It’s time for another episode of Ludicrous News.  If this news were any bigger a joke than it already is, we would be in tears.

1.) Timothy Geithner has topped a new record for spin in the Obama administration.  You can read his op-ed here, but in short:  We’re recovering, and it’s because Obama is awesome.  Perhaps no one agrees because no one has noticed yet.

You truly can’t get a grasp on the magnitude on how rich this is unless you read it.  If Geithner becomes any more brazen, he’ll likely stop using real numbers.  Perhaps then he’ll proudly announce that America is well on its way to having an eleventy gazillion dollar economy, growing at the rate of bazoodle percent every year.

They’re economist numbers, you understand.  Us normal people are too dumb to understand them.

2. ) This is a real campaign ad from Basil Marceaux.

Or so they tell me.  If it’s not, this is the best prank campaign ad of all time.  Hat tip to Hot Air for pointing me at this video.

3.) Representative Hank Johnson is no longer worried that Guam might collapse.  Now, he has turned his ever-wary eyes upon the latest threat to America:  Dog and cat fur clothing.

You probably didn’t even know it was sneaking up on you, did it?  Economy is a mess?  So what.  Oil spill in the Gulf?  Child’s play.  Drop all else, because dog and cat fur clothing imports are going to destroy the world, or would have but for the diligence of Hank Johnson.

Can anyone else not wait for November either?

4.) Hey, want to know a great way to spend stimulus money?  Get monkeys stoned on cocaine.  It’s not like money doesn’t grow on trees or anything.

The Danged Maverick was part of the project compiling some of the more fun uses for stimulus cash.  That’s good, because we can always use his hard work to go after Olympia Snowe, one of the people who voted for it, even if he’s trying to make everyone forget about that whole TARP thing.  It’s all about him anyway, so throw the Maine twit under the bus.

That’s it for this edition of Ludicrous News.  You can’t make this stuff up.  If you could, ask the pink elephants you’re seeing if you’re still sane.