Pep talk.

As most of you know I love sports analogies, so I am going to use one here.

A-merry-ca these days is like a basketball team with loads of talent that is getting beaten by a lesser team. We are down double digits at half time and we needed our coach to inspire us and tell us to go out and use the talent that we have and win the damn game.

The O man was our coach tonight, and he did a good job of trying to fire up the A-merry-can team. He laid out the x and o's to help us do it, and he inspired his players to get fired up and go out and lay it all on the line. That is what he needed to do. For too long he talked like a coach whose team was finished and was down by too many points. His players were hanging their heads and looking at the Dow scoreboard and thinking it was over. This speech tonight changed that somewhat, and I will be damned if his players probably aren't feeling like they might be able to pull out a win.

"But while our economy may be weakened and our confidence shaken; though we are living through difficult and uncertain times, tonight I want every American to know this: We will rebuild, we will recover, and the United States of America will emerge stronger than before.."

Put me in coach!

Oh, and before I sign off, I have to make a few points:

You all will notice that Eric Holder wasn't in the House chamber tonight. I think his O ness might have told him to be the one to stay at a hidden place in case of an attack. We don't need A-merry-ca being reminded about what "cowards" they are tonight, Eric.

I loved the first lady's hook up. Mrs. Obama I can honestly say that you are the first and only First Lady in history who made my johnson restless.

Who was the brotha in the greeting line who looked like he jumped off an Ohio Players album cover?

And was that his O ness hugging Richard Shelby? O man, maybe you can walk on water.

I am watching the republicans own version of his O ness give the republican response now.(Poor guy, even FOX is dissing him) And all I can say is that if imitation is the greatest form of flattery, the dumbocrats must be feeling downright giddy.

The "foolish talk" merchants.

"That's foolish talk." That is how Chris Matthews described what Bobby Jindal, governor of one of my favorite states,Louisiana, was saying about the stimulus package on "Meet The Press" on Sunday. Unless you have been on another planet for the past few days, I am sure you have heard by now that Jindal and some other republican governors are refusing to take some of the stimulus money. A move so breathtakingly stupid that you really have to wonder if these clowns live in some kind of parallel universe. Bobby, I am quite familiar with your fine state, I have a personal connection to it, and I am here to tell you that you can use the money. I know that you have national political ambitions, and that you want to grandstand and show that you can stare down the O man to all your republican pals nationwide. But there are some unemployed people in Louisiana who could use some of that money, and your obligation is to them, not partisan republicans nationwide. Where I am from that's called "cutting off your nose to spite your face". Hey field, we are going to give you that Audi R-8 5.2 you always wanted. Nah, I don't think I will take it, it has a Bang & Olufsen sound system and I wanted the Burmester. Bobby, trust me on this one, do like your republican colleagues in Florida and California and take the money. The way things look from here you don't eat too much, but there are plenty folks in your state who can't afford to miss a meal.

The next "foolish talker" is one Jim Bunning. (What the hell has gotten into republican senators lately?) This genius actually told a group of supporters that Supreme Court Justice, Ruth Bader-Ginsberg should die in nine months from her pancreatic cancer. "Bad cancer. The kind that you don't get better from.." This, apparently, was reason enough for his supporters to hold out hope to get a conservative judge on the bench, soon. Here is a news flash for you Jim: the president who will be making that selection is one Barack Hussein Obama, so not only are you an insensitive jerk, but you are an ignorant one as well.

And finally, there is Alan Keyes. There are people who talk foolish and do foolish things, but we don't mind them living among us, the sane. Not my friend Alan, who --and I mean this sincerely--should be locked away in an insane asylum far far away from the rest of us.