video Comedy website Funny Or Die has produced a star-studded sketch comedy routine that features the cast of actors who previously portrayed US Presidents on Saturday Night Live. Jim Carrey's turn as Ronald Reagan and Dana Carvey's George Herbert Walker Bush recall a kinder, gentler, and perhaps even funnier era of SNL political mockery. The message behind the video? To help promote finance regulatory reform, and perhaps to remind viewers that much of the financial mess in which Obama finds himself, has been inherited from previous presidents. (more...)

Pack up the picket signs and stop what you're brewing: the American Prospect has officially declared the Tea Party Movement dead. Correspondent Mark Schmitt has released a shocking piece highlighting the short half-life of right-wing populists movements in America that is sure to put many on the left at ease knowing that the Tea Parties will be done before they know it. (more...)

video When Foreign Affairs wrote in its recent issue that in a worst case scenario, Barack Obama's foreign policy would end up looking like Jimmy Carter's, the former president was rightfully pissed. Who wants to be considered to a worst case scenario? But then Sean Hannity got a hold of the story and suddenly the narrative is "Carter Angered to Be Compared to Obama." Clever, but not quite right. (more...)

video Happy New Year, Mr. President. As if last night's panicked closure of Newark airport over an idiotic security breach wasn't an inauspicious enough beginning to Obama's new year in Washington, yesterday the Feds discovered a President Obama effigy hanging in a Georgia town. To make matters worse the town happened to be the hometown of former President Jimmy Carter. From the local report (video below). (more...)

video Despite the growing criticism from his own side of the aisle over yesterday's remarks that much of the anger directed at President Obama is racially motivated, former President Jimmy Carter kept hammering at it last night during an address in Atlanta. Only this time Carter was a tad more specific, targeting those "demonstrators" as who describe Obama "as a reincarnation of Adolf Hitler, or when they wave signs in the air that we should have buried Obama with Kennedy" as having a "racist attitude." (more...)

It's not often that somebody dying makes me feel young. But the death of Walter Cronkite has inspired me with an overwhelming feeling of youthfulness. You see, I really know next to nothing about Walter Cronkite.  He means nothing at all to me. Hearing that he's dead was like a looking at a well-painted apartment wall. You get the feeling that a good job might have been done but that's the limit of the emotional or intellectual reaction. (more...)