“LET’S BE HONEST. IS THERE REALLY ANY POINT OF SERVING UP EXTENDED UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS TO THE 99′ers … WHEN AFTER 13 MONTHS, THEY’LL JUST BE SERVED UP TO ALIENS WITH ‘SIZE 99′  HEADS.”

“THE REPUBLICANS WANT TO GET RID OF HIM, THE DEMOCRATS DON’T WANT HIM BACK, AND PROGRESSIVES ARE STARTING TO WONDER IF WE SHOULD ‘HAIL A CHIEF’ WHO’S STARTING TO LOOK MORE ‘RED‘ THAN ‘BLUE‘.”

The original O’Henry story, and Obama as Charlie Brown, at All Hat No Cattle.

BuzzFlash’s Mark Karlin: Bill Maher Understands How to Politically Negotiate Better Than the President.

The Daily Show’s The Gretch Who Saved the War on Christmas, at One Good Move.

“EVEN WE’LL ADMIT THAT THESE TAX BREAKS FOR THE WEALTHIEST ARE PURE ‘DOGS’ … AS A TRADE-OFF FOR  THE GUARANTEE THEY’LL LAST 14 YEARS!

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Lisa Casey on the Scarborough-Palin connection.

Some highly recommended links, at BartCopE!

“UNDER THIS LATEST DEMONSTRATION OF BI-PARTISANSHIP, THE LONG-TERM UNEMPLOYED GET AN EXTENSION OF SIX WEEKS OF BENEFITS, WHILE FOLKS MAKING MORE THAN SIX MILLION DOLLARS GET AN ADDITIONAL SIX YEARS OF TAX CUTS.”

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Larry Beinhart at BuzzFlash on the reality that GOP won’t accept: Tax Cuts Usually Lead to Higher Unemployment.

“WE ALL AGREE: WITH THE PROSPECT OF UNLIMITED UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS, GEORGE COSTANZA WON’T EVEN ACCEPT A JOB AS A LATEX SALESMAN.”

GOP Senator Jon Kyl, who along with his fellow party cretins has blamed unemployment benefits for unemployment, was caught in an embarrassing betrayal of conservative dogma today, when he acknowledged that continuation of the Bush-era tax cuts will  only incentivize the wealthy to slack off.

Kyl, who thought television cameras and microphones were off during a taping of the new FOX News Sunday morning program, This Week in 1931, cackled heartily as he was overheard saying “if our rich friends who bankroll our campaigns get to keep their windfall tax cuts, they won’t even bother to get off their fat asses to to clip their bond coupons.”

Kyl further “gave away” his real beliefs by adding, “if we really wanted to spur growth and job creation, we’d double taxes on the super-rich; after all, just to maintain their lifestyle of luxury houses and boats, they’d have to work twice as hard.”

To make matters even worse, Kyl expressed amazement that “Democrats buy the bullshit about even more favorable tax rates for capital gains on passive investments.” “After all,” Kyl added, “if  low tax rates are supposed to encourage and reward hard work, how are lower tax rates supposed to incentivize doing nothing?”

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell hastily called a press conference to claim that Kyl had been out in the Arizona sun too long, apparently unaware that the sanity of his entire party had been adversely affected by the very global warming that they vehemently deny.

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BuzzFlash Editor Mark Karlin on the threat to Progressive Programs on MSNBC.

Jim Hightower on the skewed fiscal priorities, via BartCopE!

Lisa Casey on the return of America’s Favorite Soap Opera.

“THE REPORT CONCLUDES THESE REPUBLICAN LAWMAKERS GET PAID FOR DOING NOTHING, THAT MANY ARE ON DRUGS, AND CONTINUING TO PAY THEM JUST DISCOURAGES THEM FROM TAKING REAL JOBS.”

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Colbert Report with The Economist Photoshops Obama’s Picture, at One Good Move.

Disaster Messaging by the Democrats Could be Fatal to America’s Future,  By George Lakoff at BuzzFlash.

Crooks & Liars with Paul Krugman schools David Brooks.

BartCopE! with some great recommended reads.