News to us. He takes one little uptick in the polls, and suddenly a couple of news stories begin circulating that he is making a comeback.

Ya know, Nixon used to do something. Whenever he felt his popularity was slipping (which was often), he would announce some sort of effort by himself, or insert his approval of some arcane subcommittee’s popular findings, into a press release. As soon as they got a bite, they would release another press release saying how confident he was that the American people were acknowledging his comeback.

So when President Obama gets punched in the gut by election results, and his popularity slides into a hole (metaphors mixed for free, today only), the Czar raises an overly furry eybrow when suddenly seemingly unrelated news outlets discuss his apparent “comeback.” Amateurs.

The Czar of Muscovy

Божію Поспѣшествующею Милостію Мы, Дима Грозный Императоръ и Самодержецъ Всероссiйскiй, цѣсарь Московскiй. The Czar was born in the steppes of Russia in 1267, and was cheated out of total control of all Russia upon the death of Boris Mikhailovich, who replaced Alexander Yaroslav Nevsky in 1263. However, in 1283, our Czar was passed over due to a clerical error and the rule of all Russia went to his second cousin Daniil (Даниил Александрович), whom Czar still resents. As a half-hearted apology, the Czar was awarded control over Muscovy, inconveniently located 5,000 miles away just outside Chicago. He now spends his time seething about this and writing about other stuff that bothers him.