Sharing Love

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then Hope n' Change figures we've saved ourselves the trouble of writing a lengthy Valentine's Day commentary by simply posting the two heartfelt images you see above and below.

Happy VD, Mr. Obama.

In the TV commercial, the background music is by Archie Bell & The Drells.

Write and Wrong

Barack Obama recently boasted that he'd be unilaterally (and, oh yeah, illegally) changing our nation's laws using nothing but his pen and his phone. And for once he was actually telling the truth.

The president just issued yet another change to Obamacare, this time delaying the law's employer mandate until 2016 for companies with between 50 and 99 employees. This means that those companies can now refuse to give their employees health insurance with no penalties whatsoever.

Of course, this boon to business came with a hidden cost which was also scrawled by the president's pen. In order to qualify for this exemption, employers cannot fire or lay off any employees. Moreover, if any employer is forced by economic need to still lay off employees, they will be required by Obama's new imaginary law to make an official declaration to the IRS that Obamacare was not a consideration in the downsizing, or face penalties. Of course, this declaration doesn't have to be true - it's only actual purpose is to give this administration documentation proving that Obamacare isn't a job-killer.

But that's not the only inkblot-related news (think "Rorshach and Awe") coming from Obama's pen. Because last Friday, he also unilaterally changed our immigration law - which might as well be called Obamagration at this point - to make it easier for people to enter our country if they've previously given (ahem) "limited" support to terrorists or terror groups.

This flagrantly unconstitutional method of changing laws is now being used so regularly by the president that Representative Sheila Jackson Lee (quite likely the dumbest woman in Texas) has stated that the real work of Democrats in Washington is now writing up Executive Orders for the president to sign.

Fortunately, the framers of the Constitution foresaw the possibility of this sort of governmental abuse, and created a system of checks and balances which the Republicans could use to set things right if they were vertebrates. Which, unfortunately, they're not.

Not only are they letting Barry get away with his anti-Constitutional imperial declarations without challenge, but yesterday Speaker of the House John Boehner and a group of anti-Tea Party GOP members voted with the Dems to pass a bill raising the debt ceiling yet again without asking for anything in return...except higher spending. Take that, King Barack!

For some reason, perhaps associated with cheap whiskey and the unflagging belief that it's always 5 o'clock somewhere, thinking about Barack Obama's magic ink-filled pen has caused Hope n' Change to conjure up memories of Jimmy Durante singing "Inka-Dinka-Doo."

We just wish there was someone - anyone - in authority who would look at the president's executive orders and say "Inka-Dinka-Don't."

Biden His Time

In response to a question posed by one of the many voices in his head, Joe Biden declared last Friday that "there's no obvious reason for me why I think I shouldn't run for President in 2016."

Which suggests that he's suffering from an even greater degree of thought impairment than previously thought.

Among the "obvious reasons" he shouldn't run:  he hasn't been right on a foreign policy decision in decades, he believes that the 2nd Amendment requires people to shoot shotgun blasts into the air when they think there's a prowler in the house, he declared that Wall Street wants to put black Americans "back in chains," and he can't speak for 30 seconds without committing a major gaffe.

As further proof that Mr. Biden's brain has turned to watery tapioca, we share this unedited statement in which he presents his seemingly random thoughts about running: "I think the future for this country, I know people think I'm too optimistic, but it is incredible. There's so much just within our grasp. Doesn't mean I'm the only guy that can do it, but if no one else, I think, can, and I think I can, then I'd run. If I don't, I won't."

Seriously, we've seen more cohesive sentences created at random on a Scrabble board.

But perhaps the ultimate proof that Uncle Joe is missing an "obvious reason" not to run is that he didn't mention the possibility of ending up at the end of the long, long list of people who have died mysteriously after getting between the Clintons and their political goals.

For this reason, Hope n' Change sincerely hopes that Mr. Biden will reconsider his political ambitions after discussing them with someone who can give him good advice. For starters, he can try contacting Vince Foster with a Ouija board.