If you weren’t outraged at some point this week, you weren’t payin’ ‘tention.  That being said, Happy Halloween!  Now get out there and scare some kids, ’cause the stuff eminating from DC is puh-lenty to scare us adults.

Sometimes, The Crawfish really does hate Philadelphia media. Take for example WPHT, The Big Talker 1210AM, the home of Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and Sean Hannity. They bill themselves as a talk radio station, but whenever the Phillies have a baseball game, they pre-empt the biggest shows in radio for baseball, which has what…1000, 2000 listeners? The day that Sarah Palin was selected for the VP nomination, I wanted to hear the commentary, but got boring baseball instead. Wednesday and Thursday, they pre-empted the last two hours of the Sean Hannity Show for their baseball pre-game shows…the pre-game shows that LASTED FOUR FRICKIN HOURS! Why does a baseball pre-game show last longer than a whole game? Baseball pre-game shows, even for the World Series, should last no more than 30 minutes. It’s not like there’s any real strategy to discuss. The pitcher is going to throw the ball. The hitters are going to try to hit the ball. The fielders are going to try to catch and throw the ball.

How much of a Messiah complex does the left have about Barack Obama? Well, despite the fact that Obama’s books were ghost-written by unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers, the leader of the National Endowment for the Arts has declared that Obama is “the most powerful writer since Julius Caesar.” Isn’t that kinda like saying the gaseous emanations following this year’s Terlingua International Championship Chili Cookoff (which one of The Crawfish’s cousins will be competing in this year, first Saturday in November) are the most powerful winds since Hurricane Andrew.

How much do the Democrats hate every aspect of patriotism and traditional American values? Consider that they have selected this video as one of the finalists in a contest to make the next Obamacare commercial. The video has an image of the American flag that gets desecrated throughout the commercial by pro-Obamacare painted slogans. Desecrating the flag is something Democrats now officially celebrate.

On a related note, HBO “comedian” Larry David’s latest episode of his series features him urinating on a portrait of Jesus Christ. To the liberal mind, it is perfectly okay to attack Christianity, the flag, the Constitution, and traditional American values, but if you attack heterophobes, Islam, blacks, non-drybacks, and such you are a despicable human being.

Over the past few years, as state taxes have been sharply raised by the Democrats, over 1.5 MILLION people have fled the state of Noo Yawk. That means that the goal of the tax hikes, an increase in state revenues, is falling very short, which means the liberals will want to raise taxes even more to cover the loss. It’s a vicious circle leading to economic collapse. Let’s hope that those folks escaping the Empire State are smart enough to change their voting habits away from the Democrats when they move to red states.

Do y’all remember when the Bill and Hill Show was selling out the Lincoln Bedroom for donations to their campaigns or others that they had designated? They were amateurs. Check out how the Obamas are rewarding donors! You, too, can get a private briefing, from Administration officials even. They have no shame.

Townhall commenter “clyde” sent me a story about another terroristic muslim group in the US. The story actually is good news, since many of the members of the Islamic terrorist group were nabbed by the FBI and their imam was killed, thus saving the taxpayers the expense of a trial. (Hmmmm...is the FBI hiring?  Sounds like a job I'd like!)  Does anybody want to place odds on whether or not CAIR is going to assist the legal defense team of the ones who were caught?

The Crawfish is seeing a recurring pattern. The Obama Administration or the Democrats in Congress make an outlandish claim. Someone in the media does a sanity check on the claims, smells something fishy, investigates, finds that the claims are false, and publishes their findings. Administration officials have a tizzy fit and attack the person who had the audacity to fact-check their lies.

How will they react to THIS poll, which shows that American women prefer private insurance to a government plan by a 64-27 margin?

As I have stated many times, I will give President Obama credit when credit is due. Wednesday night into Thursday morning, President Obama made an unannounced dash to Dover Air Force Base to witness and salute the return of the remains of 18 American military personnel killed in Afghanistan this week. For that action alone, the Marines who salute him entering and leaving Marine One should have a little more snap to their salutes for a while.

When it comes to dealing with Afghanistan and Pakistan, maybe President Obama should take a listen to what Pervez Musharraf, the former President of Pakistan, has to say about allowing the Taliban to have any say in Afghanistan’s government.

When the Daily Kook is reporting that Dan Hoffman is within one point of the lead in the special election in Noo Yawk, you know that the Conservative Party candidate is a SERIOUS threat to win. The left-wing extremist “Republican” Dede Scozzafava is lagging far back in third place, despite the endorsements of Newt Gingrich, Michael Steele, and the liberal “establishment” in the GOP. If Steele had any brains, he’d tell Scozzafava to drop out over the weekend and throw her support to Hoffman.

North Star National’s Dan Calabrese was watching Queen Nancy’s performance this week, when she trotted out the new and improved 1990 page House version of Obamacare and acted like it was the ULTIMATE bill that would solve all of the world’s problems and would easily pass through Congress and get signed into law. Dan notes that some of the major provisions of the bill don’t take effect until 2013, by which time we will probably have a new President who will stop them dead in their tracks. He also notes that there are “temporary” government programs involved. When was the last time any “temporary” government program actually ended?

Dan also gives us a lesson in economic reality and how the media covers it, or covers it up.

The Crawfish’s Congresscritter, Representative Kay Granger, sent me a link to the monstrosity that Queen of the House Red Nanny P-Lousy is putting forth. If you check page 94, you’ll find this little gem, “GENERAL.—Individual health insurance coverage that is not grandfathered health insurance coverage under subsection (a) may only be offered on or after the first day of Y1 as an Exchange-participating health benefits plan.” In other words, only the government plan will be available for new coverage in Year One of the bill, which is 2013. New private insurance coverage will be ILLEGAL!

When Edmunds.com analyzed auto sales from the past few months, they figured out that for every new car purchased under the “Cash for Clunkers” program, the taxpayers shelled out $24,000.00. Now you know that didn’t sit well with the White House, so they immediately attacked Edmunds.com. They really do get miffed when there’s truth in journalism, don’t they.

Ohgoodlord. At least every other time she’s seen in public, micHELLe is dressed in something completely atrocious, but that doesn’t stop the idjuts at Glamour Magazine from making FLOTUS their Woman of the Year. I guess the Ghettohowhohitalottery look is the next big fashion style.

If y’all come across any weird/stoooopid/strange news stories that might be fodder for The Weekly Claw or The Weekend Claw, e-mail them to me at at1aw_usn@yahoo.com and I’ll consider ‘em. Yes, I will give you newshounds credit.

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