“YES, SENATOR, THIS SHOULD PROVE THAT WE’RE READY, WILLING AND ABLE TO GET BACK ON OUR FEET, ALTHOUGH WE CAN’T IMMEDIATELY WEAN OURSELVES OFF FOSSIL FUELS.”

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BLOGWORTHIES:

Guess Who’s Still Crazy After All These Years, by Lisa Casey.

Now Hiring: No Grudges in Barack Obama’s HR Approach – at BuzzFlash.

Sweeping Bush Rule to Limit Abortion, Birth Control Access, at Perrspectives.

“NOT ONLY ARE THESE FIVE MINUTE BREAKS, TWICE A DAY, CAUSING LOSS OF PRODUCTIVITY, BUT THE ‘EMISSIONS’ FROM THESE BREAKS ARE THE CHIEF CAUSE OF POLLUTING THE ENVIRONMENT.”

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Countdown on the Fuzzy $70 per Hour Math, courtesy of One Good Move.

“IT’S GOTTEN SO BAD, WE’RE EVEN GETTING BEAT BY JAPANESE FOOTBALL TEAMS.”

“THE CAR HAS NO VALUE, IS TOXIC TO THE ENVIRONMENT AND IS GUARANTEED TO CRASH, BUT THIS IS APPARENTLY WHAT CONGRESS IS LOOKING FOR.” 

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Staying on topic, Chad Rubel at BuzzFlash says Auto industry executives need a road trip to figure out company woes.

“OUR LEAD STORY TONIGHT.  AFTER VIEWING SARAH PALIN’S ‘FOWL’ INTERVIEW, MILLIONS OF AMERICANS ARE CANCELLING THEIR ORDERS FOR ‘TOM THE TURKEY,’ AND PLANNING TO GO WITH TOFU BURGERS THIS THANKSGIVING. REPORTING ON THE LONG LINES AT TIMMY’S TOFU HUT IN TALLAHASSEE,  HERE’S ANDREA MITCHELL.”

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BLOGWORTHIES:

Meg White at BuzzFlash: Let the Unions Run the Big Three: Fire the Execs and Sell Their Private Jets.

The Daily Show Celebrates Iraq Surrenders, via One Good Move.

Lisa Casey on Palin the Turkey: Deliverance Meets Fargo .

Dan Kurtzman with The Week’s Best Late-Night Jokes.

“WE’RE ANNOUNCING TODAY THE  COMMENCEMENT OF OPERATION TOKYO ROSE.  WE’LL BE PULLING ALL OUR TROOPS OUT OF IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN, INVADING JAPAN, AND OCCUPYING THEIR AUTOMOBILE PLANTS — WHICH WE’LL RENAME HALLIBURTONISSAN, BLACKWATOYOTA, AND  KELLOGG BROWN HONDA.”

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BLOGWORTHIES:

More creative approaches to the bailout at All Hat No Cattle. 

Faith or Doubt — Obama’s Base Second Guessing, by Christine Bowman at BuzzFlash.

Juan Cole on the Joint Experts’ Statement on Iran.

The Daily Show on the Cheney/Gonzalez Indictments, at One Good Move.

Madkane on What Would The Press Do Without Clinton Rumors?

“YES, SENATOR, WE WOULD’VE TAKEN THE BUS FROM DETROIT, BUT BY THE TIME WE ARRIVED IN WASHINGTON, DETROIT WOULD’VE BEEN GONE.”

“ALTHOUGH BARACK OBAMA HASN’T EVEN TAKEN OFFICE YET, I’M RELYING ON MY PAL DICK CHENEY’S THEORY OF PRE-EMPTIVE IMPEACHMENT.”

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BLOGWORTHIES

Chad Rubel at BuzzFlash: Detroit’s problems are complex; right wing is wrong to punish only workers.

Late Night Comedy, on the Disastrous Economy, at One Good Move.

Lisa Casey on a Sound Bite You Won’t Hear. 

Dan Kurtzman on A Colbert Christmas.

Madkane on “Traitor Joe” Wasn’t Disloyal Enough? (Haiku).