Obama, Jobs and a Debate

It has been a few weeks since I decided to ramble about politics so I decided to wrap them into one big ole post.  So here goes:

American Jobs Act (awful name)

• American Jobs Act:  Seriously, that's the best name you could come up with? I understand the Great Society and New Deal were taken, but AJA? Sounds more like some sort of infection (which it will be) than a jobs program. I mean what about something like:  "Jobs Bitches - Get On Board", "No More Handouts Plan"
• American Jobs Act Part Deux:  So the anointed one feels we should pay for this with higher taxes to the rich and cutting incentives to the gas / oil industry. Ok, I get that ... but can you justify what we will get in return?  How can you create jobs by spending lots of money, increasing taxes and not cutting something? I didn't get an A+ in Micro / Macro Econ, but I at least went to class.  Plus, Dr. Noisewater shared this fantastic link that sums it all up:  The Cost of Obama's Stimulus Plan
• American Jobs Act Part III:  No way in hell this passes a Republican controlled Congress and Obama knows that. He's playing politics ... why not do something that will create a compromise? It's a shame that common sense has taken over politics.
• American Jobs Act Part IV:  This goes into the debate, but why don't we just enlist the draft and invade Mexico? No more boarder problems, plenty of jobs and we can sell all the confiscated drugs for billions? We could even legalize the cartels and incorporate them?

Republican Debate: I have to give CNN some credit ... I think they did a decent job. Wolf was less Wolf-like and the post-show panel after the debate was strong. Here are some of my key takeaways: 

• Republican consensus -- no one likes Obama.
• It wasn't so much a debate as it was an opportunity for each group to pimp each other out and try and break each other down.  The whole "treason" commentary got old quickly and it felt as if I were watching a bunch of children bicker of a DVD in the back seat of a car.
• After watching it, I really want a Godfather's Pizza. Not so much that I love Cain, I don't dislike him, but he reminds me of pizza and I'm on a diet which means pizza is sorta a no no. 
• Michelle Bachmann hates Rick Perry and pretty sure she didn't look at him the entire night.  Oh and she's short ... didn't realize she was short. I did have a conversation with Retired Sorority Girl and we are both pretty sure she was fun when she was 22. 
• Further to that point, I'm not sure any of them like Rick Perry.
• Newt is still running? 
• Aside from yelling at people, what did Santorum do?
• Ron Paul got attacked by the crowd and its a shame because what he said was historically correct (like it or not, it is historically correct). Granted, this isn't the first time the Tea Party has wanted to embellish history (and yes, Grumpy, even you know this is true). Yes, we did go to Saudi Arabia in '90 - '91 at the request of the royal family which irritated Osama Bin Laden. Yes, this led to a fatwa by his new group, Al Queda (which translates to foundation or basis), which did the '93 and '01 attacks. So in theory, yes we did provoke the extremists by having boots on the ground and that's fact ... not political rhetoric (and this is backed in a number of non-fiction books, the 9-11 Commission Report and even in pop culture: The movie The Kingdom). So stop booing ... unless those boos are targeted at UGA Offensive Coordinator Mike Bobo. If that's the case, then boo away.

Personally, I wish the candidates were all legos and we could construct a candidate to run against the anointed one. He's now in campaign mode which means he will have more energy, speak like an evangelical minister and start saying clever things like "Let's Do It Again" or "Yes We Can Do It Again" ... pretty sure he's paying the ad wizards on his campaign bus big bucks for such clever comments.

Let's be honest ... all the candidates suck (compared to candidates in the 50, 60 and 70s).  I wish we could just start from scratch or turn the election into tryouts like for a High School Football team. Oh well ... time to get my campaign up and running. At least my campaign slogan will be cool like: "Vote or Die!", "Why Not?", "Just Win, Baby, Win!", "Everyone else sucks, so why not me?", "Wanna Invade Mexico?"