Poll: Congress Lower Than Vermin

Public Policy Polling has a new poll out that describes American sentiment towards Congress.

Complete Results Here

It's not surprising, but people prefer almost any vile thing to Congress, including used car salesmen, replacement refs, and even Colonoscopies. Ouch. Did I mention cockroaches? Yep, better than Congress.

What things are considered lower than Congress? The Kardashians, John Edwards, and the Ebola Virus.

How much lower can they go? Just wait till the Debt Ceiling fight! Maybe by then PPP will add the NRA to their list - they are sinking fast also.

Head Lice 67 Congress 19

Brussel Sprouts 69 Congress 23

Replacement Refs 56 Congressmen 29

Colonoscopies 58 Congress 31

Root Canals 56 Congress 32

Used Car Salesmen 57 Congress 32

Traffic Jams 56 Congress 34

France 46 Congress 37

Genghis Khan 41 Congress 37

DC political pundits 37 Congress 34

Donald Trump 44 Congress 42

Cockroaches 45 Congress 43

What does Congress beat?
Lindsey Lohan (45/41), playground bullies (43/38), and telemarketers (45/35). And it posts wider margins over the Kardashians (49/36), John Edwards (45/29), lobbyists (48/30), Fidel Castro (54/32), Gonorrhea (53/28), Ebola (53/25), Communism (57/23), North Korea (61/26), and meth labs (60/21)

2012 - When Truth Was Stranger Than Everything

Dangling on the edge of the Fiscal Cliff like a cartoon character is a heck of a way to spend New Year's Eve. I mean, wasn't the Apocalypse last week enough?

We all need more laughs here at the end of 2012, so here you go . . .

2012 Memories ~ Good, Bad, and Amazing

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Wow, so much happened in 2012 that one video can't hold all of it. In fact, one post can't hold it all, so expect a few more.

Mitt Romney's Olympic Pins

Everyone knows that Mitt Romney is considered the "savior" of the Salt Lake City Olympics in 2002, and that he says he left Bain Capital in 1999 (retiring retroactively) so he could run the event. But did you know that there are "Mitt Pins" commemorating the event? Yes, these were official pins, except for one,  which has a colorful backstory:

"Romney allegedly used the F-word during an Olympic traffic jam, which resulted in the production of an unofficial Olympic pin featuring a red-faced Romney saying “Flip!” Utah’s sanitized version of the expletive."

Just when you think things couldn't get stranger . . .




Story from National Public Radio

"I've been given an enormous responsibility, and an entire country and the Olympic team from the United States and the world, to a certain extent, expect me to do the job well," Romney said. "And I want to fulfill that responsibility."
This image of Olympic savior was actually cast in collector-quality enameled metal cloisonne pins produced by the Salt Lake Olympic committee.

Critic Ken Bullock has them in his Olympic pin collection.

"We have Valentine's ones with all the Olympic mascots around saying, 'We love you, Mitt,' " Bullock says, as he pulls up images of the pins on his computer.

"We have him pulling a sled of some sort where some of the mascots are saying, 'Are we there yet, Mitt?' "



Ken Bullock scoffs at what he calls "the Superman" pin, which features Romney "with a Clark Kent chin," wrapped in an American flag.

"I don't know how to put words to describe how narcissistic they are," Bullock says.



Three Olympic pin collectors and experts consulted by NPR say they've never seen pins like these featuring the CEO of an Olympic organizing committee.
"There have been plenty of big-headed CEOs for Olympic Games, but none has ever had his or her likeness on a pin," says Ed Hula, a veteran pin collector and editor of aroundtherings.com, an independent news organization that focuses on the Olympics. "Maybe it's an indicator that Mitt Romney has a sense of humor."

Source for Images: Shuksan Tahoma on Daily Kos

Happy Place Diversion - Elders React

The ever-entertaining Fine Brothers, who brought us Kids React, have now come up with Elders React. And the results are hilarious!

In fact, these videos show how little we change internally from youth to old age - if you watch both versions of this, the elders are just counterparts of the kids in the original video.

Mad Mash-Up from Hardball

The Obama - Mad Men Mashup from the Chris Matthews show on MSNBC. Wow - so creative! And also indicative of the role played by propaganda, spin and branding in modern elections. We have the imagery of the campaign signs and the commodities, with gasoline and medicine used as talking points, not to mention the fact that Romney (if not Santorum) could walk right into an episode of Mad Men.  But thank God this is 2012 and not 1964 ~ Obama wouldn't have been President back then.

And I think he will still be Chairman of the Board come next January!