You Keep Using those Words...I do not think they mean what you think they mean.

The song "Isn't it Ironic?" isn't, but the fact that it isn't, is. This week, the theme as been, ironic quotes by people of power, influence and celebrity status who theoretically know better.

Michelle Obama: Thursday morning, Mrs. Obama thanked fellow Chicagoan Oprah Winfrey for joining her in the Olympic pitch saying: "We dropped everything — dropped everything — to be a part of this team." Praising the team work, the first lady said: "As much of a sacrifice as people say this is for me or Oprah or the president to come for these few days," the team has been working for years."

Who says getting a luxury lobbying trip to Copenhagen is a sacrifice? I want to know.

Documentary film director Michael Moore, who has become a millionaire thanks to the profits from his movies, told CNSNews.com that “capitalism did nothing” for him.

Given his feelings, I won't torchure his soul by adding to his fortune via a purchase of movie tickets.

Whoopi Goldberg on "The View" offered a spirited if insane defense of Polanski by suggesting that whatever he was guilty of it wasn't "rape-rape".

Right! It was statuatory rape and child molestation and drug date rape.

Harvy Weinstein (circulating a petition for clemency or rather, no consequence) for Polanski engaging in a bit of odd reasoning. Weinstein said that people generally misunderstand what happened to Polanski at sentencing. He's not convinced public opinion is running against the filmmaker and dismisses the categorization of Hollywood as amoral. "Hollywood has the best moral compass, because it has compassion." He bases this on the fact that they did fund raising in wake of Katrina and the tsunamis.

Memo to Weinstein: moral rightness in one area of life does not erase moral bankruptcy in another.

And then finally, not to be out done, the Vice President Joe Biden say, "In my wildest dreams, I never thought it would work this well." talking about the stimulus package.

Res ispa loquitur. (The thing speaks for itself).

Government Prescribed

"The best health care is not always the most expensive." --President Obama

"It darn well better be!" --Sherry Antonetti --after looking at the price tag that refuses to be named but has been speculated at, for the federal government health care.

I don't actually remember anyone ever saying the best was the most expensive, but let's just go with what he says for the moment.

The best beef is Wagyu. The President serves this when he wants to court Congress or impress, it is also stated to be his favorite. It is roughly $100.00 a pound. Now maybe there's some ground sirloin out there at Sam's club that can compete if cooked properly (slow smoked burgers that have a touch of green chili's and white and black pepper), but otherwise...the best is well, expensive.

His wife is styling in her $400.00 sneakers. I'm sure Easy Spirit makes a shoe that is similar in design and color, but the best shoes that make all of Paris and London and the media swoon are fashionably expensive.

And his lovely darling daughters go to a private school, very posh, but the best education isn’t always the most expensive either… I’m sure the DC public schools would be just swell.

Now the President lives in the best public housing that is available in the nation.

But when it comes to health care, just remember, the best is not always the most expensive. Trust us, we didn't take a vow to do no harm, but we're from the government and we know the best for you isn’t the best for us.

P.S. On a serious note, I do understand that we need to make some changes to the existing health care structure and that the moral quandry involved in health care is always --say yes to everything and go bankrupt, or say no and risk having made an error in judgement that cost someone else grave suffering or death. It is not an easy issue and I do not take it lightly.

That is precisely why I feel ill at ease with the speed with which this bill was being pushed. I subscribe to the quaint philosophical notion that we ought to demand our leaders read the things they vote into law or bother to sign. I also worry that we are already spending massive amounts of money we don't have, and at some point, we do have to stop. If government spending is holding the economy afloat, haven't we just swapped one bubble economy for another, the dot.coms to the housing home equity incomes to government? Lastly, why is this not being asked by a person in the media as opposed to a blogging house frau?