First, a moment of silence for:

Who would you trust more as President: Socks, or the guy we had for the last eight years?

Okay.  I draw anyone’s attention to a letter in the Oregonian, written by someone younger than Socks:

As the stimulus bill moved through Congress, Republicans added their tax cuts and then didn’t vote for the bill.  If the Republicans weren’t going to vote for it anyway, why couldn’t they have left the tax cuts out?

Ketl Rodakowski
7th Grader, Metropolitian Learning Center
Northeast Portland

Question: Precocious 7th Grader, or aping opinions of the parents? 

Although, to be fair to the seventh grader, opposition is getting a little nutty and in the official talking points of one party versus the talking points of the other party (as opposed to some pretty decent mixed commentary I see), I’ll stick with the Donkeys.  As a result, I  really would like to see the letter from the child of a couple of Republicans under the influence of  these three exhbits.   Exhibit #1:

“Suppose you spent $1 million every single day starting from the day Jesus was born — and kept spending through today,” an announcer says. “A million dollars a day for more than 2,000 years. You would still have spent less money than Congress just did.”
The ad, sponsored by the American Issues Project, walks viewers through a timeline of history, starting with the three wise men on their way to the manger and ending with a view of Washington in 2009.
That’s followed by a clip of Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York, defending the stimulus — somewhat awkwardly — on the floor of the Senate:  “Let me say this, to all of the chattering class that so much focuses on those little tiny, yes, porky amendments,” Mr. Schumer says in the ad. “The American people really don’t care.”

I think there should be a reverse Godwin’s Law.  Godwin’s Law is that in a debate, when the name Hitler comes up, it means you lost the argument.  Here, I’d say that if you bring up the name Jesus Christ, you lost the argument.  I recognize this as an arbitrary setting of dates, though the name Jesus Christ is evocative and loaed enough that it ceases to be so arbitrary.

Exhibit #2 — NY Post cartoon.  I don’t have to link to it.  You know what it is.  And you know that its defense is that it references a current event.  A current event involving a monkey attack.

Exhibit #3, and this needs to be unpacked by itself.  Simply stated, if this is the face of the Republican Party in 2012, Obama will be able to weather a prolonged mini-Depression into a landslide vitory of FDR 36 dimensions.  I’ll get back to this one.

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