Boy oh boy; they are comin’ out of the woodwork now, aren’t they?

Senator Charles Schumer of New York apparently doesn’t travel far from his comfy desk. If he did, he would realize that our country is made up of about 70 percent of what he describes as ‘chattering class’. Yes, it seems by his definition that when you discuss your concerns with your fellow human around the water cooler you are part of that despicable underbelly of America he refers to as ‘The Chattering Class’.

A new class we weren’t aware of? Just where does The Chattering Class reside on the scale of class in America? By Senator Schumer’s tone you can assume he believes The Chattering Class is just under Low Class. Certainly his demeanor assures us that The Chattering Class is well below his rank as ‘Senator’, a ‘class’ I am sure he feels entitles him to discuss America’s future with his ‘kind’ without the disparaging nomenclature.

Senators ‘discuss’ while the rest of us ‘chatter’? What an Arrogant Jerk.

To solidify his place in this blog he attempts to assure us that ‘The American people really don’t care’ about the massive amounts of pork we just baked into our ’stimulus’ plan. I can’t wait to taste that pork in about three years when the money runs out and we look into the vault to see a little yellow Post-It note that reads ‘IOU: One Trillion Dollars. Have a nice day!’.  Mmmmm; yummy.

Here’s to hoping that this little wake up call changes things when Senator Schumer is up for election. Let’s send him back to Arrogant Jerk Class, where he belongs.

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Dear Nancy,

My job is obsolete, no one wants my services, and for my products there are better, cheaper alternatives.

Please, on my behalf, ask the American tax payers to support me for the next 10 years while I work to produce nothing. Also, I would like a little extra because I plan to build a business with no plans to innovate any new products or services, and I will need employees to help me.

In this way I plan to help America by creating jobs for people who had to leave other similar businesses, or those who may be stuck in a government job with absolutely nothing to do in their entire work day.

I am writing with some urgency, too, because I did not plan for my future and unfortunately spent all my money on superfluous consumer goods. Last year I purchased a new automobile that was well beyond my means, and our extended vacation went a little over budget because, well, who doesn’t need souvenirs, right? Anyway; we are in a bit of a hurry because the bill collectors are starting to get a little impatient, and I would like to get them off my back before our cruise next month.

Please give my regards to those in the Senate who are opposing this much needed ’stimulus’ package. I do not understand why they would want to debate and scrutinize your plans when it is clear that America needs this money now! Don’t they realize that creating jobs out of thin air and putting people to work with no productive objective will give our economy a burst of energy in much the same way those expensive cans of energy drink do? I don’t mean to imply that our economy may experience an even more devastating ‘crash’ once the sugar rush is over; I am sure that once the extra roads and bridges are built, the condoms distributed, and the unnecessary litigation completed, that our American workers will have plenty of options for employment. After all, by then our economy will be back on it’s feet and running at full steam on the shoulders of our artificially inflated job market.

I think it is wrong for those senators to oppose you. They shouldn’t want to debate you or challenge your ideas; don’t they realize that you were awarded your position because you are smarter than everyone else? I’ll bet they just think you are an opportunistic partisan politician working to forward the liberal agenda without consideration for the potentially destructive consequences of spending nearly a trillion dollars on unproven financial tactics. They are probably saying things like ‘that’s what got us into this mess in the first place’. Ha, they just don’t know what they are talking about; everyone knows it is because Bush rushed us to judgment over false reports of WMDs.

I can remember hearing our then Leader and Chief shout over the podium ‘If we don’t act now, and without a moment’s consideration, all will be lost!’. ‘No time to debate’ he said, and rushed us to a war that cost more, did less, and nearly broke America in half with each side of our political structure simultaneously defending and attacking decisions on a daily basis. I am sure glad our new president is taking the time to review and weigh the considerations of both parties as he promised he would do, and taking pause to assure that we are not rushing to judgment as he so eloquently demonstrated was the failure of our previous administration.

So, with no further adieu I await a check from you as I eagerly look in my mail box every day. I am growing weary of doing nothing all day and not getting paid for it. It’s time for change, and I am ready for a new government who will finally see my plight and understand that I have needs, too. I appreciate your understanding for my situation, and am glad that your stimulus will come to me with little or no expectation that I will produce or innovate anything. That would be slavery!

I am glad, too, that this stimulus package will arrive in time to keep me off welfare; the last thing we need is a government burdened with paying welfare and saddled with bad debt. We all know where that leads: higher taxes. Glad we are not headed down that road. In fact, it would probably be a great idea if the government would just buy controlling interest in America’s large companies and banks to make sure that they continue to run like a well oiled machine, much like our social security, healthcare, and public education systems have done for so many years. We all know that companies can’t do well without government aid, tight regulations, and a steep tax on innovation and success. Companies should carry the load, not ‘us’!

Thank you, Nancy, for your commitment to bipartisanship, open debate, and the future of America. Thank you, too, for supporting our new president in his commitment to reach across the isle, to reach outside of Washington, and to reach consensus. I really think this is going to work.

—A. J.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0209/18514.html

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I don’t know if this is really a guy named Don Fowler, and I can’t be sure at this moment whether Don is the former National Chairman of the Democratic National Committee. If he is, he is an Arrogant Jerk. If he’s not; he is still an Arrogant Jerk. Check out the video…

Watching the video, you will see Don Fowler being filmed secretly by another passenger (apparently This Guy). In the short clip he laughs about hurricane Gustav hitting New Orleans at about the same time that the Republican convention starts. Ho ho; boy, isn’t that funny?

I am sure the folks in the bayou think so; as they prepare to evacuate for ’round two’. You will recall that in round one (Katrina-equally as funny), nearly everyone in the region lost just about everything they had. It will be remembered as one of the most severe natural disasters of modern times.

That sure is funny. Thanks for the laugh, Don. You Arrogant Jerk.

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Let’s get right to it: Nancy Pelosi has made our list today. Here are the details…

According to Politico.com, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was interrupted by protesters who began chanting ‘Drill Here! Drill Now!’ during a press event at which she was speaking. Speaker Pelosi, rightfully annoyed but distastefully responded with ‘Right here?’.

I understand her being annoyed, so I would be willing to give this first response a pass as an expression of her frustration. However, the Speaker of the People decided to go one further and let loose with a vitriolic ‘Can we drill your brains?’.

Wow. What an Arrogant and Jerky thing to say. This from a person who should be considering everyone’s opinion as the Democrat Speaker of the House. The voice of the people; right.

Pelosi unfortunately revealed herself yet again as an extremely partisan entity with little or no concern for the people and opinions for which she claims to speak. If it is not on her side of the isle, why bother? I am sure she meant every bit of her apparent disdain for these protesters. How dare they express their opinion.

Pelosi has let her Arrogance go to her head. It is clearly clouding her judgment, and obviously puts her above The People.

I don’t disagree with her assessment of drilling. The old harp of ‘No blood for Oil‘ seems to have given away to ‘Drill here and save the country from evil’. Neither case is reasonable; a quick study of the issues reveals that the blood for oil idea was born of so many conspiracy theorists, and the drill here campaign is based on removing our dependence on evil oil producers from which we get around one percent of our nation’s oil (that’s right; we get most of it from Canada and other friendly countries).

So Nancy doesn’t get our tap for her stance on the oil issue, but rather her apparent disdain for people who just want a voice in the halls of our nation’s capital. I would expect more reasonable dialogue from such a position of authority, not an Arrogant and belittling response; no matter how silly the issue.

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I was quite shocked when Cuban Olympian Angel Matos gave a boot to the head of Chakir Chelbat, the Swedish referee who disqualified Matos for a blatant rule violation during an taekwondo match in Beijing this week.

Even more shocked am I to learn that Cuban dictator, and enforcer of strict adherence to rule Fidel Castro voiced his support for Matos’ flagrant offense. Apparently Castro expressed ‘total solidarity’ for Matos and his coach, both of whom are up for permanent not-invited status to any and all taekwondo events henceforth.

Now, I appreciate that Castro wants everything his way. Who doesn’t? But isn’t it just a bit hypocritical to force your country to obey every rule to the point of fault, and then publicly support an athlete for not only breaking the rules, but lashing out in anger when the hammer falls? Ridiculous. I think he may be an Arrogant Jerk. Either one, really; you choose.

Matos should be removed from the sport immediately. There is absolutely no room in sport for this kind of behavior and I think everyone understands the reasons. It’s not rocket science, and only requires the slightest of basic understanding to comprehend. Athletic sport literally goes out the window as soon as you are allowed to break the rules, or physically abuse a referee. Even baseball coaches understand this.

Truly amazing to me that iron fisted Fidel would defend a guy who so clearly broke the rules and so viciously encroached the athlete/referee barrier. It’s not like there is room for discussion on the offense: Matos was injured, and took more than his allotted 60 seconds to deal with the problem. A lot more. Having gone over the limit, the referee made a standard call. Matos is claiming that the referee was in on the fix. He may have been, but that doesn’t change the fact that Matos broke the rules. On tape. In front of millions.

I am sure he was upset, but it was his own actions that put him in jeopardy. It wasn’t a crazy call from the ref, or an obvious missed call. Matos was winning, in fact. If he thought there was some hanky-panky going on, he could well have complained in any number of formal avenues. But no…

He chose to present Chelbat with an extremely well photographed roundhouse kick to the face. No getting around that one. To the sound of a million camera flashes, Matos made his decision to leave the sport. Castro should try to pick up a little dignity and shun Matos for such an obvious error in judgment.

Very uncool.

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I’ve wrestled with this one for a couple hours now, and have decided I may as well get it off my chest…

Jesse Jackson is in the news again. It almost makes me sad to write him up this time. Here’s the deal:

While reviewing some footage of a Jesse Jackson interview late Tuesday night, a Fox News editor noticed that Jesse Jackson was caught whispering some political nastiness during some downtime. Jackson was whispering so as not to be heard, but was caught on an ‘open mic’* saying of Senator Barack Obama (and I quote)…

“[Barack] is talking down to black people“, and later; “I’d like to cut his nuts off.”

Ouch. (For more reasons than one.)

Fox ran with the story and gave everyone something new to talk about for a couple days. Followers of Jackson are shouting racism, which is what they do. This ridiculous assertion only emphasizes the fact that Jesse is preaching from an ever-smaller stump, and that his platform is becoming irrelevant. I know there are still pockets of resistance out there, but come on: the only time I hear about racism any more is when reason is traded for offense. Take for example this remarkable situation.

Everyone else is talking about how much mileage Obama will get out of the new expanse of distance the situation has placed between them. I agree; let’s break it down:

Jesse Jackson was apparently referencing Obama’s recent Father’s Day speech during which he discussed the shortcomings of a disproportionately large number of fathers among the black community. Of this, Barack apparently said “Any fool can have a child; that doesn’t make you a father. It’s the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.” I believe his words were meant to be inspirational and encouraging. Amen, brother.

And don’t get me wrong; I believe this statement applies to fathers of every color. There is certainly room for improvement in every corner of society. However, not since the great Bill Cosby lashed out at the black community for fostering gangsta rap, multi-generation welfare, and thin family values have we heard anyone boldly offer constructive criticism from within. No, the likes of Jesse Jackson would rather preach hateful rhetoric about how oppression, The Man, and lack of reparations have held the people down.

This argument once had merit. Perhaps Jesse Jackson even fueled the resolute direction our society is heading. But his role is now defunct.

Jackson’s comments revealed, yet again, a two-faced politician who’s only game is to stir things up in order to promote himself and his aging agenda. Obama scored big this week with people on each side of the color card who are ready for real change and are tired of Jackson and his ilk holding us back simply so they can have a purpose. Obama is uniquely positioned to be the guy who truly inspires the black culture in America to let go of the past, and embrace the future with pride and unity. With Jackson’s comments directed to ‘one of his own’, I hope blacks from every social level will see him for what he is.

Jackson is like the Tony Stark character played by Robert Downey Jr in this summer’s Iron Man; When a young soldier gives the peace sign, Tony Stark, a military weapons contractor, says something to the effect “Yeah, peace, when there is peace we’ll all be out of a job.” I can’t help but think that Jackson goes to bed at night thinking that he will be out of a job the day we all stop using racism as the basis for the ailment of the day, and start being better fathers.

*An ‘open mic’ is a microphone that has been left on. Throughout modern history, politicians of every creed have been caught saying embarrassing things, or even doing embarrassing things, such as using the toilet while wearing an open microphone lavaliere.

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