Funny Or Die has a great video up today that “brings together the Saturday Night Live actors who have played every American president since Gerald Ford” (plus a not-to-miss guest spot by Jim Carrey playing “The Gipper”). In the video, Barack Obama gets a visit from the ex-Presidents to get a few tips about the Consumer Financial Protection Agency.

By now we’ve learned there is no Invisible Hand Of The Market and there is no such thing as Utopian Socialism. Like the presidents before him, Obama has to balance capitalism and socialism. That’s a pretty tall order. So criticize him if you must – and I guess we must – but remember that the handful of presidents before him couldn’t do it either. If they had, we wouldn’t be where we are right now.

                          

Nothing was more telling than the different ways the crowd received Dick Cheney and Ron Paul. When our last vice president was introduced by Liz Cheney, his daughter and sith in training, Cheney was supposedly greeted with chants of “Run, Dick, Run!” Paul, on the other hand, was booed. And that was after he won the conference’s 2012 presidential straw poll.  (Paul’s supporters were reportedly out in big numbers for the purpose of the vote, or so the RNC spinmeisters would have us believe).

It was a great example of where mainstream conservatism currently resides, as well as where it ultimately needs to go.  If ever there was a valid yea or nay test for neo-conservatism and the leadership of Dick Cheney, it was the Bush Administration.

And by almost all measures, that was an epic fail.

On the other hand, support for Paul’s mix of traditional conservatism and radically progressive ideas is obviously growing strong.

Nevertheless, Paul is still shunned by mainstream conservatives, who continue to desperately cling to a past that, although rejected thoroughly by the American Electorate, remains represented by Tricky Dick Cheney.

Check out this video of Cheney’s CPAC reception:

                          

from LK: As the name suggests, My Sedentary Life doesn’t get out much and spends way too much time in front of his laptop. But lucky for you this news junkie will be commenting on the latest media trends and highlighting the more interesting news items of the week.

If you’ve followed the news for the last week or so, it turns out the recent snow storms on the East Coast totally disprove global warming. According to Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and even Donald Trump, the snow on the ground tells us that we’ve got nothing to worry about. Says Trump:

“With the coldest winter ever recorded, with snow setting record levels up and down the coast, the Nobel committee should take the Nobel Prize back from Al Gore.”

If you want to trust this guy over many of the world’s scientists, be my guest. I’m just too depressed over the existence of this debate to join in it.