Good Jay Leno line:
“The Lakers beat the Houston Rockets 89-70.
“This is the happiest people in L.A. have been to see somebody going back to Houston since George Bush left office.
…raise annual fees and revoke mileage and other privileges — to those of us who pay their bills on time, says the New York Times today.
It’s their new “Screw Our Most Reliable Customers” policy.
Sounds like the American Bankers’ Association needs to buy some more knee pads.
Oh, wait. They don’t need anyone’s permission to do [...]
Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich, in a piece in Talking Points Memo, is increasingly worried about the weasels entering The Big Cave.
“But now,” writes Reich, “the Medicare-like option is being taken off the table. Insurance and drug companies have thrown their weight around the Senate. And, sadly, the White House — eager to get a [...]
…But, alas, he wasn’t.
Have you actually seen the Scripture-laden daily briefings Don “Rummy” Rumsfeld sent to George “Bible-Pounder” Bush? GQ has them. Unbelievable.
Rummy was apparently Bush’s in-house Rasputin. (Or was that Rove?).
Funny line from no-nonsense Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, who’s not a big fan of Washington or Congress (on “60 Minutes”):
“Washington’s the only city in the world where you can see someone walking on Lover’s Lane, holding his own hand.”
CBS-TV’s sharp political analyst Jeff Greenfield, asked what the Republicans will do about President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, who is expected soon:
“They’re adopting the Groucho approach,” smiled Greenfield, adding:
“Whoever it is, we’re against it.”
Obama at daughter’s soccer game. (OK, OK. He didn’t really say that).
So says first-rate political columnist Leonard Pitts in his latest piece.
Another good line by the Pulitzer winner:
“So far, the House speaker’s explanation of what and when she knew about the Bush administration’s policy of torturing suspected terrorists is crookeder than Dick Cheney’s smile.”
That’s, um, pretty crooked, all right.
Madame Speaker stated that a [...]
I recently held a $1,000,000,000 note — as in billion — in my hand.
You have to look at the blood-red note several times — all those zeroes — before you realize it’s not fake. (It’s not really money, either).
Guess where it was from?
A. What is Zimbabwe, Alex?
My son, who works at well-regarded international relief agency [...]