“Greedy Woman! You’ve Swallowed All the Cake!”

I was sorry to hear that Barney Frank is retiring after fleecing the country for 30+ years. I don’t think we’ll  enjoy that level of Congressional entertainment for quite awhile. Butt I guess after being redistricted to 350,000 new voters, BF didn’t have the “fire in the belly” or wherever, needed to throw those “Get to Know Barney” house parties he & his BBF gave back in the day. Too bad, because we really need more guys like him on the Hill: you know, the kind who know how to have their cake and eat it too.

It wasn’t cake, butt Lady M did manage to slip out the other night to enjoy a bit of the good life after having sacrificed all last week (turkeys, “Christmas” trees, funerals – oy!). She and a few lady friends went to Co Co. Sala Restaurant and Chocolate Lounge. Emphasis on “Chocolate.”

Très Chic Chocolate Lounge

First lady Michelle Obama enjoyed a lovely evening at Co Co. Sala on F Street on Monday night. A Yeas & Nays source tells us she dined with seven friends for dinner and, of course, dessert -- which featured an edible chocolate sculpture and house-made artisanal chocolates by Chef Santosh Tiptur. We're told Obama's favorite savory was Chef Tiptur's Moroccan Swordfish Sliders with chermoula marinade, fennel salad, aged pecorino and hazelnut coffee dressing. The restaurant owners later posted to Twitter about their excitement of having her as a guest. "It was such an honor to have first lady Michelle Obama dine at Co Co. Sala last night. What an exciting and humbling experience!"

Humbling indeed, serving spicy deep sea snacks to Lady M. BTW, I think she forgot to say “thank you” to you guys for picking up the tab, so let me say it: “Thank you!” You know how things go after a few of those chocolate martinis!

Note for anyone interested in future humbling experiences: she also enjoys shark sliders with those martinis.

Lady M, swimming with the sharks. Snacks following the show.

I don’t know why, but this discussion about letting them eat cake reminded me of this excellent little economics lesson brought to us by our friends in England (aka Great Britain). Barney Frank, if you’re still confused about what your role in the financial meltdown was, you might wish to watch this too. It succinctly explains the germane point: you really CAN’T have your cake and eat it too. At least not forever.

Meanwhile, Big Guy’s poll numbers just keep plummeting; surpassing even the loveable Jimmy Carter’s. Thank goodness Congress’ ratings are falling even lower, faster - providing his WTF team with the Truman anti-Congress model for ensuring victory.

Butt heck, nothing is going our way. Big Guy couldn’t even make it to the top of GQ’s “Least Influential People Alive” list – coming in last behind Ms.NBC’s Ed Shultz (#3), Tina Brown (#17) and John Boehner (#24).

President Obama came in at number 25 on the glossy's year-end list of year "great artisans of utter uselessness." Also landing a spot among those GQ claims spent the last year "devouring attention and contributing nothing to productive society."

“Great artisans of utter uselessness?” Is that code for something? Because it sure sounds racist to me. And how about "devouring attention and contributing nothing to productive society"? That is definitely racist, because I’ve heard the same accusations hurled at Lady M.

Nothing productive? Pul-eeze. We banned Happy Meals, didn’t we?

And here - tell me that Big Guy’s comments on the most recent embassy incident in Iran are “attention consuming and unproductive”

 

I know he speaks English eloquently, butt he may have to brush up on his “Great Britain” if he’s going to continue to talk about world events without TOTUS’ assistance.

Better yet, when TOTUS is not there to help, sit silently and smile.

Butt, not like that…and cinch up that tie for crying out loud! You’re the President!

We have met our advocates, and they ARE us.

Our topic today: New Democratic Campaign Strategy for 2012: winning With Out Whites (WOW)

Apparently Democrats have hit on their preferred strategy:

…a revised Democratic alliance in which whites without college degrees are effectively replaced by well-educated socially liberal whites in alliance with the growing ranks of less affluent minority voters, especially Hispanics.

The 2012 approach treats white voters without college degrees as an unattainable cohort.

In a nutshell, we’ve given up on Joe the Plumber and are going with the intellectual elitists and the perpetual (by design) underclass:

All pretense of trying to win a majority of the white working class has been effectively jettisoned in favor of cementing a center-left coalition made up, on the one hand, of voters who have gotten ahead on the basis of educational attainment — professors, artists, designers, editors, human resources managers, lawyers, librarians, social workers, teachers and therapists — and a second, substantial constituency of lower-income voters who are disproportionately African-American and Hispanic.

Here is a gallery of some of the people from these elite professions that we’ll be relying on this time around (again):

Professor Ward Churchill

Unnamed Street Artist, following his bliss

Designer LaQuan Smith, Lady M hasn’t worn him yet, butt she will

World famous editors, Pinchy Sulzberger and Ed Asner

 

Human Resource Managers of America

William Kunstler, American lawyer-advocate of radical reprobates for generations

 

Librarians of America                             H/T: Gerard

Social Workers of America

 

Teachers of America

 

Therapists

“and a second, substantial constituency of lower-income voters who are disproportionately African-American”

“and Hispanic,”       

as well as peoples of other colors:

Since we didn’t mention them by name, butt I know we’re counting on them, I guess we’re just taking our crony-capitalists of any hue and from all walks of commerce for granted.

And I guess this means that Big Guy’s team has decided to stick with the OWIES. Although without the Wall Street bankers in his stable this time around, we may have to resort to the OWIES preferred method of commerce - a new socio-economic-political paradigm  - barter.

Also, since we are no longer assuming that we have the doctors in our tent, you might want to raise a few chickens, just in case you get sick.

 

So I guess the only real question is, Can Big Guy really win the Big White without any of the little Whites? 

NASCAR fans create an American flag in the grandstands

I suppose it depends on whether they vote or not.

Yeah, this is Dr. Jilly. She’s white, just like you.

 

Looks like we wasted a perfectly good Sunday at NASCAR

 

“WOW” I guess that NASCAR reception really rubbed Lady M and Big Guy the wrong way.

Linked by: Larwyn’s Linx on Doug Ross@Journal, and BASIL99 on Hillary Is 44, Thanks!

A Critic’s Critique of Transformative Change. WTF. I’ve Got Tingles

 

Casting a long shadow in the setting sun

As Frank J. Fleming explains in his E-book “The Greatest President in the History of Everything”  our failure to see Big Guy’s awesomeness has nothing to do with his, ahem, Emperor’s robes and everything to do with our unworthiness:

Obama is operating on a whole other level here where we can’t even follow his logic, and that can be scary at times. It’s like if some sort of primitive person — a West Virginian, perhaps — saw a surgeon doing an operation. He’d think the surgeon was harming the sleeping man by cutting in to him, when in fact the surgeon was helping that man. And that’s who Obama is — a smiling man with a knife that we’re a little bit scared of. But don’t worry; he knows what he’s doing.

Obama in Charge

…he shoots!

 

he scores!

And now, from one of Politico’s (of the take-down-conservative-candidates-through-unfounded-claims school) Journolists we have an insightful thought piece: “Obama’s Toughest Critic: Obama” that begins with the standard fairy tale opening:

President Barack Obama has plenty of critics — Republicans, liberals, the media — but the person hardest on the president, his administration and the Democratic Party is, at times, Barack Obama.

I think the operative term there is “at times.” At other times, he’s too busy blaming the real culprits to even entertain the thought of his culpability.

The audacity of “Nope” - not my fault. Next.

And as is often the case, Big Guy points out that the fault lies not with his message, butt with his team’s lack of effectiveness in packaging the message for sale:

“The area in my presidency where I think my management and understanding of the presidency evolved most, and where I think we made the most mistakes, was less on the policy front and more on the communications front.”

Because if we package it right, we can sell anything. That’s already been established 

Big Guy acknowledges that he’s only accomplished 60% of what he set out to do – which is unfortunate because he planned on getting everything rammed through in 4 years so he could retire and be just like the Big Dawg: giving lucrative speeches and playing golf. Butt since the R-words have stood in his way, he’s now going to have to hang around for another term in order to complete his fundamental transformation of America.

Pop Quiz: who said “My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world. I hope you’ll join with me as we try to change it.” a) John McCain b) Barack Obama c) Mark Steyn

“So we know change is possible. It’s hard and it’s messy, and sometimes it’s frustrating, but we know it’s possible,” he said. “But here’s the thing. There are a lot of people who are still hurting and there’s still a lot more work to do. And so that other 40 percent that is not done, I’m going to need you because I need five more years. I need five more years to get it done.”

Because being the Lightbringer isn’t as easy as it looks

I wonder if this is the kind of transformation Big Guy had in mind:

Because if it is, he might still be able to wrap this thing up in 4 years if he’s lucky. And we have already established that he’s lucky.

And just for the record, now that I’ve finished reading the Politico article, I’m not convinced that Big Guy is his own biggest critic. I think for now Tingles has the inside edge on that claim.

Butt I think Big Guy can put the tingles back in his pants.

H/T Instapundit

Post Turkey Day Weiners

Wrapping up an all around fun Turkey Day weekend, Big Guy got off a round of golf with Reggie on Friday. Then he shot a few hoops Saturday morning with the boys (Reggie’s not going to be around forever you know). That makes for a lot of stinky laundry to be dragging around.

And those are some pretty big shoes to fill

And speaking of big shoes, Lady M’s aren’t going to be so easy to fill either.

Black stretchies (not jeggins) and standard issue Converse’s, undisclosed size

Here’s something that has me stymied though:  Everyone always reports Big Guy’s height at 6’1” and Lady M’s at 5’11” and yet when they stand side by side they look about the same. Unless Lady M is wearing heels, in which case she sometimes looks taller.

So either Big Guy is shrinking,

or Lady M is growing (and we don’t want to go there, after all that painful liposuction).

Anyway, in another Thanksgiving holiday tradition, Lady M, Big Guy, the Wee Wons and Granny R all went to watch brother Craig’s world famous basketball team, the Oregon Beavers, beat the Towson Tigers yesterday. You could tell it was a special event because Lady M let Big Guy eat a whole hot dog in peace.

And good to know: in addition to the military, Lady M hearts the Oregon Beavers too.

We had a few tense minutes during the game,

Like when Big Guy got news via his BlackBarry that the last air strike he ordered on Pakistan didn’t work out so well, butt the Beavers managed to squeak out a victory, 66-46.

Not sure what happened on the way home though: we all seemed to be looking like the Grinch when we landed back at the Big White.

        

Maybe they just found out that Little Bo ate all the left over turkey, and that all six of the varieties of Thanksgiving Day pies were gone too. Some times your luck just runs out, and there’s nothing left to be thankful for.

“…you've got to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?”

We all know how it goes: some days just suck, no matter how good they start out.

Totally off topic, butt I thought you might be interested. Especially if you’re still wondering if any of the Presidential contenders are serial sexual predators. This doesn’t prove anything of course, butt it may raise your awareness of the lengths that some people will go to in order to take out their political opposition. Again, I have no way of determining the veracity of this report (nor, apparently, does Gloria Allred for her allegations – as we haven’t heard a peep out of her for weeks. I guess her work is done.) butt here’s a fascinating summary of L'affaire Dominique Strauss-Kahn that you might enjoy reading. As you may recall, he was head of the IMF and the leading right-of-center contender to take out President Sarkozy until he was arrested and accused of a “vicious sexual attack” by a woman who later was exposed as a liar and a serial, uh, “date” for visiting gentlemen of means at the Sofitel. It’s the stuff of political thrillers: potentially hacked Blackberries, mysteriously disabled and missing Blackberries, mysterious comings and goings of the alleged victim in both DSK’s room and the adjacent room occupied by an “unidentified” person. Hmmmmm.

Who knew – powerful political enemies may find ways to take you out! And even in the high tech age of espionage, the quickest and most effective take down artistry still involves allegations of sexual impropriety. So watch out! Things could  get interesting around here.

 

Gratuitous Post Thanksgiving Weiner shot