“NOW, I DON’T WANT TO RAISE EXPECTATIONS … NEGOTIATING WITH KIM JONG-IL MAY PROVE TO BE EASIER THAN DEALING WITH THE MENTALLY ILL.”

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

Sarah Palin’s Tiara, at All Hat No Cattle.

“IT’S A COMPLETE OUTRAGE WHEN SOMEONE LIKE BILL CLINTON GOES AS FAR AS EXTENDING A SMILE AND A HANDSHAKE TO RELEASE HOSTAGES … AS OPPOSED TO GIVING UP SOMETHING TRULY VALUABLE IN RETURN.”

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More on the Clinton Charm Offensive  at All Hat No Cattle.

BuzzFlash’s Mark Karlin on another dangerous foreigner: Orly Taitz.

Jon Stewart on Obama Must Pass a Health Care Bill. via One Good Move.

“MARK MY WORDS, IT’LL EVENTUALLY COME OUT THAT CLINTON ONLY FREED THESE TWO JOURNALISTS BY TRADING MONICA LEWINSKY AND PAULA JONES.”

“ALTHOUGH HIS ADMINISTRATION LASTED JUST ONE SHORT MONTH, WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON DECEIVED THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, CLAIMING THAT SHAWNEE CHIEF TECUMSEH WAS TRYING TO ACQUIRE YELLOW CORN … FROM AFRICA.”

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Staying on topic, MYDD on the Presidential rankings: William Henry Harrison was robbed!

Obama’s Choice: FDR’s First 100 Days or Lincoln’s Team of Rivals – by Mark Karlin of BuzzFlash.

Speaking of ex-Presidents, William Jefferson Clinton speaks out on the Economic Crisis – at One Good Move.

Lisa Casey with more on the Blago/Burris Insanity.

Juan Cole: Iraq Funding Ponzi Scheme Bigger than Madoff’s.

“I JUST LOVE THAT RUG … OF COURSE EVERYONE KNOWS THAT THESE BERBER RUGS WERE MADE BY NORTH AFRICANS.”

The Presidential Lunch story.

“I AGREED TO DISCLOSE ALL OF MY DONORS … BUT NONE OF MY ‘RECIPIENTS’.”

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BLOGWORTHIES:

P.M. Carpenter at BuzzFlash: The GOP isn’t budging after all.

The Sunday Funnies, at One Good Move.

Dan Kurtzman’s Political Cartoons of the Week.

Irony Has At Least Seven More Lives, by Madkane.

“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?

“LISTEN, ABE, IF YOU HAD BROUGHT BILL AND HILLARY INTO YOUR TENT, YOU’D NEVER HAVE GOTTEN ANY SLEEP.”

“LET’S FACE IT, THESE GENTLEMEN HELPED END A CIVIL WAR, WHILE IF OBAMA PICKS TOO MANY CLINTONITES, IT MIGHT JUST RE-IGNITE THE ONE WE HAD IN THE 90’s.”

“IF YOU THINK MY 1988 SPEECH WAS LONG,  I CAN FILIBUSTER THIS THING TO THE END OF 2008!

Bill’s dissatisfaction, at Huffington Post.