Attention, Morning Sedition fans: Planet Bush Bureau Chief Lawton Smalls is back, and he insists indignantly, "I will not be stimulated!"

"Congratulations, Marc, you got your wish. The United States of America is officially a Communist state. Everything you wanted -- redistribution of wealth, atheism, nanny state, meth orgies, enforced homosexuality, abolition of sports, mandatory drug addiction, on-demand abortion, preschool prostitution, free jazz, beards -- it's all there. We've gone to hell in a handbasket, hell in a tie-dyed handbasket, and I'm pointing a finger at you."

-- former Morning Sedition Planet Bush Bureau Chief Lawton Smalls (at 21:18), on yesterday's Air America Radio Break Room Live

by Ken

We have important stuff to talk about, like whether Senate Dems will muster the 60 votes they need to be able to proceed to confirmation of Hilda Solis as a secretary of labor who's actually concerned about the interests of working people. (And why is that Americans are so hostile to working people, and do we pay a price for it?)

And what's the deal with the Obama Justice Dept. apparently asking the remaining 51 U.S. attorneys (out of the total 93 -- did the other 42 really just disappear?) to stay in place, at least temporarily. Aren't these the worst of the Bush-DoJ-worst USAs? Were they at least asked for the letter of resignation standard at the start of a new administration, so that they can be replaced, as per custom, in the first year or two? You know, so the Republicans don't screech "politicization" when they're finally replaced?

Important stuff, but meanwhile, although I've known that Sam Seder and Marc Maron are doing something on Air America Radio in the afternoon, since I don't have afternoon radio access, it's been murky to me exactly what. But I just stumbled on a half-hour clip of yesterday's Break Room Live, where Marc -- with Sam in Los Angeles this week -- among other things greets old Morning Sedition friend, erstwhile Planet Bush Bureau Chief Lawton Smalls.

In case you're wondering what Lawton is so worked up about in the above excerpt, it's:

"That stimulus package. Uh! Lord, it even sounds dirty. Now what secretary from the Department of Gay thought that one up?"

Marc rattles off a list of provisions with the package, and to each one Lawton declares, "Pork!" But doesn't the new president have to do something about the economic disaster? The solution to everything, Lawton insists, is, 'Tax cuts, Marc, the bigger the better -- they're straight out of the Bible!"

"Hussein Obama Fearcard scared everyone into believing there's a, quote, recession -- I'm doing that thing with my fingers -- so he could strong-arm this stimulus poison down America's throats."

And of course, as always, as soon as Marc issues Lawton a reality check, the poor fellow is reduced to bawling like a baby (as illustrated in the AAR video images) -- for a while, at least. Welcome back, Lawton!

Note: I think you can play a clip of just Lawton's appearance from the AAR website, but I couldn't get an embed code. Eventually I've got to go back there and try to figure out what the heck this BRL thing is. AAR does like to keep its secrets.


UPDATE: I SHOULD HAVE MENTIONED THAT LAWTON
SMALLS IS REALLY OUR FUNNY FRIEND KENT JONES

Most of us first encountered Kent, who now does the "Just Enough" segment on MSNBC's Rachel Maddow Show, as one of the hugely talented writer-performers on Air America Radio's brilliant and brutally unsupported morning show, Morning Sedition. Those of us who made the move from Morning Sedition to Rachel's totally different but also quite brilliant AAR morning show continued to hear Kent on that. Now I've turned to Wikipedia to fill in the picture a bit:

After the cancellation of Morning Sedition in December 2005, Kent continued to write and perform on The Marc Maron Show until its cancellation in July 2006. He most recently appeared on The Rachel Maddow Show, with daily Sports and "Kent Jones Now" segments and additional co-hosting, especially during her "Ask Dr. Maddow" and "Pet Story" segments. The Lawton Smalls character still makes "calls" to The Sam Seder Show and was on the Nov 7th 2006 live webcam election coverage with Rachel Maddow.

Kent left Air America on Friday, December 14th, 2007, as a result of a "business decision" by the management.

Somehow, "business decision" doesn't seem quite the word to describe what's gone on at AAR since, well, its creation.

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