The Royal Jester Joe

Your beloved Emperor admits he is a big fan of the Thin Skinned One's Court Jester, Joe Biden. He is the master of making ridiculous comments while seemingly making a serious statement. Today, in another moment of comic genius, he made the following comment:

“I refuse to accept the notion that the United States of America is not going to lead the world economically throughout the 20th Century.”

Now who, but Joe, could make such a bland and serious statement into something so clever and funny? We all know, of course, that we are currently in the 21st Century but only a master of comedy like the Royal Jester himself could subtly tweak a boring sentence like that to make it truly hilarious. The best part about him is his ability to feign ignorance of his own genius and continue to offer his spectacular public gaffes to help take our minds of these dark economic times. What a genius.

Labor Pains

The Emperor was surprised to see that the Thin Skinned One's appointee to the Labor Board, Craig Becker, was rejected by the Senate. Two members of the Order of the Donkeys joined the Elephants in thwarting Obama's plan to instill one his acolytes on the Board. The reason for rejecting the appointee was his stance on the so called Employee Free Choice Act. The act, with an Orwellian type name, has nothing to do with freedom. It is designed to intimidate workers into casting pro-union votes by taking away the secret ballot. For some mysterious reason, workers who indicate publicly that they are pro-union, vote anti union when they get into a voting booth. Unions employ thugs and sometimes people who anger the labor people end up playing cards with Jimmy Hoffa. Call it the "Hoffa Affect". Thus, people who publicly sign cards saying they support the creation of a union in their work place sometimes vote different once they can vote without their vote becoming public knowledge. The Unions want to stop that. The Emperor thinks the legislation should be renamed the Employee Free Choice to Vote Union Act. Fortunately, even some of the Donkeys saw though Craig Becker's thinly veiled plan to advance Union power at the expense of free enterprise and voted Becker down.

Differing Philosophies On Health Care

The Thin Skinned One has invited the Elephants to discuss health care with him in front of the TV cameras. After months of "closed door drug deals" in which a 'Frankensteins' health care bill was cobbled together by the Donkeys, the Obamanites are now trying to draw the Elephants into a public spectacle in which they hope to show their opponents as inflexible and recalcitrant. Of course, the Elephants are inflexible and recalcitrant--as they should be. The Elephants represent those conservative subjects of the Realm that have a different philosophy about health care. The Order of the Donkeys believes that providing health care to the subjects of the Realm is the responsibility of government. The Order of the Elephants believes that health care is a personal responsibility--just like getting a job and planning for retirement is a personal responsibility. The Elephants want to make it easier for people who wish to take responsibility for their own lives to get the coverage they need at a reasonable price. The Donkeys want to provide free health care to people who don't want to take responsibility for themselves. To achieve this, they must force everyone to buy health insurance regardless of whether or not they want to buy it. With the extra money pumped into the system, they can then provide free health care to more people who do not want to take responsibility for the consequences of their own life style choices. The Emperor watches with great interest how the Elephants deal with this latest tactic of the Donkeys. Hopefully, they will successfully preserve the rights of the beloved subjects of the Realm to retain their personal responsibility where health care is concerned.