Every morning as I read the news, I always look for something diverting that could bring forth a smile; otherwise, the grim parade of bad news would be hard to endure. Today, there were two items that almost made me laugh out loud.
The first unintentionally humorous item was a piece on the Huffington Post that detailed how president Obama's economic agenda will resonate with the American people. The humor was not that Americans will like Obama's economic agenda; rather, it was the idea that Obama has an economic agenda. Obama has speeches and Obama has villains (the wealthy), but Obama has no economic program. Indeed, the author of the column acknowledged as much since he spent nearly the entire article detailing things that Obama could decide to promote to help the economy. It never fails to amuse me to watch the progressive press go through contortions to show just how "wonderful" Obama is and even believe what they are saying.
The second bit of humor came from that paragon of progressive opinion, Eugene Robinson of the Washinigton Post. Eugene today was singing the praise of the latest Global Warming conference that just concluded. He is excited because China, India, Brazil and the USA all agreed to continue negotiations with a target end date of 2015. This is a "breakthrough" to Eugene. Maybe we can get the members of the House and Senate to agree to continue to negotiate on levels of government spending with a target date for agreement of 2015. While the government would shut down long before that date is reached, at least Eugene could call that major progress. The truth is that no agreement was reached on global warming and none is likely to be forthcoming. An agreement to agree signifies absolutely nothing.
I guess I just find it truly humorous that the people who write these columns continue to be published.
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