"After two of his top Cabinet nominees withdrew their bids on Tuesday because
of their failure to pay back taxes, President Obama said, 'This was a mistake;
I screwed up.' *THAT* was your mistake? I don't know if you remember, but the
last guy broke the world."
- Seth Meyers, SNL "Weekend Update"
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NEWS QUIZ
Obama's choices for his cabinet and other key government posts didn't pay their
taxes because:
a) they were way too busy planning how to reform government.
b) tax forms too complex.
c) only little people pay taxes.
Hint: Robert Reich pays taxes.
- IronicTimes.com
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"Bill Clinton urged Democrats not to ruin their win with partisan behavior when
he addressed a party retreat on Saturday. He said he learned that too much
power can be a bad thing. The first thing that happens is the chicks won't
leave you alone."
- Argus Hamilton
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"President Obama used his first prime-time news conference to push Congress to
approve his administration's economic stimulus plan. Meanwhile, Republicans
hinted the plan would make Obama the biggest spender since George W. Bush."
- Joe Hickman
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Pin The Tail On....
http://picayune.uclick.com/comics/tmssa/2009/tmssa090211.gif
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Why Republicans Won't Support the Stimulus
http://tinyurl.com/d5xq7y
Why are Senate Republicans (all, that is, except the lonely moderates Collins,
Snowe, and Specter) nixing the stimulus package, as House Republicans did? ...
Republicans don't want their fingerprints on the stimulus bill or the next bank
bailout because they plan to make the midterm election of 2010 a national
referendum on Barack Obama's handling of the economy. They know that by then
the economy will still appear sufficiently weak that they can dub the entire
Obama effort a failure -- even if the economy would have been far worse without
it, even if the economy is beginning to turn around. They'll say "he wanted
more government spending, and we said no, but we didn't have the votes. Elect
us and we'll turn the economy around by cutting taxes and getting government
out of the private sector." ...
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Be My Valentine....?
http://cagle.com/working/090210/ramsey.jpg
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"I suppose what I could have done is started off with no tax cuts, knowing that
I was going to want some and then let [Republicans] take credit for all of
them. And maybe that's the lesson I learned."
- President Barack Obama
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"These days Barack Obama has to be thinking, Elizabeth Taylor had honeymoons
that lasted longer than this."
- Janice Hough
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Republicans have decided to reenact the political equivalent of Custer's Last
Stand.... with 67% of the public playing the part of the Native Americans.
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First, Best Hope
http://picayune.uclick.com/comics/crjsh/2009/crjsh090211.gif
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"Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against
me."
- President Harry S. Truman
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There's That Melody Again
http://www.credoaction.com/comics/2009/02/theres_that_melody_again.html
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"The president meets with House Republicans, meets with Senate Republicans,
meets with individual Republican lawmakers, invites the Republicans to the
White House on multiple occasions, drinks with Republicans at the White House,
turns the bill totally inside and out and backwards to make it seem more
friendly to Republicans -- and he is not being bipartisan? Really?"
- Rachel Maddow
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GOP.... G.reat O.bstructionist P.arty
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Politics As Usual
http://www.cnn.com/POLITICS/analysis/toons/2009/02/06/mitchell/
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"All the Democrats in the Senate and three Republicans voted for the stimulus
bill. President Barack Obama says it's going to take a lot of time before
Republicans warm up to his many appeals for bipartisanship. The biggest hurdle,
I guess, is how do you convince Republicans that being bipartisan doesn't mean
you have to have sex with other dudes."
- Jimmy Kimmel
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No Need To Meet GOP Halfway
http://www.nwanews.com/adg/Editorial/251419
. . The last time we had a new Democratic president, essentially the same
thing happened. Republican congressmen voted against Bill Clinton's 1993 tax
and budget proposals, uniformly predicting doom. Raising marginal income tax
rates a few points on the wealthy, they charged, would lead to economic ruin.
Instead, the exact opposite happened. Over the ensuing eight years, the nation
witnessed the creation of 25 million new jobs, a balanced federal budget and
steadily rising prosperity. ...
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Jesus was not bipartisan.... I distinctly remember him castigating Republicans
in the Temple.
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Sen. Hypocrite (R) KY
http://www.cnn.com/POLITICS/analysis/toons/2009/02/09/mitchell/
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"Republican John McCain calls the bailout "generational theft," a transfer of
wealth from future generations to today's leaders. You can understand why he's
so outraged -- Republicans may actually have to start paying taxes again."
- Joe Hickman
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Bipartisan? I'll Show You Bipartisan!!
http://www.dailykostv.com/v/000426.html
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"Foolish liberals, don't you know the only REAL jobs are for investment
bankers, CEOs, and talking heads? All those so-called "construction" jobs are
just silly.... and the great thing about being a CEO or an investment banker is
that no matter how much you screw up, you still get to pocket hundreds of
millions of dollars!"
- Mr. R.Winger III
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Stick With Us....
http://picayune.uclick.com/comics/crcbr/2009/crcbr090208.gif
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"I really don't understand how bipartisanship is ever going to work when one of
the parties is insane. Imagine trying to negotiate an agreement on dinner plans
with your date, and you suggest Italian and she states her preference would be
a meal of tire rims and anthrax. If you can figure out a way to split the
difference there and find a meal you will both enjoy, you can probably figure
out how bipartisanship is going to work the next few years."
- John Cole
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A-ROD BACKS STIMULUS
Says Economy Needs Shot in Arm
President Barack Obama picked up support for his stimulus package from an
unexpected source today as Yankee slugger Alex Rodriguez said that he was
"totally in favor of stimulus."
"Sometimes when you have to get the job done, you need a shot in the arm," said
Mr. Rodriguez at a press conference in the parking lot of Yankee Stadium. "This
stimulus sounds like it could be that injection."
The slugger, known to his fans and detractors alike as A-Rod, said that the
U.S. economy may not seem very muscular at the moment, but that "juicing the
economy" could change that overnight.
"Mark my words," he said. "If the economy gets the right injection, its muscles
will bulge to monstrous proportions."
Mr. Rodriguez's words were in stark contrast with remarks made last week by
another athlete, swimmer Michael Phelps, who said that the economy "just needs
to chill."
"As far as the economy goes, I'm comfortably numb about it," Mr. Phelps said.
"Dude, did I just say that out loud?"
At his press conference today, Mr. Rodriguez bristled when asked questions
about steroid use, at one point throwing a car at a reporter.
© Andy Borowitz
borowitzreport.com
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"Senate Republicans blasted fellow GOP senators Olympia Snowe and Arlen Specter
and Susan Collins for compromising on the stimulus bill Friday. These three
moderate Republicans have gone from being the minority of the minority to
controlling the fate of a trillion dollars in government spending. They've
gained so much muscle so quickly that the Commissioner of Baseball has just
banned them from the Hall of Fame."
- Argus Hamilton
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"I love the smell of stimulus spending in the morning. It smells like ...
victory."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/feb/09/barack-obama-us-economy
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"President Obama had his first primetime press conference from the White House
Monday. His eloquence was dazzling but he went an hour without getting one
laugh. President Bush used to hire people to throw shoes at him to keep this
from happening."
- Argus Hamilton
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"Some of the criticisms really are with the basic idea that government should
intervene at all in this moment of crisis. Now, you have some people, very
sincere, who philosophically just think the government has no business
interfering in the marketplace. And, in fact, there are several who've
suggested that FDR was wrong to interfere back in the New Deal. They're
fighting battles that I thought were resolved a pretty long time ago."
- President Barack Obama
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The "FDR Failed" Myth
http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2009020603/fdr-failed-myth
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"Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive
pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of
the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves."
- President Herbert Hoover [R], Dec. 1930
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"When Roosevelt did this, he put our country into a Great Depression. He tried
to borrow and spend, he tried to use the Keynesian approach, and our country
ended up in a Great Depression. That's just history."
- Rep. Steve Austria [R-OH], February 9, 2009
Let's see.... FDR took office in 1933, but the stock-market crash of '29 is
credited for precipitating the Great Depression, so, yeah, looks like it was
his fault all right....
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"That's Just History".... that I pulled out of Rush Limbaugh's ass!
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If Rush Limbaugh falls in the forest and nobody hears him.... can we just leave
him there?
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The Entertainer
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/dayart/20090211/cartoon20090211.jpg
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