‘You’re Getting Sleepy…You Want To Vote Republican…’
Check out Roy Zimmerman’s hot song, “Vote Republican.” It isn’t topping the Billboard charts yet, but it’s doing pretty well on YouTube.
Check out Roy Zimmerman’s hot song, “Vote Republican.” It isn’t topping the Billboard charts yet, but it’s doing pretty well on YouTube.
Republicans were supposed to win the special election in New York last night—but that was before they voted en masse for Paul Ryan’s plan to phase out Medicare. Here’s the simple ad that turned the tide:
Editor’s note: This originally ran in May of 2011, when Newt first struck out as a candidate. He wrote an epic speech then that the media absolutely skewered. Here is that original campaign-ending speech, courtesy of The Colbert Report and performed in grandiose fashion by the great John Lithgow.
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In case you missed it last week, here’s John Lithgow on ‘The Colbert Report,’ performing a hysterical reading of Newt’s ‘my first week was a disaster but I’m not quitting yet’ press release. And yes, this is completely verbatim.
In one minute, this scene from “The West Wing” explains some of why D.C. gets crazy about the debt ceiling:
West Wing’s Jimmy Smits really does have all the answers.
Talk about irresponsible budgeting…
No, we’re not kidding.
Why are you laughing? He really means it . . .
A fantastic “Word” segment from the other night about a small, power-hungry man in an even smaller town who got himself appointed mayor, finance commissioner, city manager and more. You’ve got to see this one.
The continuing fight over the national debt limit—which has boiled down to a GOP push to cut taxes for the rich while slashing Medicare and government spending for everyone else—makes this outrageous animation adapted from Al Franken’s Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them, book feel quite fresh.