Lex's man of the year taking form

First, what have we learned from Blago?

Simple. If you offer a politician a $1,000 to support your position on an issue, it’s bribe. If a politician offers you a $1,000 to vote for him, like P-E Obama did, that’s good politics. What’s the difference? Why aren’t they both bribes?

Had I been McCain’s advisor, I’d have told him to pull a Price is Right strategy on Obama. Promise $1,001 per vote. It would have one uped Obama and demonstrated that the policy was a craven campaign tactic designed to buy votes. But hey it worked. Now Blago is headed to jail and Obama headed to the White House for doing essentially the same thing.

Person of the year candidates

Chuckles Schumer – or as Rush calls him Chuck you Schumer – for starting the current financial meltdown. Way back in June, Chuckles the clown thought it’d be a good idea to let the world know that IndyMac Bank was low on deposits. Chuckles let leak a letter to the FDIC that said the bank was in trouble. Well when a US senator – even one as dopey as Chuck you - says a bank is in trouble, people tend to listen. The predictable result was a run on deposits. 1.3 billion in assets were removed from the bank in a little over a week. The bank failed. Way to go Chuckles. In an imponderable, while Chuckles the clown was dropping dimes on IndyMac creating a panic that was the ruin of that institution, he was propping up a couple of truly troubled institutions Freddie Mac and Fannie May. Chuck you kept telling everyone that Fred and Fan were just fine – no problem here – just move along. Then when Fred and Fan melted down like the Wicked Witch of the West, Chuckles the clown pulled a bit of jujitsu that would have Jackie Chan doing a double take. He blames the whole thing on President Bush who was the one calling for more regulations on Fred and Fan in the first place.

How about scrawny Harry the war is lost Reid? Harry helped Rush Limbaugh raise over $4.2 million dollars for the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation. Dopey little Harry decided it was his job as senate majority leader to ruin a particular private American citizen. Too bad dopey Harry tried to ruin Rush Limbaugh. Dopey Harry sent a letter signed by 40 other Dumacrat senators to Rush’s boss at clear channel radio demanding Rush be fired for calling an anti-war protestor who claimed to be an Army veteran, a phony soldier. Well it turns out the guy wasn’t a phony – he served all of 44 days in the Army before being discharged as a Cat 4 loser. So Rush gets the letter and auctions it off on e-Bay. The letter fetches $2.1 million which Rush matches. Well done Harry $4.2 for the MCLEF. What if simple Harry decided he was just going to ruin a run of the mill average Joe?

How about the people of western PA? They voted overwhelmingly to return to the House of Representatives a blubbering old overstuffed bag of human waste aka Jack the @sshole Murtha. Yes young Jack the @ss won the congressional geography bee when he correctly noted that Okinawa being mere 5,000 sea miles from Iraq would be the perfect place to redeploy a quick reaction force after he urged us to turn tail and run away from Iraq. Then this Hindenburg sized (g)@ssbag declared Marines conducting combat operations in Haditha, Iraq were murders before any hearing or investigation had been conducted. But still the union thug led, public school educated, Obama zombies dutifully filed one by one to the voting booth and pulled the lever in favor of sending this despicable tub of carnival outhouse waste back to congress. Way to go.

We’ll continue this discussion on Man of the year tomorrow. Hint, it won’t be any of these three pieces of detritus.