Any day now.....ANNNNY day....

Remember that ad for some online mortgage company that promised quick turnaround and contrasted itself with banks by showing a mortgage officer at a brick and mortar bank sitting at his desk saying "Your loan approval should be here day day now....[pause]....any day....."? It's kind of an unfortunate analogy these days, but that ad was what I thought of yesterday when I saw the "dramatic" unveiling of the Republicans' "alternate budget" (which apparently exists only in an "alternate universe"). Are they freakin' kidding?

This is the Great Republican Budget Plan (via John Cole and the Great Orange Satan):

On the other hand, what else would you expect from a political party whose base thinks scientific method consists of throwing up your hands and saying "I don't understand it....it must be MAGIC!"

MSNBC's Contesse Brewer was simply flabbergasted by what she saw, and it was left to her blond newsbot cohort to valiantly carry the GOP water all by herself by dismissing Brewer's expectation that we actually see NUMBERS coming out of the GOP's alternate universe -- I mean PLAN:

Later on, Robert Gibbs seemed to be having the time of his life over in the White House Press Room, seemingly amazed that the Republicans had just lobbed him a big fat hanging curve ball, waist-high, right down the center of the plate. Watch his face as he knocks it out of the park; it's priceless:

I would disagree that the budget indicates that the Republicans are the party of no new ideas. They are the party of no ideas, period.

But over in the alternate universe outside of consensus reality in which conservatives live, this was a firm, forceful parry of the President's challenge. In a post rife with male performance anxiety in the face of the Big Black Man, sniveling little rat-faced git Jeff Emanuel congratulates the Republican Clown Car for the very same ridiculous performance that the rest of us saw.

And now a parenthetical, just to put some rich gooey frosting on the cake: John Cole has some of the snarkiest commenters in the universe. Some choice quotes:

"Between these twits and Bush, how did they manage to avoid accidentally sending the Earth into a collision course with the Sun over the last 8 years?"

"I’m becoming convinced that Obama is Lord Vetinari from Terry Pratchett’s Discworld books. We’ll know for sure if he starts sending mimes and other street artists to the scorpion pits that Dick Cheney had installed under the White House."

"Not only am I making popcorn, but I’m putting truffle oil on it."

"This is so many layers of awesome covered in awesome sauce I can’t even begin to comprehend it."