These aren't knee-slapping, turn-your-face-red-and-bring-tears-to-your-eyes-from- laughing kind of yuks but rather sick, these-guy-can't be-real jokes.

First up is that Rhode Island funster who's about as funny as his dad was when Ted Kennedy related his favorite Chappaquiddick witticisms.

The nut doesn't fall far from the tree and Rep. Patrick Kennedy who has a knack about him for wowing the crowds came out with another good one the other day. This followed his previous entertainment just prior to the recent special election in Massachusetts.

Addressing a small rally for Martha Coakley, Dem candidate for his late daddy's seat in the Senate, Patrick may have been under the influence, as they say and as he is wont to be, when he couldn't get Mrs. Coakley's given name straight.

Working without cue cards, Patrick twice called her "Marcia" before shutting up and without being chagrined in the slightest by the fact he couldn't bother to learn the name of the Democratic candidate in the race against the Republican upstart, Scott Brown.

He still hasn't shut up.

Still petulantly speaking about that election, he said on Thursday, "Brown's whole candidacy was shown to be a joke today when he was sworn in early in order to cast his first vote as an objection to Obama's appointment to the NLRB."

I failed to catch either the humor or the sense of his remark, unless of course he was being sarcastic in which case he was just being the boob that he is.

Scott Brown was elected almost 10 days ago, went to Washington certified credentials in hand and claimed his senate seat as soon as Harry Reid realized how callow and foolish he would look should he roadblock Brown.

He wasn't in any way "sworn in early," although if his first vote is cast to block left winger Craig Becker from appointment to the NLRB, then more power to him!

In a mindless leap of imagination, Patrick Kennedy elaborated: "Seven out of ten of Brown's voters were labor households and he stressed that he was independent."

Pat then added that the swearing-in had been moved up "so he could cast his first vote, the most anti-labor, the most anti-what his constituents thought they were voting for when they voted for him:" http://bit.ly/aXL9EJ

Aside from his convoluted diction, I have no clue what Patrick was talking about: Where he got that 70% figure, how he defines "labor households," what his problem is with voting one's conscience, how voting against a Communist is "anti-labor," how any of Kennedy's tenuous objections makes Brown's "whole candidacy" a joke.

Maybe I missed something. Speaking of jokes, Patrick, how's your re-election bid in R.I. going? I hear not so good. Have another Cutty on the rocks, Pat, and we'll talk about it. You can tell the truth and shame the Irish divil in ya by admitting how much you really wanted Ol' Dad's seat.

Perhaps the sickest of all Democrat jokes on the political landscape today is the sickest of all Democrats, Mr. Sicko himself.

Movie producer, director, actor, multi-millionaire, socialist, scum sucking hypocrite Michael Moore has now outdone himself in hypocrisy and should get a lifetime achievement award in that department at next month's Oscars.

His docudramas have over the years have attacked a multiplicity of targets:

. Detroit, but not the UAW;

. Canada, but not its socialistic health program;

. the American economic system, but not how he benefitted from it;

. gun possession, but not his own;

. GWB and the War on Terror, but not how he was kept safe by that war;

. America's health care system, without saying whether he would go to Cuba or the Mayo Clinic when his stomach explodes;

. Capitalism, without acknowledging that his personal wealth derives from capitalism.

Now, however, "Moore has been approved to receive a refundable tax credit of up to $1 million from the State of Michigan Film Office for his 2009 documentary, 'Capitalism: A Love Story,' " his film that attacks the principles of capitalism.

In a typical example of liberal rub-your-face-in-your-own-dirt magnanimity, "That's a refundable tax credit, so that's just a handout," Michigan Sen. Nancy Cassis told CNSNews.com Friday from her office in Lansing.

"I am just aghast at his asking for the taxpayers of Michigan to donate $1 million out of our already impoverished general fund to support his film-that trashes our economic system."

Aghast? Impoverished?

Neither adjective computes for a Kennedy or a Michael Moore. They just can't relate.