Political Humor

The humor has surely left Wall Street but the political handouts have only just begun in the worst financial crisis since the savings and loan debacle nearly two decades ago. Had they listened to me and my discovery of a great new banking service that I talked about here on Radioactive Liberty awhile back all of this could have been avoided.

Let’s not kid around though. The financial crisis is so serious George Bush went on television Wednesday night claiming there were weapons of mass destruction in the economy and that if we don’t give absolute power to the government and go to war we will be nukified.

No kidding, he said nukified.

Bush did not mention sending the people who run AIG, Lehman Brothers, and the other financial corporations’ leaders to Gitmo for waterboarding however. It is a shame because torture never looked so appealing.

Of course the rest of our fine politicians with their strong leadership are stepping up to the plate. Congress took action, by-passing their recess to burn the midnight oil and solve this crisis:

“Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.) wants to stick around. ”I am recommending that Congress postpone its planned recess. We should stay here until we find the right answer to this problem,” she said.

“If it takes two or three weeks, that’s okay,” said Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio)”

It is funny that when we had $4-a-gallon gasoline, our elected leaders of the House and Senate didn’t postpone their break. Back then we were taking the financial hit of course and not their cronies on Wall Street. None of us have given millions to their campaigns.

Try breaking down all the payouts and handouts and donations that have gone on between the financial industry and our honest and caring leaders in Washington and it becomes a political version of Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon.

I can not blame the politicians though. I hear this time of year is bad to take a vacation anyway because the Hamptons are just swarming with leaf peepers. The beautiful people don’t want to want to deal with Nana and Grandpa plodding along in the Crown Victoria looking at trees. Besides, the politicians would have to actually be nice to them because old people are the most-likely demographic to vote.

On a side note, I am not sure I will be voting when I’m old. By that point why would I give a crap? Besides, old people aren’t good for elections simply because their reference points are in the past. They are always babbling on about how hamburgers were a nickel and during the Depression people ate their own shoes.

Speaking of the Great Depression, we need to elect Barack Obama.

Oh the fun you can have with a double entendre. But seriously, unlike Bush, Joe Biden would be the perfect person to go on television and help calm the frayed nerves of America like Franklin D. Roosevelt did in 1929. Really, it happened that way. Joe Biden said so.

He’d make a great history teacher by the way.

Chris Cameron writes this weekly drivel pretending to be a political humor column every Thursday here at Radioactive Liberty. You can also read his odd angles on life at his humor blog, Angry Seafood.

Humor-Blogs.com can’t stop licking it’s groin. Please got there to read funny blogs and make it stop. Kinda grossing me out.

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