Time for the rubber room.

Ah, and now President “I am going to lower the oceans” has chimed in.

From The Hill: (Hat Tip: Michelle Malkin)

President Barack Obama boasted Friday that his economic recovery efforts were showing results after the national unemployment rate stayed at a steady 9.7 percent for February.

Obama, touring a small business in Arlington, Va., said that the 36,000 jobs lost last month was ‘actually better than expected’ considering the massive snowstorms that devastated the East Coast.

So those Global Climate Warming Change blizzards not only caused STDs on snail darters and contaminated Michelle Obama’s veggie garden, but now it causes unemployment, too? Who knew?

Well, in November well over 100+ Democrats will be losing their jobs. And that is a VERY, VERY, VERY GOOD thing. (I might revise the Sanity poll numbers up, since it is not out of of the realm of possibility that the Dems could lose 150-175 seats)

Remember, the only sector where employment is booming is at the government level and every time a bureaucrat or phony ACORN Census worker is hired, someone in the private sector has to pay for that job. It is not “paid for” from Obama’s “Stash” (aka the Obama Slush Fund, aka the Porkulus, aka The Generational Theft Act)

Thanks for yet another campaign ad, Dems. You are making this too easy.

Best comment: (From Malkin’s site)

On March 5th, 2010 at 11:56 am, Dimsdale said:

Unemployment is 100% when it’s you.

I wouldn’t spit on Reid’s head if his hair was on fire.

I suppose between the thrill of the Saints-Vikings game over the weekend and the audible thud of the President’s State of Confusion “lecture”, one very under reported, but very important news item has slipped by.

WHY THE HELL IS MARK KIRK STILL CASTING VOTES IN THE SENATE?

Massachusetts law is quite clear on this issue. When Brown won the special election last week, he was to be sworn in ASAP and Kirk was banned from voting in the Senate, starting the the day after the election.

From the Weekly Standard:

But in the days after the election, it is Kirk’s status that matters, not Brown’s. Massachusetts law says that an appointed senator remains in office “until election and qualification of the person duly elected to fill the vacancy.” The vacancy occurred when Senator Edward Kennedy died in August. Kirk was picked as interim senator by Governor Deval Patrick.

Democrats in Massachusetts have talked about delaying Brown’s “certification,” should he defeat Democrat Martha Coakley on Tuesday. Their aim would be to allow Kirk to remain in the Senate and vote the health care bill.

But based on Massachusetts law, Senate precedent, and the U.S. Constitution, Republican attorneys said Kirk will no longer be a senator after election day, period. Brown meets the age, citizenship, and residency requirements in the Constitution to qualify for the Senate. “Qualification” does not require state “certification,” the lawyers said.

Now, compare that to this item. Look at the date of the story of this item from FOX News re: Niki Tsongas: (Hat Tip to Lan Astaslem at Michele Malkin)

Thursday, October 18, 2007

WASHINGTON — Democrat Niki Tsongas cast her first House vote Thursday on an issue that helped propel her into Congress: expanding a children’s health insurance program.

The election itself was held on the 16th of that October.

And please do not give me any “House vs. Senate” rules claptrap. Brown was duly elected, and by MA law, was to be duly sworn in to REPLACE the current occupant of that seat, Kirk. Not sit around like a stranded tourist, hoping someone would give him directions to the Dirksen building.

But don’t worry, we’ll save a few billion by cutting back the number of paper clips the IRS uses.

From the NY Times: (Hat Tip: Michelle Malkin)

The Senate on Thursday voted narrowly to increase the government’s borrowing authority to $14.3 trillion, which would allow the Treasury Department to continue servicing the country’s spiraling national debt through most of 2010.

The 60 to 40 vote, along party lines, allows the Democratic-led chamber to avoid approving another unpopular increase before the November congressional elections. The House of Representatives must also approve the hike before President Barack Obama can sign it into law.

At $45,000 per American, that is nearly twice the annual poverty line. So can we now all claim to be in poverty and get all of the goodies that are reserved to the parasites and illegals? I thought not.

You have to love this line:

…but lawmakers are never eager to sign off on a measure that allows the government to dig itself further into debt.

Maybe if they did not quadruple the deficit and the debt in one short year, they would not have such clammy hands when pressing the “Yea” button. They might as well be a Kennedy and complain about drunk driving.

As Charlie Chan said: “A long journey starts with the first step”.

Well, the first step towards the goal of removing the Democrat Party from the reins of power in Congress, and potentially relegating them to their smallest minority status in generations, officially starts today. As Rep. Parker Griffith (D-AL) has announced that he will switch to the GOP.

From Politico: (Hat Tip: Michelle Malkin)

POLITICO has learned that Rep. Parker Griffith, a freshman Democrat from Alabama, will announce today that he’s switching parties to become a Republican.

According to a senior GOP aide familiar with the decision, the announcement will take place in this afternoon in his home district in northern Alabama.

Griffith’s party switch comes on the eve of a pivotal congressional health care vote and will send a jolt through a Democratic House Caucus that has already been unnerved by the recent retirements of a handful of members who, like Griffith, hail from districts that offer prime pickup opportunities for the GOP in 2010.

The switch represents a coup for House Republican leadership, which had been courting Griffith since he publicly criticized Democratic leadership in the wake of raucous town halls over the summer.

Griffith, who captured the seat in a close 2008 open seat contest, will become the first Republican to hold the historically Democratic, Huntsville-based district. A radiation oncologist who founded a cancer treatment center, Griffith plans to blast the Democratic health care bill as a prime reason for his decision to switch parties—and is expected to cite his medical background as his authority on the subject.

This dovetails well with the growing wave of Yellow Dog Democrats who are stepping down rather than be flogged at the polls:

From USA Today:

WASHINGTON — Veteran Tennessee Rep. Bart Gordon on Monday became the fourth centrist Democrat in three weeks to announce his retirement, leaving his party with another tough-to-defend seat in next year’s elections.

“It’s going to be a difficult cycle for Democrats,” said Stuart Rothenberg, publisher of the non-partisan Rothenberg Political Report.

Gordon is one of 11 Democrats who have announced they will not run for re-election. On the Republican side, 12 House members are retiring or running for another office, such as Delaware’s Mike Castle, who has announced his bid for the Senate seat long held by Vice President Biden. Rothenberg rates seven of the Democratic open seats as potentially changing parties, compared with three Republican open seats.

“We have more swing districts overall,” said Rep. Chris Van Hollen, a Maryland Democrat who heads his party’s congressional campaign committee. “We’ve said from Day One that this is going to be a very challenging cycle.”

Both parties work hard to keep retirements to a minimum, because incumbents generally have an advantage in winning elections. In 1994, the retirement of 28 Democrats proved the harbinger of a Republican takeover of the House.

Outside of Pelosi and Bernie Sanders, I would not want to be a Democrat who is up for re-election next year. There is likely to be electoral carnage, the likes of which may never have been seen before.

Mental derangement is an interesting thing. In movies, books and plays, it can be a hoot. A loon, stalker or killer can be given all sorts of character traits, motives and reasons to go off the deep end and satisfy their deep-rooted urges and impulses. It matters little how logical, coherent or even sane those urges or motives are. What is important is the bait. The hook. The catch. And if the author is crafty enough, he/she can even tap into the dark side of the audience and make them even secretly root for and admire the nutjob. Think Hannibal Lecter.

However, it is a lot less funny when that same derangement and lust for destruction, aimed at either one person and/or an entire political party, comes from someone who shares the powers of the federal purse strings and is also given virtual carte blanche when it comes to the vast resources of the federal government. A person who has easy access to most any media outlet, and knows he has 100% protection from his higher-ups to utter the most outrageous statements, no matter how defamatory, libelous or mentally deranged they are. Which brings us to one, Rep. Alan Grayson, (D-FL).

Normally, a political party, or a sect within that party will have an attack dog. Or two or three. They are there to feed red meat to their base, provoke outrage from their opponents and generally just stir the pot. Sometimes they will make their over-the-top comments to energize a demoralized base or to distract their opponents and the media from what is really going on in the background.

However, in Grayson’s case, we seem to have someone who seems to have a Political Mark of Cain. One whose tone, rhetoric and venom is akin to a rattlesnake being whipped in a dog crate with a 10′ long stick.

From the despicable and mentally unbalanced statements made by Grayson on the House floor about how Republicans want seniors to “die quickly” to his now calling a female Fed advisor a “a K Street whore” we see what can happen when the elixir of the fantasy of unchecked power can have upon not only a leftist Democrat, (who axiomatically would already have delusions of grandeur) but one whose sanity synapses are not firing in their proper order. Frankly, I do not think this man is competent to serve as a public official, or even as a 3rd-string Wendy’s fry cook. He more reminds me of those creepy high school janitors you used to see in those old 50’s shorts and movies, who everyone knew was a loon and a creep, but who the director kept vainly trying to portray as a normal character, just along for the story’s ride.

Grayson’s Latest. (Hat Tip – Red State) (Go here if you want to listen to the whole 11 minute interview.

And the infamous “die quickly” rant:

This speech is Political Projection Perfected. A sterling example of accusing your opponents of what you yourself and your party are guilty of. (e.g. “Culture of Corruption”, “cutting your Medicare”) Of course, with government-run care, or to use the more accurate term I coined many months back, MengeleCare, getting sick, especially if you are elderly or handicapped in some way, is a very probable death sentence. For your illness, your condition, your medicine and your care is literally in the hands of a nameless, faceless, bureaucratic gray blob whose only purpose for existing is to crunch numbers, meet bottom lines and treat every “patient” as a number in a spreadsheet cell. 1984’s Big Brother has nothing on the indifference, inefficiency and ineptitude of a government bureaucracy, which is truly the closest thing to Purgatory on Earth.

While some House Democrats have shown at least a small shred of decorum and have decried Grayon’s outbursts, it would appear that the White House is A-OK with them. At a recent Florida fundraiser, Obama called Grayson, along with Florida Reps. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz and Kendrick Meek, “outstanding members of Congress.” That pretty sums up where we are today in PoliticalSpeak nowadays. Below Ed Norton’s feet.

I think even Hannibal Lecter would be shocked and disgusted.