Archive | July, 2011

Late night political humor

31 Jul

A lot of shows in reruns this weekend.

“It was 123 degrees in Minnesota. How far is Al Gore going to take this global warming hoax?”
– Bill Maher

“123 degrees in Minnesota? Michele Bachmann’s husband went in the closet just for the shade.”
– Bill Maher

“It was so hot in Iowa that Michele Bachmann couldn’t tell if her headache was a migraine or a brain freeze from her Slurpee.”
– Jay Leno

“Sarah Palin is becoming a grandmother again (or for the first time, who knows). It’s not Bristol – Bristol, of course, is re-saving herself for marriage. This is Palin’s oldest son Track. His wife is pregnant. They got married two months ago, and now she looks like she’s six months pregnant. So you do the math, because certainly the Palins can’t.”
– Bill Maher

“Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman has fired his campaign manager, which is kind of sad because the only other person who knew Huntsman was running for president was the campaign manager.”
– Jay Leno

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Morning funnies

31 Jul

It’s tough when your friends don’t want to play and you do.

Cartoon of the day

30 Jul

 

(c) Drew Sheneman

 

Morning funnies

30 Jul

The year is 1995.
MTV looks at the new fangled “worldwide computer network called the Internet”.

Opinion?

It’s a fad like the CB radio fad of the 1970s.

And stay away if you are “hypersensitive, humor-impaired, or puritan”.

Well, that part is still true.

Boehner’s political capital

29 Jul

Political Capital is something you earn and save for a rainy day.

It’s favors due, good will, personal friendships and the ability to help someone when they come asking.

When you have enough in the bank you can do something grand because political capital gives you the support you need.

Republican Speaker John Boehner had less than he thought.

Beat up by just about everyone including some of his own colleagues for failing to pass a debt limit increase bill on Thursday, an exhausted Boehner had had enough.

Taking to the House floor, “I stuck my neck out a mile to try to get an agreement with the president of the United States. I stuck my neck out a mile, and I put revenues on the table in order to try to get an agreement to avert us being where we are. But a lot of people in this town can never say yes.”

“I have offered ideas. I have negotiated. Not one time, not one time, did the administration put any plan on the table. All they would do is criticize what I put out.”

With that out of the way Boehner pulled it off.

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