Here's a Name For it: Lame-Stream Media

As someone who saw the words "botched" and "sloppy" on a lot of school papers I know botched and sloppy when I see it. Last week I made the mistake of trying to follow the details of the budget battle and I can recall four sets of figures, four different entities, and miscellaneous and conflicting scenarios for each one.


I heard that Obama initially wanted no cuts but is agreeing to the Republicans' revised cuts of $31 billion while the Tea Party wanted $61 billion.


I heard The Democrats were giving in to the Republican call for $31 billion while the Tea Party wanted $100 billion (I totally believed this one).


I heard the President proposed $33 billion while the Republicans and the Tea Party won't budge from $61 billion.


I heard the Republicans agreed to $31 billion and then said "psych" and went up to $61 billion while they laughed.


I heard the Republicans and the Tea Party were on the verge of a war as 300 people assembled for a big Tea Party budget rally on Capitol Hill to listen to Michele Bachmann's robotic yammering.


Now I don't know what to believe. I don't even know if there is a nuclear meltdown happening in Japan. I may have given myself potassium idodide poisoning for nothing. I'm starting to see the wisdom of that 98% of Americans that don't read news.