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WWJD

[Thanks to the fine people at Prose Before Hos for this photo.]

Think about this the next time the right tries to verbally crucify Obama.

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Late Night Political Humor

“The President of China is in Washington. It’s a bit like when you’re into your bookie for more than you can afford, and he stops by the house to say hello.” – Jimmy Kimmel

“China’s President Hu is visiting the United States. If he likes what he sees, he may put down a deposit.” – David Letterman

“President Hu’s advance team came a week earlier to make sure that wherever he’s staying has no Chinese drywall.” – Jay Leno

“A woman fainted during a welcoming ceremony for Chinese President Hu Jintao. President Obama said, ‘Who knows CPR?’ President Hu said, ‘No, I don’t.'” – Jimmy Fallon

“President Obama held a state dinner for Chinese President Hu Jintao. The world leader with the funny name, who grew up in Asia, said he enjoyed meeting President Hu.” – Conan O’Brien

“The White House held a state dinner for Chinese President Hu Jintao. President Obama wore a traditional Chinese-made garment: a pair of Nikes.” – Jay Leno

“There was a big dinner for President Hu. General Tso brought his famous chicken.” – David Letterman

“The state dinner went really well, until the after dinner speeches were hosted by Ricky Gervais.” – Jay Leno

“New Speaker of the House John Boehner chose not to attend the dinner for Chinese President Hu. In China, they’re calling him an orange chicken.” – Jimmy Fallon

“Senate majority leader Harry Reid refused to attend the state dinner for Chinese President because he considers Hu Jintao a dictator. In response Jintao said, ‘You’re coming. You’ll have the fish, and you’ll like it.'” – Conan O’Brien

“Obama and Hu had a private dinner the night before. When Obama tried to pick up the check, Hu said, ‘Your money is no good here.’ Obama laughed, and Hu said, ‘No, really, your money is no good.'” – Jay Leno

“The Republican-controlled House voted to repeal the healthcare bill. If that goes well, they’ll see what they can do about this whole ‘women voting’ thing.” – Conan O’Brien

“Republicans voted today to repeal health reform. Democrats warned this could make it harder for older Americans to get health care. Hugh Hefner’s new fiance said, ‘Good!'” – Jay Leno

“Dick Cheney says he may need a heart transplant. The doctors discovered the problem during Cheney’s annual autopsy.” – David Letterman

“On the other hand, George W. Bush is still waiting on his brain transplant.” – David Letterman

“Arnold Schwarzenegger says he’s considering doing a movie in which he would play a Nazi. He says that after being governor of California, he’s looking for a job that will make people hate him less.” – Conan O’Brien

“President Obama says he’ll go to the Super Bowl if the Chicago Bears are playing in it. Sarah Palin says she’ll go to the Super Bowl if actual bears are playing in it.” – Jimmy Fallon

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Symbolic Job Creation


© Mike Luckovich

The new Republican-controlled House voted to repeal Obama’s Health Care Reform act. But they didn’t propose anything to replace it, and even some conservative Republicans think the effort is more about posturing than about actually doing something.

So what’s next? While most Americans want some action on the economy, the Republicans have indicated that their top priority — after symbolically destroying health care — is (can you guess it?) abortion (of course).

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Starve the Beast?


© Tony Auth

Ah the fickleness of the American public. Just two months after voters swept tea party candidates into Congress, Americans now disapprove of “the political movement known as the Tea Party” by a 52% to 35% margin. That’s their worst ever unfavorable ratings, up from 45% disapproval ratings last September, before the elections, and even more from last March, when more people approved of the Tea Party than disapproved.

The same poll found that Obama’s approval rating increased by 5%, to 54% (with 43% disapproving of his performance).

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Late Night Political Humor

“Doctors say Dick Cheney may need a heart transplant, but Cheney isn’t worried. He’s already picked out a hunting buddy.” – David Letterman

“Dick Cheney says he may need a heart transplant. I understand Halliburton has a no-bid contract to do the installation on it.” – Jay Leno

“Dick Cheney may need a new heart. I say we waterboard the Wizard of Oz.” – Stephen Colbert

“Dick Cheney had to consult his physician today. Not for his heart. Every time the price of oil goes up more than $1 a barrel, Cheney gets an erection that lasts more than 4 hours.” – Jay Leno

“Dick Cheney predicts that President Obama will only last one term. This is coming from the same guy that predicted weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.” – David Letterman

“Chinese President Hu Jintao visited the White House. Fox News said it was a gathering of the world’s most powerful communist — and the president of China.” – Craig Ferguson

“President Hu Jintao from China is visiting the United States. Ahead of the big state dinner, President Obama went to Hu’s hotel and slipped a menu under the door.” – David Letterman

“There was a really awkward moment when the Chinese president met President Obama’s daughters and asked them, ‘So what factories do you kids work at?'” – Jay Leno

“Chinese President Hu Jintao made his first official state visit to the Unites States. Vice President Joe Biden has been asked not to do his ‘Hu’s on first’ routine.” – Jimmy Kimmel

“After surprise visits to Afghanistan and Pakistan, Vice President Joe Biden made a surprise visit to Iraq yesterday. Is it me, or is he just lost in that area?” – Jimmy Fallon

“Good news tonight. The chief victim of that shooting in Tucson is sitting upright and talking. [On screen: Sarah Palin on Fox News]” – Jon Stewart

“The debate over repealing healthcare began in the House today. The republicans have their own plan: ‘Don’t ask, don’t get sick.'” – Jay Leno

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Jon Stewart on Civil Discourse

It doesn’t matter if it comes from the right or the left. This kind of discourse must be shunned. Kudos to Jon Stewart for making it clear enough that anyone can understand.

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Ironic Fun With False Equivalence


© Jen Sorensen

Tonight, Keith Olbermann parted ways with NBC. So will the gods of false equivalences demand that Beck or Limbaugh lose their jobs?

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Vote Irish in 2012

The Corrigan Brothers update their song “There’s no one as Irish as Barack Obama” for the 2012 election. Although Obama-mania as died down a bit, the new video is still hilarious and a sweet reminder of all the good times from the 2008 election.

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Violence as a Game


© Ruben Bolling

Our old friend Nate shows us the “right” way to fight violence.

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You Are What You Eat

And how can it be so cheap? Because your tax dollars are already paying for it.

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Elephants in Glass Houses


© Nick Anderson

Every complaint the Republicans have about the current Health Care Reform bill was even more true of the prescription drug benefit they rammed through Congress in 2003 (which was really a huge giveaway to the drug companies). I guess the real problem is that they can’t take credit for this one.

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Smoking Gun

In June 2010, Glenn Beck says “You’re going to have to shoot them in the head”. Watch it:

I’m not arguing that Glenn Beck is responsible for the Tucson shooting spree, where Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was shot in the head. I’m just saying that the incendiary rhetoric has got to stop. I’m not proposing any new laws, just that irresponsible political pundits should be condemned and shunned when they say things like this — not rewarded — and Fox News should not allow such remarks to be used on the air.

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Late Night Political Humor

“I want you teabaggers out there to understand one thing: while you idolize the Founding Fathers and dress up like them, and smell like them, I think it’s pretty clear that the Founding Fathers would have hated your guts. And what’s more, you would’ve hated them. They were everything you despise. They studied science, read Plato, hung out in Paris, and thought the Bible was mostly bullsh*t.” – Bill Maher

“The Republican National Committee elected Reince Priebus as their new chairman. “Reince Priebus” is also the name of a car driven by Jay Leno.” – David Letterman

“We had a national tragedy this week, and the President of the United States and Sarah Palin both made speeches on the same day. Obama came out against lunatics with guns, she gave the rebuttal.” – Bill Maher

“Sarah Palin said that she resented being identified as part of the problem. And then she said we’d have to excuse her, she had to work on her agenda of guns on demand, no health care for the insane, and casting the President as a foreign enemy.” – Bill Maher

“In her video posted on her Facebook page, Sarah Palin condemned the media’s coverage of the Arizona shootings by using the phrase ‘blood libel,’ which refers to a harsh anti-Semitic slur. And I would be super-offended — if I thought she knew that.” – Seth Meyers

“Whatever you do, do not compare her to the shooter, because he is a gun-loving lunatic who can’t hold a job and leaves rambling messages on the Internet.” – Bill Maher

“You know the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull? At some point a pit bull does stop whining.” – Bill Maher

“Why are we listening to a reality TV star anyway? That’s all she is. Can I check in with Snooki and the Kate Moss Cake Boss?” – Bill Maher

“Palin has now agreed to be the keynote speaker next month at a hunter’s convention in Las Vegas. Uh, Siegfried and Roy, if you’re listening, I would put those tigers in an undisclosed location.” – Bill Maher

“Many are asking if our political discourse has gotten too heated. And those people should go to hell!” – Stephen Colbert

“John Boehner skipped the memorial to attend a fundraising cocktail party. He said it’s not that he doesn’t care, just that it was sad and he’s one of those men who’s uncomfortable showing emotions in public.” – Bill Maher

“A lot of the Republicans, I must say, I give it up to them, they applauded Obama’s speech. Some of them said, I swear to God, it was too good, said it was just a little too good. They said, if you want us to love a black man with a golden voice, he’d better be a homeless guy, begging for change.” – Bill Maher

“Arnold Schwarzenegger said being Governor of California cost him at least 200 million dollars in lost movie roles. Moviegoers everywhere said, ‘Totally worth it.'” – Conan O’Brien

“Since Tom DeLay has done only two things since leaving politics – ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ and now prison – somebody must tell him there are easier ways to have sex with men.” – Bill Maher

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Isolated Partisan Incidents


© Tom Tomorrow

Political cartoonists like Tom Tomorrow deserve our support. I just bought his new book, and it is hilarious. More satire and irony than you can shake a politician at.

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Republicans Invent Time Machine, Aren’t Afraid to Use It

The Republicans have controlled the house for just two weeks (and still have a minority in the Senate), but when new job numbers came out that show the economy is growing and unemployment is falling, that didn’t stop the GOP from trying to take credit.

Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyle (R-AZ) claimed that soaring corporate profits in 2010 were because of the passage of the tax cut compromise at the very end of last year. And House Rules Committee Chair David Drier (R-CA) says:

We can get our economy growing. And we’ve gotten some positive numbers. I think it’s in large part because we won our majority and we’re pursuing pro-growth policies.

What policies? The new Congress hasn’t enacted any major economic legislation at all. And corporate profits went up because corporations knew they would magically get future tax cuts at the last minute? Huh?

As TPM puts it, this is a “theory of economic growth that requires assuming the existence of a time machine.”

Meanwhile, the Republicans are making it clear what their “pro-growth policies” actually look like — corporate socialism and welfare based on which big companies donate the most money to Republican politicians. Plus even more tax breaks for the richest 0.2% of Americans. In fact, in the last two weeks the Republicans have introduced an astounding five separate bills that repeal the estate tax entirely, even though last month Congress passed a bill setting the estate tax to a relatively low top rate of 35% with a generous $5 million exemption per person.

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