"Impeached former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich hosted a 2-hour radio talk show
in Chicago, this week... For just two hours, Rush Limbaugh was not the
creepiest man in radio."
- Jerry Perisho
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"When Bush was president, the jokes were on him. With Obama, the joke's on us
-- and it isn't funny."
- Rush Limbaugh
No, Rush, the joke's on YOU, and it's getting frickin' hilarious!
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Have You Ever Noticed....
http://imgsrv.gocomics.com/dim/?fh=70aff0051fa0fda546957ecdab04b554
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Conservative Republicanism Is A Blight On This Nation
http://tinyurl.com/cexr6j
I know, I know, the title is far too gentle, so let me tell you how I really
feel:
Now that Republican Conservatives have officially managed to ruin everything,
from the banking system, to the budget deficit, to the endless wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan, they are shocked, shocked, that the rest of the country is holding
them to account. They feel victimized! ...
Think about [it]. When have Conservative Americans ever been correct about
anything? At the nation's founding they were Tories, during the Civil War they
were slave owners, during the Depression they were the cause, in the Second
World War they were isolationists. They opposed virtually every program, law or
principle that has made this country great. Rather than whining about
victimization, they should be ashamed. Of course, Herbert Hoover whined, too.
...
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Advice....
http://imgsrv.gocomics.com/dim/?fh=bfacb7ff9a2155bf2bfddb1621c4e7a6
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If You Lived Here You'd Be Home(less) Now!
"Hoovervilles", tent cities of people who have lost their homes to foreclosure
during this economic crisis, are being dubbed "Bushvilles" in honor of the man
behind the modern version....
Other names that have been suggested:
- Shruburbs
- Georgetowns
- Bushburgs
- Dubtowns
- 43 Legacy Estates
- Dubvilles
- Pretzelvania
- Bush Boomtowns
- Dubyapolis
- Mayberry, W.M.D.
- Bush Gardens
- Atlas Shrubs
- Lucky Ducky Estates
- Dispossession Vista
- Defaulty Towers
- Crapacre
- Peasant Valley
- Trickledowntowns
- Zero Downs
- Deregulation Station
- Dow Jonestown
- Market Falls
- Goldman Shacks
And those who have an extra large tent/shack in these areas will, naturally, be
living in a Dubya-wide....
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It's not News.... it's FOX News!!!
Heading Toward a Dictatorship?
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,511325,00.html
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"Rise Up"
http://tinyurl.com/c2d62b
"We can never forget that the Founders were rebelling against a governmental
authority that abused their taxation power. And that was the tyranny. That's
exactly what's happening right now. And we have to -- we have to rise up and
say, 'No more. Not on my watch. No more.'"
- Rep. Michele Bachmann [R-MN]
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Diminished Expectations
http://imgsrv.gocomics.com/dim/?fh=82b0d223c685eecc8f33f71dabad389f
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Truth In Advertising DOES work!!!!
"I have experienced that throughout my political career, being labeled a kook."
- Rep. Michele Bachmann [R-MN]
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/27/bachmann-kook/
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"Minnesota Congresswoman Michelle Bachman has introduced legislation that would
prohibit any other currency from replacing the dollar. The way things are
going, we are barely on a one to one rate of exchange with play money."
- Jim Barach
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New World Currency
http://imgsrv.gocomics.com/dim/?fh=8f5d4e1eecfed3c50456b14b5a12388e
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Pipe War! Plumbers Union Rips Joe The Plumber For Campaigning Against EFCA
http://tinyurl.com/d22fyl
The Plumbers Union is steaming over the news that Joe the Plumber has been
enlisted by groups opposed to the Employee Free Choice Act to campaign at a
number of Pennsylvania rallies against the measure.
A Plumbers Union official tells me that Joe is "selling out real plumbers"
I checked in with Rick Terven, the political and legislative director for The
United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipe
Fitting Industry of the United States and Canada. (Sorry, I couldn't resist
sharing the full name.) He tore into his high-profile plumber colleague as
follows:
"Joe the plumber is selling out real plumbers. Right now, labor law is stacked
against real plumbers. Real plumbers want and need the Employee Free Choice Act
as a way to empower themselves to join a union, without fear of intimidation or
losing their jobs. Joe the Plumber doesn't speak for real plumbers." ...
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Are We There Yet?!?
http://cagle.com/working/090329/matson.jpg
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"Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich filled in as a Chicago radio host
last week. He says it was harder than being governor. For one thing, he
couldn't understand how the station could have a contest and just give
something away for free."
- Jim Barach
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A GOP BUDGET WITH NO HARD NUMBERS
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/03/26/1867398.aspx
Yesterday, House Republicans made a pretty big deal about unveiling their
budget alternative.
In fact, we received this email from a House GOP spokeswoman, "Given the
President's comments [Tuesday] night that, 'we haven't seen a budget out of
[Republicans],' we wanted to make sure to make you all aware that we are
introducing our Republican Budget Alternative tomorrow."
And then what happens today? House Republicans release a 19-page document that
contains no hard spending numbers or deficit projections. Per the AP, "One of
the few hard bits of information is a promise to simplify the tax code and cut
income tax rates to 10 percent for people making $100,000 or less down. They
also promise to cut domestic spending below current levels but don't say
whether they are exempting Social Security. It's impossible to determine the
projected deficit based on their offering." ...
Not surprisingly, the Democratic National Committee pounced on the GOP's budget
-- or lack thereof. "After 27 days, the best House Republicans could come up
with is a 19-page pamphlet that does not include a single real budget proposal
or estimate," said DNC spokesman Hari Sevugan. "While there had been talk that
House Republicans were overriding their Senate counterparts to offer a budget
alternative, it's clear after this announcement that neither of them have
anything to offer but criticism."
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Republicans Respond
http://imgsrv.gocomics.com/dim/?fh=d65fa49e649061f255ed0270409bf8de
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"It's interesting to have a budget that doesn't contain any numbers. I think
the 'Party of No' has become the 'Party of No New Ideas.'"
- Robert Gibbs, White House Press Secretary
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Image Brainstorming
http://imgsrv.gocomics.com/dim/?fh=6ca5d49ca3d06f3289d145b46b78d682
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MY FAVORITE BUDGET EVER
http://tinyurl.com/clsh7y
If you're having a bad day, I highly encourage you to spend some quality time
with the Republican budget proposal. It reads like what would happen if The
Onion put together a budget. "Area Man Releases Proposal for 2010 Federal
Spending Priorities." (Though, to paraphrase William F. Buckley, it turns out
that I'd prefer a federal budget written by an area man than the first six
names on the House Republican Leadership roster.)
Bush, famously, described his first budget by saying, "It's clearly a budget.
It's got a lot of numbers in it." Indeed it was, and did. This isn't There are
no numbers. Let me repeat that: The Republican budget proposal does not say how
much money they would raise, or spend. ... The threat going around the Capitol
is that some impish Democratic chairman will ask the CBO to try and score the
Republican proposal. ...
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Apparently all the numbers fell out of the Republican's budget plan when Rep.
Boehner was holding it up in the air waving it around at their press
conference, because there sure weren't any in the final copy they handed out....
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2009/POLITICS/03/26/budget/art.boehner2.gi.jpg
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The Real Republican Road to Recovery
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/03/real-republican-road-to-recovery.html
(I believe they know the Underpants Gnomes!!!)
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"The Republicans released their budget counter-proposal this week. It plans to
address the deficit, global warming, health care, energy by -- wait for it --
massive tax cuts for the rich. I'm not kidding. Also, there are no numbers in
this budget. It's a budget plan without any math. You know, Obama should have
saved that 'Special Olympics' joke for these retards"
- Bill Maher
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There's No Time!!!!
http://imgsrv.gocomics.com/dim/?fh=a674f0aa831fbd299bc0ecc469a33732
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After the Laughter, Grim GOP Numbers
http://washingtonindependent.com/36204/after-the-laughter-grim-gop-numbers
While reporters hooted at the comically simplistic charts and lack of details
in the House Republican leadership’s budget plan, the green eyeshade types at
Citizen’s for Tax Justice crunched the numbers (PDF). They conclude that a
quarter of all households, most of them poor, would pay more taxes under the
GOP plan, while the richest one percent would pay $100,000 less.
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WARNING: REPORT HAS NUMBERS IN IT
http://www.ctj.org/pdf/housegopplan20090327.pdf
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The new GOP budget plan:
- cut taxes
- spend like a pig
- privatize socialistic programs like schools (police\fire depts?)
- keep the high-cost items (e.g. two wars) off the balance sheet
- leave a mess for the next guy
Hey! It's the same as it was under George Bush!!!
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Oh, No, You Don't!!!!
http://imgsrv.gocomics.com/dim/?fh=ac165938ee76a92c89c276eb7c86a969
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"Michelle Obama is planting a vegetable garden in the White House lawn. There
was one awkward moment when Michelle unearthed about ten thousand Florida
ballots for Al Gore."
- Alex Kaseberg
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Congressional Stupid-Off
http://www.xoverboard.com/cartoons/2009/090330_stupid.html
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"The Obama administration says it's delaying its promised changes to the
controversial "don't ask, don't tell" policy toward gays in the military
because of the economic crisis. The White House isn't sure there's enough money
in the budget to pay for color-coordinated uniforms."
- Jake Novak
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Ex-Official: Bush Panicked After 9/11
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/27/politics/main4897315.shtml
A former State Department lawyer tells The Associated Press that the Bush
administration panicked after 9/11 and tortured prisoners.
Former President George W. Bush denied anyone was tortured. But Vijay
Padmanabhan is at least the second insider to publicly describe as torture the
so-called "enhanced interrogation techniques" used by the U.S.
Padmanabhan was the department's chief counsel on Guantanamo litigation. He
says it was "foolish" for the Bush administration to declare that detainees
were beyond the reach of U.S. and international laws and the Geneva Conventions.
He told the AP Friday that "Guantanamo was one of the worst overreactions of
the Bush administration." ...
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"The U.S. says it is looking at a five year plan for the war in Afghanistan. If
they had done that when the war started, we would be out of there a year ago."
- Jim Barach
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You're In Danger!! DANGER, I Said!!!!
http://imgsrv.gocomics.com/dim/?fh=d5323945f91ab1e3f8d88eb7d658c07b
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Detainee's Harsh Treatment Foiled No Plots
http://tinyurl.com/c66c82
When CIA officials subjected their first high-value captive, Abu Zubaida, to
waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods, they were convinced that
they had in their custody an al-Qaeda leader who knew details of operations yet
to be unleashed, and they were facing increasing pressure from the White House
to get those secrets out of him.
The methods succeeded in breaking him, and the stories he told of al-Qaeda
terrorism plots sent CIA officers around the globe chasing leads.
In the end, though, not a single significant plot was foiled as a result of Abu
Zubaida's tortured confessions, according to former senior government officials
who closely followed the interrogations. Nearly all of the leads attained
through the harsh measures quickly evaporated, while most of the useful
information from Abu Zubaida -- chiefly names of al-Qaeda members and
associates -- was obtained before waterboarding was introduced, they said. ...
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"Former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is writing a book about his role in
the Bush administration during the economic crisis. It's weird, the book starts
on Chapter 11. That's odd."
- Jimmy Fallon
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Thinking About College?
http://imgsrv.gocomics.com/dim/?fh=e1714a9209523df8fc033229ca8a4af2
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"California unemployment is forecast to rise to 12% by next year. It's getting
so tough, even illegal aliens are getting competition from locals for yard work
and restaurant jobs."
- Jim Barach
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Just You And Me....
http://imgsrv.gocomics.com/dim/?fh=e0c4049116873cde83bb10303d35acbf
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"Some good news. The Easter Bunny announced today that he is skipping all of
the AIG execs this year."
- Tim Hunter, wackyweek.com
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The Genius of Capitalism
http://www.credoaction.com/comics/2009/03/the_genius_of_capitalism.html
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"Congress held hearings on the AIG bailout on Capitol Hill Tuesday as lawmakers
took turns blasting the bailout and the bonuses. No one's ever seen the public
so angry at Wall Street. Things are so bad Dick Cheney just took his
stockbroker hunting."
- Argus Hamilton
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"15 of the 20 top executives at AIG have returned their cash bonuses. Funny,
but now I feel like I hate AIG 75% less."
- Tim Hunter, wackyweek.com
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What's A Derivative?
http://imgsrv.gocomics.com/dim/?fh=0b2e8485a54af0b2f273400ee7f4c52f
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"The banksters are really worried about changing the rules. Except that taking
all the free government money rule, of course."
- Atrios, eschatonblog.com
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OUTRAGEOUS!!!!
http://cagle.com/working/090327/bors.jpg
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"The economy is so bad, I watched 'Iron Chef' the other night. You know what
the secret ingredient was? Government cheese."
- Jay Leno
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But What About....
http://imgsrv.gocomics.com/dim/?fh=73c34d93c255bfaf821585de017d7e16
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