Hell paying close attention to Budget Negotiations

I had the best dinner of broiled (everything here is flame-broiled, even the prunes) quail since I dined with Karl Rove and his beard... then wife the other day. It was with my old drinking buddy, Joe McCarthy. Joe is a well respected man around Hell, although he usually says he's not fond of the reddish color, the lack of Kennedy brothers -- though the dad is a lot of fun; nor is he keen on the fact that Mao, Lenin and Stalin seem to delight in giving him swirlies.

Nevertheless, this reporter found that McCarthy still has things to contribute to today's political scene. He says he fully supports Governor Scott Walker in his battle against the unions, though admittedly he told me that like his fellow badger-hell dwellers Ed Gein and Jeff Dahmer he regrets no longer having skin in the game. My Lord and Foul Master Beelzebub also tells me that many former priests now residing with the diocese of Hades & St. Lucifer are totally "behind" the retention of Judge David Prosser.

Also word from the Ninth-Circle is that the magisterial and brave policy stance of Representative Paul Ryan on the eventual elimination of medicare is big in Hell. It's a long-standing policy down here that anything that makes the upper tectonic plates more like it is down here is good policy. So between this and Japan, things are looking up, or down, depending on where you are standing.

Oh, and BRAINZZZZ!