Every year, my mom places the wreath on the monument to fallen soldiers born in our town.

n May 2006, with the midterm elections just six months away, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi went out of her way to assure conservatives that if Democrats won control of Congress that November, any efforts to impeach George W. Bush and Dick Cheney would be “off the table.”
Now, four years later, with Republicans within range [...]

We love a snarky challenge, and there’s a really good one on Twitter right now. #renamebp invites you to come up with a new name that the inititals “BP” stand for. Currently leading are “Bitch Please,” “Bush’s Pals,” and “Blame POTUS.”
I’m thinking, “Big Polluters,” “Beware Pricks,” “Bleak Payoff,” “Begin Picketing,” and “Blatant Profits.”
What do [...]

Loving musical theater doesn’t make you gay — it makes you awful.

- Sue Sylvester, gym teacher on “Glee,” played by Jane Lynch.

On a recent episode of “News Watch,” Fox News’ media-news snarkfest, the panel had fun mocking reports that rival CNN is planning to hire former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer for an on-air gig. The gang was giddy, of course, because Spitzer, a Democrat, had to resign as governor in 2008 over of a call-girl [...]

…things are happening today. The oil that we showed you is being cleaned up. There’s equipment all over the parish and we do have a senior person from the Coast Guard in our office now that can make decisions and can hold BP’s feet to the fire, because they are the ones that should be stepping up to the plate. I think he cares and he’s a hands-on guy. I was real impressed.

Plaquemines Parish, LA. Pres. Billy Nungesser (R), commenting on Pres. Obama, and the current response to the BP oil spill.

The BP boys are trying to fill
The oil leak using a “top kill.”
They’re managing our expectations,
Though we wouldn’t need these machinations,
If there had been, in the first place, no spill.

Chuck DeVore, the conservative Republican trying to unseat Calif. Sen. Barbara Boxer in the midterms, has one of the stupidest campaign commercials ever.
For one thing, he’s cornier than the tea baggers, and while I’m sure he means it to be a joke, he seems to treat “Jack Bauer,” Keifer Sutherland’s character on the TV [...]

I will deal with this situation once this election is over.

— South Carolina gubernatorial candidate Nikki Haley (R), in an interview on WTMA radio this morning, about an alleged “inappropriate physical relationship” with blogger Will Folks.

This is not a parody from The Onion or Andy Borowitz, sadly, it’s an actual news bulletin from CNN.