Man! Dude! Session #142

(D)ude: Man! Diane Kruger carried Tarantino’s film Inglourious Basterds!

(M)an: Dude! Who do you think is going to bring down today’s Republican inglourious basterds?

D: Man! The only force that will throw out the GOP in Washington, DC is the electorate.

M: Dude! I don’t know.

D: Man! I’ve had it with your lack of conviction. I saw the White House Correspondents Association dinners from past years too all day yesterday. So what if President Clinton’s hands are bloodied by the missed opportunities to bring to justice bin Laden as Hank Crumpton’s already detailed last year to Lara Logan for CBS’s 60 Minutes! You’re just upset over the May 1, 1993 Correspondents Dinner featuring comedian Elayne Boosler.

M: Dude! President Clinton knew too much too soon to not be held equally accountable for pocketing the treasures of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars at the expense of the lives of our sons and daughters in uniform.

D: Man! You’re also upset over Hillary Rodham Clinton’s recent speaking engagement to the National Multi Housing Council who list clearly under their section Regulatory Mitigation and Reform: The apartment industry is a highly regulated sector, governed by a flood of regulations from agencies as diverse as the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Department of Energy (DOE) and even the Federal Reserve. While these regulations may be well intentioned, many will lead to costly mandates that divert resources not only from the production and operation of multifamily housing but, ultimately, also from job creation. In fact, according to research commissioned by the Small Business Administration’s Office of Advocacy, the total cost of federal regulations in 2008 topped $1.75 trillion, or $10,585 per employee for firms with fewer than 20 employees...

NMHC/NAA recognize the need for regulations but urge agencies to insist that new rules have demonstrable benefits that justify the cost of compliance. In addition, federal agencies should be aware that broad-stroke regulations often have disproportionate effects on various industries; therefore, those rules and regulations affecting commercial real estate should reflect the industry’s business and operational structure. Finally, all regulations must be grounded in fact and rely on the latest scientific and/or economic evidence.

M: Dude! The National Multi Housing Council actually stated all that in their 2013 Policy and Regulatory Issues paper that can be found under their related contents box on the right when you go to Government Affairs and the subheading 2013 NMHC/NAA Policy Agenda specifically.

D: Man! You’re not disillusioned anymore! Welcome back to reality! I really missed your presence, like Conan O’Brien’s when NBC basically tossed the checkers off the board like a broody brat in middle of a fit of physical and baseless rage.

M: Dude! We’ve never missed Conan’s show on TBS; remember the episode with Charlie Sheen fairly recently? I, like you, believe in remaining true to the game and not getting all caught up in a sourpuss phase like Chuck Lorre did with Charlie Sheen’s very public meltdown. Just read the Chuck Lorre archives from 1 to 413 and you will find the same level of crudity as Faux News’ Ed Henry at the White House Correspondents Dinner last night.

D: Man! Ed Henry’s the pervert from Fox News Channel, right? Thank goodness his term as the Association’s president expires soon. Not only does he bring out the worst in his already juvenile facial features with incessant referencing to the new mothers in the Association who needed room to address the physical and obvious demands of motherhood. In fact, I thought it very necessary for someone to interrupt Ed Henry and soothe his perverse contempt via a pacifier or a bottle.

M: Dude! Ed Henry needed his jabs nursed by Madame Rushie Limbaugh, a very obvious omission from last night’s dinner. Imagine how Rush Limbaugh would have soothed Ed Henry with those doll bottles with the artificial mobile of either milk or orange juice. Very fitting for two dunderheads with baby faces.

D: Man! Hillary Rodham Clinton was in Irving, Texas, just an hour and a half drive away from the tragic recovery efforts of West, a town comprised of the 47% who Mitt Romney and now Hillary Rodham Clinton do not include in on these exclusive speakeasies through which they amass not too shabby paychecks.

M: Dude! The residents of West, Texas deserve a place at these tables where Mitt Romney and Hillary Rodham Clinton conduct their closed-door chats. If they had only listened to the intelligence about their backyard havoc, the people of West, Texas would have proactively taken matters into their own hands and devised creative ways in which to address the stark threat of explosions and subsequent disasters. Government must regulate! Otherwise, the private sector will just continue piling their investments into these chic get-togethers and, just like Wall Street, the top earners in society will soar while the rest of US in the middle and lower classes, not to mention those amongst US who have nothing already, will suffer.

D: Man! Have you noticed how Paul Ryan’s Budget is riddled with lack of peer-reviewed research? That Reinhart and Rogoff paper from Harvard dispelled by UMass Amherst’s Thomas Herndon essentially encapsulates the GOP scheme: Fraud and intentional oversight that imperils the disenfranchised like the rest of US. No wonder Newt Gingrich and John Boehner desire to protect and expand the Heritage Foundation and the National Review!

M: Dude! Hillary Rodham Clinton is trouble for the Democratic Party. We need someone with a moral compass that is just as, if not more, compelling and transparent as President and Mrs. Obama. We need that kind of mettle that is availed by youth, those who haven’t been ensnared by the right or infidelity within.

D: Man! Skirt-chasers are becoming philosophically obsolete in the Democratic Party and the progressive mindset that is forward-oriented needs leaders that are multidimensional clean. The want for accountability is what keeps the GOP where it is today: Like the Clintons and the Bushes, the Republican Party does business underhandedly and in the shadows of democratic idealism, which too is for sale once they enter the White House.

M: Dude! If you want to truly give back to the electorate for having elected and reelected you to the White House, would you not want to build on the Library Of Congress’s continuation and furtherance? But, then again, if you were not transparent about your whereabouts during office, then you would need a presidential mausoleum!