Greetings loyal minions. Your Maximum Leader wanted to wait until after Iowa and the State of the Union to give a little commentary on the political happenings around our great Republic.

First… I’m sure you’ve seen it… Howard Dean’s “Incredible Hulk” moment. What can one say except: Yeeeeaaaaaahhhhggggrrrhhh! Really! Has Dean gone completely mad? I’m beginning to think so. This moment has been parodied so often all ready, I’m not sure I can add anything as funny or substantive as has already been written. I do like what James Lieks wrote about the “Dean/Hulk” moment. And the audio file he connects to is great. (And make sure you read the whole thing. I liked the remake of the famous Apple “1984″ commercial.)

Dean’s behaviour is beginning to concern me. Did the good people of Vermont (including some of Mrs. Villain’s relatives) somehow miss Dr. Dean’s pechance for getting “lost in the moment.” If he gives a primal scream after placing third in Iowa can you imagine what will happen if he wins in NH? It also makes you wonder how he reacted to making a good diagnosis while in medicine. (”I just discovered your enlarged prostate Mr. Smith. You’re gonna need treatment. Yeeeeeeeeeaaaaahhhhhhrrrrgggghhhh!”) I wonder how much damage has been done to his campaign by that yelling moment.

While I joked a while ago that I thought that John Edwards would be out of politics soon, it looks like he will linger on for a while more. I still just don’t think he has it in him to win the nomination. He is being too nice. Sooner or later he will have to get dirty. Politics is a very dirty business afterall. And while Senate races in North Carolina are not cakewalks, they are nothing like what will happen to you running for President. Oveall, I think Edwards (while not getting the nomination) is the Dems best candidate out there. He talks the talk, but hasn’t been in politics long enough to know all his walks. I seem to remember reading somewhere that Karl Rove is most afraid of an Edwards campaign. (Tired to find the link, but couldn’t dig it up…)

Second… The State of the Union Address. Is your Maximum Leader the only person in America who wishes that modern presidents would go back to the precedent of Jefferson and just have some lackey run a copy of the address up Pennsylvania Avenue, hand it off to the Speaker of the House’s office; who in turn would have it read into the record? No, really? Is your Maximum Leader the only one?

Now your Maximum Leader fully understands the need to have event where the President can look “Presidential.” But the State of the Union has become a launchpad for some of the most ill-conceived ideas and programs besetting our nation today. Certainly your Maximum Leader is all for the War on Terrorism. And I am pretty much okay will all of the foreign policy messages. But all that other stuff. Whew! What the hell is going on at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue?

What? What was that you say? It’s an election year and the President is starting to make promises? Well shuck your Maximum Leader’s corn and call him baldy! Surely not! You mean all this other stuff we’ve been spending money on was just LEADING UP TO ELECTION PROMISES! No Child Left behind is just a prelude to no semi-sentient biped left behind? You mean that the prescription drug “benefit” is just Act 1 of George W. Bush’s magum opus “America’s National Health Service?” Is the Department of Homeland Security just a ramp up to our very own Committee of Public Safety?

(Aside: Two things… Since when has Tom Ridge worn a hearing aid? Your Maximum Leader spied it in his ear as he walked down the asile last night. Of course, it might not have been a hearing aid after all. It might have been an earpeice so he could listen to Patriot Act wiretaps while the President spoke! Second thing… In case you are a new minion and haven’t read the master plan. In the Mike World Order (MWO) there will be a large impersonal “Commission of Public Safety.” It will, as you can imagine, be lead by a very trusted minion who will hold the innoccuous title “Commissioner of Public Safety.” The Commission of Public Safety will be a combination of CIA, FBI, NSA, National Reconnaissance Office, Coast Guard, INS, and some special forces thrown in for good measure.)

Your Maximum Leader knows the President means well. But what is up with all this spending? And all these new programs? Ack! (Or if I were Howard Dean: Yeeeeeeaaaaaaahhhhhrrrrrgggghhhh!) Jonah Goldberg’s recent NRO column is a good summary of that which I am blogging about. Your Maximum Leader believes that government (at least the Federal Government) is not the solution to most of the problems that might ail us.

If creating these new programs and spending all this treasure is supposed to out-Democrat the Democrats… Well it never will. Because what George W. Bush is doing will only become a low-end benchmark for that which the Dems would like to do. Ack!

Now the question becomes, if you let your mind wander for a moment, do you vote for the Republican who spends like a Democrat? Or the Democrat who spends like a Democrat? Hummm… Toughie. I suppose if there is no difference in domestic politics, it comes down to foreign policy. And, in your Maximum Leader’s mind, Bush has that all locked up.

Your Maximum Leader is going t get off his arse and start working on the MWO right quick….

In other news….

Your Maximum Leader knows he already blogged about Charlie, Winston Churchill’s parrot. But really, he deserved to be mentioned again and again. I might even find a way to add him to the ole sidebar…

For those of us of Scottish extraction this is good news. Just in time for Burns Night Dinners!

For those of you with a little too much time on your hands, and a desire to oggle some adult material. This article about a new search engine is for you.

Your Maximum Leader was told by a minion that this woman is fat. (Photo is work safe. Just a hottie brazilian girl on the beach.) Your Maximum Leader sits agog in the Villainschloss after hearing that. This curvey brazilian chicka is fat? We are really screwed up in this society if that is now fat. Crazy…

Of course, if you visit Booble.com, or look with lust in your heart at the photo of that brazilian girl, you may want to atone and remember this Rabbi’s prayer. Let’s repeat: “Please God, help me cleanse the computer of viruses and evil photographs which disturb and ruin my work…, so that I shall be able to cleanse myself (of sin).”

And since it is upon us your Maximum Leader says: “Gung hay fat choi.” (Not sure if that is transliterated properly! On this item your Maximum Leader is open to corrections.) The Year of the Monkey is begun! Your Maximum Leader doesn’t know what he will do to celebrate, but some celebrating is in order.

And with that my loyal minions, your Maximum Leader bids you…

Carry on.