World's coming to an end: Hell froze over...

Let me throw some political commentary out for enjoyment now that it appears Bush has lost what weight he had left and I've had a chance to agree with individuals I historically disagree with. First, the painful statement. I agree with Bush's desire to veto the farm/food bill, yet disagree with Schwarzenegger's plan to either raise sales taxes or to attempt to increase the performance of California's lottery. Despite them both sharing an (R) after their name, I put those two people on opposite sides of the isle. Generally speaking, I think pretty favorably of Schwarzenegger and have less than pleasant thoughts of Bush, but given this week I found myself disagreeing where I normally agree and visa versa.

The Lottery is a tax on people who never took statistics. Having the state's top elected official openly try and promote flawed spending habits isn't a good message to send to the public. Ugh. Dumb, dumb, dumb. The only redeeming thought that I've had is that Schwarzenegger knows he's "selling" lemon asset that won't perform better, in which case it's brilliant. Problem with that being, both the sales tax increase and the lottery target the lower end of the economic spectrum. Doh. Back to thinking it's a bad idea. Were there no alternative ways to help fund the rainy-day fund (a very good idea, however)?

Then, the food/farm bill. Bad, bad, bad, bad, bad... and yet I find myself thinking the same things that Bush is saying (I can't think of more painful words to write). How's this for an idea: Bush should come to California and buy a lottery ticket thereby fulfilling his role as an intelligent role model while he still holds the office of President of the United States of America. After all, this President is largely known for doing and not thinking, so it would seem fitting to have Schwarzenegger give 'ole Bushy a call and say, "can you do me a favor and come buy a lottery ticket on camera?" An uneducated guess on my part suggests that the lottery does better in Red States, which means this photo op would likely poll for a 2-5 point bump to Bush approval rating and would possibly generate new tax revenue. Actually, how cool would it be to see W as the spokesman for the lottery? That would be weapons grade fail and would perfectly suit my image of Bush.

And then, the political highlight of my week. A perfect example of the demon spawn that has taken over AM radio. I give you Kevin James, a new Internet phenomena (at least he'd better be).

The scariest part? I bet this Kevin guy has decent ratings.

Let me half-heartedly examine both sides of Kevin and attempt to defend his actions (and fail, btw). I only remembered Chamberlain's name, not what Chamberlain did (though I'm guaranteed to remember it now). The counter argument, Kevin is a professional (i.e. paid) political disk jockey showing up on a nationally syndicated TV to defend Bush's remarks in a speech that I can only assume he read and thereby would've researched prominent historical references that weren't understood (reasonable care of professional conduct would suggest he would've read it, but clearly I'm ass-u-me'ing a higher degree of professional care and integrity). Yeah, sorry... this Kevin dude is grade A fail.