The Bottom Five
By: Chapman Rackaway
5/9/2008
The Bottom Five silliest, stupidest and most ridiculous things from politics and the news in the last week. As told by Fort Hays State University political science professor Chapman Rackaway.
5. On the ropes, again
Hillary Clinton is the Energizer Bunny of bad candidates: She keeps going and going and going. After losing North Carolina and scraping by Indiana, her only hope is either superdelegates or shenanigans. But since this is a Democratic nomination, shenanigans are always a possibility.
4. Step Two
Now that Sen. Obama is about ready to declare victory, he can focus on John McCain. And he’s already hitting McCain for being old. I can see it now: The whole Obama approach in the general election will be called the “Alzheimer’s Strategy.” I can’t wait for the adult diaper jokes.
3. Cracked-out Code
To me, anti-war protesters Code Pink are just as dumb, if not quite as abhorrent, as Fred Phelps’ goons. Code Pink’s protests are so underwhelming that they’re trying a new tactic: Witchcraft. Which is why you should never, ever, get your political guidance from an Alltel commercial.
2. More broken promises
Nancy Pelosi’s Congress promised to end wasteful pork barrel when she was chosen Speaker last year. Now that it’s campaign season, what’s happening? Holding bills hostage until they have enough wasteful spending to claim lots of credit for re-election. Farm and housing bills are giving away massive, budget-busting goodies at a time when the debt’s ballooning and the last thing we need is our government to overheat. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
1. This town needs an enema
A bar owner in Cleveland, Ohio, was fined for not having permits for pool tables and live music at his bar recently Liquor licenses are a bad enough form of government extortion, but now you need a permit to have a pool table in your bar? What’s next, Cleveland? Requiring permits for peanuts and cheese sticks
