Saturday Satire: Late Night Talk

"[GOP] campaigns soliciting money know exactly what buttons to push. They send urgent emails with emotional triggers that make you feel part of something bigger. Like Bachmann's 'Join the Fight,' Pawlenty's 'I can't do it alone' and Herman Cain's 'Give me five dollars and I'll punch a Muslim.'"
---Stephen Colbert

"They say the price of gas could soon be under $3 a gallon. Do you know what that means? You can now afford to drive by the house you used to live in, go by the job you used to have, and go see the bank where you used to have money."
---Jay Leno

"New reports say that President Obama’s re-election team is going to try to portray Mitt Romney as 'weird.' They’re also going to try to portray Michele Bachmann as 'Michele Bachmann.'"
---Conan O'Brien

"There's a rumor that Joe Biden called the Republicans terrorists this week. And they were furious about this. They were so upset about being called terrorists, they went out and took the FAA hostage."
---Bill Maher

"A restaurant here in New York is serving a grilled cheese-flavored martini. Or as parents put it, 'Finally, a way to get my kids to finish their martinis.'"
---Jimmy Fallon

"A new poll shows that disapproval of Congress is at an all-time high. Eighty-two percent of Americans disapprove of the job Congress is doing and the other 18 percent weren’t home when the question was asked."
---Jimmy Kimmel                         Source

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Labor Unions sitting out 2012 Convention: Obama's Reelection Less Likely

By DSWright   Fri Aug 12, 2011             Original Article

On the heels of a piece that ran overseas - usually a better place to get news about America  - about buyer's remorse among Democrats over Obama, comes another point against the possibility of Obama being successfully reelected.

Labor has had enough of Obama's broken promises:

About a dozen trade unions plan to sit out the 2012 Democratic convention because they're angry that it's being held in a right-to-work state and frustrated that Democrats haven't done enough to create jobs.

But why? This president said he would get his walking shoes on and stand with labor whenever their was a dispute and when the Wisconsin union busting started he.... oh that's right became the coward he always is. Did Obama know he wouldn't have to negotiate with congressional Republicans in Wisconsin?

"There is broad frustration with the party and all elected officials, broad frustration with the lack of a union agenda," said Michael Monroe, chief of staff of the building trades division. "People are looking for outlets to express that frustration."

Well, it's hard to have a union agenda when you are doing Wall Street's bidding and making sure you can protect Bush's tax cuts and keep the defense racket's wars going.

Obama's busy! After his power breakfast he has to eat the middle class for lunch!

The International Association of Machinists, which is not part of the building trades, said it has also decided to skip the convention after participating for decades.

"This is the union that came up with the idea for Labor Day and this convention starts on Labor Day in a right-to-work state," said IAM spokesman Rick Sloan. "We see that as an affront to working men and women across this country."

Of course Obama believes in labor! How else are we going to pay for the Wall Street bailout if we don't slave each day for stagnant wages and piss poor benefits. God, be pragmatic.

But moving from labor to inter-party dissent:

Mr Obama's capitulation to Republicans in the recent tussle over deficit reduction is being seen as the lowest point of his presidency and the latest in a series of blows to the liberal agenda.

Faced with the staunch opposition of the Tea Party contingent of the Republican Party, he agreed to widespread cuts in government spending without winning any revenue increases in exchange.

Not an accident, that Obama caves more than a West Virginia mine - same people own both.

Finding it hard to defend his often listless and repetitive performances, Democratic strategists and commentators are privately agreeing with Republicans and comparing Mr Obama to Jimmy Carter, another Democrat who remains the post-war benchmark for a failed president

Who would have thought to make that reference?

Morris Reid, [a Washington consultant and former Clinton official] added that the president remained a formidable campaigner and fund-raiser and should not be ruled out of the fight in 2012. But he said some Democrats were feeling "buyer's remorse" for selecting the president in his epic battle with Mrs Clinton for the 2008 Democratic nomination.

"The notion everyone is talking about is 'is he Jimmy Carter or will he be a one-term president'," he said.

Everyone is talking about that exept in certain Obamacrat strongholds where some refuse to recognize reality.

An article in the New York Times by Drew Westen, a professor of psychology at Emory University and a specialist in political messaging, summarised the dismay at Mr Obama's performance and was rapidly circulated online by liberals.

"Those of us who were bewitched by his eloquence on the campaign trail chose to ignore some disquieting aspects of his biography: that he had accomplished very little before he ran for president," he wrote.

Yes we did and YES WE CAN make a change. It's not too late.

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