Republicans leave another mess for Dems to clean up December’s unemployment numbers are out, showing another 524,000 jobs lost, the largest monthly drop since the last Bush left office, in January 1993. This brings the official rate to 7.2% from last month’s 6.8%– 11 million people. This doesn’t count the number of underemployed or those who’ve given up searching for …
Things are tough. I’ve been wrestling with the depression that has set in over the Salman Rushdie news not to marry… again. Four bad marriages have apparently convinced him that marital bliss is just a myth. And to make matters worse, Ann Coulter‘s jaw is still no longer wired shut. I’m not depressed that she might have been suffering. I’m …
Joe the Dumber Plumber, flushed with excitement over his reprieve from obscurity, formulates a response to the question, “Why the fuck are you HERE?” (Click) Just when you thought that the 2008 national election had exhausted itself of farce, Joe the Magic Plumber re-emerged today, announcing that he has become— just like that!— a combat reporter, hired by right-wing leaning …
Jeb Bush stuck like glue to his brother’s catastrophic legacy TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA 1/6/09 [C.U. NEWS] In a tacit admission of the sulphurous stench that accompanies the name “Bush” in the political realm, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush filed a petition today with the state of Florida for a name change. Apparently Jeb was taking a hint from a television interview …
Looking decidedly uncomfortable in the habiliments of their stature as last judgment defendants, George Bush and Dick Cheney stand before the Eternal Judge of the Ages. (Click) MANSONIA ONE — With eyes averted and lips cemented together as if to prevent himself from blurting out the truth, while his former vice-president grimaced and snarled in the face of his predicament, …
Bushes be dopin’ down at the White House, wiff what can only be called a laid-back casualness that defies the boundaries of political propriety. As Israel kicked a ground War in Gaza, the the bong tokin’ alcoholics got faded at the Southampton Dog Show as the terriers strutted dey stuff; Pickles loved the Bull Terrier, Babbs, the Rat, and George, …
TPM reports that: With Recount Complete And More Ballots Counted, Franken’s Lead Appears To Be Insurmountable By Eric Kleefeld – January 3, 2009, 6:54PM Today’s events in Minnesota make it appear that a Norm Coleman victory is now pretty much impossible — and it just so happens to have occurred on the day his Senate term officially expired. A nice …
