Second in an occasional series, addressing some of the idiocy that pops up from time to time on Facebook …

In the words of the great philosopher George Takei, “Oh, my.”  Let’s count the stupid in this one, shall we?

  1. Assuming the Romney/Ryan ticket is elected in November, they won’t even take office until 2013, and at the speed Congress runs, they’ll be lucky to have a budget passed by mid-April.  So either R&R are overachievers, and will kill a million jobs in eight months at most, or — as I think we strongly suspect — this is just hype.
  2. The often-heard canard about “rais[ing] taxes on the middle class” comes from a dishonest reading of an incomplete analysis of a tax plan that isn’t even fully written yet.  The Obama campaign is hammering this talking point, which should tell you what a political exercise this is.
  3. Not to mention that the author of the greatest destruction of jobs in American history is already in the White House:


Yep, President Obama has already caused a lot of those pink slips, all right …