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Late Night Political Humor

“I finally read former President Bush’s memoir, and I’ve got to say, the book was way better than the presidency.” – Jimmy Fallon “George W. Bush says he is glad to be out of the Oval Office because he doesn’t have to think all the time. And I’m thinking wait a minute, that was him […]

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Money and Ethics in Politics

© Matt Bors And just this week, a Congressional leader told the head of a foreign government that he would side with the foreign country against the US president. Where are the screams of treason at this unprecedented undermining of US policy?

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Bottom Line?

Bloomberg implicitly asks the obvious question: Investors say that president Obama is bad for the bottom line; if so, then why are US corporations on track for the biggest earnings growth in 22 years, and the stock market is going like gangbusters again? 68% of US investors say that Obama’s policies are detrimental to the […]

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Late Night Political Humor

“President Obama went to India, South Korea, then Japan. He’s going to keep traveling until he finds his birth certificate.” – David Letterman “President Obama was in India yesterday visiting our jobs. Tomorrow he goes to China to visit our money.” – Jay Leno “A company in China is selling a President Obama blow-up sex […]

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Rememorizing

© Mr. Fish Apparently, a significant number of Bush’s “original” recollections found in his new memoir were plagiarized — often word for word — from other people’s books and articles. UPDATE: I also feel this way about seeing Bush on TV again.

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Security Theater

In The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg has an excellent article from 2008 about how surprisingly easy it is to circumvent airport security. Or as he puts it “Airport security in America is a sham — “security theater” designed to make travelers feel better.” Just to see if it could be done, he carried on various dangerous […]

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I’ll tell you where you can put it…

© Bruce Beattie Inspired by a campaign in Britain that saw Tony Blair’s autobiography show up in the crime, horror, and even fantasy sections of UK bookstores, US activists have launched a campaign to have people move George W. Bush’s new autobiography to its “rightful place” — the crime section — and then take a […]

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Late Night Political Humor

“Former president George W. Bush released his new memoir. By the way, ‘memoir’ is just a fancy word for ‘a bunch of stuff that happened to me.’” – Craig Ferguson “In his new book, George W. Bush says he’s happy to be out of Washington. Well, it’s unanimous.” – David Letterman “Bush’s memoir is 512 […]

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Pre-Existing Conditions

© Jack Ohman Do the Republicans really think they can repeal the Health Care Reform bill?

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Late Night Political Humor

“I do not understand the electorate. This country is hurting in a way we haven’t since the Depression. People struggling all over this country, and they came out and voted for the party that says right up front they will suspend your unemployment benefits and repeal health care. To go against your self-interest more you’d […]

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Why Bush waited until after the election to release his memoirs?

What could be worse than the revelation that Bush personally approved waterboarding, which we ourselves called torture when the Japanese used it in WWII. Bush justified using torture because he claims it saved lives by producing actionable intelligence. However, the former chairman of British intelligence disputes this, saying that waterboarding, which is definitely torture, did […]

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Bush told Brits he would have endorsed Obama

According to the Financial Times, in 2008, during the height of the presidential campaign and after Bush had publicly endorsed John McCain, George W Bush told a group of British dignitaries including the British Prime Minister that he didn’t like McCain. I probably won’t even vote for the guy. I had to endorse him. But […]

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The Current War

© Ed Stein [I love the commentaries that Ed Stein provides to go with his excellent comics:] I wonder if the sour, off-key comments by House Speaker-to-be John Boehner and still Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell after the election might have given the voters who placed renewed confidence in the Republican Party buyer’s remorse. Boehner […]

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Does Obama have a messaging problem, or does the right-wing media have a lying problem?

I’m getting tired of the media noting things like that the majority of Americans think Obama raised their taxes (instead of what he really did, which was cut them) and then concluding that it is Obama’s fault because he hasn’t been very good at messaging. Isn’t it the media’s job to report news like this? […]

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Late Night Political Humor

“What do you think of the Republican landslide victory on election night? No one’s laughing at my John Boehner tattoo now.” – David Letterman “Ohio Republican John Boehner will take over for Nancy Pelosi. Those are some big eyes to fill.” – Jay Leno “Everyone is talking about the unemployment rate. This week it went […]

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