Got my good, life-affirming (and preserving) deed for the day in already. As I went to roll up the solar cover on the pool, I noticed a little critter hanging out in one of the folder-over areas. Appeared to be a mole. So, I had to finagle him into the net and then back out again (which turned out to be the hard part). He was a little soggy, but otherwise no worse for the wear, and he scampered away. Let’s hope the little dummy learned his lesson (and posts a warning on his Facebook page – “stay away from the sea-ment pond). Now I can go to work confident that I’ve done my small part to make the world a better place for rodents.

And in that way, I feel kinda like Barack Obama, because he seems to be doing everything in his power (which appears to be negligible, at least to his apologists) to protect and defend rats like John Boehner and Mitch McConnell. Oh, I know what you’re thinking. Mitch McConnell is a turtle, not a rodent. Fair enough, but he’s a mutant turtle with rodent-like tendencies. In fact, I’d go so far as to say he is a rat in turtle clothing. Or shell.

Anyhow, the point is that our President (love him, hate him, proud of him, or just a wee bit disappointed in him) has done more to resurrect and empower the down-and-out, headed-to-the-same-place-in-history-as-the-Whig Party Republicans than Fux News and the Wall Street Journal combined. Um, well, come to think of it, Fux News and the WSJ are more or less combined these days. But, whatever.

And for that (and for President Romney/Bachmann/Palin, and for the impending cuts to Social Security and raising the Medicare age – imagine, there was a time when some fools actually thought this Socialist Manchurian Kenyan Candidate would usher in the era of Medicare for all, and instead he appears ready to bargain it all away in order to protect tax cuts for billionaires and so, um, I guess so Republicans will be nice to him), we all owe him our enduring gratitude.

Quite a list of accomplishments for a one-and-done President. George “The First” Bush will ever be known for “read my lips,” but Obama will be known for “aw, c’mon guys. Please?“.

Oh well, off to work, which I once thought perhaps I could get out of in another 14 years or so, but which I now figure I’ll have to do until I drop dead. Or win the lottery. Whichever comes first.

BREAKING NEWS FROM GOOD MORNING AMERICA: It’s not the heat, it’s the humidity. :omg: