YoHoHo! Dusty’s Characters of Christmas 2011 Edition. Liars, Weasels and Haters Oh My! Sarah Palin's OWN Christmas Card. BONUS: Bristol and Gino

Our first character of Christmas is of course she who will also never be President of the United States Michele Bachmann.  I swear she makes this just too easy. Michele is now touting herself as a person of character while at the same time implying of course that President Obama has no character. In an opinion piece written for the DesMoinesRegister  Michele concluded her piece with

“Whether Iowans choose me or one of the other candidates, the time is long overdue that a person of character is returned to the office”.  

Yes folks you read that right Michele is stating that her character is better than President Obama's character. This is the same woman who pretty much lies every time she opens her mouth.  This opinion piece is just yet another gop ‘let’s bash the president because we have nothing else of value to talk about’ article.  Got to love her response to Anne Curry this morning when asked “you used the words ‘return to the white house’ you’re saying return to the white house. You’re questioning whether the president is a person of character.” Oh my, I almost fell out of my chair when Anne Curry actually decided to ask a real question rather than the usual fluff questions.  Michele responds with a word salad that had to have made Sarah Palin totally green with envy. Duck Todd, incoming!  

“Well, What I’m saying in those remarks is as people are choosing who will be the nominee for our party, will the person have character in that they are a person of their word, they have honesty, their integrity, you can trust what they say.(Jeez, Michele I think that is exactly why President Obama got elected) That’s one thing people know about me, I’m very sincere, I’m very authentic, I say what I mean, I mean what I say and my word is my bond. I think that is very important for our next candidate for president.”

This from the woman dubbed ‘Dumber than Sarah Palin’ and whose statements are continually fact-checked because she normally comes up way short of the truth meter.

Next up is John Boehner who is the Weasel of the Year winner by a landslide. Seriously folks who else even came close? The man cries at the drop of a hankie while weaseling his way out of every single task set before him. Going to create Jobs was his mantra in 2010- what has he done lately. Nothing except cry, cry, then lie, cry some more, pass a resolution demanding a bust of Churchill be placed, oh who cares where, but has not created one single job this year.   Rachel Maddow says it best

“So Americans, when your paycheck shrinks substantially on January 1, at least you can take comfort that we'll have the Churchill bust to cuddle up to in the Capitol,"

Another great article is here at the Wall StreetJournal. "GOP Senate leader Mitch McConnell famously said a year ago that his main task in the 112th Congress was to make sure that President Obama would not be re-elected. Given how he and House Speaker John Boehner have handled the payroll tax debate, we wonder if they might end up re-electing the President before the 2012 campaign even begins in earnest.

The GOP leaders have somehow managed the remarkable feat of being blamed for opposing a one-year extension of a tax holiday that they are surely going to pass. This is no easy double play.”

The Winner of the Haters of all things Sane and Normal Award goes to Sarah Palin and Fox News. These overpaid haters just can’t say one thing nice during this Holiday season can they? In the oh so petty category of let’s see if we can get attention department Miss Sarah and her co-haters at fox news have decided to bash the First Dog (notice the proper respect shown to the First Dog?) and his family's Christmas Card? No dead animal parts/bones gracing the furniture? No huge gold crosses anywhere? Oh I get it; you just hate to see a fire burning in the fireplace….no no that’s not it because you always have a roaring fire in your fireplace.  Oh I get it…It’s not YOUR family in the picture...that is why you hate it so much. Got it! Bless your (petty and childish little) heart Sarah. 

Photo credit: Fox News (oh the irony)

Merry Christmas all and I sincerely hope we all have a great New Year! Don't forget to send in your favorite holiday recipes.

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UPDATE by Kathleen:

Thank you Dusty. Your posts always hit the right note!

I would like to add a picture of the official Christmas card that Sarah Palin sent during the holiday season of 2008. It features Trig stuffed in a Christmas box and dressed up as a mini Santa Claus and surrounded by lots of Christmas presents. If you ask me the symbolism here is painful but I'm interested in reader's reactions in light of Sarah Palin's comments today regarding President Obama's Christmas card.

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UPDATE by Patrick - What's going on in the Valley:

We have news: Bristol is back together with Gino (Giacinto Paoletti).

It's not just "dating", because it seems to be really serious this time: All kinds of Palin family members, including close family friends, like Molly, Lauden and members of Kristian Cole's family today added Gino as their facebook friends (Willow a few days ago). 

I wonder if there will be a new Christmas blessing...?

Do I hear bells in the distance - and I am not talking about Christmas bells...?

Well, we don't know, but it's all rather entertaining!

This info has been spotted on Gino's public facebook wall.

A very recent picture of the couple, from Gino's facebook:

It's also worth remembering that Gino is the ex-boyfriend of Bristol's arch nemesis Mercede Johnston.

Wasilla is a small, small, and very entertaining place!

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UDPATE:

Our brilliant Azure Ghost provides this view on the "Palin-Christmas-Card-Conflict":