Good morning breakfastpoppers. Today is Tuesday, August 25, 2009. Nominations for this week's POP Awards have been piling up, so let's prepare a quick breakfast and carry it to the ceremony. If you care to join me you will need 1 cup lemonade, 1/2 cup plain yogurt, 3/4 cup fresh pineapple chunks, 1/2 cup pineapple sherbet and 3 or 4 ice cubes. Place all the ingredients into a blender and blend until smooth. Pour your breakfast drink into an elegant glass and put your best duds on. We have an awards ceremony to attend and we definitely do not want to be late.

Now that we are comfortably seated with our drink in our hands, let the festivities begin. Will Senator Dick Durbin, the distinguished Democrat from Illinois please step up to the podium? Congratulations Senator Durbin. You have certainly earned this POP Award by stating in public that meeting with constituents is "not productive". It would appear from your actions that you prefer meeting with lobbyists. Well done, your remarks are insulting and disgraceful and you certainly have earned this honor. Please be seated.

Will Rep. Barney Frank come on up and accept your POP? We will never forget how masterfully you put-down your constituents at a town hall meeting, in which you equated (I'm paraphrasing) talking to a member of the audience with talking to a dining room table. Oh, Barney, that was clever. Frankly,( no pun intended) one would think you would prefer talking to furniture . Tables and chairs can't disagree or talk back. Real live people with opinions and feelings can get really annoying when they try to express their views. Please accept this POP and return to your seat. Try not to engage anyone in conversation on your way back up the aisle.

Will Joe Klein from Time Magazine step forward? We have a POP Award with your name on it. You are being honored for cleverly describing protests against ObamaCare as "a celebration of ignorance and misinformation." We the "unwashed and stupid" public appreciate your description. Please accept this award and vamoose. You aren't very popular at the moment.

Moving on, will Rep. Anthony Weiner, the distinguished Democrat from New York, come up to the podium? We are honoring you with this POP to mark the momentous moment when you admitted your goal was to eliminate all private insurance companies. You have made it abundantly clear that you will not yield on the public plan. You want it, even if your constituents don't. Take your POP, go back to your seat and try to remember how you got to Congress in the first place.

Our next award is really very special. Will a representative from the Veteran"s Administration please step forward to accept your POP? What a proud day it must have been when you learned that the VA sent out 1200 letters to veteran's across the country, erroneously informing them that they had a fatal neurological disease. You have truly earned this award and we thank you for providing rock-solid proof that the government should never run anything.

Fellow breakfastpoppers and distinguished invited guests, thank you all for attending the second weekly POP Awards. There really are so many worthy nominees out there that we truly have just scratched the surface of deserving recipients.

I thank you all for attending.

Breakfastpop