“Come on, shake your body baby,
do the conga
I know you can’t control yourself any longer
Feel the rhythm of the music getting stronger
Don’t you fight it till you’ve tried it
Do the conga beat

So, while the teabaggers were snortin’ and complain’, yesterday; cashing their Social Security checks to travel to Washington and complain about socialism, the President of the United States was seeing beyond the stars and shakin’ his booty with the cool kids in Miami at Gloria and Emilio’s place.

The juxtaposition pretty much says it all.

“I’ve been a little amused over the last couple of days where people have been having these rallies about taxes,” the president said, noting the numerous tax cuts pushed by his administration. “You would think they’d be saying thank you.”

Yea, well…don’t look for it to happen ‘cause gratitude is not a big effen deal among the bagger crowd.

In fact, anger is the predominate emotion among teabaggers according to a poll conducted by the New York Times and CBS. (Yep, those socialist-communist-Kenyanian-Rastafarian-Zorastrian-Baptist news organizations.)

So, while the President was expressing his vision for future space exploration while at the same time signing a long-overdue executive order granting gay couples family rights in hospitals, the teabaggers were just angry.

According the Times/CBS poll, 18 percent of Americans identify with the anger of the baggers, even if only 4 percent have ever actually attended a rally or given money to the bagger anger exposition.

Most of them are old, white, married; richer and better educated than the general public and really, REALLY hate “big government” but love their Social Security and Medicare. (That “educated” part kinda gets lost in the tautology of anger.)

Most said the taxes they paid this year are fair. Most sent their kids to public schools and most say they don’t think Sarah Palin is qualified to be president. (Okay, so education helps a little.)

Most of ‘em still love George Bush and don’t see any connection at all between his administration and the economic downfall. Most of ‘em just don’t like Obama. Hmmm…wonder why?

“I just feel he’s getting away from what America is,” said a retired medical transcriber to the New York Times. “He’s a socialist. And to tell you the truth, I think he’s a Muslim and trying to head us in that direction, I don’t care what he says. He’s been in office over a year and can’t find a church to go to. That doesn’t say much for him.”

To quote the immortal philosopher Steven Wright, “Going to church no more makes you a Christian than standing in a garage makes you a car.”

Come on, shake your body, baby…do the conga.

It was good to see the Colts’ Pierre Garcon raise the flag of Haiti at the AFC Championship trophy presentation, so we don’t forget amid the tailgate celebrations. (Give: www.hopeforhaiti.com )

And it’s a good thing the Super Bowl is in Miami…’cause we’re not sure any other city could handle the WhoDat Nation!! Ha!

(A few folks will remember when the Alcorn State University Braves started chanting, back in the late 1970s and early 1980s, “Who dat talkin’ ‘bout beatin’ the Braves? Who dat? Who dat?”)

Wonder if George W. Bush thinks any more highly of New Orleans now? Oh well, not to worry. He’s off to save Haiti now, along with Bill Clinton.

I’m not sure the face of George W. Bush is the one I want to see following a natural disaster (or a man-made disaster, for that matter, like…you know…2000 to 2008).

What’s that you say? It’s Obama who is destroying this nation? One keeps hearing that around the right-wing spheres of influence (like my town).

That’s laughable, really. But let me get this straight. President Obama is, in one year, destroying the nation it took George Bush eight years to bring to the absolute brink of destruction? Okay, that’s some talent.

Hardy-Har-Har-Har! These guys are as much fun as a barrel of monkeys!

Meanwhile, over on the Faux New Channel – the official organ of the GOP, a party at this point full of organs, we have Gin BecksBeer cheering on a violent pogrom against what he calls, “progressives.” And by that he means those he links to the worst tyrants of the 20^th Century.

Why in the world does anyone take this clown seriously?

BecksBeer has it all figured out:

“Progressives want you dead,” he posted on his website, (you know: Marxist, Fascists, Episcopalians and Methodists) and went on to explain how “progressives started a hundred year time bomb, they planted it in the early 1900s.”

He’s referring, he says, to the presidential administrations of Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson.

“I’m going to find these big progressives,” he explains. “And to the day I die I’m going to be a progressive hunter.”

“When do we ever run those who are bankrupting our country and literally stealing our children’s future out of town? Grab a torch.”

It’s really not clear in this insane diatribe which is more frightening: the threats of violence or the mangled grammar.