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JustPixelz: IV%'er's avatar

<u>How to balance the budget.</u> Calculate realistic estimates of revenue. Calculate cost of borrowing for long-term capital expenditure like bridges. Divide the revenue between spending needs so as not to exceed revenue. Pass the budget by majority vote.

<u>Republican approach</u> Call for Obama's impeachment. Pass a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution by 2/3rds super-majority. Have it ratified by 38 states. Do the balanced budget steps above. Have Federal judges rule whether budget was balanced per the Amendment.

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Zippy W. Pinhead's avatar

let's hear it for the gratuitous cheesecake...

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Gherkins d'Resistance's avatar

Cheers! More Guest Wonkatrixors filling up our intestine tubes with lots of porky meats!

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diogenez's avatar

Is that cruelty free sausage?

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Zippy W. Pinhead's avatar

so there is...

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Zippy W. Pinhead's avatar

better than jail bait...

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fuflans's avatar

oh hell yes to the ddm

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bobbert's avatar

1. Very nice summary.

2. If you Wonketeers, who are comparatively high-information folks, didn't already know this, then I guess I'm beginning to understand why things are so fucked up.

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Shypixel's avatar

Budgets ARE like sausage. As in it is better to not know how they are made.

Re: DDM's bloggin' skillz - I have grown to expect more juvenile wordplay dick joke type stuff from my Wonkette, and he seems to have this down. Is this a good thing, or a bad thing? You be the judge...

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Zippy W. Pinhead's avatar

not much butt secks until the end (though nickel butt-fuck night makes up a lot of lost ground), no alt text- points lost there (given how wacky wonket has been lately, only a couple of points), no ponies (jury is still out on whether this adds or costs points) all in all it has a good beat and I could dance to it so I'll give him an 8.4 on the Richter scale...

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Shypixel's avatar

Well, I suppose you could store your antacids in a Shut the Fuck Up Luke Russert coffee mug...

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Zippy W. Pinhead's avatar

this wouldn't have been a problem if those damn commies hadn't taken away our rotary dials...

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Zippy W. Pinhead's avatar

it puts the Lotian on its skin...

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