Dr. Monkey has some thoughts that I tend to agree with on why the happiest people in the world seem to live in godless nations with tax rates.So, since we're in an economic freefall--at least, depending on who you ask--the newest GOP talking point, already pinging around the echo chamber and out the pie-hole of Rush Limbaugh, is that Obama is raising unemployment on purpose so that we can become more socialistic. Though the study linked above indactes that would make most of us happier, I somehow doubt that the President has any plans of trying to get re-elected with ten to twelve percent unemployment. Thanks for playing, schmucks.
What is truly annoying about this meme is that just two days after being flambayed by Wanda Sykes for saying he hopes the President fails, Limbaugh is now propping up a deranged conspiracy theory that has the President himself somehow hoping to fail in order to usher in socialism.
This kind of thing makes it very difficult for me to feel any sympathy for Limbaugh just because a comedian called him out for his shitty attitude with some highly inappropriate 9/11 "humor". God forbid anyone should give this asshole a small taste of what he dishes out daily.
Still, for as cutting as Sykes may have tried to be, the sharpest moment of the night in my opinion, the joke with some real animosity behind it, was when President Obama called out Michael Steele. The subtle jab was played off by Steele as "good love," but the President's demeanor carried a great deal of racial subtext that I'm not capable of articulating.
At the end of the joke-cluster, Obama told Steele that Rush Limbaugh did not qualify as a troubled asset. And Steele laughed. Oh yes. It's on tape. How long before Steele apologizes to Rush for that?
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