A Political Satire by Bill Schmalfeldt (2004)
With the Vice President’s recent death and President DeWitt’s health worsening by the day, the precarious balance of power between the Democratic President and a Republican-controlled Congress has moved to the right. Albert Wantner, the politically shrewd Speaker of the House, will ascend to the Presidency if the [...]

Even now as I search for an agent or a publisher for my latest novel, “Deep Brain Diary — My Life as a Guy with Parkinson’s Disease and Brain Surgery Volunteer,” I see that I am already immortal.
When I first heard of “Google Books”, I knew their aim was to ensure that they had practically [...]

Oh, how conservatives hate government spending.  It’s all you hear from the conservatives and their teabagger ilk!  Cut gubbermint spending!  Quit bankrupting our childrens’ future!  No more socialism!  No more taxes!  Cut Spending!  Cut Spending!  Cut Spending.  Conservatives really HATE “big government” and want to cut spending on it…
Except…
Rank-and-file conservatives actually like big government. [...]

Progressive agenda?  What happened?
It’s your fault.
It’s not my fault.
It’s your fault.
I couldn’t be more upset about this.
You let us down by not being doing the thing I wanted you to do.
You let us down by criticizing our leader for not doing enough.
You’re giving aid and comfort to the enemy when you support bipartisanship.
You’re helping the [...]

Bye-Bye Bayh!
Sen. Evan Bayh (D-Indiana) has decided he doesn’t like the politics game anymore, so he’s going home.
Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Indiana, announced Monday afternoon that he will not seek a third term in the Senate – a major blow to Democrats worried about losses in the looming midterm elections.
“Congress is not operating as [...]

It’s a metaphor I’ve used before.  Listening to Republicans kvetching about President Obama’s struggle to repair the economy they ruined is a lot like getting barked at by the dogs who crapped on the carpet because you aren’t cleaning it quickly enough.
When one REMINDS the yapping mongrels that there wouldn’t BE crap on the rug [...]

Sometimes a girl needs a little help remembrin’ stuff.  And when you’re flush from a full day of mocking President Obama for, among other things, using a teleprompter when giving speeches, sometimes when you’re being asked pre-approved questions at a scripted Q-n-A, you gotta just go back to the old fashioned way of cheating and [...]