Underachieving is the new success paradigm. You should sleep in tomorrow.

Senator Bunning pulled a 4-day pseudo-filibuster blocking the Dems temporary extension of unemployment benefits – the specific, strategic reason escapes me, as I’m merely a Lilliputian observer, but it appears as if he was trying to highlight the Dem’s hypocrisy regarding their new PAYGO rhetoric. Bunning is not running for re-election next term and he’s having fun. It’s like the employee at Taco Bell who has put in his two-week notice: he tells that rude blonde where to stick it and spits in the lettuce vat. Short-timer’s syndrome can be humorous, as long as we aren’t the ones eating spitty lettuce. Political shenanigans. Meanwhile, the left is having a blast getting as wound up as possible spinning this into “REPUBS HATE UNEMPLOYED.”

The Countdown guy acts like a stand-in from a 1970’s disaster movie. Bunning refuses to accept unemployment benefit extensions and the Countdown guy acts like Bunning is taking food from his family’s mouth. On the flip side, either Bunning is really awesome and taking one for the team because unemployment is a manufactured evil and someone has to stand up and staunch the bleeding by solving the problem WITHOUT more handouts, or he’s awesomely evil and wants everybody to STFU and leave him alone and wants to ride his final term out with juleps and verandas while making certain that the peasants don’t spoil the view. Either way, it’s difficult to watch ESPECIALLY as covered by Countdown. And how creepy is Countdown? Mr. Countdown guy looks like he is from a Small Business Sexual Harassment Training Video made in New Zealand in 1985.