Maybe it’s the heat?  Or maybe it’s that their Dear Ruler is a miserable failure and none of them are looking forward to defending his pathetic record from now until November.  But it seems as though Democrats (including Obama) have taken that leap from ridiculous to asinine.  As I was preparing the notes, I kept coming across all of these comments made by proggies over the last few days.  I thought I’d share a few …

• Joe Biden jokes that "Republicans have changed the law so you get arrested if you do vote.” (Source)

• Did Barack Obama really call Abraham Lincoln his “homeboy from Illinois”? (Source)

• Kenny G Wasserman Shultz got a little dramatic when talking about Mitt Romney.  She says, “It would be nice if we had a candidate for president who was committed to America.” (Source)

• James Earl Jones is just another Hollywood lib who believes the tea party is racist. (Source)

• New York Democrat Rep. Carolyn Maloney praises former Obama administration officials who orchestrated the auto bailouts: “Has any member of Congress congratulated you and thanked you for your hard work and what resulted in, by all accounts, saving over 1 million jobs?” (Source)

And then there’s this rectal-cranial inversion from Harry Reid.  Yesterday on the Senate floor yesterday, he took to lambasting House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s Small Business Tax Cut Act.  Are you ready for some over-the-top wealth envy?

“Congressional Republicans want to lavish huge across-the-board tax breaks on billionaire hedge fund managers and celebrities like Donald Trump … More than 99 percent of business would qualify for this extravagant tax break even if they don’t create a single new job or raise wages for one single new employee.  In fact, fabulously rich so-called ‘small-business owners’ like Kim Kardashian and Paris Hilton could qualify for these wasteful giveaways even though three-quarters of Americans oppose tax breaks for the wealthiest few — nearly half the benefits of this $46 billion proposal would go to millionaires and billionaires.”

Look at the language his uses: “lavish,” “extravagant,” “fabulously,” “wasteful giveaways,” “millionaires and billionaires.”  Harry Reid also seems to be concerned about the fairness of outcomes versus the fairness of opportunity … not to mention that he has a completely warped sense of job creation.

But let’s address that “99%” of businesses line from Harry Reid.  Again, this is a politician taking advantage if the ignorance of the American voter.  This future has been thrown about before – but usually at 95%, not 99%.  I guess the “99%” line has just become popular because of the occutards. 

I’ll try to illustrate just why Phinas T. Reid’s 99% argument is such a load of moose squeeze.  Let’s say a doctor tells you that he wants to give you an injection that is going to wipe out a good number of brain cells.  You ask him which cells, and he tells you not to worry, 99% of the cells affected aren’t really doing that much anyway.  Then you ask him about 1% that is left .. and he tells you it’s the 1% that processes signals from your eyes.  You’ll be blind.  You tell him that you don’t want the medication.  He tells you that you’re being unreasonable because 99% of the cells that will be killed are pretty much useless.

Reid is right … extending the tax cuts isn’t going to cause perhaps 95% of the small businesses out there to expand or hire people.  That’s because 95% of the small businesses are simple mom-and-pop work from home operations that don’t depend on outside labor.  An example?  The manufacturer’s rep who spends most of his time on the road, and works out of a home office when he’s off the road.  But the other 5% .. now there’s the rub.  These small businesses will also be hit with the Obama tax increase, and these small businesses are the ones we depend on for private sector hiring .. over 80% of the new private sector hiring.

Now .. go try to explain this to a government high school graduate, or to some idiot out there waiting for Obama to pay her car note.