"President Bush is relaxing in Crawford, TX. He's watching TV, taking naps,
playing video games, he's not reading memos or having meetings. It's the same
routine Bush had as President."
- Alex Kaseberg
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"The US Post Office announced they could run out of cash by the end of the
year. They said they're in serious danger of becoming a bank. That's how bad it
is."
- Jay Leno
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GM Reveals the 2011 HUMMER Wee
http://www.avantnews.com/news/189707-gm-reveals-the-2011-hummer-wee
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"Disney profits were down during its last fiscal quarter of 2008. Park visitors
can expect different street characters: Snow White and the Seven Liquidators."
- Alan Ray
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Disney Fails To Meet Expectations
http://www.theonion.com/content/amvo/disney_fails_to_meet_expectations
With no breakout hit and theme park attendance down, Walt Disney's fiscal
first-quarter earnings were down 32 percent compared to the same period last
year. What do you think?
Chris Connor, Diesel Mechanic
"How is that possible? I saw Bedtime Stories four times! That's like, $48!"
Tom Salicrup, Retail Merchandise Analyst
"Don't look at me. One of the first things I like to do during an economic
downturn is pack my suitcase, get in the car, and drive to Epcot Center to see
what the economy will be like in the future."
Andrea Cunningham, Lab Technician
"Now I feel kind of bad for canceling our trip to Disney World so we could pay
for food."
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"The House has overwhelmingly approved a bill to provide government-sponsored
health coverage to 4 million more children. Of course, this coverage is only
available to kids who can fill out 500 pages of government insurance forms."
- Jake Novak
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As Obama Talks Of Bipartisanship, Definitions Vary
http://tinyurl.com/aufqmt
After a week of legislative successes for President Obama, Republicans seized
on one asterisk: his inability to line up support from their ranks. As he heads
into his second full week in office, members of both parties are waiting to see
whether he will regard this as the failure that some have made it out to be --
and how much he is willing to alter his approach if he does. ...
"We got the sense that he was very genuine," said Rep. Zach Wamp (R-Tenn.). But
"if he comes and meets with us like that and it doesn't have an impact, it
begins to hurt his credibility." ...
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In My Opinion....
http://picayune.uclick.com/comics/tmclo/2009/tmclo090203.gif
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Let's see.... President Obama has about a 75% favorability rating, and
Congressional Republicans have about a 25% favorability rating....
So, whose credibility is hurting?
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All You Really Need Is....
http://picayune.uclick.com/comics/crbbe/2009/crbbe090203.gif
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"I tell you, the economy is so bad, even people who have nothing to do with the
Obama administration aren't paying their taxes."
- Jay Leno
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GOP Losing Patience With Obama, Dem Leaders
http://tinyurl.com/c9ts4z
Republicans wrapped up their retreat Friday by signaling they are losing
patience with President Obama and the Democratic leadership in Congress. ..
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WTF?!? Barack Obama had been president less than two weeks, and the Republicans
are already "signaling they are losing patience"?!?
Apparently "patience" is a partisan thing....
http://dems.advomatic.com/node/14645
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Oh, *NOW* I get it.... it was just a typo; they're losing PATIENTS, with
President Obama and the Democratic leadership in Congress, from their insane
asylum of a political party!!
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Bi-Partisan Philosophy
http://www.cagle.com/working/090129/fitzsimmons.jpg
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If only they were honest....
"I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there
were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion
honestly expressed by honest men."
- Sen. J. William Fulbright, D-AR (1905-1995)
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Just because there really is a recession and the Bush Administration was made
up of a bunch of incompetent crooks doesn't mean this isn't a nation of
whiners, like McCain adviser Phil Gramm said.
It's just that the whining about nothing has gotten all mixed up with the
whining about something.
And now it's all so confusing.
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Why are Republicans suddenly concerned about red ink? Bush bought it by the
tanker truckload.
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Elephants DO Forget!
http://picayune.uclick.com/comics/crmra/2009/crmra090131.gif
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Time To Play Hardball
http://tinyurl.com/d48n7t
The irony of President Obama's Blue Tuesday is that the wall-to-wall television
interviews he granted were designed not to apologize for Tom Daschle's fall
from grace but to fight back against the Republicans' success in tarnishing his
stimulus package.
Obama's network appearances were planned as a response to a wholly
unanticipated development: Republicans -- short on new ideas, low on votes and
deeply unpopular in the polls -- have been winning the media war over the
president's central initiative. ...
.. those critics have been relentless, often casting logic aside to reframe the
debate from a practical concern over how to rescue the economy to an
ideological dispute about government spending. ...
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Is anybody else getting sick of all the sour grapes from the Repub Whinery?
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"Not in the history of mankind has the government ever created a job."
- Michael Steele, new RNC Chairman
Oh, really?
Never heard of NASA?
Eisenhower's Interstate Highway System?
Or that old Republican favorite, defense spending?
Need I go on?
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It's Amazing....
http://picayune.uclick.com/comics/tmdow/2009/tmdow090202.gif
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The Action Americans Need
http://tinyurl.com/dmqhj3
. . In recent days, there have been misguided criticisms of this plan that
echo the failed theories that helped lead us into this crisis -- the notion
that tax cuts alone will solve all our problems; that we can meet our enormous
tests with half-steps and piecemeal measures; that we can ignore fundamental
challenges such as energy independence and the high cost of health care and
still expect our economy and our country to thrive.
I reject these theories, and so did the American people when they went to the
polls in November and voted resoundingly for change. ...
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"Republicans will scream until they get their way and then still not vote for
it."
- Atrios, eschatonblog.com
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BACON AND BEANS AND LIMOUSINES
http://unsinkablecork.com/willrogers/wrspeech.htm
- Will Rogers, October 18, 1931
. . You know, there's not a one of us who has anything that these people that
are without it now haven't contributed to what we've got. I don't suppose
there's the most unemployed or the hungriest man in America has contributed in
one way to the wealth of every millionaire in America. It wasn't the working
class that brought this condition on at all. It was the big boys themselves who
thought that this financial drunk we were going through was going to last
forever. They over-merged and over-capitalized, and over-everything else.
That's the fix we're in now. ...
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How Much Is It?!?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6FKPMjDHDA
Stimulus vs. Unemployment
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/images/thune-stacking-blog.jpg
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"There's a whole intellectual industry, mainly operating out of right-wing
think tanks, devoted to propagating the idea that F.D.R. actually made the
Depression worse."
- Paul Krugman, © NYTimes
FDR .... the only President ever elected four times!
"Roosevelt's New Deal Agenda lowered the unemployment rate from 25 percent in
1933 to 10 percent in 1937. None of us would be happy with 10 percent
unemployment, but it's difficult to complain about policies that reduced the
unemployment rate by an average of almost 4 percentage points a year."
- Dean Baker
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Uh Oh....
http://thehill.com/images/stories/weyants/2009/February/cartoon020409.jpg
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The New Landonists
http://tinyurl.com/b5gmlp
.. if you listen to today's Republican revisionists, the Greatest Generation
voters who gave FDR towering majorities in all but two states were a bunch of
saps. Rather than wait for capitalism to right itself, they backed a president
who understood that when private capital stopped investing, public capital had
to take up the slack. For some inexplicable reason, they warmed to a president
who used public funds to bring electricity to rural America rather than wait
for private utilities to get around to it in a decade or two. Oddly, they
backed a president who put 4 million Americans on the payroll of the Works
Progress Administration (WPA) at a time when private payrolls were contracting,
and they actually found value in such federal "make-work" creations as post
offices, libraries and the Triborough Bridge. ...
Today, the arguments made for and against President Obama's stimulus plan
really aren't that different from the arguments that were made for and against
the New Deal some 75 years ago. Where the New Dealers brought electric power to
rural Americans, the Obama people want to bring them broadband access. Where
the New Deal built dams to generate power from rivers, the Obama people want to
build a power grid that can channel electricity generated by wind.
As for the Republicans, they remain locked in Landonism. While retail chains
topple like so many dominos as consumers cut back, the Republicans focus on
cutting corporate taxes, as though the problem confronting American businesses
was the tax on their profits rather than the fact that, in the absence of
sales, they have no profits. ...
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"Relatives of Bernie Madoff are so embarrassed that they're changing the last
names of Bernie's grandchildren. I'm not sure that Scott and Megan
Mygrandpasacrook is much better."
- Paul Seaburn
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"Scientists in the rainforests of Colombia have discovered the remains of giant
bus-sized snakes that lived 60 million years ago and snacked on crocodiles.
Researchers discovered the remains of the giant snakes as they checked the
family tree of Ponzi scheme king Bernie Madoff."
- Jerry Perisho
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I Think I Read This One Already....
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