Douchebag of the week

Well, it's been a tough week. More absurdity from last week's winner, Sarah Palin, made her a possible return engagement. The Beckster continues outrageous, but his sponsors are abandoning him in large numbers. The teabaggers have had their tongues out, lying about health care. Threatening signs, guns being carried to town halls. Prostitute toe sucker Dick Morris telling people to "terrorize" Democratic congressmembers. Would I have to buy a whole pack of Trojans for this bunch?

But no. It's U.S. Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA). This stolid fixture of the Senate sounded like a back-bench crazy when he told seniors they should be worried about "death panels." Great work, Chuck. Scare those old folks good. By the way, aren't you sort of elderly yourself? Why don't you just extend Senate health care to all elderly Iowans? Or have Aetna et al. just given you too much money? Are you shooting for "Palin/Grassley 2012"?

Chuck Grassley, the Douchebag of the Week! Your condom comes with Viagra!

Last week's douchebag of the week

A little late, but her attempts this week to backpedal have not improved her situation, so here it is.

Sarah Heath Palin, former governor of Alaska and current candidate to replace Paula Abdul on American Idol, earns this week's condom for claiming the administration's health care proposal will have a "death panel" that decides who lives and dies, including her Down syndrome baby. Shameless. Keith Olbermann put it best when he took her to task for using Trig Palin to advance this lie after she publicly complained about David Letterman's use of her daughters to make a joke. I guess it's OK if she uses her own children in public, though.

A close runner-up and candidate for this coming week's douchebag for the same reason is former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich for advancing the same idea. At least Bible Spice is dumb enough to actually believe it's true. Even a history professor who failed to achieve tenure couldn't believe that, or could he?

Sarah Palin, the douchebag of the week just ended. Would you like your condom flavored or ribbed?

John Bolton on the Release of Laura Ling and Euna Lee

I should take this more personally--though I question the wisdom of the reporters entering North Korea, Ms. Ling is a fellow Sacramentan, in fact originally from Carmichael, where I too lived for a couple of years. And John Bolton totally offends me when he contends we gave in to blackmail. Yeah, let's go to nuclear war over this one, Johnny Boy. I can always tell someone who has never faced war or destruction personally by (in this case) HIS willingness to go to war.

Still, Secretary of State Clinton, wife of the former president and chief negotiator, put it best by laughing.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/07/hillary-clinton-laughs-of_n_254167.html

Let's remember that Bolton was never confirmed as UN ambassador, was always Bush's recess appointment. I wrote a little song parody about him:
Hadda call Condi‘
bout that angry guy
got a long white mustache
an’ a myopic eye
Wooly Bolton
Wooly Bolton
Wooly Bolton
Wooly Bolton
Wooly Bolton

Hadda call Rummy
He gotta weave an’ bob
‘cause that wooly, wooly Bolton
gonna cost ‘im his job
Wooly Bolton
Etc.

I was working on more verses before Moustache Man left the news cycle. Like him, it's now irrelevant.