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The Washington Circus

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When you live about 3,000 miles west of the Potomac, its impossible not to feel as if youre watching the antics of people who should be wearing big floppy shoes and big red noses on the job. The upside is that 20 of them could use a single jalopy in order to carpool to work.For instance, leading up to Mubaraks departure, we kept hearing members of the administration refer to the Muslim Brotherhood in terms more appropriate to the Brownies and the Girl Scouts. It was almost comical to hear Joe Biden and James Clapper speak so much nicer about this gang of Islamic terrorists than anyone in the Obama administration had ever spoken about the members of the Tea Party. They even called the Brotherhood secular and nonviolent, two things they have never once said about Sarah Palin.img classalignright styleborder 0pt none srchttp2.bp.blogspot.comR62EkgSWOjQTVnzJDRKFSIAAAAAAAAABwELr5lDsGgyss200krauthammer.jpeg border0 alt width185 height200 While I often agree with Charles Krauthammer, I am starting to get annoyed with his constantly lauding Obamas political acumen. Its almost as grating as the MSMs chorus of hosannas that greet Obamas every speech. After all, if Obama were as politically adept as Krauthammer claims, he wouldnt have squandered his political capital in less than two years. Keep in mind that the midterm elections were only the culmination of a disastrous year in which, in spite of his nonstop campaigning, Obama saw his party lose major elections in Virginia, New Jersey and even Massachusetts.Also, Krauthammer should note, Obama is so out of touch with most Americans that he seems oblivious to the fact that most of us place a premium on good, oldfashioned sportsmanship. Thus, when he was on TV with Bill OReilly on Super Bowl Sunday, and mentioned our success in Iraq, I, for one, was dumbfounded when he didnt take a moment to say, And for that, I have to give credit to George Bush.It wouldnt have cost him anything, and it might have made some of us wonder, for a moment at least, if just maybe he wasnt as petty, partisan and narcissistic, as we had previously thought.But if theres one group that seems convinced that the president isnt any of those bad things, its the boneheads who comprise the ranks of Americas social psychologists. In a poll of a thousand of them, over 800 proudly identified themselves as liberals, while only three of them confessed to being conservatives. Its no wonder that the mental health of America is in the unfortunate state it is.In many ways, Washington, D.C., is a very small town. It has only one thriving business, politics. In fact it is so small and so cloistered, its really more like a village. And as such, its distinction is that, unlike most villages, it doesnt have just one idiot it has thousands.Speaking of idiots, the latest one to rise above the crowd is Rep. Chris Lee, a Republican from New York. Not content to keep his smarmy sex life under the radar, the way most of his colleagues do, this goofball stuck his photo on an online matchmaking site. In the text that accompanied his barechested photo, Rep. Lee claimed to be 39, single and a lobbyist.If the young woman who received his message was half as savvy as young women tend to be, her reaction was probably, Hes 46 if hes a day, Im sure hes married with kids, and anyone whod tell that many whoppers and expect to get away with it has got to be a congressman!2011 a hrefmailtoBurtPrelutskyaol.comBurt Prelutskya