All I Want for Xmas Is for Herman Cain to Go Away — Far Away
Not only have alien a capella signers appropriated Xmas, look what Herman Cain has done to it!
Month: December 2011
Biden: The Taliban Is Not Our Enemy
Look, the Taliban per se is not our enemy. That’s critical. There is not a single statement that the president has ever made in any of our policy assertions that the Taliban is our enemy because it threatens U.S. interests. If, in fact, the Taliban is able to collapse the existing government, which is cooperating with us in keeping the bad guys from being able to do damage to us, then that becomes a problem for us. So there’s a dual track here.
— Vice President Joe Biden, in an interview with Leslie Gelb, on the Obama administration’s approach to the Taliban.
Lie of the Year?
Politifact says the “lie of the year” is that Republicans voted to end Medicare.
But Steve Benen, writing in Washington Monthly, says it’s not a lie since Republicans voted “to privatize the existing system and replace it with something very different — a voucher scheme. It would still be called Medicare, but it wouldn’t be Medicare.”
Paul Krugman writing in the New York Times: “How is this not an end to Medicare? And given all the actual, indisputable lies out there, how on earth could saying that it is be the ‘Lie of the year’? The answer is, of course, obvious: the people at Politifact are terrified of being considered partisan if they acknowledge the clear fact that there’s a lot more lying on one side of the political divide than on the other. So they’ve bent over backwards to appear ‘balanced’ — and in the process made themselves useless and irrelevant.”
Congress Hits Record Low Approval Rating
11%
A new record-low percentage of Americans who approve of the job Congress is doing this December, the lowest single rating in Gallup’s history of asking this question since 1974. This earns Congress a 17% yearly average for 2011, the lowest annual congressional approval rating in Gallup history.
Cheaters Website Endorses Gingrich on Billboard
Now that Newt is the leading contender in the race for the GOP nomination, we felt compelled to make a point to illustrate how times have changed when a serial divorcee/adulterer is capturing the hearts of the American people.
— Noel Biderman, founder of the cheaters website Ashleymadison.com, which has taken a billboard in Bucks County, Pa., with a tagline supporting the formerly philandering White House contender: “Faithful Republican… Unfaithful Husband,” as reported by Think Progress.
Dearly Departed Leader
So Kim Jong-Il is dead and gone —
The Dear Leader’s exit was an inauspicious one.
But for poor North Korea
There’ll be no panacea —
The scepter’s been passed on to Kim Jong-Un.
