"President Bush was reported Tuesday to be interested in making a living
on the after-dinner circuit when he leaves office. He's a very funny
monologist. His role model as a comedian should be Bob Uecker, who's made
a fortune as an after-dinner speaker by billing himself as the worst
baseball player in Major League history."
- Argus Hamilton
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McCain lashes out at Bush's record
http://tinyurl.com/5fglos
John McCain lashed out at President Bush's record on a host of issues
Wednesday, perhaps the Arizona senator's harshest criticism to date of his
party's standard-bearer for the last eight years.
"Spending, the conduct of the war in Iraq for years, growth in the size of
government, larger than any time since the Great Society, laying a $10
trillion debt on future generations of America, owing $500 billion to
China, obviously, failure to both enforce and modernize the [financial]
regulatory agencies that were designed for the 1930s and certainly not for
the 21st century, failure to address the issue of climate change
seriously," McCain told the Washington Times when asked to name his
criticisms of the current president.
"Those are just some of them," McCain said, laughing.
The comments are the latest in the Arizona senator's efforts to distance
himself from the unpopular president as Election Day inches closer and
opinion surveys repeatedly suggest Bush is a heavy drag on the GOP ticket
A recent CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll showed the president's approval
rating mired in the mid-20s while nearly 60 percent of voters felt McCain
would continue the president's policies.
In the interview, McCain also took swipes at the president for supporting
a massive Medicare program, the administration's repeated invocation of
executive privilege to sidestep oversight, and Dick Cheney's powerful role
as vice president.
"I don't agree with [Vice President] Dick Cheney's allegation that he's
part of both the legislative and the executive branch," McCain said.
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I Am Not George Bush!!!
http://picayune.uclick.com/comics/cwjmo/2008/cwjmo081020.gif
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"Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts this week wrote a legal decision
that was a parody of a Mickey Spillane novel. Using phrases such as 'tough
as a three dollar steak' and 'just another day at the office.' Not to be
outdone, Judge Clarence Thomas wrote a decision as a letter to Penthouse."
- Seth Meyers, SNL "Weekend Update"
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"Vice President Cheney was taken to the hospital with a heart
irregularity. Then Nancy Reagan was hospitalized with a broken hip. Who
would have thought that John McCain would end up being the healthiest
Republican around?"
- Jim Barach
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The Executive Suite
http://thehill.com/images/stories/weyants/2008/October/cartoon102208.jpg
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"After experiencing discomfort at the White House morning briefing, Vice
President Dick Cheney was admitted to George Washington University
Hospital for treatment of atrial fibrillation and underwent a two-hour
procedure to shock his heart into beating normally. Atrial fibrillation
occurs when the heart's upper chambers quiver rather than contract causing
chest pain, dizziness and shortness of breath -- you know, feelings you'd
have while being waterboarded. Reports of Cheney's death throes, like
those of al-Qaeda, were greatly exaggerated."
- Bob Mills
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"Dick Cheney was rushed to George Washington Hospital last week to undergo
a procedure to jumpstart his heart back to its normal beat. He's had it
before. An ambulance is automatically called whenever his blood pressure
drops below eighty dollars a barrel."
- Argus Hamilton
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"The price of oil is way down but stores say they're leaving prices up for
awhile because they don't want to pay employees to lower them, only to
have oil skyrocket again. So here's how we're screwed. We have to pay
higher prices because of the rising cost of lowering prices."
- Gorsefeathers
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New Economic Stimulus Plan
http://picayune.uclick.com/comics/crgva/2008/crgva081022.gif
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"A lawsuit against God that was filed by a Nebraska State Senator has been
thrown out by a court because it was not served properly as no correct
address could be given for God. You know the economy is bad when even God
has lost his home."
- Jim Barach
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"Because of the economic slowdown, UPS is expected to report weak
quarterly earnings today. On the bright side, the company does expect to
make billions in 2009 delivering pink slips to fired workers all over the
country."
- Jake Novak
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Global Economy
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More Things I Know:
If Bush staffers steal all the "O" keys from the White House computers as
they're leaving, it will get one-tenth of the press coverage that was
generated when Clinton staffers didn't steal the "W" keys from the White
House computers but were accused of doing it anyway.
- Bill in Portland Maine
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Trick Or Treat!!
http://picayune.uclick.com/comics/crmra/2008/crmra081023.gif
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"AIG is being asked by Congress what it has done with the $123 Billion
they have been given by the government so far. AIG executives say they
can't say at this time, although even the congressmen were impressed at
how the executives appeared to be so tanned, toned and relaxed."
- Jim Barach
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That's How The Game's Played
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Barack Obama: Why I believe He Should Be The Next President
http://tinyurl.com/6oz42n
. . However well-intentioned it was, the catastrophic and unpopular
intervention in Iraq has served in some parts of the world to discredit
the very idea of western democracy.
The recent collapse of the banking system, and the humiliating resort to
semi-socialist solutions, has done a great deal to discredit - in some
people's eyes - the idea of free-market capitalism.
Democracy and capitalism are the two great pillars of the American idea.
To have rocked one of those pillars may be regarded as a misfortune.
To have damaged the reputation of both, at home and abroad, is a pretty
stunning achievement for an American president. ...
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If Obama Becomes President....
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"Disney says failed investment bank Lehman Brothers owes the company $92
million. If they don't get their money, Pluto and Goofy are ready to break
some legs."
- Jake Novak
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"Despite enormous fluctuations in the Dow Jones average this week,
billionaire investor Warren Buffett announced Friday that he will continue
to invest in the stock market during the current financial crisis. So
remember, everyone, this is no time to panic, as long as you're the
richest man on earth."
- Amy Poehler, SNL "Weekend Update"
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Privatization
http://picayune.uclick.com/comics/jd/2008/jd081021.gif
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I wanted to dress up like Sarah Palin for Halloween, but I didn't have
$150,000....
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