Category Archives: Satire

GOP Reminds Us It’s Always Good To Check Nobody Else Is Using Your Slogan

[Hat tip TPM]
The new House GOP slogan, “the change you deserve,” also happens to be the slogan of anti-depressant Effexor XR - but actually it’s a bit worse. The FDA found an Effexor XR ad
“is misleading because it overstates the efficacy of Effexor XR, makes unsubstantiated superiority claims, in addition to other unsubstantiated claims, […]

Why We Must Vote For Peter Roskam IL-6

What he says. Now back to my origami.

Rudy Giuliani Out - Campaign Lacked Directory Assistance

Despite a near constant cry of “411,” GOP Presidential Candidate Rudy Giuliani’s ‘get tough’ presidential campaign lacked direction. Some think Republican voters couldn’t get past his accent. Giuliani withdrew from the presidential race yesterday.

Lauzen Vs. Oberweis In IL-14 GOP Primary Match - Cartoonish As WWF?

WWF Match up:
State Senator Chris “CPA” Lauzen, CPA
Vs.
Businessman Jim “Milk Man” Oberweis
Chris Lauzen [shouting to ref]: “The Oberweis-[Bill] Pascoe tandem loaded up a quiver full of poison-tipped arrows and has been firing them right at me.”
[Lauzen campaign manager Kevin Reger, ring side, yells for Chris to “duck.” The […]

Iraq Economic Expansion On Pace To Dwarf China

Iraqi shopkeeper Mahmoud Ghali of Sadr City remembers when things were bad in spring 2006. “There was one month when all I sold was three bars of soap and one bottle of shampoo.” Now things have changed for the better. Last month Ghali sold nineteen bars of soap, ten bottles of shampoo, […]

FEMA’s “Conservative” Principle - Teach A Man To Fish…And He’s Screwed

Re-reading OneMan - I thought of this: “Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a life time.” I used to think conservatives (among others) agreed with that kind of thinking. Apparently that’s not true of FEMA in […]

Romney - Poetic Justice And Rejection In Political Advertising

From today’s New York Times, “Your Ad Here: Web Surprise Hits ‘08 Race,”
“[T]he [Mitt] Romney campaign had not expected its [advertising] banners to appear on FanFiction.net, whose users have seen thousands of ‘Romney for President’ ads while using the site to write their own plots about their favorite fictional characters….
….
But [Romney] campaign aides were surprised […]

Fred Thompson Campaign - Going Nowhere

In an unprecedented, front-loaded primary, with presidential candidates traveling all over to reach voters, expenses are high. Republican front runners Mitt Romney and Rudolph Giuliani, despite raising over ten million each in the third quarter, are spending more than they raise. Not Fred Thompson - it’s less expensive to go nowhere. In […]

Bush’s “Coalition Of The Willing” Loses Another Member In Iraq

[Hat tip TalkingPointsMemo]

Bush Plan Takes Allowances With Kid Health Care Alternative To SCHIP

After President Bush said that uninsured “[p]eople have access to health care in America…. After all, you just go to an emergency room,” people considered him out of touch. When the president threatened to veto renewal legislation to fund child health care for children lacking insurance, and then announced rules to prevent states […]