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Monthly Archives: August 2011

Congressional Rating

© Ed Stein Polls show that Congressional approval is now even lower than back before the last election, when Congressional approval was so low we kicked out a bunch of Congress and elected some newbie freshmen from the Tea Party. Ouch! Ever get the feeling that you’ve been had?

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So, You Hate The Debt Ceiling Deal?

For those of you who still think Obama sold out by compromising with the Republicans (or worse, that he is a Republican), that the politics we are seeing in Washington is not the way our founding fathers intended for our country to function and marks the doom of our democracy. Well, you should read this […]

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More Mystery Corporations

Earlier this week this blog reported on a mystery corporation that was created, donated a million dollars to help elect Mitt Romney, and then dissolved — all done to keep the donor’s identity secret. That story was somewhat defused when the actual donor decided to reveal himself. But now we find that there are at […]

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Fox News Tells You Everything You Need to Know about Entitlements

More brilliance from Jon Stewart:

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Late Night Political Humor

“We finally got a debt deal. It’s a jobs killer. It’ll bring back the recession. It didn’t do anything to fix the entitlements. The only bright spot was that Gabrielle Giffords came back to Congress to vote. And she must have been thinking, ‘I got shot in the head for this?’” – Bill Maher “In […]

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Stock Market – Child’s Play?

This should be the new ad for E-Trade, after the last few days of the stock market:

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Perry Lunges; Colbert Parries

Stephen Colbert’s Super PAC’s first ad:

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Debtpocalypse, the Sequel?

© Tom Tomorrow I guess the big question is, do you think Obama compromised too easily? Or did he do what he needed to do to save the country from defaulting? Although I have some sympathy for the former position, which is fairly popular with pundits (including Tom Tomorrow), I have to ask them, what […]

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Republicans for Obama

The Onion has a hilarious and brilliant piece of satire “New GOP Strategy Involves Reelecting Obama, Making His Life Even More Miserable“. A few snippets: According to GOP sources, the decision to cede the 2012 election to Obama came after rank-and-file Republicans agreed that grinding the president down to nothing and pushing him to the […]

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Late Night Political Humor

“Happy birthday to President Obama, who turned 50 years old. Whether you like him or not, it’s a tremendous success story. This guy was born in a hut in Kenya and grew up to be president of the United States.” – David Letterman “It’s President Obama’s birthday. I can’t believe it’s been 50 years since […]

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Follow the Money

Is anyone at all surprised to find out that the Chairman, President, and CEO of the company that owns and operates Standard & Poor’s is a frequent and big money contributor to the Republican Party and to their candidates, causes, and PACs? This includes money to the National Republican Congressional Committee, the National Republican Senatorial […]

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Bachmann Campaign Ad

Yes, this is actual audio from Michele Bachmann’s latest presidential campaign ad, with added animation by Scott Bateman. Unfortunately, with the animation you don’t get to see the look in her eyes, but here’s the cover of the latest Newsweek magazine to help with that: UPDATE: The Daily Beast (owned by Newsweek) releases outtakes from […]

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Late Night Political Humor

“A man jumped the White House fence, but after a brief chase, the Secret Service was able to talk President Obama into coming back and finishing his term.” – Conan O’Brien “Happy birthday to President Obama, who is turning 50, although Republicans in Congress are demanding he cut his age to 40.” – Jimmy Kimmel […]

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GOP Environmentalists

© Jen Sorensen Who says Republicans aren’t green?

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Our Economy

© The New Yorker For a slightly cruder analogy of our current economic situation, see this comic.

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