A reply to Senator Menendez from Santa

At 12:57 AM on 24 December, Richard managed a minor fail (British style) by referring to the Isle of Jersey without saying so explicitly, figuring that the world’s majority of English-speaking people would get the joke without explanation, writing:

I wonder if Senator Terry Le Sueur could sue Senator Menendez and New Jersey for bringing Jersey into disrepute? Also demand that New Jersey ceases to use the word “Jersey” in their name for having brought the word into disrepute.

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p.s. I have no idea what the position of Jersey is regarding AGW, or even if they have one.

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To explain to our friend across the rolling main, since the ratification of the progressives’ 17th Amendment (it took its pernicious effect just prior to the 1914 elections), governments of the several states have had vanishingly little to do with the selection of U.S. Senators.
The way the federal Constitution was structured, the upper house in our national legislature was designed so that each U.S. Senator served his term in office as a sort of representative of the interests and desires of the state legislature which had elected him.
The progressives didn’t like that system (which had produced some truly great national legislators during the course of the 19th Century, as well as such unmitigatedly cancerous bastiches as Henry Clay), and thus the 17th Amendment took the U.S. Senate away from the state governments and made of each Senator a sort of duplicate directly elected legislator, differing from the critters in the U.S. House of Representatives only in term of office and the fact that rather than nominally (and I use that word deliberately) pursuing the interests of the people of a few counties and towns, he putatively takes into Mordor-on-the-Potomac the concerns of the folks of his entire state, where he runs for election “at large.”
This has invariably resulted in U.S. Senators being elected entirely by the great population centers in each state. In New Jersey, this means that those of us who live outside the bedroom suburbs of New York City – North Jersey – have effectively nothing to say about how we are ostensibly “represented” in the U.S. Senate.
And between having the hell-hole city of Camden and the “Liberal” suburb of Cherry Hill in my congressional district, I’ve never in my life had even the least ghost of a shadow of a voice in the U.S. House of Representatives, either.
To borrow a phrase from the old popular song, “That’s what America means to me.” I get what the overwhelming majority of my neighbors determine is best for them, and in New Jersey we have – surprise! – 81 government employees per square mile. The highest density of this blood-sucking pathology in any state in the Union.
Any surprise that these rice-bowl-clutching parasites vote consistently for creatures like Sen. Menendez?
Okay, but what about New Jersey’s state government, that Isengard-on-the-Delaware to our magnificant Mombasa Messiah’s Mordor further south?
Well, under our last governor – yet another flagrant National Socialist ratbag who had astonishingly failed of re-election because he and his good buddies in the totally National Socialist Democrat American Party (NSDAP) state legislature had hammered the Garden State even more Challenger-Deep into economic chaos – these flaming fascists involved us in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI, pronounced “Reggie”).
This year, however, our Republican Governor (elected in 2009, and do bear in mind that in New Jersey “Republican” = RINO at all times and in all places) took the $65 million that had been stolen from the people of New Jersey under this scheme of predation and fraud, turning it to addressing the truly Hellenic budget deficits his NSDAP predecessor had inflicted upon us.
So while we’ve not advanced our understanding about how the local government of the island of Jersey is addressing the “Cargo Cult Science” of spurious anthropogenic climate catastrophe, the peninsula of New Jersey is experiencing the usual Trenton Screw Job, in which our governing corruptocrats have treated this “noble” effort precisely the same way they have treated every other tax rip-off they’ve ever perpetrated.
Welcome to “the Soprano State.”
Sen. Menendez is precisely what North Jersey – full of Mets and Yankees fans, natch – could be expected to inflict upon the nation.

Satirewire and the Onion haven’t posted on this theme yet this year, but here’s one from Daily Kos:

If I read it correctly, the motto on Santa Claus’s seal is “Scelestulus Aut Suctwis”. Dare I translate this as “Naughty Or Nice”?

Hmm. wonder how I messed up that link. There’s no preview feature, right?

Brilliant!!!!!

Sorry about all those failed attempts.
If a moderator could get rid of the repeats, the link I was trying to include was
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/12/24/931318/-Ice-Sheet-Collapses-at-North-Pole.Portions-of-Santas-Village-Destroyed,-Reindeer-Missing.

At 1:23 PM on 24 December, Mike McMillan had asked:

I wonder what New Jersey’s policy is on undocumented elves?

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As long as they vote the straight National Socialist Democrat American Party (NSDAP) ticket, the position advocated by our Assembly and State Senate in Trenton (in the words of Sen. Menendez) is: “Bienvenidos, amigos!.
Tolkien notwithstanding, Elves speak Spanish, don’t they?

Senator Menendez’s letter is pathetic but the rebuttal is priceless.

Anthony Clement McAuliffe’s reply to the German’s demand that he surrender during the Battle of the Bulge would have been appropriate, too. His one word reply was “Nuts!”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_McAuliffe