GOP Declares Emergency Session!

Anthony Weiner takes it to the House Forget record foreclosures, near depression levels of unemployment, 50 million medically uninsured, and the prospect of draconian social cuts in the face of record deficits at home. Forget the devastation of a 9.0 earthquake, 30′ tsunami waves, and radiological contamination from failed nuclear reactors in Japan. Forget the two unsustainable wars we’re already …

From The White House Office Of Preemptive Capitulation (Update)

The White House released its proposed budget yesterday, packaged as “shared sacrifice.” Deep cuts to social programs sit at one end of the budgetary teeter totter; and a rise in income taxes for those earning over $250,000 at the other. One can be forgiven for asking: If President Obama, despite clear campaign promises to the contrary, couldn’t get a Democratic …

Rethugs Redefine Rape

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Rape Victim Abortion Funding www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor & Satire Blog</a> The Daily Show on Facebook The Rethugs’ proposed “No Taxpayer Funding For Abortions Act” Kristen Schaal (I love this woman!)  explains money rape, rape with benefits, rapemare and other Rethuglican fantasies.

Arlen Specter’s Farewell

As the author of the Warren Commission‘s magical single bullet theory, used to whitewash JFK‘s assassination to make it appear that only a single shooter was involved (subsequently rejected by the US House of Representatives), I had early developed a disdain for retiring Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter. He always struck me as the consummate Beltway insider and opportunist. His last …

Terrorists And Hostage Takers: Part Three

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Worst Responders www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor & Satire Blog</a> The Daily Show on Facebook “An outrageous abdication of our responsibility to those who were most heroic on 9/11” In Terrorists And Hostage Takers: The Sequel, I posted a clip by Jon Stewart that he titled …

Terrorists And Hostage Takers: The Sequel

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Lame-as-F@#k Congress www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor & Satire Blog</a> The Daily Show on Facebook “What can’t we do until Uncle Sam promises not to hurt Daddy Warbucks?” In this sequel to Terrorists and Hostage Takers, Jon Stewart issues a new rule to the Rethugs: By …

Presidents Who Love Too Much

The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c The Word – Unrequited Gov www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes 2010 Election March to Keep Fear Alive A prez with benefits smothered in a fuck you sauce… Watching President Obama try to explain his capitulation to  the Rethugs over taxes and unemployment insurance reminded me of a book I read about …