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I stopped listening to Rush Limbaugh a long time ago. As a thoughtful conservative I found his shrill, relentlessly self-congratulatory tone a real drag. The man usually re-writes history to meet his own agenda, a version of history steeped in paranoia and fear of a secret, unseen, uber-government agenda driven by “the Democrat party,” as he likes to call it.

I know some people like this guy, but I just don’t get it. He may have been a thoughtful conservative once upon a time, but any more he just sounds like a bombastic, “I don’t care about facts, I’ll just choose to believe what I want to believe” blow-hard.  The truth of the matter is crystal clear; Rush never met a Democrat he liked and if that’s the party on your voter registration card you are branded a mindless, “big government,” neanderthal.

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Screamy, Loopey, Dopey, Sleepy, Tex, Brainy, and Beauty strutted their stuff at the CNN Republican debate last evening in Las Vegas. The six current Republican candidates for President and their Sleeping Beauty, (who smiled the occasional plasticky, phony smile and looked sweet in exile off to the right of the platform), amped up the rhetoric and turned up the heat but said almost nothing of substance during the ordeal.

Is anyone going to finally tell these people that they sound shrill, uninformed, and occasionally DUMB? As debates go it felt more like a schoolyard scrum than a thoughtful exchange of ideas.

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Herman Cain, the latest Republican to capture the imagination of a deeply-jaded electorate, has said some pretty fantastic things lately.  First he suggests building an enormous electrified fence to keep out illegal immigrants.  Then, when called on the crassness of the statement he says, “It’s just a joke.  Get a sense of humor.”  A few years ago he suggested Tiger Woods would make a great President.  Later, after Tiger got exposed for a philandering, prostitute-using, creep, Cain said, “It was a joke.  Get a sense of humor.”

You think Barack Obama is a train wreck of a President because of his economic policy?  At least the guy had the gravitas to lead the troops when it came time to take out a terrorist that prior presidents failed to nail.

Herman Cain?  Really?  This is the best the Republicans can do?

Stand-up comics and late night talk show hosts have had it tough the last couple of years.  Obama hasn’t been enough of a quote machine these past two years.  He hasn’t put his foot in his mouth with the same frequency of his predecessor.  Like him or not, he actually knows how to articulate serious ideas when he’s being asked for solutions and when he actually tries to tell a joke – usually at the annual press corps dinner – the joke is usually funny.

For the love of all things Letterman and Leno, my dear Republican friends, keep Herman Cain’s candidacy alive.

Rick Perry, resorting to the usual, tired mantra Republicans can’t seem to shake when confronted with a job-creation conundrum, has once again run out the tired – dare I say, “brain-dead” – notion that the REAL reason we can’t create jobs in this country is because we have far too much clean air to breath and simply not enough environmental pollution to handle.

Okay, I admit, that was a sarcastic jab at the Texas-based hopeful for the Republican nomination for President of the United States of America.  To be fair, what Perry wants to do is open federal lands for oil and gas drilling and cut back on EPA regulations governing the environmental impact of oil and gas drilling.  He also wants to cut back on what he considers “job-killing” clean air standards that, to his mind, are onerous on industry.

Yes, that’s right.

According to Perry, it seems that excessive regulation by the EPA is stopping America from creating jobs.

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Taking a page from former President Bill Clinton’s handbook on linguistic hair splitting, Rep. Anthony Weiner of New York (D) has chosen to parse out a series of convoluted answers to a singularly simple question.

“Rep. Weiner, is that or is that not a picture of your crotch?”

It seems that someone, whether Rep. Weiner himself or some prankster, Tweeted a photo of “someone’s” boxer-clad crotch. How tasteful.

It’s not bad enough we have “Sexting,” the practice of sending explicit sexual photos via MMS text messages. Now we have “Twexting,” the practice of sending sexually explicit content via Twitter. Enough is enough!

Rep. Weiner, let me give you a little advice. The next time a reporter asks you if what is making the rounds is a photo of your crotch, the answer is a simple, “Yes, I don’t know how it got sent but yes, that’s my crotch” or “No, I don’t know who is behind this, but it is definitely not a picture of my crotch.” Parsing out all the mumbo jumbo about this being someone’s idea of a prank but dodging the more critical question – why a sitting congressman would take a picture of his crotch in the first place? – is not flying with the American public.

A simple “Yes” or “No” answer will suffice, Rep. Weiner.

Oh, and if it IS his wiener in the photo, Rep. Weiner ought to step down. It calls into question the sobriety of his judgment as a member of the House of Representitives. If he can’t remember to keep his wiener under cover, he can’t be trusted to make sober judgements on matters of critical, national importance.