsday, why didn't the democrats use the nuclear option that had them so cowed when the Republicans threatened to use it five years ago? You know, a few well timed prosecutions would go a long way tword placating the left. And those other wikkileaks that talked about abuses in Iraq could be a good place to start. We aren't out of weapons. We just never use them. (Selah)