The Chrissy Regime.

I started out today with 2 posts in mind but I couldn’t come up with a common thread and then I did.

And, not for the first time, the common thread is MSNBC and little Chrissy Matthews who is beloved by some but not watched by many. But enough of the preamble and let’s get into it.

I don’t know if little Chrissy needs the male equivalent of a hormone patch but there is something awry.

I was not surprised when Congress was eager to get out of town for the Easter or Passover recess. They knew they were heading into a whole barrage of flak from their districts and from their states but, on the other hand, they knew that they would not have to vote on any more kamikaze legislation.

But they did leave one piece of business outstanding and now little Chrissy is apoplectic. The business in question was the extension of unemployment benefits -- again. As their corporate jets idled at Washington National Airport, thus seeking to fulfill Al Gore’s direst prophecies, the Senate was unable to persuade one Senator to break the law.

The sole holdout was Senator Tom Coburn of the great state of Oklahoma who insisted that Congress and Obama play by their own rules. And the rules are simple and they are played out over most American dinner tables every night. Well, in smart households they are and it goes like this. If we don’t have it, we can’t spend it.

In “Congress Speak” that’s known as “PAYGO”, and during 2010's State of the Union address to Congress, Obama urged the Senate to restore the pay-as-you-go law that "was a big reason why we had record surpluses in the 1990s."

Then on February 12, 2010, Obama signed House Joint Resolution 45, which contained a provision reinstating statutory PAYGO.

Little Chrissy saw it differently. He saw it as a callous act by one senator, Republican of course, to grind the faces of the poor into the unremmitting mire. I don’t. I call it living with the law that was enacted by Democrats at the behest of the regime leader. But more of that later.

Somehow, I’m faced with an image I can’t escape which is the family at their dinner table with more debt than they can handle deciding to buy another HDTV.

What would I do without little Chrissy? He took extreme exception; indeed he was beside himself when some commentators referred to this White House as a “Regime”.

He went on and on about how Obama had been elected while totally ignoring his use of the regime word after the 2000 election. And he also forgot his use of the word when referring to the Bush administration after the events of 911.

And it doesn’t take a lot of work to find that “The Washington Post” has done so as well as the New York Times did too under the pen of Maureen Dowd.

Well, little Chrissy, fewer and fewer people may watch you every day but you can rely on me for your idiot value.

And my birthday is coming up soon but I’ll settle for a card.