I'm Not Kidding!

Bill Maher and Ann Coulter are friends. That would seem an unlikely pairing because he's so liberal and she's so ridiculously rightwing. But, if you think about it, how common is it for senators from opposing sides of the aisle to dine together and maybe hang out with each others families, off the clock? Very common because most of these people are just phoning it in anyway. That's politics! Fighting in the Senate chambers in the afternoon and then fighting to see who picks up the check at dinner. Not much of fight really as the taxpayers get the tab, regardless.

I saw a short clip of Bill interviewing Ann, last night on his show, and he told her that he's often asked by his fans if she's serious about her stuff. She said this:

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So, yeah, she's faking it. She's faking it all the way to the bank. I've never thought she was particularly good at it either but, she really doesn't have to be. In her case, she knows that hyperbole pays really, really good and the republican side of the political coin invites hyperbole. All she has to do is look at an issue through her conservative eyes, light it afire, and she entices both her fellow arsonists and those who have the hearts of firemen.

In other words, people love her and love to hate her. It all pays the same. Being a conservative, especially a crazy one is recession-proof. Literally! Your side can cause a recession and you've got gasoline and matches to...well, burn, because of it.

Seriously, the big money is in complaining. If a republican gets elected you can rejoice but, mostly because now you can continue to complain about how awful the democrat predecessor was that you complained about for the previous 4 to 8 years but, it's different because now he's made everything hard for your guy....so you blame. These people still pin things on Jimmy Carter! He's the guy that set the table for the Reagan years they are so fond of. And Bill Clinton left GW Bush a surplus to go to Crazy Town with and they hate him for that. All Ann has to do is convince idiots that that was bad, probably because of the blow jobs. You can forget that your business probably did just fine under Bill because here's someone telling you that anything that happened later was Bill's fault probably because of who was under Bill at one time....

I think Bill Maher is a serious liberal. He gave a million of his own dollars to reelect President Obama. As a comedian, a president Romney would have paid off a lot better. A LOT better.

So, I think he's serious. While we're at it, how come their aren't any high-profile, hyperbolic, bat-shit crazy democrats? Who comes to mind when you think of crazy republicans? Palin. Coulter. Cruz. Limbaugh. Everyone on FOX- the list goes on.

Who comes to mind when you think of batshit crazy, hyperbolic democrats?

All we've got is Chris Matthews. He's really pretty tame. All they remember is him saying something weird about a "tingle in (his) leg" about Obama. I know they like to portray Rachael Maddow as looney tunes but, she's one of the smartest people ever to comment on politics. She's no Ann Coulter. No one on our side is. There's a reason for that.

If you vote republican in your twenties, it's because you have no brain. If you're still voting republican in your fifties it's because you have no heart. It's just easier being mean, isn't it? It's lowered expectations personified. It's sad but, it pays well because enough people want to hear it. No kidding....