Strange Things on Friday

++Congratulations to the Detroit Tigers and their ace reliever Jose Valverde, whom I've reported to I.C.E. as an illegal immigrant. So Motor City can keep playing until the blizzards come. So the fickle fan I am, I am now rooting for Detroit.

++The Onion captured the death of Steve Jobs perfectly--the last American who knew what the F**K he was doing dies.

++Herman Cain has taken a twenty point lead over Willard Romney in the latest Zogby poll, which shows Cain beating Obama, both Romney and Perry losing. Do you remember when Zogby was actually a good pollster--about the Carter Administration?

++Willard Romney gave a "major" foreign policy speech at the Citadel, where he basically urged insubordination against a commander-in-chief. Romney this week revealed his foreign policy team was composed of W retreads. Romney blasted Obama for defense cuts. There have only been defense increases on Obama's watch, much to my dismay. Romney also blasted Obama for not beliving America was unique, even though Obama is the only President in modern memory who actually did mention American exceptionalism.

++PPP pollsters were asked to find out who actually liked Mitt Romney since he has remained constant at 21-23% among Republicans. Basically, he does better with Republican women and has greater support in the Northeast and the West. Men can stand him.

++Democrats want to call the Buffett Rule , the Romney rule, because Mitt doesn't pay more than 15% on this income.

++ Today opened the Value Voters Summit here in Washington, a freakathon with the very Christian Far Right and Ralph Reed as sponsors. Mitt Romney speaks right before the Christian radio announcer who says that the First Amendment doesn't cover Mormons.

++Little Ricky Cantor said he was worried about the Occupy Wall Street "mobs" because they pit Americans against Americans. Like 99.7% against.3%. Sounds fair to me. Donald Trump says that all the demonstrators are at Wall Street to pick up dates. he's not joking. Rush Limbaugh says he was more self-sufficient at the age of 10, than all the Wall Street Demonstrators.

++It is a hoot to read about concerns over violence from the Fox News commentators when they hailed Tea baggers marching with guns to speeches of President Obama.

++In the who cares department, this week the House passed a continuing resolution to keep the government open until the end of November. I really don't think this town understands how much Americans have tuned out Congress and all the little games being played. The same applies to Harry Reid pulling the nuclear option to block McConnell's own byzantine parliamentary maneuver. The idea was to get the Senate to vote down President Obama's Jobs Act to embarass the President. No one cares.

++The private sector created over 130,000 jobs this month but because of the continued lay-offs of public sector workers the jobs report doesn't look great.

++The IMF warns that we will have a major global financial meltdown in 3-4 weeks. How will this be different than we had in 2008?

++Strangely enough jobs numbers, manufacturing data and other things people look at do not suggest we will go into a double dip recession. But I am sure Ricky Cantor will try harder.

++ Tan Man John Boehner cried that President Obama was campaigning while the House was legislating. Even reporters roared with laughter at the Speaker's statement since the House has passed nothing meaningful since Boehner became Speaker.

++I personally think the Occupy America movement has shifted the political narrative in the country and the more Republicans rail against it the further isolated they become. Coming out of retirement for the Daily News was Jimmy Breslin, who wrote a column praising the Occupy Wall Street movement. Breslin points out that the last time young demonstrators were at Wall Street was during the Vietnam War. At that time unions came and beat the anti-war demonstrators. Today, the entire union movement is joining with the young and the difference is striking. The demonstrations have spread throughout the country and even into the South. This weekend they will be in the congressional district of Ricky Cantor.

++Yesterday demonstrators closed the U.S. Chamber of Commerce offices in Washington and marched on K Street against lobbyists.