Turning back the clock

Isn't it interesting that the state where the Snopes' "Monkey Trial" occurred, Tennessee, is now trying to undo that very precedent?

Critics Decry Tennessee’s ‘Monkey Bill’

Really, what's more surprising to me is that the Snopes trial ever took place in Tennessee. Maybe the state really is getting more backward as time goes along.

The alternate GOP reality

OK, so the reality is that Republicans probably know that if the economy at least appears to still be improving in November, it's going to mean a second Obama term (and ARMAGEDDON!!!!) and maybe even heavy losses in the House (and forget the Senate).

So, knowing that's the playing field, maybe you can't blame then for a quote like this after the unemployment rate dropped for the third straight month, with employers adding 200,000 jobs for the third straight month.

“Today’s jobs report is yet another reminder that far too many Americans are out of work, and the situation is clearly not improving,” RNC Chair Reince Priebus said in a statement.

The first part of that compound sentence is true (at least, the second half of the first part is). But "the situation is clearly not improving"? That kind of anti-logic might garner nods from conservatives, but the independents (who will decide the election) will know that statement doesn't pass the smell test, that it's a desperate attempt to change reality.

And with summer will come more hiring, so the outlook continues to trend upward. No, it's not where we need to be (and there are still huge fundamental problems with the wealth gap that need to be reversed if we are to sustain anything long-term), but you don't recover from "The Great Recession" overnight.

Maybe in Obama's second term he can truly become the socialist all Repugnicans believe him to be, and fix that wealth gap.