Wall Street got a bailout. The auto industry is getting a bailout. What about our individual bailouts. Right now, with rent looming around the corner, and the economy continuing to tank, and no job in sight, I know I need one.  I am sure you do too, as well as many of your friends.
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So, um, is it April yet?
In his weekly radio/Internet (old people/young people) address, Bam talked about how money is going to make it’s big comeback just like Mickey Rourke, but without the melty face.

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UPDATE 3: The Post kind of, sort of apologizes, with non-apology. From an editorial in the paper:
“It was meant to mock an ineptly written federal stimulus bill. This most certainly was not its intent. To those who were offended by the image, we apologize. However, there are some in the media and in public life [...]

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Yesterday, [...]

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Because Obama is totally bipartisan in every single way possible, he will be sitting down with five major television stations today, which is actually every major TV station and the only ones on the tevee if you have basic cable.
He’ll be promoting his upcoming film called “The Economic Stimulus: Pass It Or Civilization Will Break [...]

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Sadly, it didn’t come from his fancy Barackberry, but from Organizing for America, the campaign apparatus left over from Barack Obama’s presidential run. Still, I like this whole talking to the public thing. We’re all special snowflakes involved in the grassroots democratic process.
Well, that is if your one of the 13 million on their email [...]

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Obama’s going old school and using a favorite trick of college frat boys everywhere. When someone says no, just hand them another beer.
Bam will hold a raging happy hour at the White House for lawmakers who are considering his stimulus bill. The guest list includes six House Democrats, six House Republicans and five senators from [...]

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[Cartoon by Robert Ariail for The State (Columbia, S.C.), Oct. 17, 2008.  Ariail's archive here.]

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Really?

Via ABC’s Tapper, a handful of protestors gather outside an Obama campaign event at the Roanoke Civic Center in Virginia yesterday. 
One of the signs reads ”I AM JOE THE PLUMBER,” and another says, “It Doesn’t Take a Plumber to Know Obama’s Taxes Stink!”
I hate to be stereotypical, but none of those guys look like they make over a quarter million dollars a year, which means, if that’s [...]

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