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Monthly Archives: September 2008

Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart, and Prunes

Jon and Stephen at the Emmys:

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Your Urgent Help Needed

Dear American: I need to ask you to support an urgent secret business relationship with a transfer of funds of great magnitude. I am Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of America. My country has had crisis that has caused the need for large transfer of funds of 800 billion dollars US. If you […]

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Taking on the Old Boy Network

© Steve Sack

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The Presidential Candidates are Tools

OnlyKnives has come out with two Presidential Multi-tools — The “Maverick” and the “Change”: The McCain Maverick features: An electric drill, so you can “drill baby drill” A clothes hanger, to anger pro-life and pro-choice voters alike A Geiger counter A pry bar, to get rid of that pesky Bush legacy An abacus, to help […]

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Bullwinkle assassinated by Palin

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Is Congress perhaps growing a proto-spine? Hell No!

Bush is currently trying to ram his $700 Billion give-away to Wall Street down the throat of Congress, the same way he rammed the Iraq war and the Patriot act. But as Electoral Vote puts it: Even legislators who were easily cowed during the run-up to the Iraq war are beginning to show something that […]

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Late Night Political Humor

“Financial experts are saying we are entering a new chapter in the American economy. I believe it’s Chapter 11.” –Jay Leno “President Bush had a press conference today outside the Oval Office to talk about the economy. He would have had it inside, but, you know, the bank has foreclosed on it. ” –Jay Leno […]

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SNL skewers McCain campaign ads

Apparently this skit was conceived of by Al Franken, former SNL regular and currently running for the Senate.

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McCain campaign can’t tell the truth even when they try

McCain campaign convened a conference call today with reporters to complain about being called liars and to criticize the media for underreporting potentially damaging stories about Obama. Ben Smith at Politico writes that McCain chief strategist Steve Schmidt lied repeatedly during the call, forcing many reporters to conclude that McCain’s campaign staff can’t even tell the truth when they […]

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Financial Funnies

Everything Phil Gramm touches costs you money. McCain wanted to bet your Social Security money in a “casino”.

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McCain’s Soul

© Mike Luckovich

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P-O-Dubya

© Kevin Kallaugher Is John McCain a Prisoner Of Dubya’s disastrous policies?

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Which one is the Elitist again?

John McCain and his 13 cars. Not to mention the houses and the jet.

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Muppet McCain and Miss Palin

A reader sent this to me: From Best O’ The Web And with all the talk about lipstick on pigs, I can’t help but think of this image (not that I would ever think any politician is a pig — it’s just a figure of speech):

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The Palin-Hannity Infomercial

Jon Stewart is brilliant as usual, and makes you laugh at something that really ought to make you cry:

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