Well, not always.

Item 1. The polls were right, and no one is more surprised than I. And I am now going to give the pollsters proper respect. Apparently, their robo-phonecalls were able to eliminate the “Bradley Effect” pretty nicely. Their predictions of 6 percent margin were right on the ball. Kudos to you, gentlemen.

Item 2. Media backlash is starting. The selling of the Democratic candidate by the media (I don’t even bother saying “the liberal media”) was distasteful, and their coronation of a new American Icon does not sit well with me. For crying out loud, let the man accomplish a couple of things before you give him the Nobel Prize!! And bringing thousands to tears because this is a historic ocassion does not count. I could do the same by watching a really terrible chick-flick. However, he is my President and I pay his salary. So get to work Obama, I’ll keep on reminding you to try harder.

Item 5. There will be no book on the Big Conspiracy that created the economic meltdown in order to get Obama elected. Michael Crichton passed away this week, so there is no visionary that could tie the exciting, young new President to genetic tinkering and an underground culture run by evolved dinosaurs that is secretly controlling President-elect Obama. Since no humans were involved in this dastardly deed, it must have been The Saurians.

Item 7. Sarah Palin arrived in Anchorage today, greeted by thousands shouting “2012, 2012, 2012″ I believe that I will live to see the day when the Alien vs. Predator, er, Hillary vs. Sarah Palin movie will be made. And I can’t wait to see it. Of course, by then admission will be $20 in Obamos (New World currency) and there will be no popcorn, since all corn will be sucked into the Ethanol Fiasco engendered by President Obama.

Sorry, I did not mean to mix humor with deadly-serious satire. I’ll do better next time.

As for my political satire: it comes from the heart. You are correct in saying that the current situation is dire and that we’ll need more than just empty rhetoric to cure what ails us. I just think one candidate has more of the goods than the other one, although it may not make a difference, as you suggested. So perhaps voting for the good-looking ticket is the same as voting for the other, good-sounding ticket. I’ll let you decide which is which.

This election cycle has been the most fun I have ever had for screwing with people who try to convince others that their candidate is the only choice worth considering. Seriously, anyone who would want to be president right now has just demonstrated exceptionally poor judgement, and anyone who believes their guy is what the country needs is a perfect example of why we should test people for basic cognitive abilities before letting them vote (or breed). On the other hand, we do live in a representative democracy, and it looks like we will be getting what we deserve.

Myself, having spent most of my career working with the government, I am voting for the candidate I believe will be least effective in enacting his policies (with my money). That sadly is driven more by pelosi and reid (purposefully not capitalized as a sign of disrespect). The thought of those to stardists (kind of a mixup between socialists, fascists, and retards) fighting with McLuvin for 4 years sounds sublime to me,

Here’s my proposition to the American people: the next 4 years are going to be painful, so vote for a team that looks good on TV giving you the bad news; I vote for Sarah Palin… she’s easy on the eyes.

And now that I’ve completely insulted both parties and every voter: Vote your conscience on November 4th and ignore my rantings. But just watch what happens in the next few years, as agent Renegade says: “I (bladerunner) am always right”

As far as blaming goes, Dave Barry has said that the current president is always blamed for the current crisis, no matter who the real culprit is. The flip side is that he gets credit when things go well, too. Clinton has rightfully been blamed for making it easier for low income/bad credit individuals to buy homes, thus creating the housing bubble and ensuing credit crisis. But Bush did nothing to stop it since politicians use high home ownership rates as a sign of victory, not bad decision making. I hear it’s hard to get a home loan these days because banks want you to have good credit and a down payment. Well duh!

As for efficiencies, I’ve worked at a big company full of engineers who hate inefficiency, but it’s there because the gov’t is the customer. Again, Dave Barry has done an exemplary job of pointing out the rampant, uncontrollable growth of gov’t bureaucracies. I think it’s because the more effort it takes to do something, the more people and money it requires, and hence the more power given to the managers and politicians who control it. It’s the same thing with organized labor: mgt. says they’ll train employees in new technologies but labor rejects it because the new technologies require reduced head counts (and improve the company overall, but let’s not see the forest for the trees). This lowers the power of those who run the unions.

So I don’t think there’s a chance in hell of creating efficiencies in gov’t – you can only lower its responsibilities and hence the budget and taxes. And if the Republicans (other than Ron Paul) won’t shrink gov’t, then the Democrats certainly won’t.

I definitely see myself writing in a candidate for the foreseeable future.