Well, ok, since this has been floating around for a week or so now, we can finally get to the truth: the Buffet Rule is really more about spreading the wealth around. Just not that much wealth, according to the CBO, so it’s more symbolic of where we intend to go from here.
So anyway, the “Buffet Rule” was never about paying down the deficit? It was about making life “fair” all along?
The goal, Mr. Furman explained, is to establish a "a basic issue of tax fairness."
That’s something even your Mom was never able to do. I guess that technically does make this the ultimate nanny state edict rule.
I wonder if we should start with Big Guy’s staff? As of February they still collectively owed $833,000 in back taxes. And Warren Buffet? He could just go ahead and pay the $1 billion the IRS says he owes instead of fighting it. That seems fair to me.
And if it’s about being “fair” we’re faced with that age old question of “what exactly is ‘fair’” and which one of Big Guy’s czars gets to decide?”
What do you say we play a few rounds of theIs this fair?game. Like Jeopardy, it’s divided into several categories.
Is it Fair? Unfair weight distribution category:
Is it Fair? Unfair big brain distribution category:
Is it Fair? Unfair job opportunities due to political connections category:
Is it Fair? Unfair wealth due to family/marriage category:
Is it Fair? Do we really want to go there? The fairness route? If so who do you think should be our fairness czar? Here’s a hint as to whom Big Guy is leaning towards Wright now: a man who has been preaching about how to make life fairer for most of his life by railing against “rich, white people.” And trying to set the record straight on a whole bunch of “White supremacists” – and one Black Supreme:
Anyway, Big Guy is droning on in the East Room about how his Buffet “fair share” rule could just as soon be called the “Reagan Rule” (do we really want to go there?)
I think not.
On another front: all hell’s broken loose again with one of Jim Messina’s (another of Big Guy’s winners in the Big Brain category) Tweet Wars: This time Jimmy had Big Guy send out a new hashtag asking his Obots what they think the additional revenue from implementing the Buffet Rule could do. It was promptly Occupied by the R-words astroturf conservatives.
and my personal favorite:
Ah yes: you’ve been here too long. Time to go now.
Ok, you’ve had your fun, enough already. Yes, I know Lady M dressed like a box of Crayons and stuck her tongue out: she was just getting in touch with her inner child (again). Butt really, don’t we have bigger fish to fry – rhetorically speaking?
The wrinkly knee look is very big this year
And there’s no truth that we were paid to lobby for, respectively, the republics of Columbia, Romania, Transylvania or Chad.
Nor were we doing product placement for McDonald’s, Burger King or M & Ms.
Also, I would like to note that while they were offered, Lady M declined the free pair of Ked’s SuperMom high tops – even though they were specially designed to go with her Easter Roll outfit.
Plus, I see no point in discussing Lady M’s proclivity for sticking her tongue out somewhat inappropriately at these Easter Egg Rolls.
Easter Roll 2011, left; 2012 right.
It’s just that we keep inviting world famous chefs (Wolfgang Puck last year and Marcus Samuelsson this) Their food is just so darn yummy, they had everyone lickin’ their lips!
Lady M used yesterday’s Egg Roll as an opportunity to hectorlecture share a learning moment with parents - who were slightly surprised as they thought they were invited to the Big White for their kids to gather some chocolate bunnies and eggs:
While she helped the children make shrimp and vegetable tacos, the First Lady spoke to parents about tips to encourage their kids to eat vegetables.
"If we have [too many] fried chicken and the carb-heavy dinners, the kind we all love, we're not setting our kids up for success."
Adding,
"Veggies aren't really a choice," she added. "We think they are, but they're not."
Yikes! I hope she doesn’t intend to tell Denise Ilitch that.
Denise (daughter of Little Caesar’s founders Mike and Marion Ilitch) is throwing Big Guy a solid sterling silver pizza party in Detroit later this month. All of Big Guy’s executives from GM and Chrysler will be there to return the bailout favor by ponying up $40k each to get their picture taken with their personal savior - plus all the pizza they can eat!
Butt seriously: "Veggies aren't really a choice?" Are you kidding me! The Ilitchs practically invented pepperoni pizza! And they did invent the two-for-one pizza deal later known as Pizza!Pizza!®, a concept that I can report used to rate very highly on Lady M’s go-to meal list.
Butt ok, have it your way: if veggies are your one true love
Go right ahead and have your Little Caesars “not a choice” vegetarian pizza if you “must”
or, if you’re a real American, exercise your right to live free or die:
Pizza!Pizza!®
Butt I think I should warn Big Guy before he goes to Detroit for the pizza party, they’ve taken Chicago rules to another whole level. So don’t even think about whining about people teasing you about your big ears.
Because not only did Detroit invent Pizza! Pizza!, they invented bullies too.
So ok, do we have an agreement? More personal choices, less whining?
Oh, and speaking of whining: apparently we’ve temporarily suspended the $10 off sale on our O-Hoodies. Due to a bunch of conservatives blowing the whole thing out of proportion, as usual.
Before getting on with the egg roll (which officially started at 7:30 AM!) I just want to clarify something from yesterday. For those of you who thought Lady M was sporting a new frock fro yesterday’s trip to St. John’s Episcopal Church for Easter Sunday services:
Wrong! This is an election year, remember? We are being quite frugal with the peasants taxpayers money and will be recycling our designer frocks as often as possible, especially now that some of them fit us again after losing our “freshman 15.”
This little number for example debuted 3 years ago on our first historic European tour de force. I’m sure you remember; we were still going through our awkward phase as FLOTUS:
“What to wear? What to do with the arms?”
The complete Thakoon (is that racist?) ensemble included a “Pussy Bowed” (not my term) coat with light on dark print paired with a Jackie sheath with the reverse, dark on light print. Clever: reversing the negative.
Now that we’ve completely grown into our roll, we’re wearing our reverse negative image a bit more casually. (And we’re working on growing into our cheek injections.)
And the mini-me sweater? Also not new.
Now, onto the really big Egg Roll, aka, “Let’s Go, Let’s Play, Let’s Move!” Although last year’s official theme was “Get Up and Go!” technically this year’s theme is recycled too.
We did make a new, special video for this year’s event though, which will be running in a constant loop on the Rockin’ Egg Roll Stage. Possibly because we didn’t really get much in the way of real entertainment this year: “Janelle Monae, Cody Simpson, Rachel Crow, Sesame Street, Zendaya, China Ann McClain and the McClain Sisters.” ???
Sheeze, just because Barbra Streisand isn’t going to sing at our fund raiser next month doesn’t mean that none of the A-listers have to show up any more, does it?
We had some real pros helping us produce this video: the GSA prize winning video production team, unexpectedly made available to us last week after being shut down due to a bad rap.
Anyway, I thought you might enjoy previewing the preview. Participating in the Bunny Hop this year, in addition to our in-house cotton tails, are Joey and Dr. Jill, as well as another real familiar face (also unexpectedly made available last week), Keith Olbermann. So here’s our post Easter, pre-Egg Roll, out-take:
We’re bringing Keith on board as a special assistant to our WTF campaign ( although I guess we haven’t actually settled on an official campaign slogan yet. ) It’s sort of a test-drive to see if he’s a good fit for our Minister of Unapologetic Apologies campaign opening.
In his first TV appearance since his ouster from Current TV last week, Keith Olbermann told David Letterman on The Late Show Tuesday that “I screwed up really big.”
“Let’s just start there,” said Olbermann, according to an early transcript provided by CBS. “I thought we could do this. It’s my fault that it didn’t succeed in the sense that I didn’t think the whole thing through. I didn’t say, ‘you know, if you buy a $10 million chandelier, you should have a house to put it in. Just walking around with a $10 million chandelier isn’t going to do anybody a lot of good, and it’s not going to do any good to the chandelier.’ And then it turned out we didn’t have a lot to put the house on to put the chandelier in, or a building permit, and I, I should have known that. And it is, it is my fault at heart …
I think he’s a natural for our opening. In fact, Big Guy is so totally on board with the analogy: he, too, thinks of himself as a $10 million chandelier, shining a light on the darkness that is America. And not that America didn’t have a house to hang it (although the Big White could use a little sprucing up) butt BO doesn’t believe that some of us recognize just how much light he has brought already:
The Lightbringer: clean, green. Shield your eyes. And your wallet.
Anyway, if the Minister of UA goes well with Keith, we may create a new permanent position for him: Blame Shifting Czar. Job description as follows:
Blame Shifting
Blaming others can lead to a "kick-the-dog effect" where individuals in a hierarchy blame their immediate subordinate, and this propagates down the hierarchy until the lowest rung (the "dog"). A 2009 experimental study has shown that blaming can be contagious even for uninvolved onlookers.
As a propaganda technique
Blame is closely associated with labeling theory, in that when intentional actors act out to continuously blame an individual for nonexistent psychological traits, and for nonexistent variables, the actors aim to induce irrational guilt at an unconscious level. It is a propaganda tactic, to use repetitive blaming behaviors, innuendos, and hyperbole in order to assign negative status to normative humans. When innocent people are blamed fraudulently for nonexistent psychological states and nonexistent behaviors, and there is no qualifying deviance for the blaming behaviors, the intention is to create a negative valuation of innocent humans to induce fear, by using fear mongering. Blaming in the form of demonization has been used by governments for centuries to influence public perceptions of various other governments, to induce feelings of nationalism in the public. Blame can be utilized to objectify people, groups, and nations, which can typically negatively influence the intended subjects of propaganda, compromising their objectivity. Blame is utilized as a social control technique.
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