Thank God Obama's Not a Hostage Negotiator

"...and I want a 24 karat, solid gold golf cart by noontime today! I mean it or this jobless bitch gets it!"

"Is that with or without diamond headlights?"

After yesterday's sell-out, one gets the feeling that even Vladimir Putin handles hostage negotiations better than Obama. If Obama was a crisis negotiator for the FBI, the hostages would be crippled for life then chided for not being grateful for still being alive. If the hostages' families were spared, they should be grateful, too. And that black helicopter flying the hostage takers to that fully-fueled 767 at the airport just ended the crisis before any more harm was done, right?

If yesterday's deal with the Republican Party isn't grounds for a recall election, I don't know what is. And yet no one, especially our lawmakers, have succinctly made the stunningly simple observation that if Bush's tax cuts for the wealthiest 2% actually created jobs, there wouldn't've been any need to extend jobless benefits for the third fucking time let alone for another 13 months.