Tuesday, April 19, 2011

"Dead mules and the Big Sleep"

By Wesley Pruden

"Ours may be remembered as the era of the Big Sleep. Barack Obama and the Democrats lie comatose at the switch as the federal government continues to swell up like a dead mule in the July sunshine. Air traffic controllers doze off with airliners circling airports frantically trying to get landing instructions.

Joe Biden sleeps through the boss' forgettable speech about the economy, caught on camera with his chin against his chest, happily sawing hickory logs. A man sitting next to him in the photograph is obviously wrestling with a protocol problem: how loud does a veep get to snore before he gets a sharp elbow in the ribs?"

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